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[[File:WE Protect Freedom! logo.png|thumb|right|125px|WE Protect Freedom! logo (coming soon).]]
 
 
[[File:The Dark Side Of The Money (Cropped) 500x500.png|thumb|right|250px|'''The ultimate truth:'''</br>
 
[[File:The Dark Side Of The Money (Cropped) 500x500.png|thumb|right|250px|'''The ultimate truth:'''</br>
 
All [[kakistocracy|governments]] are inherently evil, corrupted, secretive, manipulative, divisive, exploitative, abusive, violent, and excessively murderous, with [[Truther Top 20 Ways Voting Is A Rigged Joke|(s)elected puppet "leaders" rigging]] all entwined systems to serve psychotic [[Machiavellian]] elites for [[full spectrum dominance]] waged upon their own citizens with their bankster-media-military-industrial-academic-[[corporatocracy]].]]
 
All [[kakistocracy|governments]] are inherently evil, corrupted, secretive, manipulative, divisive, exploitative, abusive, violent, and excessively murderous, with [[Truther Top 20 Ways Voting Is A Rigged Joke|(s)elected puppet "leaders" rigging]] all entwined systems to serve psychotic [[Machiavellian]] elites for [[full spectrum dominance]] waged upon their own citizens with their bankster-media-military-industrial-academic-[[corporatocracy]].]]
 
[[File:Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs Maslow's hierarchy of needs].]]
 
[[File:Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow's_hierarchy_of_needs Maslow's hierarchy of needs].]]
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[[File:Ray's Hierarchy Of Better Solutions.png|thumb|right|250px|'''Ray's Hierarchy Of Better Solutions.'''</br>Elegant</br>Efficient</br>Effective</br>Energetic</br>Necessity]]
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[[File:Ray's Hierarchy Of Improvement v1 TT Norms Medium.png|thumb|right|250px|'''Ray's Hierarchy Of Improvement.'''</br>
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Necessity is the mother of invention, poverty is the mother of necessity.</br>
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Guilt loves company more than misery.]]
 
[[File:The Pyramid Of Debate v3 Detailed TT Norms Medium Text Outline White Outline 598x599.png|thumb|right|250px|[[The Pyramid Of Debate]], a redesigned improvement on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_(computer_programmer)#Graham's_hierarchy_of_disagreement Graham's hierarchy of disagreement].]]
 
[[File:The Pyramid Of Debate v3 Detailed TT Norms Medium Text Outline White Outline 598x599.png|thumb|right|250px|[[The Pyramid Of Debate]], a redesigned improvement on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Graham_(computer_programmer)#Graham's_hierarchy_of_disagreement Graham's hierarchy of disagreement].]]
 
[[File:The Evolution Of War shirt design.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[The Evolution Of War]] shirt design, worn by one of the [[Druthers]] guys.]]
 
[[File:The Evolution Of War shirt design.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[The Evolution Of War]] shirt design, worn by one of the [[Druthers]] guys.]]
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[[File:Book cover - robert's rules of order orig 1876 edition.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert's_Rules_of_Order Robert's Rules of Order], manual of parliamentary procedure, first edition, 1876.]]
 
  
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: ''These pages will change and evolve over time, preferably with your input.  Check back for developments.''
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: ''See also: '''[[Welcome!]]'''
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: ''Not to be confused with [[WEFringe group email lists]].''
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: ''This page is a work in progress.  Feel free to '''[[How to join Projex.Wiki|join]]''' to help edit Projex.Wiki.  Check back for developments.''
  
 
<big>'''" ''We're still here and not going away until things change.'' "'''</big> ~ Sherri
 
<big>'''" ''We're still here and not going away until things change.'' "'''</big> ~ Sherri
  
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'''[[WE Protect Freedom!]]''' groups openly organize '''[[#Actions]]''', '''[[#Communications]]''', and '''[[#Resources]]''' for local freedom and prepper communities' networking in Windsor and Essex County.
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'''[[WE Protect Freedom!]]''' groups openly organize our '''[[#Actions group|Actions group]]''', '''[[#Communications group|Communications group]]''', '''[[#Resources group|Resources group]]''', and '''[[#Socials group|Socials group]]''' around our '''[[#Core functions and goals|core functions and goals]]''' for local freedom and prepper communities' networking in '''W'''indsor and '''E'''ssex County.
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Visit our '''[[Welcome]]''' newcomer introduction page if you're new to any of this and would prefer a simple, clear overview.
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This crowd-sourced, open-source, transparent organization may be a '''template''' for other groups or projects to emulate, modify, and utilize as they see fit.
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'''Don't be shy.'''  More ideas, suggestions, and input are are very welcome as they can only improve how we organize our group, actions, branding, communications, and resources.  Even bad ideas lead to better ones, and there's not always a single course of action.
  
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After discussing this for years, for the first time we're finally clearly rebranding, reorganizing, and redefining ourselves in the '''[[do-ocracy]]''' spirit ([https://CommunityWiki.org/wiki/DoOcracy do-ocracy]).
 
  
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'''[[WE Protect Freedom!]]''' may be a comprehensive way to organize, clarify fundamentals, positively rebrand ourselves, engage our members, better grow our numbers, and visibly and/or financially support our freedom groups.
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'''See also:'''
  
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This wiki page is intended to be as clear as possible in common parlance ('''avoiding legalese trickery'''), and as short as possible while removing as much room for error or misinterpretation as possible.  If any wording accidentally, incidentally, and/or unconsciously employs any legalese, loopholes, or lax room for question we should expose it and clearly resolve it as soon as possible, like any respectable open-source endeavour would.
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* [[:Category:Resources]]
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* [[Community organizing]]
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* [[Decentralized alternatives]]
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* [[Do-ocracy]]
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* [[Economic alternatives]]
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* [[FOEPATCHISM]]
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* [[Meaningful liberty]]
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* [[Prepping]]
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* [[South-Western Ontario calendar and newsletter]]
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* [[Technology alternatives]]
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* [[WEFringe group email lists]]
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* [[WE Protect Freedom!]]
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** [[WE Protect Freedom!/Banners]]
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** [[WE Protect Freedom!/Banner developments]]
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** [[WE Protect Freedom!/Branding developments]]
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** [[WE Protect Freedom!/Business cards, flyers, and welcome page]]
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*** [[Welcome]] newcomer introduction page
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** [[WE Protect Freedom!/Calendar]] (public)
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** [[WE Protect Freedom!/Calendar (private)]]
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** [[WE Protect Freedom!/Committee and meeting management]]
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** [[WE Protect Freedom!/Meeting agendas, minutes, and updates]]
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** [[WE Protect Freedom!/Merchandise]]
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** [[WE Protect Freedom!/Merchandise developments]]
  
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This crowd-sourced, open-source, transparent organization may be a '''template''' for other groups or projects to emulate, modify, and utilize as they see fit.
 
  
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'''Don't be shy.''' More ideas, suggestions, and input are are very welcome as they can only improve how we organize our group, actions, branding, communications, and resources. Even bad ideas lead to better ones, and there's not always a single course of action.
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== Restructure history ==
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After discussing this for years, for the first time we're finally clearly rebranding, reorganizing, and redefining ourselves in the '''[[do-ocracy]]''' spirit ([https://CommunityWiki.org/wiki/DoOcracy do-ocracy]). '''[[WE Protect Freedom!]]''' may be a comprehensive way to civilly organize, clarify fundamentals, positively rebrand ourselves, engage our members, better grow our numbers, and visibly and/or financially support our freedom groups.
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=== FOEPATCHISM ===
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In short, the goal of this '''[[FOEPATCHISM]]''' framework outline is to provide the community choices that may fall on or between these extremes:
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* bottom-up decentralized self-lead community -''vs''- top-down centralized authority
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* altruistic concern for humanity -''vs''- selfish desire for control
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* cooperation and collaboration -''vs''- acquiescence and obedience
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* clear goals and definitions -''vs''- ambiguous identity and purpose
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* effective public relations -''vs''- remain unnoticed and impotent
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* crowd-sourced motivations -''vs''- executive leadership dictates
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* self-organized action -''vs''- passive following along
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* roadmap documentation -''vs''- whimsy of the moment
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* informed consent -''vs''- trickle down awareness
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* our community -''vs''- the leader's group
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* having a say -''vs''- going along
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* inclusivity -''vs''- obedience
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* voluntary -''vs''- no say
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* unity -''vs''- hierarchy
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* open -''vs''- private
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What kind of society do you want?  Why not make it happen?  '''[[Do-ocracy]]'''.
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=== No legalese ===
  
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This wiki page is intended to be as clear as possible in common parlance ('''avoiding legalese trickery'''), and as short as possible while removing as much room for error or misinterpretation as possible in comprehensive detail.  If any wording accidentally, incidentally, and/or unconsciously employs any legalese, loopholes, or lax room for question we should expose it and clearly resolve it as soon as possible, like any respectable open-source endeavour would.
  
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== First draft ==
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=== Initial drafts ===
  
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Currently these two pages are just an evolving '''first draft pitch''' by [[Jason Carswell]] that will be presented to our communities for consideration, further input, development, improvements, tweaking, and hopefully for wider acceptance and implementation.  This living document may evolve and change over time, yet it includes an immutable history of revisions ("view history" at the top of every wiki page).
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These pages are currently just an evolving '''initial draft ideas''' by [[Jason Carswell]] that will be repeatedly presented to our communities for consideration, further input, development, improvements, tweaking, and hopefully for wider acceptance and implementation.  With community input, this living document may evolve and change over time, yet it includes an immutable history of revisions ("view history" at the top of every wiki page).
  
 
Naturally and always, everyone is welcome to '''get a Projex.Wiki account to edit and contribute''' to these wiki pages (we'll soon host wiki classes), or you may interact via email, phone, or in person with Jason or others who will improve these wiki pages with your contributions.
 
Naturally and always, everyone is welcome to '''get a Projex.Wiki account to edit and contribute''' to these wiki pages (we'll soon host wiki classes), or you may interact via email, phone, or in person with Jason or others who will improve these wiki pages with your contributions.
  
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Hopefully  this developmental process on these '''[[WE Protect Freedom!]]''' and '''[[WE Protect Freedom! branding developments|branding developments]]''' wiki pages will yield a cornerstone '''constitution''' (with room for amendments), powerful '''branding''', and our community strengthened by '''distributed management''', '''open organizing''', '''improved communications''', insightful analysis, preparation for '''sustainable growth''', and greater '''fortifications''' against tyranny.
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Hopefully  this developmental process on these '''[[WE Protect Freedom!]]''' and '''[[WE Protect Freedom!/Branding developments]]''' wiki pages will yield a cornerstone '''constitution''' (with room for amendments), powerful '''branding''', and our community strengthened by '''distributed management''', '''open organizing''', '''improved communications''', insightful analysis, preparation for '''sustainable growth''', and greater '''fortifications''' against tyranny.
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== Alliances ==
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: ''Pending consensus validation by community folks.''
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: ''more coming soon''
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Windsor/Essex Protect Freedom! is a proud chapter of [[Freedom Alliance Canada]].
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Windsor/Essex Protect Freedom! is happy to include members who overlap with other groups in Essex County and beyond - and online.
  
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We hope to collaborate and align with more groups and networks.
  
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== Our brand name (proposal draft) ==
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=== See also ===
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* [[The Freedom Cell Network]] ''Meaningful change - powered by you.''
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** [https://www.FreedomCells.org FreedomCells.'''org''']
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== Branding developments ==
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: ''Pending consensus validation by community folks.''
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This content has been moved to a dedicated sub-page:
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: '''[[WE Protect Freedom!/Branding developments]]'''
  
 
Recognize it or not, strong branding is critical in our modern age - especially when attempting to counter the corporatocracy's avalanche of brainwashing, distraction, division, deception, manipulation, and propaganda.
 
Recognize it or not, strong branding is critical in our modern age - especially when attempting to counter the corporatocracy's avalanche of brainwashing, distraction, division, deception, manipulation, and propaganda.
  
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The name or title, "'''[[WE Protect Freedom!]]'''", is not written in stone nor printed on cards, ''yet'', so this name, title, and '''[[WE Protect Freedom! branding developments|branding project]]''' may come to nothing and be abandoned - or may remain, evolve, and/or thrive.  Time will tell.
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The name or title, "'''[[WE Protect Freedom!]]'''", is not written in stone nor printed on cards, ''yet'', so this name, title, and '''[[WE Protect Freedom!/Branding developments|Branding developments]]''' may come to nothing and be abandoned - or may remain, evolve, and/or thrive.  Time will tell.
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'''[[WE Protect Freedom!/Branding developments#Why rebrand and reorganize?|Why rebrand and reorganize?]]'''</br>
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Find out why on the [[WE Protect Freedom!/Branding developments#Why rebrand and reorganize?|Branding developments]] page.
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Also find out what the proposed '''[[WE Protect Freedom!/Brand identity#Brand identity|Brand identity]]''' is about.
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=== Business cards, flyers, and welcome page ===
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: ''Pending consensus validation by community folks.''
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This content is on a dedicated sub-page:
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: '''[[WE Protect Freedom!/Business cards, flyers, and welcome page]]'''
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: '''[[Welcome]]''' newcomer introduction page - a simple, clear overview.
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=== Merchandise ===
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[[File:Ecovana Sustainable Market, 1318 Wyandotte St E.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Ecovana Sustainable Market, 1318 Wyandotte St E. Custom laser wood engravings.]]
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: ''Pending consensus validation by community folks.''
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: '''[[WE Protect Freedom!/Merchandise]]'''
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=== Advertising ===
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[[File:Bus stop bench advertising, Wyandotte at Drouillard.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Bus stop bench advertising, Wyandotte at Drouillard.</br>WOW! Your Customers With This Sign</br>CreativeOutdoor.com 1.800.661.6088]]
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: ''Pending consensus validation by community folks.''
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: ''More soon.''
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=== Other ideas ===
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: ''Pending consensus validation by community folks.''
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: ''More soon.''
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== Calendar ==
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: ''more coming soon''
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Not to be confused with the '''[[South-Western Ontario calendar and newsletter]]''', when a '''[[WE Protect Freedom!/Calendar]]''' is developed, there may be two or three levels of access:
  
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'''[[WE Protect Freedom! branding developments#Why rebrand and reorganize?|Why rebrand and reorganize?]]'''</br>
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# open - public, for the world to see, and to be included in the [[SW Ontario calendar]]
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Find out on the [[WE Protect Freedom! branding developments#Why rebrand and reorganize?|branding developments]] page.
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# closed - private, for members to interact with
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# guarded - if even necessary, a third option for organizing surprise events for some unforeseen reason(s)
  
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=== Windsor and Essex County ===
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In addition to and in parallel with basic calendar scheduling, information organization can build powerful resources:
  
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The "'''WE'''" (all capitalized) of '''[[Windsor]] & [[Essex County]]''' was arrived at for the '''[[WEFringe group email lists]]''' and seemed like a catchy, clever gimmick to carry over.  (Folks are welcome to disagree and express other ideas.)  "WEFringe" is meant to be as clear and as short as possible for the group email title.
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* past = archive
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** overlapping actions + calendars + communications + communities + newsletters
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** task management
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* Fighting for freedom?  Or fighting against freedom?
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[[File:Book cover - robert's rules of order orig 1876 edition.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert's_Rules_of_Order Robert's Rules of Order], manual of parliamentary procedure, first edition, 1876.]]
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* Fighting with words?  Fighting with fists? Fighting with nukes?
 
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* Why so angry?  Why fight in a peace movement?
 
  
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=== Protect ===
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: '''[[WE Protect Freedom!/Committee and meeting management]]'''
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:* '''[[WE Protect Freedom!/Committee and meeting management#Committee outline|Committee outline]]'''
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:* '''[[WE Protect Freedom!/Committee and meeting management#Meeting management outline|Meeting management outline]]'''
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:* '''[[WE Protect Freedom!/Committee and meeting management#Agendas outline|Agendas outline]]'''
  
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'''"[[Protect Freedom!]]" remains a peaceful, positive, actionable statement of resistance and opposition to all kinds of tyranny''' - the mafia government puppet "leadership" as well as the status quo establishment of banksters, corporate monopolies, the ruling class and their deep state, their matrix of rigged systems of deception, manipulation, exploitation, oppression, and extermination, and all orders of authoritarian overreach, corruption, and despotism - from local to global.
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=== Caution ===
  
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This video essay features constructive criticism about optimizing with a focus on productivity without the humanity.
  
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* '''[[Freedom!]]''' = universal appeal, but without action or purpose
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YouTube video: '''''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQK64SrYkzs Productivity Rips You Apart]''''' (11:46) ~ Horses, July 31, 2023
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* '''[[Protect Freedom!]]''' = more specific, active, may be a command, may be a call to action
 
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* '''[[WE Protect Freedom!]]''' = our short local brand
 
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* '''[[Windsor & Essex County Protects Freedom!]]''' = our extended local branding removing all confusion
 
  
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=== Meeting agendas, minutes, and updates ===
  
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'''Globally, the first two versions''' may be sold world wide to raise funds for our causes, once designed and applied to merchandise.  Hopefully with any luck, as open-source projects, these memetic ideas outlined below may inspire an effective world wide phenomenon with an organic life of its own.
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This content has been moved to a dedicated sub-page - an archival list of past announcements (mirrored here for now until it grow too long):
  
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: '''[[WE Protect Freedom!/Meeting agendas, minutes, and updates]]'''
  
  
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== Founding principles ==
  
 
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=== Our official classification ===
 
=== Our official classification ===
  
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Just because concepts are being clarified here to formalize a collective consensus and awareness about ourselves clearly here doesn't mean we're selling out, going corporate, or other nonsense.  It just means we're getting organized, with bottom-up '''[[FOEPATCHISM]]''' and decentralizing leadership for longer-term stability, fairness, and community-inclusive participation in the directions we're going.
  
 
The official status of our group is that we will '''never register with the government''' in any capacity because we believe mafia-government overreach, regulations, surveillance, and taxation are among the greatest problems facing humanity.  Why volunteer your address to be targeted by the enemy?
 
The official status of our group is that we will '''never register with the government''' in any capacity because we believe mafia-government overreach, regulations, surveillance, and taxation are among the greatest problems facing humanity.  Why volunteer your address to be targeted by the enemy?
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=== Core functions and goals ===
 
=== Core functions and goals ===
  
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For maximum efficacy this '''[[WE Protect Freedom!]]''' defining and branding process '''requires revisiting and reconsidering our freedom groups' core functions and goals''', including:
 
For maximum efficacy this '''[[WE Protect Freedom!]]''' defining and branding process '''requires revisiting and reconsidering our freedom groups' core functions and goals''', including:
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* force people to believe or do anything.
 
* force people to believe or do anything.
  
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All human beings in our loosely formed open community are on equal footing.  Yet to be efficient and effective we must collectively arrive at decisions expediently - thus a reliable and trustworthy core management team should help.  Like it or not, a single "leader" is a single point of failure, whether it's absence, corruption, inability, self-interests, or whatever.  A small steering committee may self-manage their agendas, arrangements, schedules, etc. and inclusively communicate with subgroups (see [[#Subgroups]] below) and the larger community.  (Naturally folks remain free to create their own associations and private societies structured differently.)
 
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The goal: maintain order at the meetings.
 
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Some of these ideas may be embraced, rejected, or linger on the fence, be rarely used, occasionally employed, or become mainstays - but all will require patience and practice to build up our collective better habits for more productive meetings.
 
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#* has something to say eventually (while not interrupting)
 
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A '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quorum quorum]''' is the minimal number of officers and members of a committee or organization, usually a majority, who must be present for valid transaction of business.  The "''requirement for a quorum is protection against totally unrepresentative action in the name of the body by an unduly small number of persons.''" In contrast, a plenum is a meeting of the full body. A body, or a meeting, or vote of it, is quorate if a quorum is present (or casts valid votes).
 
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=== Agenda time slots ===
 
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# Agendas should be compiled leading '''up to the meeting'''.
 
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# Agendas should be flexible for adjustments and '''last minute''' additions.
 
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# Minutes should be recorded '''during the meeting'''.
 
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# Minutes should be shared with folks '''after the meeting'''. (via email, online?, etc.)
 
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=== Agendas should feature ===
 
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# '''Opening''' declaration.
 
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# '''Calendar'''.
 
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== 2023-08-02 meeting agenda ==
 
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# '''Read''': '''Last Minutes'''
 
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# Jason & Ray : '''Meeting management''': PostIts, uninterrupted presentations, chair controls, hand gestures, etc.
 
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# Jason : '''Terminology''': '''[[Do-ocracy]].'''
 
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#* Over a year ago at the Green Room, the do-ocracy concept was appreciated after being introduced by Jason who learned of it via autonomous Burning Man communities.
 
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#* Jason mirrored an existing CommunityWiki article then forked it by adding a few paragraphs to '''[[Do-ocracy]]'''.
 
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#* Doing things without engaging, including, and involving the larger group will only ever be self-interest projects cloaked as community work.
 
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#* Informed discussion without action is just as effective at resisting tyranny as cowardice, inaction, and ignorance.
 
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#* Ambitious or not, finished or not, large or not, recent or not, successful or not - all of Jason's efforts are "authorized", founded in, and justified by our do-ocracy principles.
 
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#* These concepts along with the room and long overdue need for change, organization, and action are the fundamental catalysts that ignited Jason's current explosion of development activity.  Not to mention the global perpetual war demanding effective resistance.
 
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# Jason : '''Presentation''': '''Why we need strong Branding''', a basic introduction to motivations before we even look at and dissect graphic designs. (See also: [[WE Protect Freedom! branding developments|branding developments]])
 
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# Jason : '''Presentation''': Drilling down to define '''what we're about''' ([[WE Protect Freedom!]])
 
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#* Impossible time constraints force us to deal with, discuss, and resolve the following in future meetings:
 
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#** Organizing agendas, goals, management, etc.
 
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#** Initiate actions, calendars, event planning, mission statements, etc.
 
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#** Prepare assignments, homework, research, etc. in order that knowledgeable people come to meetings for actionable organizing, rather than teaching, learning, and socializing. (We may form a social group if we like - or leave this as a social group and form an action group.  Perhaps revive Sanctuary Group.)
 
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# Jason : '''Discussion''': '''How open do we want to be?''', Keeping our community informed of what we meet about, keeping it open for folks to join (anticipating and preparing for infiltrators), sharing information openly online (ie. Projex.Wiki, FreedomAllianceCanada.'''ca'''), in emails, and Facebook, as well as '''What information is not open, private, or needs guarding?'''
 
−
# Jason : '''Meeting management''': Running meetings efficiently - [http://web.mit.edu/publicdisputes/practice/shortguide.pdf '''''A Short Guide to Consensus Building''.pdf'''] verses '''''[[Robert's Rules of Order]]'''''
 
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# Jason : '''Meeting management''': '''Establish time constraints''' for people to speak/present, as well as flexibility protocols, and get a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_bell call bell] and make usage guides?
 
−
 
−
=== Announcements ===
 
−
 
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* Jason & Don : Maybe '''Thursday''' project.
 
−
 
−
* Jason : We need to find a '''new meeting space'''.
 
−
** Brown's Lounge will be resuming card games in the back room on Wednesdays soon.
 
−
 
−
* Jason : '''Classes at the Windsor Media Centre'''.
 
−
** Currently: Flim Camp For Kids until the end of August. Can still join.
 
−
** ''Free'' 2-day '''animation class''' & 40 minute video in August, taught by Jason.
 
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** 10-day animation class in October, taught by Jason.
 
−
** Other classes to set up or request?
 
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*** Wiki basics, cryptocurrency basics, gardening basics, computing basics, prepping basics, etc.
 
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** Other scheduled WMC classes?
 
−
** Should have gotten more info Monday night.  Can email for it.
 
−
 
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* Jason & Mike : May make a road trip to Toronto to meet with '''[[Druthers]]''' folks.
 
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** But first the screenplay needs work.
 
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** To discuss Mike's short video.
 
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** To discuss Jason's comic strip pitches and/or illustrations.
 
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** May record a brief interview, may write up a general promotional article about Druthers, and may begin an encyclopedic Druthers article for non-censoring wikis (as a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druthers Wikipedia article] was censored by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nick_Moyes User:Nick Moyes] on 2021-11-28).
 
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=== Bonus material ===
 
−
 
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==== Recommended reading ====
 
−
 
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* ''[http://web.mit.edu/publicdisputes/practice/shortguide.pdf A Short Guide to Consensus Building.pdf]''
 
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* Maybe? : ''[[Robert's Rules of Order]]''
 
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* Maybe? : ''[https://www.cbi.org/book/consensus-building-handbook/ The Consensus Building Handbook]''
 
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* [https://TheWhiteRose.uk/white-rose-products/Stop-Them-FREE-Download-p560838650 The White Rose.uk] (free e-books or printed books to purchase) "''Defend Freedom - Defend Humanity''"
 
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** YouTube introduction:  ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbGN_zYYQjY End World Control]'' (11:29) ~ Richard Vobes, July 5, 2023
 
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==== New websites ====
 
−
 
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* [https://Ground.News Ground.News] - Pay to subscribe for features that analyze corporate media, their biases, and tell you what's being under-covered.
 
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** Recommended by Clyde Do Something.
 
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* [https://TheRising.Social TheRising.Social]
 
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** YouTube interview:  ''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHwz68y4_HQ Welcome to the Rising Social media platform]'' (38:03) ~ Richard Vobes, July 28, 2023
 
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==== Seminars ====
 
−
 
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These seminars may be worth checking out as a group or individually.
 
−
 
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* Kelly paid for a '''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Ayyadurai Dr. V.A. Shiva]''' course that we could do as a group, like a class.
 
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* Frequent guest on The Corbett Report, '''[https://www.BennyWills.com Benny Wills] "The Self Reliant Way"'''
 
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*: "''Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Self reliance is its aversion.''" ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
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−
=== Potential future agenda items ===
 
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Even if these items potential future agenda items haven't yet been presented, folks may want to be aware of
 
−
upcoming topics, get involved, get prepared, and/or have more to add.
 
−
 
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# Jason : '''Presentation''': '''Branding''', ongoing presentation and discussion. (See also: [[WE Protect Freedom! branding developments|branding developments]])
 
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# Jason : '''Discussion, event planning, management, and networking resources''': Who wants to '''plan and organize future events''' as well as '''establish our [[calendar of events]]'''?
 
−
#* '''Openly share the calendar online''' aggregated in one place that may then be copied, decentralized, linked, mirrored, propagated, referenced, etc.
 
−
#* Include participation with '''overlapping and regional communities, political parties, groups, and individuals''' to share whatever they wish, on their terms, with minimal conditions or strings attached.
 
−
#* Perhaps create '''other private calendars?''', for reasons yet to be discussed and determined.
 
−
#* '''Example events:''' Future guests, Labour Day plans, Halloween Party, protests, rallies, social events, etc.
 
−
#* Start by organizing our calendar and lists, perhaps on a '''spreadsheet''', featuring event categories, guest categories, featured local folks, topical issues, notable dates and anniversaries, needs, wants, wishes, resources, peripheral pavilions, other communities, volunteers, and communications.
 
−
# Jason : '''Discussion, event planning, management, and networking resources''': Who wants to plan, organize, and '''establish our [[WEFringe monthly newsletter|cross-community newsletter]]'''?
 
−
#* '''Openly share the newsletter online''' along side a '''downloadable self-printable version'''.
 
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#* Include participation with '''overlapping and regional communities, political parties, groups, and individuals''' to share whatever they wish, on their terms, with minimal conditions or strings attached.
 
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#* Newsletter contributions would '''cover who they are, actions, events, future plans, goals, ideas, etc.''' with a focus on freedom actions (resisting tyranny) and prepping (alternatives, analysis, arts, autonomy, care, communications, community, culture, defense, DIY, economics, education, employment, energy, entertainment, faith, food security, gardening, health, homesteading, helping, information, justice, local news, making, organizing, politics, resources, solutions, transportation).
 
−
# Jason & Don : '''Discussion''': '''[[The ugly reality about the future of transportation]].''' Get to know mechanics and/or invest in reliable used cars.  Electric cars are set to divide the rich from the rest in the dust. (see also [[Windsor and Essex County transportation resources]])
 
−
# Jason : '''Presentation''': Three parallel '''[[DIY alternative community economics]]''' not dependent on the Internet or establishment currencies.
 
−
## Foster and promote the [[gifting economy]] ethos
 
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## Develop a [[decentralized distributed time bank]]
 
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## Jason's original idea for a decentralized [[distributed alt-bank network]] with a gold-tied community-based currency-ledger system.
 
−
#* See also: [[Economic alternatives]]
 
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# Jason : '''Discussion''': '''[[Community homesteading]]''' ideas, dreams, and options in Essex County.
 
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#* In a perfect world our dream compound may include: ample housing, artisan studios, cooking facilities, education facilities (for children and adults), elder care, energy facilities (biodiesel, hydro, solar, wind, etc), entertainment facilities, makers' workshops, mechanic facilities, obtanium resource management and storage units, organic gardening/farming, organic pond(s), technology facilities, trailer park, welding, etc.
 
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# Jason : '''Proposal''': Establish '''[[community-based monthly-inflation measurement teams]]''' - because our governments are unreliable liars.
 
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# Jason & Ray : '''Proposal''': Community '''preparedness''' coordinations.
 
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== Calendar ==
 
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: ''more coming''
 
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: ''See also: [[newsletter]]''
 
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== Subgroups (proposal draft) ==
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== Subgroups ==
  
 
: ''Pending consensus validation by community folks.''
 
: ''Pending consensus validation by community folks.''
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=== Actions group ===
 
=== Actions group ===
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* Concerns include:
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*: [[15 minute ghettos]] | [[Alternatives]] and [[Solutions]] | [[Artificial intelligence]] and [[Cyber war]] | [[Censorship]] and [[Communications]] | [[Class war]], [[Corporatocracy]], [[Corrupt politics]], and [[Tyranny]] | [[Climate agenda]] | [[Consumer culture]] | [[Culture war]] | [[Depopulation agenda]] | [[Manufactured economic crises]] | [[Meaningful liberty]] and  [[Protecting freedom]] | [[Manufactured education crises]] | [[Manufactured food crises]] | [[Manufactured health crises]] | [[Radiation]] | [[Organizing]] and [[Resistance]] | [[Protecting children]] | [[Surveillance]] and [[Privacy]]
  
 
* Content and information management
 
* Content and information management
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** inviting speakers, preparing lectures, sharing media, etc.
  
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* '''[https://SaidIt.net/s/Terminology /s/Terminology]'''
 
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=== [[Event planning]] ===
 
  
 
[[File:Windsor Freedom Rally 2022-01-22 - DSC06866.JPG|thumb|right|200px|[[Windsor freedom rallies|Windsor Freedom Rally]] 2022-01-22.]]
 
[[File:Windsor Freedom Rally 2022-01-22 - DSC06866.JPG|thumb|right|200px|[[Windsor freedom rallies|Windsor Freedom Rally]] 2022-01-22.]]
 
[[File:Windsor Premier Cruises boat.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Windsor Premier Cruises]] boat.</br>Contact: 519.250.3999]]
 
[[File:Windsor Premier Cruises boat.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Windsor Premier Cruises]] boat.</br>Contact: 519.250.3999]]
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: ''more coming''
 
  
 
We need to '''plan our next events''', starting by organizing our calendar and lists, perhaps on a spreadsheet featuring event categories, guest categories, featured local folks, topical issues, needs, wants, wishes, resources, peripheral pavilions, other communities, volunteers, communications.
 
We need to '''plan our next events''', starting by organizing our calendar and lists, perhaps on a spreadsheet featuring event categories, guest categories, featured local folks, topical issues, needs, wants, wishes, resources, peripheral pavilions, other communities, volunteers, communications.
  
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* [[:Category:Events]]
 
* [[:Category:Events]]
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* [[:Category:Media]]
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* [[:Category:Newsletters]]
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* [[:Category:Podcasts]]
 
* [[:Category:Protests]]
 
* [[:Category:Protests]]
 
* [[:Category:Rallies]]
 
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** [[Community venue ideas]]
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* [[Freedom Music Festival]]
 
* [[Freedom Music Festival]]
 
* [[Guest speakers]]
 
* [[Guest speakers]]
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== See also ==
 
== See also ==
  
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* [[Community organizing]]
 
* [[Decentralized alternatives]]
 
* [[Decentralized alternatives]]
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* [[Economic alternatives]]
 
* [[Economic alternatives]]
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* [[Meaningful liberty]]
 
* [[Meaningful liberty]]
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[[Category:Communities]]
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[[Category:Brainstorming]]
 
[[Category:Brainstorming]]
 
[[Category:Essex County, Ontario]]
 
[[Category:Essex County, Ontario]]
 
[[Category:Freedom]]
 
[[Category:Freedom]]
 
[[Category:Funding]]
 
[[Category:Funding]]
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[[Category:Organizing]]
 
[[Category:Organizing]]
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[[Category:Protect Freedom]]
 
[[Category:Protect Freedom]]
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[[Category:Resistance]]
 
[[Category:Resistance]]
 
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[[Category:Windsor, Ontario]]
 
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[[Category:Windsor resistance]]

Latest revision as of 15:19, 19 August 2024

WE Protect Freedom! design.
(WE = Windsor & Essex County)
Protect Children! design.
Protect Freedom! design.
The ultimate truth:
All governments are inherently evil, corrupted, secretive, manipulative, divisive, exploitative, abusive, violent, and excessively murderous, with (s)elected puppet "leaders" rigging all entwined systems to serve psychotic Machiavellian elites for full spectrum dominance waged upon their own citizens with their bankster-media-military-industrial-academic-corporatocracy.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
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Ray's Hierarchy Of Improvement.

Necessity is the mother of invention, poverty is the mother of necessity.

Guilt loves company more than misery.
The Pyramid Of Debate, a redesigned improvement on Graham's hierarchy of disagreement.
The Evolution Of War shirt design, worn by one of the Druthers guys.
See also: Welcome!
This page is a work in progress. Feel free to join to help edit Projex.Wiki. Check back for developments.

" We're still here and not going away until things change. " ~ Sherri

WE Protect Freedom! groups openly organize our Actions group, Communications group, Resources group, and Socials group around our core functions and goals for local freedom and prepper communities' networking in Windsor and Essex County.

Visit our Welcome newcomer introduction page if you're new to any of this and would prefer a simple, clear overview.

This crowd-sourced, open-source, transparent organization may be a template for other groups or projects to emulate, modify, and utilize as they see fit.

Don't be shy. More ideas, suggestions, and input are are very welcome as they can only improve how we organize our group, actions, branding, communications, and resources. Even bad ideas lead to better ones, and there's not always a single course of action.


See also:


Restructure history

After discussing this for years, for the first time we're finally clearly rebranding, reorganizing, and redefining ourselves in the do-ocracy spirit (do-ocracy). WE Protect Freedom! may be a comprehensive way to civilly organize, clarify fundamentals, positively rebrand ourselves, engage our members, better grow our numbers, and visibly and/or financially support our freedom groups.

FOEPATCHISM

In short, the goal of this FOEPATCHISM framework outline is to provide the community choices that may fall on or between these extremes:

  • bottom-up decentralized self-lead community -vs- top-down centralized authority
  • altruistic concern for humanity -vs- selfish desire for control
  • cooperation and collaboration -vs- acquiescence and obedience
  • clear goals and definitions -vs- ambiguous identity and purpose
  • effective public relations -vs- remain unnoticed and impotent
  • crowd-sourced motivations -vs- executive leadership dictates
  • self-organized action -vs- passive following along
  • roadmap documentation -vs- whimsy of the moment
  • informed consent -vs- trickle down awareness
  • our community -vs- the leader's group
  • having a say -vs- going along
  • inclusivity -vs- obedience
  • voluntary -vs- no say
  • unity -vs- hierarchy
  • open -vs- private

What kind of society do you want? Why not make it happen? Do-ocracy.

No legalese

This wiki page is intended to be as clear as possible in common parlance (avoiding legalese trickery), and as short as possible while removing as much room for error or misinterpretation as possible in comprehensive detail. If any wording accidentally, incidentally, and/or unconsciously employs any legalese, loopholes, or lax room for question we should expose it and clearly resolve it as soon as possible, like any respectable open-source endeavour would.

Initial drafts

These pages are currently just an evolving initial draft ideas by Jason Carswell that will be repeatedly presented to our communities for consideration, further input, development, improvements, tweaking, and hopefully for wider acceptance and implementation. With community input, this living document may evolve and change over time, yet it includes an immutable history of revisions ("view history" at the top of every wiki page).

Naturally and always, everyone is welcome to get a Projex.Wiki account to edit and contribute to these wiki pages (we'll soon host wiki classes), or you may interact via email, phone, or in person with Jason or others who will improve these wiki pages with your contributions.

Hopefully this developmental process on these WE Protect Freedom! and WE Protect Freedom!/Branding developments wiki pages will yield a cornerstone constitution (with room for amendments), powerful branding, and our community strengthened by distributed management, open organizing, improved communications, insightful analysis, preparation for sustainable growth, and greater fortifications against tyranny.


Alliances

Pending consensus validation by community folks.
more coming soon

Windsor/Essex Protect Freedom! is a proud chapter of Freedom Alliance Canada.

Windsor/Essex Protect Freedom! is happy to include members who overlap with other groups in Essex County and beyond - and online.

We hope to collaborate and align with more groups and networks.

See also


Branding developments

Pending consensus validation by community folks.

This content has been moved to a dedicated sub-page:

WE Protect Freedom!/Branding developments

Recognize it or not, strong branding is critical in our modern age - especially when attempting to counter the corporatocracy's avalanche of brainwashing, distraction, division, deception, manipulation, and propaganda.

The name or title, "WE Protect Freedom!", is not written in stone nor printed on cards, yet, so this name, title, and Branding developments may come to nothing and be abandoned - or may remain, evolve, and/or thrive. Time will tell.

Why rebrand and reorganize?
Find out why on the Branding developments page.

Also find out what the proposed Brand identity is about.

Business cards, flyers, and welcome page

Pending consensus validation by community folks.

This content is on a dedicated sub-page:

WE Protect Freedom!/Business cards, flyers, and welcome page
Welcome newcomer introduction page - a simple, clear overview.

Merchandise

Ecovana Sustainable Market, 1318 Wyandotte St E. Custom laser wood engravings.
Pending consensus validation by community folks.

This content is on a dedicated sub-page:

WE Protect Freedom!/Merchandise

Advertising

Bus stop bench advertising, Wyandotte at Drouillard.
WOW! Your Customers With This Sign
CreativeOutdoor.com 1.800.661.6088
Pending consensus validation by community folks.
More soon.

Other ideas

Pending consensus validation by community folks.
More soon.


Calendar

more coming soon

Not to be confused with the South-Western Ontario calendar and newsletter, when a WE Protect Freedom!/Calendar is developed, there may be two or three levels of access:

  1. open - public, for the world to see, and to be included in the SW Ontario calendar
  2. closed - private, for members to interact with
  3. guarded - if even necessary, a third option for organizing surprise events for some unforeseen reason(s)

In addition to and in parallel with basic calendar scheduling, information organization can build powerful resources:

  • past = archive
  • present = current events
    • overlapping actions + calendars + communications + communities + newsletters
  • future = action plans
    • task management
      • areas vs goals vs projects


Committee and meeting management

Robert's Rules of Order, manual of parliamentary procedure, first edition, 1876.

This content has been moved to a dedicated sub-page:

WE Protect Freedom!/Committee and meeting management

Caution

This video essay features constructive criticism about optimizing with a focus on productivity without the humanity.

YouTube video: Productivity Rips You Apart (11:46) ~ Horses, July 31, 2023

Meeting agendas, minutes, and updates

This content has been moved to a dedicated sub-page - an archival list of past announcements (mirrored here for now until it grow too long):

WE Protect Freedom!/Meeting agendas, minutes, and updates


Founding principles

Pending consensus validation by community folks.

Our official classification

Just because concepts are being clarified here to formalize a collective consensus and awareness about ourselves clearly here doesn't mean we're selling out, going corporate, or other nonsense. It just means we're getting organized, with bottom-up FOEPATCHISM and decentralizing leadership for longer-term stability, fairness, and community-inclusive participation in the directions we're going.

The official status of our group is that we will never register with the government in any capacity because we believe mafia-government overreach, regulations, surveillance, and taxation are among the greatest problems facing humanity. Why volunteer your address to be targeted by the enemy?

We have yet to solidly verify (via reliable legal council) that an "open society" or "private society" is safe classification terminology for our group in Common Law and is not bound by government standards, legal restrains, or defining criteria, as are typically necessary for other group titles such as a charity, church, cooperative (coop), limited liability corporations (LLC), non-governmental organizations (NGO), etc.

It may be worth discussing creating other parallel registered group(s) to reap whatever benefits that classification status may facilitate, including community and grant funding, access to public resources, discounts, tax benefits, etc. This concept has been discussed and is commonly utilized by community centers, charities, and media production. Whether it's worth it to dance with the devil is a whole other discussion

See also

Core functions and goals

Section mirrored on WE Protect Freedom!/Branding developments

For maximum efficacy this WE Protect Freedom! defining and branding process requires revisiting and reconsidering our freedom groups' core functions and goals, including:

  1. organize, engage, and network our members, groups, actions, events, and resources
  2. clearly communicate and openly share our fundamental values, concerns, information, and ambitions
  3. expand growth of members, alliances, public awareness/visibility, community abilities, and community resources

Understanding and organization of these core functions can be shared clearly outlining our mission, among members as well as the public, be printed in materials, documented online, referenced in press releases, and apply to fundraising merchandise to greater or lesser extents.

What we're about

Below lists have been started to help clearly define what we're about.

Protect

  • balance, peace, and voluntary interactions
  • FOEPATCH inclusive social management
    FOEPATCHISM = Fair, Open, Ethical, Peaceful, Accountable, Transparent, Consistent, Honest, Inclusive Social Management - for collaborators, communities, families, governments, groups, homes, organizations, social media, societies, teams, workplaces, etc. "Foe" = enemy; "patch" = correction.
  • freedoms (assembly, autonomy, choice, communications, DIY, economic, expression, independence, mobility, satire, self-reliance, sharing, skepticism, etc.)
  • human rights (employment, food, housing, security, etc. See also: Maslow's hierarchy of needs)
  • Natural Law (do not deceive/lie, harm, murder, steal, transgress, trespass against others)
  • communications and promotion of alternatives, corruption exposure, counter-propaganda, freedoms (above), free-thinking & truth-seeking, and solutions
  • sustainability (community, cultural, economic, energy, environmental, family, food, pan-generation stability, etc.)

Reject

  • agendas that sound good but are Trojan horses of evil driven by fear mongering hysteria (Agenda 21 now the Sustainable Development Goals (aka Agenda 2030), censorship, climate scams, depopulation agendas, divisive agendas, equity agendas, ESG (environment, social, governance) agenda for globalists' corporations, Trans agendas, UBI (universal basic income) traps, Woke agenda, Victimhood supremacy, Zionism, etc)
  • child harm and sexualization
  • corruption
  • corporatocratic greed at the expense of humanity
  • crimes against humanity
  • evil acts (coercion, corruption, deception, manipulation, theft, exploitation, violent harm, extermination)
  • injustice
  • kakistocracy
  • mafia governments that abuse their monopoly on violence
  • medical tyranny
  • open borders (at least until the deep state and military industrial complex stop mass murder, exploitation, supporting tyranny, and meddling in foreign affairs)
  • totalitarianism (authoritarianism, capitalist-extremism, communism, extremism, fascism, socialist-extremism)
  • toxic pollutants (environmental, food, products, radiation, etc.)
  • unbridled consumer culture (artificially manufactured and manipulated from the top down, yet blaming the individual)
  • war

Ambiguous

Free-thinking individuals of our community may be unclear, may disagree, may not even debate, or may have diverse ideas on these issues:

  • abortion
  • aid
  • anti-gun vs pro-gun
  • authority, community management, and top-down governance
  • avarice, greed, selfishness
  • body, drugs, fitness, food, health, medicine, and wellness
  • capitalism, socialism, and many more -isms
  • education
  • employment
  • environment stewardship
  • faiths (and/or atheism)
  • finance
  • political party affiliations
  • taxes

NEVER

  • advocate any forms of aggression and violence,
    • yet we must employ self-defense when necessary.
  • aim to take down the government.
    • This would defy the voluntaryist idea that folks may be free to choose to believe propaganda, be ignorant, and enslave themselves.
  • force people to believe or do anything.


Subgroups

Pending consensus validation by community folks.

Our freedom / prepper community members have different goals to accomplish, talents or resources to share, and areas of interests and projects to dive into - but few have time to "do it all". In an effort to better manage our motivation, time, energy, and resources this is a proposal to branch into subgroups to focus on specific group-based agendas that may naturally overlap. These subgroups may drill into the details of topics to present their summaries and conclusions to the larger community.

Initially it seems prudent to simply come up with three groups: Actions, Communications, Resources.

Folks may propose other, better, or preferable ways to do subgroups.

Actions group

  • Content and information management
    • search, research, and/or development of information
    • aggregation, analysis, and contextualization of information
    • education
    • sharing content and/or information
  • Fundamentals
    • community networking within and with other groups
    • community support
    • family support and resources
    • managing our groups
    • sharing resources
  • Organizing events
    • activism
    • event planning
    • local actions
    • media planning
    • protests
    • rallies
    • securing justice
    • social events
  • Presentations
    • inviting speakers, preparing lectures, sharing media, etc.

Communications group

  • Content and information management
    • search, research, and/or development of information
    • aggregation, analysis, and contextualization of information
    • education
    • sharing content and/or information
  • Original product development and management
    • conceptualization
    • creation, creative expressions, counter-propaganda, and public relations
    • editing
    • media printing, production, and publishing
      • arts, audio, books, business cards, flyers, newsletters, podcasts, press releases, print, social media, stickers, video, websites, etc.
    • distribution
    • funding
    • merchandizing
      • branding, business cards, flyers, stickers, T-shirts, etc.
  • Mediums
    • archival
      • libraries, online archives, online resources, etc.
    • arts
    • emergency communications gear
    • digital media
      • audio, e-books, e-flyers, e-newsletters, podcasts, press releases, social media, video, websites, etc.
    • platforms
    • printed media
      • books, business cards, flyers, newsletters, press releases, stickers, etc.
    • tech gear
      • research, classes, funding, etc.
  • Maintain networks
    • communications networks
      • email groups, lo-fi alternatives (walkie talkies), network protocols, online resources, secure email, etc.
    • community networking within and with other groups
      • automate, batch, script, and roadmap as necessary
      • backup and archive
      • cross mediums and bridge platforms to share information so that no one is left out, regardless how much or little technology is utilized
      • distribute and decentralize
      • grant privacy permissions
    • emergency networks
    • food networks
    • health networks
    • obtanium networks (get, give, need, want)
    • resource networks
    • social media networks
    • social networks
  • Presentations
    • inviting speakers, preparing lectures, sharing media, etc.

Resources group

  • Community networking within and with other groups
  • Content and information management
    • search, research, and/or development of information
    • aggregation, analysis, and contextualization of information
    • education
    • sharing content and/or information
  • Economics
    • currencies, employment, markets and trade, etc.
  • Energy and transportation
    • batteries, car pooling, fuel, vehicles, etc.
  • Family support and resources
  • Food security
    • distribution networks, gardening, organic farms, etc.
  • Health and wellness
    • care and nursing, emergency networks, fitness, mental health, nutrition, etc.
  • Housing and homesteading
  • Making and obtanium
    • building supplies, raw resources, repair, upcycling, etc.
  • Prepping
    • emergency networks, forecasting, storage, supply management, etc.
  • Presentations
    • inviting speakers, preparing lectures, sharing media, etc.

Socials group

more coming soon


WORK IN PROGRESS!
This page is under development.
Check back soon for updates.


Organizing

Windsor Freedom Rally 2022-01-22.
Windsor Premier Cruises boat.
Contact: 519.250.3999

We need to plan our next events, starting by organizing our calendar and lists, perhaps on a spreadsheet featuring event categories, guest categories, featured local folks, topical issues, needs, wants, wishes, resources, peripheral pavilions, other communities, volunteers, communications.


Engagement

more coming


Growth

more coming


Support

more coming

Fundraising ideas

more coming
See Initial brand usage ideas on Branding developments.'


See also

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