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== 2023-08-02 meeting agenda == | == 2023-08-02 meeting agenda == | ||
− | # Read: '''Agenda''' | + | # '''Read''': '''Agenda''' |
− | # Read: '''Last Minutes''' | + | # '''Read''': '''Last Minutes''' |
# Jason & Ray : '''Meeting management''': presentations, PostIts, raised hands, applause-hands | # Jason & Ray : '''Meeting management''': presentations, PostIts, raised hands, applause-hands | ||
− | # Jason : Terminology: '''[[Do-ocracy]]''' (longish read, also linked above) | + | # Jason : '''Terminology''': '''[[Do-ocracy]]''' (longish read, also linked above) |
− | # Jason : Presentation: '''Why we need strong Branding''' ([[WE Protect Freedom! branding developments|branding developments]]) | + | # Jason : '''Presentation''': '''Why we need strong Branding''' ([[WE Protect Freedom! branding developments|branding developments]]) |
− | # Jason : Presentation: Drilling down to define '''what we're about''' ([[WE Protect Freedom!]]) | + | # Jason : '''Presentation''': Drilling down to define '''what we're about''' ([[WE Protect Freedom!]]) |
#* Future meetings: We may further discuss organizing agendas, goals, management, etc. | #* Future meetings: We may further discuss organizing agendas, goals, management, etc. | ||
#* Future meetings: We may initiate actions, calendars, event planning, mission statements, etc. | #* Future meetings: We may initiate actions, calendars, event planning, mission statements, etc. | ||
− | #* Future meetings: We may prepare assignments, homework, research, etc. in order that knowledgeable people come to meetings for action and organizing, rather than learning and socializing. | + | #* Future meetings: We may prepare assignments, homework, research, etc. in order that knowledgeable people come to meetings for action and organizing, rather than learning and socializing. (We can form a social group if we like.) |
− | + | # 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), in emails, and Facebook, as well as '''What information is not open, private, or needs guarding?''' | |
− | # Jason : | + | # 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]]'') |
− | # 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]]'') | + | # 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? |
− | # 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? | ||
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=== Announcements === | === Announcements === | ||
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+ | * Jason & Don : Maybe Thursday project. | ||
* Jason : Announcement: We need to find a '''new meeting space'''. | * Jason : Announcement: We need to find a '''new meeting space'''. | ||
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** Other scheduled WMC classes? | ** Other scheduled WMC classes? | ||
** Should have gotten more info Monday night. Can email for it. | ** Should have gotten more info Monday night. Can email for it. | ||
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+ | * Jason & Mike : May take road trip to Toronto to meet with '''[[Druthers]]''' folks. | ||
+ | ** To discuss Mike's short video. | ||
+ | ** To discuss Jason's comic strip pitches and/or illustrations. | ||
+ | ** May record an interview, write up a nice general promo article, and write up a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druthers Wikipedia article] for other non-censoring wikis (as one was censored by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nick_Moyes User:Nick Moyes] on 2021-11-28). | ||
=== Bonus material === | === Bonus material === | ||
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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. | 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. | ||
− | # Jason : Discussion: Who wants to plan and organize '''future events?''' (Future guests, rallies, Labour Day plans, Halloween Party, etc.) | + | # Jason : '''Discussion''': Who wants to plan and organize '''future events?''' (Future guests, rallies, Labour Day plans, Halloween Party, etc.) |
− | # Jason & Don : | + | # 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 | + | # Jason : '''Management and networking resources''': '''Establish a calendar of events''' openly online (as well as private calendars? for reasons to be determined) |
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#* Include participation with overlapping and regional communities to share what they wish to, on their terms. | #* Include participation with overlapping and regional communities to share what they wish to, on their terms. | ||
#* Related: '''[[WEFringe monthly newsletter|Establish a cross-community newsletter]]''' openly online with a parallel downloadable self-printable version. | #* Related: '''[[WEFringe monthly newsletter|Establish a cross-community newsletter]]''' openly online with a parallel downloadable self-printable version. | ||
#*: Newsletter contributions would come from various regional communities and political parties on who they are, actions, events, future plans, goals, ideas, etc. with a focus on freedom 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). | #*: Newsletter contributions would come from various regional communities and political parties on who they are, actions, events, future plans, goals, ideas, etc. with a focus on freedom 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 : Event planning: 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. | + | # Jason : '''Event planning''': 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. |
# Jason : '''Presentation''': Three parallel '''[[DIY alternative community economics]]''' not dependent on the Internet or establishment currencies. | # Jason : '''Presentation''': Three parallel '''[[DIY alternative community economics]]''' not dependent on the Internet or establishment currencies. | ||
## Foster and promote the [[gifting economy]] ethos | ## Foster and promote the [[gifting economy]] ethos |
Revision as of 05:14, 1 August 2023
WORK IN PROGRESS! This page is under development. Check back for developments. |
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- These pages will change and evolve over time, preferably with your input. Check back for developments.
- Not to be confused with WEFringe group email lists.
" We're still here and not going away until things change. " ~ Sherri
WE Protect Freedom! groups openly organize #Actions, #Communications, and #Resources for local freedom and prepper communities' networking in Windsor and Essex County.
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 organize, clarify fundamentals, positively rebrand ourselves, engage our members, better grow our numbers, and visibly and/or financially support our freedom groups.
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.
This crowd-sourced, open-source, transparent organization may be a template for other groups 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.
First draft
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).
Naturally and always, everyone is welcome to 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 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.
Our brand name (proposal draft)
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 project may come to nothing and be abandoned - or may remain, evolve, and/or thrive. Time will tell.
Why rebrand and reorganize?
Find out on the branding developments page.
Windsor and Essex County
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.
Fight
The "Freedom Fighters" term is not clear at all and needs improving.
- Fighting for freedom? Or fighting against freedom?
- Fighting with words? Fighting with fists? Fighting with nukes?
- Why so angry? Why fight in a peace movement?
For good branding, all confusions and negatives should be avoided, including all associations with violence and fighting.
Protect
"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.
Four versions
- Freedom! = universal appeal, but without action or purpose
- Protect Freedom! = more specific, active, may be a command, may be a call to action
- WE Protect Freedom! = our short local brand
- Windsor & Essex County Protects Freedom! = our extended local branding removing all confusion
All four versions may employ the same design motifs, whether those developed below or future motifs.
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.
Locally, we'll have our own two or more versions to be proud of and self-identify with.
Founding principles (proposal draft)
- Pending consensus validation by community folks.
Our official classification
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
- PanTerra, two decades of global alternative private societies employing Common Law
- The Conscious Resistance Network (TCRN 3.0)
- The Freedom Cell Network Meaningful change - powered by you.
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:
- organize, engage, and network our members, groups, actions, events, and resources
- clearly communicate and openly share our fundamental values, concerns, information, and ambitions
- 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.
Committee (proposal draft)
- Pending consensus validation by community folks.
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.)
Who
Establish a steering committee (core team, executive council, or whatever label) of at least five people.
- chair (may be a rotating position)
- vice chairs
- secretary
- treasurer
How
- Anyone may call for a committee election at any meeting.
- Anyone may nominate themselves or others at any meeting.
- Committee members are free to skip meetings as they see fit when others can cover.
- Committee members are responsible for distributing work and responsibilities with each other and the community to prevent overload, overwork, stress, etc.
- Committee members are responsible for keeping each other and the community informed.
- Committee members must be inclusive, openly transparent, and communicate clearly with the community, subgroups, other communities, and the public.
- Committee members must never be closed off, elevated, nor Machiavellian.
- Committee members should all be updated on everything equally and be able to fill in any position.
- Committee members should number at least five.
- No matter the number of committee members, all must be kept in the loop.
- These criteria may evolve.
- We may develop processes to retire committee members.
Duties
- maintain and share agendas
- maintain and share minutes
- maintain order at the meetings
- refine and share meeting rules/guidelines
- run meetings
Potential duties
- be as inclusive, open, and transparent as possible
- calendar management
- communications and networking with members, individuals, groups, and other communities
- community organizing and management
- community outreach
- develop clear definitions and limits on issues with the community
- Examples:
- organizing on this wiki page is a start
- is recording of meetings or events permitted and under what conditions
- what content is for personal/group/public/global consumption
- Examples:
- event planning and execution
- manage resources
- oversee newsletters
- oversee public relations (press releases, social media, websites, etc)
- oversee subgroups
- share all developments with the larger community
Meeting management (proposal draft)
- Pending consensus validation by community folks.
The goal: maintain order at the meetings.
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.
To foster better respect and courtesy between folks its prudent that folks not interrupt speakers just as speakers should respect the community's limited time - thus we'd like to develop good habits with interruption and interjection mediation protocols.
Chair control
- chair could signal with a call bell rather than a gavel
- 1 bell = 5 minutes to meeting / end of presentation time / quiet, attention please!
- 2 bells = 2 minutes to meeting / presentation 30 seconds over / interruption
- 3 bells = 30 seconds to meeting / presentation 1 minute over
- 4 bells = we're about to meeting / quiet, attention please!
- talking stick?
Hand signals
- applause-hands (an element of participatory democracy used by the Occupy Movement )
- raised fingers
- will wait for recognition from the chair
- has something to say eventually (while not interrupting)
- Make notes or potentially forget points while waiting!
- 1 finger = one point to make
- 2 fingers = two points to make
- 3 fingers = three points to make
- Lowered fingers indicate it's been covered or the moment has passed.
- urgent hands
- Hands raised high outstretched above the head indicate urgency to express a short detail, correction, an interjection, etc. - while not yet interrupting.
- other ?
Ideally speaking
- Ideally the person speaking should project their voice well.
- Why bother speaking if you're not going to be heard?
- Especially as some are hard of hearing.
- Ideally the person speaking should stand.
- Ideally with larger groups we'll have amplification gear for the speaker.
- Ideally with much larger groups we'll have amplification gear for questions.
Notations
- pre-meeting: distribute PostIts + pens
- write down notes and questions rather than interrupt/interject
- post-meeting: collect PostIts + pens for future meetings
Quorum
A 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).
Currently this concept (and this wiki page) may be overkill. However, if our community grows we should be ready to employ fair management and protective safeguard tools like this.
The committee and/or community may develop the various criteria, classifications, and define the minimum number as well as the circumstances for a quorum.
Reference
For more ideas on efficient meeting discipline:
Agendas
- Pending consensus validation by community folks.
Agenda time slots
- uninterrupted presentations
- formal Q&A back and forth periods
- casual discussion periods
- establish time constraints
- scheduled in agenda
- measure time or not?
- clock display, egg timer, flip book, signage, other manual time indicator, etc.
- develop flexibility protocols
- balance - over-rigidity can be as bad as no discipline
- how to ask for more time?
- how to grant more time with a silent signal?
Agenda usage
(These points may also apply to organizing rallies and other events.)
- Agendas should be compiled leading up to the meeting.
- Agendas should be shared with folks before the meeting. (via email, online?, etc.)
- Agendas should be flexible for adjustments and last minute additions.
- Minutes should be recorded at the meeting.
- Minutes should be shared with folks after the meeting. (via email, online?, etc.)
Agendas should feature
- Opening declaration.
- Reading of the agenda.
- Reading of the last meeting's minutes.
- Uninterrupted presentations.
- Each presentation may optionally be followed by:
- Formal Q&A, as necessary, up to a cutoff time.
- Casual discussion, as necessary, up to a cutoff time.
- Each presentation may optionally be followed by:
- Actionable summary. (organize actions, event schedules, homework, recommended reading/viewing, research, to-do lists. )
- Announcements.
- Calendar.
- Review of and improvements to the minutes.
- Closing declaration.
- Casual discussion and disbursement.
Community members' preparation duties
Find out what information should be reviewed or researched, as was discussed at the previous meeting and included in the minutes. A brief summary may be presented for absent folks to catch up, but we can't get mired down hashing over the same old material.
Feel free to come up with new presentations to add to Wednesday's agenda that we should email out Tuesday afternoon.
A new presentation may be as simple as a factoid, a plea, a question, a statement, or a topic to ponder, discuss, or research.
Keep presentations as short as possible while being as clear as necessary.
Presentations should NOT be anything that could be digested as homework (ie. articles, books, clips, documentaries, music, videos, etc.).
Rather than discussing and debating issues to death, try to answer questions by pointing to brief documentation and strong references.
2023-08-02 meeting agenda
- Read: Agenda
- Read: Last Minutes
- Jason & Ray : Meeting management: presentations, PostIts, raised hands, applause-hands
- Jason : Terminology: Do-ocracy (longish read, also linked above)
- Jason : Presentation: Why we need strong Branding (branding developments)
- Jason : Presentation: Drilling down to define what we're about (WE Protect Freedom!)
- Future meetings: We may further discuss organizing agendas, goals, management, etc.
- Future meetings: We may initiate actions, calendars, event planning, mission statements, etc.
- Future meetings: We may prepare assignments, homework, research, etc. in order that knowledgeable people come to meetings for action and organizing, rather than learning and socializing. (We can form a social group if we like.)
- 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), in emails, and Facebook, as well as What information is not open, private, or needs guarding?
- Jason : Meeting management: Running meetings efficiently (A Short Guide to Consensus Building.pdf verses Robert's Rules of Order)
- Jason : Meeting management: Establish time constraints for people to speak/present, as well as flexibility protocols, and get a call bell and make usage guides?
Announcements
- Jason & Don : Maybe Thursday project.
- Jason : Announcement: We need to find a new meeting space.
- Brown's Lounge will be resuming card games on Wednesdays soon.
- Jason : Announcement: Classes at the Windsor Media Centre.
- Free 2-day animation class & 40 minute video in August, taught by Jason.
- 10-day animation class in October, taught by Jason.
- Other classes to set up or request?
- Wiki basics, cryptocurrency basics, gardening basics, computing basics, prepping basics, etc.
- Other scheduled WMC classes?
- Should have gotten more info Monday night. Can email for it.
- Jason & Mike : May take road trip to Toronto to meet with Druthers folks.
- To discuss Mike's short video.
- To discuss Jason's comic strip pitches and/or illustrations.
- May record an interview, write up a nice general promo article, and write up a Wikipedia article for other non-censoring wikis (as one was censored by User:Nick Moyes on 2021-11-28).
Bonus material
Recommended reading
- A Short Guide to Consensus Building.pdf
- Maybe? : Robert's Rules of Order
- Maybe? : The Consensus Building Handbook
- The White Rose.uk (free e-books or printed books to purchase) "Defend Freedom - Defend Humanity"
- YouTube introduction: End World Control (11:29) ~ Richard Vobes, July 5, 2023
New websites
- Ground.News, recommended by Clyde Do Something. Pay to subscribe for features that analyze corporate media, their biases, and tell you what's being under-covered.
- TheRising.Social
- YouTube interview: Welcome to the Rising Social media platform (38:03) ~ Richard Vobes, July 28, 2023
Seminars that may be worth checking out as a group or individually
- Kelly paid for a Dr. V.A. Shiva course that we could do as a group, like a class.
- Frequent guest on The Corbett Report, Benny Wills "The Self Reliant Way"
- "Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Self reliance is its aversion." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Potential future agenda items
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.
- Jason : Discussion: Who wants to plan and organize future events? (Future guests, rallies, Labour Day plans, Halloween Party, etc.)
- 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 : Management and networking resources: Establish a calendar of events openly online (as well as private calendars? for reasons to be determined)
- Include participation with overlapping and regional communities to share what they wish to, on their terms.
- Related: Establish a cross-community newsletter openly online with a parallel downloadable self-printable version.
- Newsletter contributions would come from various regional communities and political parties on who they are, actions, events, future plans, goals, ideas, etc. with a focus on freedom 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 : Event planning: 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.
- Jason : Presentation: Three parallel DIY alternative community economics not dependent on the Internet or establishment currencies.
- Foster and promote the gifting economy ethos
- Develop a decentralized distributed time bank
- Jason's original new idea for a decentralized distributed bank network with a gold-tied community-based currency-ledger system.
- See also: Economic alternatives
- Jason : Discussion: Community homesteading ideas, dreams, and options in Essex County.
- 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.
- Jason : Proposal: Establish community-based monthly-inflation measurement teams - because our governments are unreliable liars.
- Jason & Ray : Proposal: Community preparedness coordinations.
Calendar
- more coming
- See also: newsletter
Proposed:
- access:
- open
- private
- guarded
- functions:
- events past - present - future
- notes, organized in parallel
- goals vs projects
- tasks
- overlap:
- communities
- newsletters
Subgroups (proposal draft)
- 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.
- archival
- 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
- communications 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.
Organizing
- more coming
Community organizing
- more coming
- Wikipedia: Community organizing
Community organizing concepts and standard terminology can help us operate on the same page.
- A Short Guide to Consensus Building.pdf is better than Robert's Rules, according to MIT.edu
- Robert's Rules of Order
- Wikipedia: Robert's Rules of Order
- Robert's Rules of Order
- Ad hoc committees
- Wikipedia: Ad hoc, Latin meaning "for this."
- Do-ocracy
- 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.
- Getting Things Done Movement (GTD)
- Goals vs. Projects: The Important Difference
- Pedophocracy, the entire world is governed by evil - on InfoGalactic.com
- Steering committees
- Wikipedia: Committee
- /s/Terminology
- WikiSpooks.com is a wiki resource about the deep state, corruption of power, and conspiracies.
Community venue ideas
Event planning
- 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.
- Category:Events
- Category:Protests
- Category:Rallies
- Community social event ideas
- Community venue ideas
- Freedom Music Festival
- Guest speakers
- Wikipedia: Event management
- Windsor freedom rallies
- Windsor protests
Engagement
- more coming
Growth
- more coming
Support
- more coming
Fundraising ideas
- more coming