[Community Rights Network] crn Digest, Vol 2, Issue 12

[Madge Strong]

Doesn't a daily digest mean one email per day? (I think I got 4 or 5 in one
day alone.) Let's try to stop disagreeing and get on with what we agree on.
Thanks, Madge


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Today's Topics:

   1.  Fwd: Further Introduction... (Caitlin Alexander)
   2. Re: Thoughts to Share (Lanny Cotler)


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Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 09:40:40 -0700
From: Caitlin Alexander <caitlin29 at gmail.com>
Subject: [Community Rights Network]  Fwd: Further Introduction...
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Scott may have introduced himself to Shannon and Peter but he was given a
specific request by me to not attend our final day of Democracy School for
the following reasons that I don't think Shannon or Peter were aware of:

Several days before the third day of Democracy School, Scott sent an email
to the whole group advising that we abandon our rights-based ordinance and
instead focus on supporting an anti-fracking ordinance the County
Supervisors were working on. This made it clear that Scott did not
understand what a rights-based ordinance was despite his education and
experience. I emailed Scott directly at that time and explained this as the
reason for the Cienfuegos prerequisite, that rights-based ordinances are
completely different from regular ordinances and that one needed to learn
about this before attending the last day of Democracy School. He responded
with his resume informing me that he had plenty of education and did not
need to attend Cienfuegos or the educational portion of DS. Based on this
response and his attitude at that time I understood that he was not
qualified to attend our third day of Democracy School and for good reason.

DS was exclusionary in the same way an advanced chemistry class is
exclusionary, requiring prerequisites. The reasons to hold to this
standard, as set by CELDF and Shannon from the beginning, (and probably
learned from the experiences of many Democracy Schools and ordinance
craftings) were important and reasonable, so that all involved were on the
same page, moving forward with an advanced understanding.

Even though Scott attended our last day of DS, in spite of my request which
was of concern to me, in the last few days I have been emailing Scott the
links to articles and videos that Paul Cienfuegos has been sending us.
Scott has been receptive and responding with ideas that show he has taken
the time to absorb the new information. Based on Scott's new attitude and
willingness to learn I now think he would be a beneficial member of our
internal teams.

In the future, it is critical, to my mind, that each side of a dispute be
interviewed directly in a respectful and unbiased manner so as to be able
to provide a reasonably accurate and fair analysis and resolution. This was
not done in this case.

Caitlin Alexander
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Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 09:45:51 -0700
From: Lanny Cotler <lcotler at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Community Rights Network] Thoughts to Share
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Ahhhhhh...ah...men!

I pray we all learned some good lessons from all this. Yes, we're the ones
we've been waiting for, but we can also be our own worst enemy.

In marriage as in highly focused, intense, community service work?we must
learn to not take things personally.

Amen, again, and onward. Peace follows justice,

Lanny


On Apr 7, 2014, at 8:32 AM, Baile Oakes <baileoakes at gmail.com> wrote:

> I thought it might be nice to share a response from a sweet friend of mine
in New Mexico (Mora County is her favorite place to visit for renewal)
> 
> She is deep into community service through teaching and practicing
permaculture in schools and through community food forests.
> 
> I shared with her the heart felt work with which we are all involved and
generally said there were some hardships with community relations.
> 
> here is her response: can i get an Amen ?
> 
> "... it's all happening' here in my food forest project too...  just
shining my light, keeping things open and straight forward, honoring and
focusing on the best in others, appreciating the wonderful group effort,
allowing for surprising things to happen, breathing through times when they
don't, comforting myself when I receive difficult communications, or when I
don't live up to my own expectations, giving myself the time to process all
that and the courage to keep on keeping on with the goal in mind!   not
always easy :o) - but it's all a gift. "
> 
> can i get an Amen ?
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