[Community Rights Network] Fracking ordinance

[Linda Jupiter]

You can count on me, Carrie and Charles, both of you are thinking well.
Let’s move forward in a loving way.
Onward,
Linda

Message: 3
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 08:17:28 -0700
From: Carrie Durkee <cdurkee at mcn.org>
Subject: [Community Rights Network] Signature Jam
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Cc: Shannon Biggs <shannon at globalexchange.org>
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Greetings all
I am securing coordinators all over the county and having conversations with each of them about the effort.

As soon as I get the materials needed for the signature gathering, I will be on the road doing trainings. (Some folks have already volunteered to help with this)
I plan to take materials to each area, meet the point person and their team, prepare them for the task at hand, and be in touch for follow-up. I will combine areas when possible.

Materials needed to be prepared?.as I see it at the moment: 
I am checking with Shannon to determine what she has and what else we (I'm assuming Education and Outreach) ..need to create. (1, 2 and 3 below)

1. Best practices for handling the petitions
2. Talking points
3. Handout:	this needs to include a synopsis of the initiative, references on how to get back to us, (Facebook, e-mail, etc) and websites on how to look deeper (CELDF, Global Exchange, etc. )  It could be "like an occucard" or a half sheet of paper?maybe blue?for water?)
4. Voter registration forms 
5. Volunteer sign-up sheet

When the best way to keep track of the results is in place, I will let everyone know how to handle the petitions and the results, probably on a weekly basis.

Ed Oberweiser is coordinating the output to the media committee at the moment.
Sue Boecker is working closely with me to help coordinate.

HOLES in the net

Ukiah.. Mike Dean has volunteered as point  person and?need more people
Boonville
Covelo  Even though Beth Brenneman is handling Leggit and Laytonville (does anyone know someone there in Covelo to help out?)
Westport
Elk
Gualala

So far there are coordinators in:

Leggit and Laytonville	Beth Brenneman
Willits: 					Jane McCabe, Pat Collins
Redwood Valley			Peggy Back-up
Ukiah					Mike Dean, and we need more here
Fort Bragg				Caitlin Alexander (8 volunteers so far)
Mendocino				Carrie Durkee
Albion					Peter White
Point Arena				Jane Jarlsburg

Please ?feedback is welcome. 
enough for now
All the best, 
Carrie

Message: 4
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2014 08:56:33 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
From: Charles Cresson Wood <ccwood at ix.netcom.com>
Subject: [Community Rights Network] What this group is now
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Hello community rights and anti-fracking friends,

I have been saddened by a number of disputes recently that imply that something is seriously wrong, the group or a specific individual is acting dictatorially, that the group is unfair, or that the group is in some way is falling short of expectations about where it should be. For all of us, there can be  a rush to condemnation and judgment without a full investigation of the facts, without taking the time to find out what really is going on. Such a response can come easily because we are under a lot of time pressure, we are required to do a lot of work, and at least so far, there is no structure with which to hold our work. But such responses can also indicate where a change is in order. But the type of change may not be the one that we initially expected.

I suggest that this group is just a budding shoot of an organization. It has just lifted it's green shoot above the ground (note: I'm not making reference to Obama's mythical economic "green shoots" -- I'm talking about a newly planted spring plant that just popped up above the ground). Are we going to condemn this fragile and young plant because it has not yet lived up to our expectations? What's the matter with it - it has not yet bloomed! But I think the bloom should be purple, and it's not! Something serious must be wrong here... Worse yet, are we going to pull this plant up by the roots, and in the process kill it, by expectations that have run away with us?   

Or are we going to nurture this very young organization? Are we going to give it our best knowing that it cannot yet give back? Are we going to embrace the reality that it cannot give us all of what we want, at least not yet? The organization hasn't even been truly created yet. We have no formal organizational structure, we have no policies or procedures, and we have no approved conflict resolution process. About all we do have is a some designated team point persons, some teams, and a draft referendum. 

This plant of an organization is still very young. It needs our nurturing to become strong, big, and significant in the world. Can we give to this effort for a while, without demanding that we receive back, and without demanding that we receive in the way we think we should receive? There will be a period of simply giving... we have to go through that period before significant results can be achieved. I invite you to, for a while, simply work with me without the demand to receive anything back. Join me as we tend the plant (our fledgling organization), help us to water it, fertilize it, clear away the weeds, and do what we need to do in order that it can flourish.

/s/ Charles
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