[CRNMC] List Serve

[Tim Rice]

Hi Caitlin, all,

On Sun, 6 Jul 2014, Caitlin Alexander wrote:

> Many members of CRNMC are involved in supporting many groups, movements and
> various politicians. In order to keep our focus on this list serve to
> passing our ordinance in November, and to minimize the number of emails
> sent to people we have asked that postings be specific to Fracking news,
                 ^^
I am wondering who the "we" is?

> news of other CELDF supported ordinances around the country and "get the
> vote out" organizing for this ordinance. Otherwise, we would have many,
> many postings not directly relevant to this political campaign and we would
> be both diffused in our focus and inundated with information some of us may
> not be interested in.

Thanks for your opinion Caitlin. A good starting point for a listserve
use recommendation.

I think there are a few subjects missing. After all, CRNMC stands for 
Community Rights Network of Mendocino County. So I would think that the 
Community Rights part and the Network part would be big part of what is on 
this list.

Personally I don't much care about fracking news unless it's another 
community rights based ordinance but I understand that since our ordinance 
deals with fracking that others may be interested in fracking news. What 
interests me more is the Community and Network parts of our Community 
Rights Network.

Now I'm basing my opinions on the assumption that Albert Einstein was right when he 
said something along the lines of you can't fix a problem with the same 
thinking that created the problem. So I strongly suspect that most 
important part of our Community Rights Network is to examine the colonized 
thinking that got us into this mess where we need a community rights 
ordinance and changing our thinking. And more importantly, modeling how we 
want the world to be within our organization. I'm reasonably certain
that our society's default hierarchal/dominator/power consolidating model 
will not get us out of this mess. And therefore we would be wise to be
diligent in not letting our organization slip into those default models.

Looking back at the meting in Fort Bragg where our name was selected, I 
marvel at the wisdom of the group. Our name really points the way for us. 
There is the Community part which implies that it is a collaborative 
endeavor, the Rights part that speaks to our fundamental unalienable right 
to govern ourselves, and the Network part that implies a number of 
autonomous and interdependent/interconnected communities. So I would
think that subjects around how we take back our personal power, how
we collaborate as autonomous individuals, and how the various
collaborative groups network would be worthy of this list.

It seems likely that others will point out important subjects that I
have not thought of. 

> 
> Thank you.
> 
> -Caitlin
> 

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