[CRNMC] List Serve

[Baile Oakes]

Thank you, Tim, for speaking so clearly and mindfully for those of us who have the same sense in our hearts.

Onward !   With Love

Always,

Baile


On Jul 6, 2014, at 11:47 PM, Tim Rice wrote:

> 
> 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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