[CRNMC] What we can teach now...

[agnes at mcn.org]

Hi Kelly, This sounds good.

Agnes
>
>
> I believe that the only way forward is person to person.  I would like us
> to host educational events to explain the new law to everyone in every
> town.  I'd be glad to help fashion a presentation.  (We have a great start
> on this, thank you, Willow!)
>
> This will help us two-fold.  First we have to bone up on the measure, so
> we
> can talk about it.  Second, more folks will realize what we have here and
> jump on board with us.  Then we can start on the process of finding the
> next subject(s) to craft the next CR ordinance(s) on with all the new
> energy.
>
> Reaching out to young folks is essential, and I think it equally important
> to also reach out to conservative folks.
>
> Blessings,
> Kelly
>
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Baile Oakes <baileoakes at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Well thought and said, Charles.
>>
>> What is your concept for the next step ?
>>
>> Come to think of it, let us all post what each of us believes would be
>> the
>> best next step to proactively laying claim to our community's rights.
>>
>> What say ya'll ?
>>
>> with love,
>>
>> Baile
>>
>>
>> On Nov 10, 2014, at 12:00 AM, Charles Cresson Wood wrote:
>>
>> > “This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take
>> the
>> tranquilizing drug of gradualism.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
>> >
>> > Hello community rights friends,
>> >
>> > Yes, after this last victory on election day, it is true that we
>> deserve
>> a well-earned vacation. Let us rest briefly, but soon return to the work
>> that must be done. I have been thinking about the Martin Luther King Jr.
>> quote provided above. I believe we, the Community Rights Network of
>> Mendocino County, now have some genuine credibility, some new
>> “listening,”
>> and some brief window for building a much larger grass-roots activist
>> network here in Mendocino County. But we should not wait long, if indeed
>> we
>> are going to do this, lest the power of this moment be lost, lest our
>> victory with Measure S be drowned out in the onslaught of the millions
>> of
>> propaganda messages coming from the mass media.
>> >
>> > There is one message that we can teach now, and that THERE IS HOPE,
>> that
>> the average person like you and me can make a significant difference,
>> and
>> that grass-roots activism can actually bring about significant change.
>> The
>> corporations would have us think that we can do nothing, and that we
>> must
>> accept the established order. They are doing their best to redefine
>> freedom
>> and other core American values in ways that suit their commercial
>> purposes.
>> They would like us to believe that individualism is the ability to
>> choose
>> any of a large array of athletic shoes. We the people need to reclaim
>> our
>> own thinking so as to be able say the metaphorical equivalent of:
>> “I’m not
>> going to wear shoes.” They would like to have us believe that freedom
>> means
>> having enough money to select items from a menu at a Jack-in-the-Box
>> fast
>> food restaurant. We the people need take back our freedom so as to be
>> able
>> to say the metaphorical equivalent of: “I’m going to grow my own
>> food.”
>> >
>> > The propaganda machine would say that each of us are simply helpless
>> and
>> ineffectual consumers (not citizens -- consumers). The propaganda
>> machine
>> would prefer it if we were isolated apathetic disempowered people each
>> watching our average of four hours of television a day. Let’s not fall
>> prey
>> to their Siren’s songs.
>> >
>> > Of greatest concern to me is the involvement with the younger segment
>> of
>> our adult population. The 18-29 age range has the lowest levels of voter
>> registration of any segment in the adult American population. And they
>> are
>> also the ones that Mendocino County risks losing to the cities. They are
>> our future, and now is the time to reengage especially with them (but
>> hopefully with everybody else too), to co-create a new possibility for
>> citizen-led community rights, for citizen-led environmental
>> sustainability,
>> and citizen-led social justice. CRNMC could lead the way here, if we
>> have
>> the will to step up to that role.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
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