Our Day of Action in August was fun, but a mixed success. We got rained out halfway through our work day at Ashevillage Institute, which was a bummer, but it was nice to get our hands dirty. The evening session (forming Action Alliances) went well, and we learned a lot. One big thing we learned was that one conversation isn’t enough. One idea we talked about was doing regular potlucks for members of the change-making community to interact and get to know each other, and possibly build alliances or collaborations. Geri Littlejohn and Virginia Paris took action on this suggestion, and decided to begin facilitating monthly community potlucks:
First monthly Activist Community Potluck:
(note-this is not an Evolver Asheville or Transition Asheville event, but is being posted here because the idea was born at the last Evolver Asheville event)
Sunday, September 19th, 5-8pm at Malvern Hills Park
This is the first of many monthly potlucks, each on a different topic, and each in a different location. All activists, community builders and leaders, and any community members are welcome. This is a great opportunity to get together, build relationships, network, share ideas, brainstorm, and synergize.
This month’s topic is Food Security, a very hot topic these days. If catastrophe strikes, will Asheville have enough food? …What would it take to create a food security plan for 2011? How can we network and work together so that everyone will have enough to eat if, for example, we can no longer ship food into our city?
The majority of our time together will be spent having conversations amongst ourselves, and getting to know one another. However, we will circle up to do introductions and also do have a brief brainstorming session to get the juices flowing. We hope that the conversations of the evening will lead to future alliances, and plant seeds for future work between individuals and groups in the community.
CLICK HERE to see the Facebook event page, and to RSVP
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Also, in response to the Day of Action conversations, a new activist listserv was formed, as a yahoogroup:
(This is also not an Evolver Asheville project, however is posted here because it was inspired by the last event Evolver Asheville was part of)
Action Asheville is a forum to bring together groups and individuals dreaming of ways to make Asheville and the world a better place. None of the work we do exists in a vacuum, and all that we do is interconnected. As Martin Luther King Jr. said, what we need is a revolution of values. All oppression is interrelated, and also all avenues of awakening are interconnected with each other. If we work together, we are stronger.
On this forum, we will announce upcoming events and calls to action. We will offer our work to the community, and also share our needs (for volunteers, for resources, etc). We will share links with interesting information, and we will have discussions about not only the work we are each individually doing, but discussions about how we can work together and serve each other.
This group is not limited to those who are already doing work in the community or world. Anyone can join who has an interest of doing this work, or learning more about this work. This group is not only for us talking with and working with each other, but also is a place where people can come to learn how to get involved.
CLICK HERE to go to Action Asheville
