July 30th, 2022 Community Organizing Discussion

Attending

• Steve
• James
• Joe

Notes

Discussion of starting locals, running candidates and building the party.

Steve suggested having a Participate local program that focused on open government encouraged members to get people to attend meetings and write them up or live tweet them.

Training:

• Why this needs to be done
  • What local government meetings are available
  • What gets decided at them
• Meeting Details:
  • How to find when/where they are (time and place)
  • How to find the agenda and past minutes
• What to do
  • How to speak and present yourself so you are listened too, if you want to
  • Guidelines for recording public meetings, though they are often recorded and put up at community cable. Easier on-line.
  • Where to put your notes

How to guide will be at Participate Local.

Discuss it at the next Pirate News: Projects for the rest of 2022: The Great Thing

Discussion of Outreach methods:

• Email
• Txt (not setup)
• Twitter
• Facebook
• Calling
• Mailing

Need an event listing on the blog.