• Present: Juneau, Dillingham, Anchorage, Fairbanks, Petersburg, Soldotna
• Malena shared some visual organization of our ideas on Canva.
• Resource: Article about mutual aid based landless farmer organizing in brazil
• Resource: Snowflake organizing model
• Report from Fairbanks, gays on the fair board! Goal of adding ICE prisons to list of things Nana corporation won’t do, hard given how spread out shareholders are
• Our party needs a skill set for modeling healthy conflict, breaking apart hyper individualism that keeps Alaskans separated and experiencing the state through screens, how do we mesh our experiences of political Alaska via skillful communication?
• Resource: Communication skills book recommendation
• De-escalating training should be a thing we can offer. To help people feel they can engage and feel safe. Our values are not just ideological but are also community building skills.
• Fairbanks Climate Action does a lot of trainings and may have some on that topic
• In this difficult time, we need to be visible as people proposing the ideas that can replace maga, we need to have speakers at events with those ideas (ie AOC and Bernie). Use arts and food to bring people together, and also have those speakers with the vision. This can mean flagging and recruiting folks as we find them
• Can we put a lot of focus on local leaders – identifying, training, etc
• Need: help with community meet ups and dialogue driven events as supplement or alternative to rallies
• USPS privatization teach in template: https://usps-teach-in.carrd.co/
• Need a response for Trump’s plans to declare insurrection before it happens
• People have already lost due process, so none of us have it. Violence is already here in the form of rights being stripped away at a fundamental level. Indivisible article on being prepared for trump declaring insurrection
• Agreement to meet at 8 pm April 20 and use next week’s zoom as a work party to organize our description & survey