• Folks zoomed in from Sitka, Juneau, Fairbanks, Anchorage, Kenai, Dillingham, Gustavus, Petersburg. Again, a mix of people who have been in this convo for a while and important fresh voices & perspectives.
• We network groups statewide, with an eye toward also keeping folks safe even as we are more publicly networked
• Pat & Supanika’s sketched out a proposal for how we can might find agreement and areas to work on statewide. Local groups can communicate interest/support for particular issues, and the state wide coalition of community chapters can agree to take up issues with high thresholds of support, but individual chapters/community can continue to work on what matters to them. Pat has a good cartoon that shows how this can work. The idea is to be truly bottom up and allow local groups to set their own agenda, but also advocate for issues that really matter to them and be able to lobby or link up with other groups.
• We discussed the need to be inclusive and aware of Alaska Native ways of meeting and organizing as we grow. We don’t want to be a white-dominant group that crumbles over time. We identified two priorities to stick with over time
  1. Decolonize our party structure and meeting format to include indigenous voices
  2. Tribal consultation on the party and platform structure as a whole, including ideally have each neighborhood group consult with their tribe(s) at the local level.
• We want to be aware that some people are feeling the weight of fascism for this time, but we need to not overburden people with those feelings who have always felt that weight of state sanctioned violence and oppression
• We got a report from Sitka, where a lot of protest is happening, but no one group is organizing or coordinating.
• We agreed it’s cool for folks to start a “Friends & Neighbors” group in their community or neighborhood, as a way of getting started.
• We agreed to meet Sun March 16th, 2025 at 11 am.