A Call For Team To Get This Shift Going
Howdy all. Seems like a weird week. Don't they all? I'm about maxed out. How do you hold space for big vision & big change with so much overwhelm?
Well, you do it by asking for help. So here I am.
I am freaked out. I'm ticked off. I'm physically nauseous. I'm mad, and sad. I'm exasperated.
Yet I am not giving up this ************* fight.
Nope. No way.
There's some stuff we can do we about all this overwhelm and danger that we haven't tried yet, collectively - or even with some loose coordination.
Like there's totally stuff we can do.
We need to get some people together to start working on all this shift. Like we need to take our own Shift the Country power-building advice and GET A BIGGER TEAM.
First we're going to start with some online Zoom events to help us get ideas out about what the options are, and what we can be doing locally.
We compare notes and ideas and how we can go about doing local stuff, etc.
Then we go about doing local stuff. Anywhere. In any state.
So this is our initial Shift the Country call for action. We need people on the team to help us get started. As far as that goes, we totally need contributions, too, if you’re in a position to help fund this shift.
I know this teamwork sounds very general - and it is right now.
What we're going to do together is build some of the specifics for getting this shift going.
Specifically, we're going to get started with helping to push our Democratic leadership, candidates, and even members anywhere and everywhere to up the ante and raise more ruckus. Seems like the most urgent place to start.
If you're interested in helping with any of this initial setup, send an email to team@shiftthecountry.com with the subject “TEAM.” You can also get on our general interest list here. We’ll have a volunteer sign-up on the website soon but it’s not there yet.
Part of getting a team together now is so we can schedule virtual meetings where we can all actually hang out and do the things to get this shift going.
We’ll need some people to help run a Facebook group also where we can do some of this coordination. And Discord if anyone's interested; but maybe that one later.
There's now a basic framework for the Shift the Country approach online.
Plus there’s a video! Check out the video overview here.
We have basically four freaking months until the 2022 election.
That's FOUR months to go all out to hold this freaking democracy together.
Yes it looks like I'm going to swear (or close to it) as we do this.
It's obscene that we have to fight for democracy in this day and age. It's bloody obscene.
But here we are.
Are we going to hide out in our blanket forts? Okay maybe some of the time yes.
But I'm not willing to hide out as democracy dies quietly while we all sit in trauma freeze.
I can't do it. It's not in my nature.
I intend to fight. I hope some of you are coming along. We've got a decent framework. I think we can make it happen.
So check us out. Sign up. Get in on the game.
If we do this right, it can help us transform not only politics but this country. Thus the shift terminology.
Let's point this shared anger to some constructive stuff. To some mind-blowing phenomenon. I'm convinced we can.
And why not? This country is worth saving. It's also worth transforming.
I'm all in. You coming?