Saturday, January 26, 2019

NETWORK OF DEMOCRACY EDUCATORS (NODE)

NETWORK OF DEMOCRACY EDUCATORS (NODE)

a citizens' cooperative for learning, teaching, and practicing grassroots democracy


The most important office in a democracy is the office of citizen.
– Justice Louis Brandeis


"Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people."
- Harry Emerson Fosdick


"Power goes to two poles-to those who've got the money and those who've got the people."
- Saul Alinsky

SPIRIT, PRACTICE, & CULTURE: 

+ each one teach one  /  train the trainer  /  skill sharing

WEBSITE: 

+ open-source (cc) educational resources with shareable / rateable content

  • individuals 
  • NODEs
  • tags
  • events
  • articles
  • links
  • skills
  • resources
  • volunteers


+ JOIN (as an individual) -OR- + form a NODE (form a NODE Team)


NODE Team     (  Geographically-based  or Virtual  )

  • GEN - General Coordinator
  • ADM - Administrative Coordinator
  • COM - Communication Coordinator
  • RES - Resource Coordinator


ALREADY HAVE:  lots & lots & lots of great groups of great people doing great work! (short list below)

NEED: a cooperative citizens' resource network for learning, teaching, and practicing grassroots democracy

  • Our Revolution
  • Camp Wellstone
  • PDA
  • MoveON
  • Indivisible
  • JusticeDEMS
  • Brand New Congress
  • Sanders Institute
  • Local Berniecrats
  • Womens March
  • + many, many MORE!


All of these groups NEED & use & develop & practice grassroots democracy as a means to their ends.

We NEED more groups whose means & ends, BOTH, are to use & develop & practice grassroots democracy.

A network to locate & connect existing resources and develop from there.

While NODE will not be strictly focused on democratizing the Democratic Party, it will be an open-source resource which individual members & NODEs may well choose to use to that end locally & nationally.

In point of fact, many might agree that, the Democratic Party is not likely to ever suddenly self-democratize.  Therefore, it will need help!  LOTS OF HELP!

We NEED an infrastructure of democracy. We can either build it brand new from scratch from the ground up - OR - we can upgrade & reboot something that is available, dormant, and repairable - the Democratic Party!

The Democratic Party exists in 200,000 precincts and is already hard-wired into the power grid!


The meaning of democracy is literally: 

PEOPLE RULE ! (demos + kratos) !



PLEASE NOTE:  This is ONLY a concept.  This is NOT yet in operation.


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