Starting your own project? What is it you need? What is it you need to know? How do you get started? We need all of the help we can get starting something new and the only way to get it is to look, ask questions, to find answers. Check out the Citizens handbook in the next column. Here is just a few of the titles listed there. If you need help we are usually at Kinning Park Complex on a Sunday. Come for a chat.
Getting Together
Why important
Introduction
Forming a Core Group
Group Structure
Getting People
Keeping People
Leading
Meeting and Deciding
Facilitating
Information Sharing
Door-Knocking
Addressing Hot Issues
Block by Block Organizing
Fundraising
Nonviolent Communication
Organizing's Top 11
Community Dev Skinny
Healing a Divided Public
Join a park friends group (Start your own)
Join a Community Council (Or form a community activist group)
Noise up your local councillor (They work for you)
Make news make your own videos, podcasts. (Document everything) Then there is no he says she says.
Everything you need to get going
The Citizens Handbook: citizenshandbook.org
Common Good Awareness Project.
