Jen Brea
May 29 ·
Edited
"I am proud to be a member of what I believe will be a world-changing movement. We don't need to worry about whether an organization always represents our diverse needs or interests if we are the organization.
http://meaction.net/ #MEAction http://bit.ly/MEAction
"That's a much longer conversation and some of that is a bit dependent on where we end up after we finish development (i.e., check with me in a few months!). But one big difference is that we aren't really aiming to be an advocacy organization. We want to be a platform: decentralized, organic, and with a few basic guiding principles but no unifying stance or position. We don't aspire to speak with one voice or to be united. We aspire to help our diverse community become more connected and to do what they're already doing, better. We aim to provide tools and training that help people to become even more effective advocates and activists, and to leverage the virtual and dispersed nature of our community as a strength, rather than a weakness.
To analogize to the conference world, we're not TED or Davos. We're more like an un-conference (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference). Both approaches to organization have their comparative strengths and I think our community needs both.
We're not really the people, we're not the ideas, we're not the plan. We're just the infrastructure. (Although, I'm pretty sure I will use that infrastructure to hatch one or two schemes of my own, and hope others decide it will be useful to them as well.)
I know that all sounds rather vague, but showing is much better than explaining at this point! We hope to launch this fall...."
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