Engaging grassroots board members and the leadership council before new policy is finalized is a way to live into democracy now.

Engage grassroots members who serve on board (they lead it) from C3 and C4 sides (6 people) to talk about how to have these convos with leadership council.

Convos between Leadership Council members and grassroots board members on how democracy might look within Washington CAN..

• If we do the research then we will challenge the right people
• Organizationally we are trying to move policy and go directly to elected leadership to win. We’ve never been surfacing the monied interests that are also pulling at those politicians and winning 10x more than we ever do. Clear in Houston where we did a lot of work to get Mayor elected and haven’t gotten much out of it.
• Houston – no zoning, wild west market when it comes to housing, development and gentrification. Our ability to win has been limited because we haven’t had the right strategic analysis of how decisions are getting made. If we can do that, we will have robust campaigns with real target to organize better, more aggressively.
• We haven’t done the fundamental research to understand who’s holding the power and the pullstrings
• Unearthing what is really happening behind the scenes in this policy making.
• Houston campaign around housing and recovery: there’s a mayoral election in Fall 2019. We’re trying to figure out who’s controlling development and real estate in the city and county.

Engaging grassroots board members and the leadership council before new policy is finalized is a way to live into democracy now.

Engage grassroots members who serve on board (they lead it) from C3 and C4 sides (6 people) to talk about how to have these convos with leadership council.

Convos between Leadership Council members and grassroots board members on how democracy might look within Washington CAN..

Many people are interested in getting involved but don’t have a clear path in. These systems will help us not hemorrhage interested people. If we do this well we can engage a critical mass of active and supporting members over the long haul to shift the balance of power.

• If we built in governance in all the solutions we are demanding, then we would have more impact and more control over our resources.

• If we took seriously that our goal was wealth, (not income), redistribution, then our demands would get a structural shift.

• • Practices that change people’s comfortability
    • Workers have stock ownership – set up expectation that as work you own part of the value.
• Wanting some support space to identify what are good demands to advance our campaign towards changing the frame and narrative around public good?
• A lot of us are in campaign whether its land issues, CBA fights. There’s often the challenge – same demands that can come up over and over. How do we look at them more critically? Do we need to add pieces to it? How do we shift the debate around public good?

Crowdsourcing video where got reps from constituencies to talk about what a Green New Deal would do. Short messages, selfie quick.  

• Could see videos of labor people why GND would be important to them. Taking a different aspect of GND and talking about it. What does it mean. Can be helpful. Labor movement is about getting something short. What can we do at a local union mtg that can educate folks about climate change.
• 350 is working on cross movement work on climate and migration, did a test video on climate change and what’s happening at the border. More well received than we expected.
  • Ideas of short videos – 2-3 min is a good idea. GND is getting more media attention. 

This system will help us make more informed asks of our base that yield to higher action rates to support our overall vision.

If we engage in deep data analysis of our supportive voter lists, we can make increasingly targeted asks and track IRL/online engagement growth over time.

This will lay groundwork to scale our work to a movement level.