U.S. Election Support Project
Join the U.S. Election Support Project 2024!
Introduction:
The U.S. Election Support Project will support RCer’s working to elect an administration whose policies will advance (or at least not result in huge setbacks in) our work to save the climate from collapse and advance our other liberation and commonality programs. This U.S. Election Support Project welcomes any RCer working on or wanting to work on any elections in the U.S. Please help us spread the word in U.S. classes, support groups, and workshops.
We think the outcome of the U.S. elections in November 2024 will have a huge impact on our futures. We think that the Presidential election is especially important. The two likely main-party Presidential candidates promote vastly different politics. While neither candidate will make the kind of changes needed for greatly changing our society, which candidate is elected will have a big impact on our lives and liberation.
We believe that it makes sense for individuals in the RC Community to join us to support candidates whose programs will best create opportunities for us to move forward our agendas for a sustainable planet, for liberation, and for pro-human policies.
Consistent with RC’s One Point program, the RC Community doesn’t support a candidate and doesn’t take positions in any elections. RC’s agenda is to support individual RCer’s re-emergence, free our thinking from the effects of distress, and support the liberation and empowerment of all people. Working on the elections with support from other RCer’s can be a very re-emergent, powerful, and limited-term project.
We invite RCer’s (whether or not they have previously worked in electoral politics) to be part of this project and to consider playing some role in the upcoming elections. In Stage I, we are offering discharge groups on any distresses connected to elections, past experiences with electoral politics, the current political situation in the U.S., and any discouragement about candidates that could keep you from participating in the upcoming elections. (list of remaining groups before the April 28 planning meeting below)
On April 28, we will decide together on next steps, which could include support groups, think and listens, classes on specific topics, and so on. (More info and link to register below.)
If you are interested in joining us, please fill out this brief form <https://www.rc.org/class/uselectionsupport2024>. We will send regular updates about the project to everyone on this list. You can ask to be removed at any time. Help us spread the word!
We are also starting a new email list (usa-election-support@list.rc.org) for those involved who want to communicate with one another. Please sign up for this list (instructions below) if you wish to be part of that sharing. As with all RC lists, this one is for sharing information and perspective and not for sharing one’s distresses.
We think the outcome of the U.S. elections in November 2024 will have a huge impact on our futures. We think that the Presidential election is especially important. The two likely main-party Presidential candidates promote vastly different politics. While neither candidate will make the kind of changes needed for greatly changing our society, which candidate is elected will have a big impact on our lives and liberation.
We believe that it makes sense for individuals in the RC Community to join us to support candidates whose programs will best create opportunities for us to move forward our agendas for a sustainable planet, for liberation, and for pro-human policies.
Consistent with RC’s One Point program, the RC Community doesn’t support a candidate and doesn’t take positions in any elections. RC’s agenda is to support individual RCer’s re-emergence, free our thinking from the effects of distress, and support the liberation and empowerment of all people. Working on the elections with support from other RCer’s can be a very re-emergent, powerful, and limited-term project.
We invite RCer’s (whether or not they have previously worked in electoral politics) to be part of this project and to consider playing some role in the upcoming elections. In Stage I, we are offering discharge groups on any distresses connected to elections, past experiences with electoral politics, the current political situation in the U.S., and any discouragement about candidates that could keep you from participating in the upcoming elections. (list of remaining groups before the April 28 planning meeting below)
On April 28, we will decide together on next steps, which could include support groups, think and listens, classes on specific topics, and so on. (More info and link to register below.)
If you are interested in joining us, please fill out this brief form <https://www.rc.org/class/uselectionsupport2024>. We will send regular updates about the project to everyone on this list. You can ask to be removed at any time. Help us spread the word!
We are also starting a new email list (usa-election-support@list.rc.org) for those involved who want to communicate with one another. Please sign up for this list (instructions below) if you wish to be part of that sharing. As with all RC lists, this one is for sharing information and perspective and not for sharing one’s distresses.
With love,
The U.S. Election Support Project Organizing Committee
Diane Shisk, Barbara Love, Azi Khalili, Cherie Brown, Alana Eichner, Nina Eichner
Stage I: Support/discharge groups
The first stage of our project is over. For two months we held support groups on any distresses connected to elections, past experiences with electoral politics, the current political situation in the U.S., and any discouragement about candidates that could keep you from participating in the upcoming elections.
More support groups will be posted soon, now we are focussed on planning for Stage II.
Share this link with others who wish to sign up.
Strategizing for Stage II: Meeting of the whole on April 28 from 2 - 4:30 pm EDT
As a next step we’ll be holding a meeting on Zoom, open to everyone who registered to be a part of this project, where we will come together to discharge, do think-and-listens, and collect people’s thinking about next steps. From that input the organizing committee will draft a plan for our next steps.
Some thoughts people have already suggested include:
Ongoing support groups, some geographic, some role-based
Think-and-listens
Leadership clinics
Classes and discharge groups on key issues like: labor, climate change, racism, immigration, war, abortion, young people, strengthening democracy, as well as issues specific to working on elections
Hearing from people with different kinds of election experience
We’re looking forward to hearing what ideas you have and hope you will join us on Sunday, April 28 from 2 - 4:30 pm EDT. No registration required, just come. Zoom link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83208343910?pwd=UlIwYVl5ejBCSTJ2aDdvSWpIMS9HQT09, Meeting ID: 832 0834 3910, Passcode: 222838
Bumper Stickers! Free to all RCers who want to display or distribute them. Fill out the form here.
We are distributing “bumper stickers” free to any RCer who wants one or more for themselves, to use as a conversation starter with friends and co-workers, to take to distribute at meetings and actions, however you think you could use such a sticker. A graphic of the sticker is below.
Some people have been concerned that the bumper sticker doesn’t communicate a hopeful message. We agree that communicating hope that there is a solution is a big part of our work, but we also think that there is a need to alert the population of the U.S. to the fact that there is a limit on the amount of time we have to address climate change, and that four years of destructive policies would be catastrophic and their vote could make a difference in this. Thus, we have decided upon this message and design. We hope there will be much discussion and listening to people about the message. Thanks to Kathy McHale, Climate Coordinator in San Jose, California, for designing it for us.
Classes on Important Topics
Class and the Coming Elections, Dan Nickerson (ILRP for Working Class) and JeeYeun Lee (ILRP for Middle Class), May 6, 7 - 9:30 pm EDT. More info and more classes soon.
Important resources
Trump election win could add 4 billion tons to US emissions by 2030
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-trump-election-win-could-add-4bn-tonnes-to-us-emissions-by-2030/?utm_source=cbnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2024-03-06&utm_campaign=Just+published+Carbon+Brief+s+emissions+analysis+of+Trump+vs+Biden
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-trump-election-win-could-add-4bn-tonnes-to-us-emissions-by-2030/?utm_source=cbnewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2024-03-06&utm_campaign=Just+published+Carbon+Brief+s+emissions+analysis+of+Trump+vs+Biden
Sign up to join the U.S. Election Support Project here: https://www.rc.org/class/uselectionsupport2024
And, join our email list! usa-election-support@list.rc.org
SCHEDULE OF GROUPS (PLEASE NOTE THE TIME ZONE AND CONSTITUENCY, IF ANY)
CHECK BACK HERE REGULARLY FOR UPDATES
Zoom link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83208343910?pwd=UlIwYVl5ejBCSTJ2aDdvSWpIMS9HQT09, Meeting ID: 832 0834 3910, Passcode: 222838
PLANNING MEETING FOR STAGE II
Sunday, April 28 from 2 - 4:30 pm EDT, meeting of the whole to discharge, do think and listens, and share our thinking to plan next steps. Mark your calendar and join us.
Zoom link:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83208343910?pwd=UlIwYVl5ejBCSTJ2aDdvSWpIMS9HQT09, Meeting ID: 832 0834 3910, Passcode: 222838
Thanks again for joining this effort.
Last modified: 2024-04-27 21:51:26+00