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I truly can’t stress enough how important it is to connect with local organizers. Organizing has informed my world perspective. It has allowed me to identify my values, discern what my potential role is in advocacy efforts, distill what areas of advocacy are most suited—
AND emotionally resonant for me— and has helped shaped what my work for a better world looks like.
Local organizing has helped me build life long friendships that have not only taught me what systemic, daily care of self and community looks like, but have given me a system —
Local organizing has helped me build life long friendships that have not only taught me what systemic, daily care of self and community looks like, but have given me a system —
a people of trust, to believe in, to rely on, and lead me to new discoveries of my-self and a larger universe of people, systems, information. (Truly, they have helped me discover the universe of possibility)—
You, as an individual, cannot do everything.
You must trust that so many people are working for a better world.
But you also must act. Because you, as an individual— are necessary, important, and matter. —
You must trust that so many people are working for a better world.
But you also must act. Because you, as an individual— are necessary, important, and matter. —
Act. Please act.
And then rest. Rest, true rest, is vital.
Find people who honor your balance of care, and act, and rest, some more.
None of this can be done without community. —
And then rest. Rest, true rest, is vital.
Find people who honor your balance of care, and act, and rest, some more.
None of this can be done without community. —
Seek it and learn from the journey that reveals itself to you.
If you are entirely new to organizing / are looking for direction I cannot highly recommend enough the organizing home that first welcomed me: @GroundGameLA
Feel free to DM me as well?
I am not great at Twitter, but want to help connect.
Feel free to DM me as well?
I am not great at Twitter, but want to help connect.
