Seattle Campaign
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the Seattle campaign:
Campaign Objectives
A Compassionate City recognizes compassion as an ethical imperative in its policies affecting how its residents meet their basic human needs. A Compassionate City deepens the quality and the extent to which its residents embrace compassionate action in caring for its own neighbors.
The long-term objective is to bring the worlds’ cities together over the next ten years to form a network of“Compassionate Cities.” The short-term objective is to complete this local campaign by March 15, 2010.
Proposed Campaign Actions
We propose that the Mayor and City Council declare Seattle a City of Compassion and complete the actions outlined below when we have 1,000 residents committed to the campaign (if we don’t reach 1,000 committed members the Mayor and City Council are not required to act).
We ask that Mayor McGinn and the City Council:
• Jointly affirm the Charter for Compassion and declare Seattle a Compassionate City.
• Jointly proclaim April and October as two months each year for the next 10 years in which we deepen our commitment to compassionate action. This annual repeating cycle utilizes April for sowing seeds and October for harvesting outcomes keeping actions informed by our mounting experience.
Campaign Members Commit to:
• Affirm the Charter for Compassion.
• Join the Compassionate Action Network (this network) to share and find opportunities to volunteer, donate, lend, initiate, sign, attend, join and share the Campaign for Compassionate Cities with others.
• Prepare to pledge a specific number of hours of community service and/or dollars to local organizations that help Seattle residents meet their basic human needs.(You will make the pledge once the campaign reaches 1,000 people. For now, join the campaign and we will keep you informed.)
Join the Seattle Campaign Now!
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SHARE THE CAMPAIGN
The key to make this work is if enough of us share this with like-minded people, and they share, etc.. This is how a few of us can combine our influence and make things happen we can't achieve alone.
Here is a short description that you might want to use:
Inspired by the April 2008 “Seeds of Compassion”, the Compassionate Action Network (CAN) was formed. CAN is a network of self-organizing groups who share a common vision for a compassionate world and are committed to supporting each other’s activities, events, and expressions in the world, be it public, nonprofit, for-profit, or social enterprises. The Compassionate Action Network is launching the “Ten Year Campaign for Compassionate Cities” as a way to collectively act to multiply individual power and co-create positive change in our community. The campaign will strengthen our capacity to “do it ourselves” while building a social-organizing platform. The hope is that Seattle's example of community organizing will “go global.” To learn more about the Compassionate Action Network and find out how you can participate, visit this site: http://my.compassionateactionnetwork.com/page/seattle-campaign
Post the Campaign to Social Networks or Email the Campaign to Contactsl
You can share the campaign by posting it on Facebook, Twitter or other social networking services. You can also invite others to join by emailing your contacts. If you are a member of CAN you can do both by "sharing this page" through the "Quick Add" feature on the left.
You can also share this link with others:. http://my.compassionateactionnetwork.com/page/seattle-campaign
Download the 10 Year Campaign for Compassionate Cities backgrounder.
Download the Slide Presentation
Download the handout
Background on the Approach
We now have the growing will and the ways to bring about large-scale collaborations. The need for social change and the tools for making change are coming together in a results-oriented approach to creating meaningful incentives for change. The power of social networks to provide instant coordination lets citizens connect just enough to bring about the changes that we seek.
The 10 Year Campaign for Compassionate Cities is a model to empower other cities to build upon. Learn more about how rethinking group action is revolutionizing social change at www.thepoint.com. To see an example of how this works watch this:
Learn more about online activism by viewing this presentation given by Andrew Mason, creator of The Point:
Campaign Objectives
A Compassionate City recognizes compassion as an ethical imperative in its policies affecting how its residents meet their basic human needs. A Compassionate City deepens the quality and the extent to which its residents embrace compassionate action in caring for its own neighbors.
The long-term objective is to bring the worlds’ cities together over the next ten years to form a network of“Compassionate Cities.” The short-term objective is to complete this local campaign by March 15, 2010.
Proposed Campaign Actions
We propose that the Mayor and City Council declare Seattle a City of Compassion and complete the actions outlined below when we have 1,000 residents committed to the campaign (if we don’t reach 1,000 committed members the Mayor and City Council are not required to act).
We ask that Mayor McGinn and the City Council:
• Jointly affirm the Charter for Compassion and declare Seattle a Compassionate City.
• Jointly proclaim April and October as two months each year for the next 10 years in which we deepen our commitment to compassionate action. This annual repeating cycle utilizes April for sowing seeds and October for harvesting outcomes keeping actions informed by our mounting experience.
Campaign Members Commit to:
• Affirm the Charter for Compassion.
• Join the Compassionate Action Network (this network) to share and find opportunities to volunteer, donate, lend, initiate, sign, attend, join and share the Campaign for Compassionate Cities with others.
• Prepare to pledge a specific number of hours of community service and/or dollars to local organizations that help Seattle residents meet their basic human needs.(You will make the pledge once the campaign reaches 1,000 people. For now, join the campaign and we will keep you informed.)
Join the Seattle Campaign Now!
___________________________________________________________________________________________
SHARE THE CAMPAIGN
The key to make this work is if enough of us share this with like-minded people, and they share, etc.. This is how a few of us can combine our influence and make things happen we can't achieve alone.
Here is a short description that you might want to use:
Inspired by the April 2008 “Seeds of Compassion”, the Compassionate Action Network (CAN) was formed. CAN is a network of self-organizing groups who share a common vision for a compassionate world and are committed to supporting each other’s activities, events, and expressions in the world, be it public, nonprofit, for-profit, or social enterprises. The Compassionate Action Network is launching the “Ten Year Campaign for Compassionate Cities” as a way to collectively act to multiply individual power and co-create positive change in our community. The campaign will strengthen our capacity to “do it ourselves” while building a social-organizing platform. The hope is that Seattle's example of community organizing will “go global.” To learn more about the Compassionate Action Network and find out how you can participate, visit this site: http://my.compassionateactionnetwork.com/page/seattle-campaign
Post the Campaign to Social Networks or Email the Campaign to Contactsl
You can share the campaign by posting it on Facebook, Twitter or other social networking services. You can also invite others to join by emailing your contacts. If you are a member of CAN you can do both by "sharing this page" through the "Quick Add" feature on the left.
You can also share this link with others:. http://my.compassionateactionnetwork.com/page/seattle-campaign
Download the 10 Year Campaign for Compassionate Cities backgrounder.
Download the Slide Presentation
Download the handout
Background on the Approach
We now have the growing will and the ways to bring about large-scale collaborations. The need for social change and the tools for making change are coming together in a results-oriented approach to creating meaningful incentives for change. The power of social networks to provide instant coordination lets citizens connect just enough to bring about the changes that we seek.
The 10 Year Campaign for Compassionate Cities is a model to empower other cities to build upon. Learn more about how rethinking group action is revolutionizing social change at www.thepoint.com. To see an example of how this works watch this:
Learn more about online activism by viewing this presentation given by Andrew Mason, creator of The Point:
Affirm the Charter!
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