NEW IDEAS - Local Connections

On Friday 4/24 our council held a meeting to discuss the council's organization and to brainstorm about what we would like to do, what we need MoveOn to do , how can we improve the information exchange between the council and MoveOn.org, and what we want to plan for the future.

Many ideas and opinions were tossed on the table.
MaryAnn Sherman, our regional co-ordinator, is going to bring them to the attention of the MoveOn people and we'll try to restructure the council to better suit everybody's needs.

One of our goals would be to reach out to many community groups and faith base groups to see if it would be possible to coordinate local initiatives asking for change and make them stronger. Many of us would like to join actions taken by local groups other then MoveOn, and if we cooperate with local groups we can lend support for their causes. We toyed with the possibility of becoming a clearinghouse for local action initiatives promoted by other groups.

MoveOn.org basically acts on national issues but as a council we feel the need to be more connected to the local community. We'll continue to promote MoveOn events at the national and local level but at the same time we'll make every effort to advertise and promote local initiatives.

In that spirit we hope to show in this post links to many local organizations and groups that share similar interests.