Agenda for Mtg. 7.20.07

Building A Twin Cities Left – A response to the US Social Forum
June 21, 2007 3:30 – 6:30

Please bring snacks to share and bring your own beverage.

1. Why are we here? Collective exercise but also presented by one of the facilitators including how we imagined this agenda and what, in putting it together, we talked about and imagined as next possible steps after this day.

2. Groundrules - As a group, we lay out ground rules for the day, what are our expectations of our own behavior, what is the culture of our day?

3. Project South timeline exercise – When did you first begin to recognize injustice?

4. Building a Twin Cities movement map – First, begin with ourselves using one color of marker. Draw a map showing who is in the room by showing what we are involved in. (EG: Draw squares representing issue/movement fronts with your name in them, draw lines between those you are involved in, others add their name to the squares they share or add new squares, until we have a map showing what we are all involved in. After this is complete, take another color marker and draw squares showing the issues/movement fronts not in the room until we have a two-color map that includes us and those not in the room.)

5. US Social Forum report backs – build on what the map by reporting back on what we experienced, were excited by, were inspired by, were confused by in terms of the US Social Forum. Whenever possible, direct it to our work here. If at all possible, add the information (when appropriate) to the TC movement map we’ve just drawn.

6. Where do we go from here? What is the container that will carry us during the next steps? How are we going to keep moving forward during this phase of our Twin Cities movement-building work (how will we set dates, find places for those dates to meet, send reminder emails, reach out to new folks when appropriate, bring new folks in, keep minutes, keep track of the flow from meeting to meeting, remember where we are going, be a point person if someone wants info on what we’re doing, how do we transmit that info, etc.)

7. Next steps.