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Clinton County Caring Citizens 1st Amendment Gathering Tuesday, May 8, 2012

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Hosted by the Pilot Caring Citizens Chapter – a multi-precinct, multi-county group

Come at 6:30 p.m. for dinner and conversation at Donatos Pizza, Wilmington, Ohio

7:00 p.m. – The 1st Amendment Gathering Begins

30 minutes – Introductions & discuss Chapter 8, and The Epilogue of  George Lakoff’s THINKING POINTS. Facilitated by Anita Dobrzelecki, Pilot Partner, Bellbrook, OH

30 minutes – Institution of pilot partners. Discussion: How do we frame the local debate between now and election day this year?

We meet at Beaugard’s BarBQue the last three Tuesdays in June in Clinton County.

Adjourn @ 8:00 p.m.

Study Schedule
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Thinking Points

05/06/12 Chapter 8: The Art of Arguments & Epilogue
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Progressive Strategy Handbook

05/13/12 – Pages 1 – 34: Welcome, The First Crowd-based Strategy Project, A New Movement for Progressives, A Snapshot of the Movement Today, How We Will Build Progressive Strategies, America At An Inflection Point

05/20/12 Pages 35 – 44: Setting the Agenda for America’s Future, Change How Politics Is Done, Launch Strategic Actions

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Building Trust for Effective Governance
05/27/12 All of it. It’s short.

Happy Anniversary Caring Citizens And A Call To Occupy Compassion

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by Chuck Watts, co-founder

My reflections on the first anniversary of Caring Citizens Chapter chartering efforts began today, January 1, 2012, in corporate worship at Christ Episcopal Church, Dayton, Ohio. (By the way, Christ Church is the ESP’s first pilot faith community praying for strengthening caring citizens and their 1st Amendment freedom to peaceably assembly.) Those gathered celebrated with Lessons and Carols and Communion. Two non-biblical readings reminded me specifically of the miracle of the human brain, specifically mirror neurons, without which empathy and emulation are impossible.
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Frames and Brains – Comments on Chapter 3 – The Way Forward

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by Chuck Watts, Co-Founder, a week late

When you get up in the morning look in the mirror, do you see an economic change agent, or a loving son, daughter, husband, wife? As you prepare for the day ahead, are you thinking about protecting and empowering neighbors or selling to neighbors and getting new neighbors to sell to? How we identify ourselves defines our behaviors and interactions in the world.

If caring citizens are to make progress in overcoming cruel corporate meanness and expand human rights, freedom and prosperity, it is important to embrace the latest insights of the brain. Continue reading →

Main Street Wilmington, OH

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Main Street Wilmington, OH

Steve Brown, Director, Main Street Wilmington, dropped by my office today and asked a very open ended question (Thanks, Steve): What should we be doing in Wilmington, OH?

In a nutshell I answered that we need business men and women taking time out of the routine of business planning and making money to think about how we can expand human rights and the freedoms of our neighbors. Think of it as giving back.

From a brain insights perspective we need business men and women (all of us really) to spend time every day exercising that part of our brains where empathy and compassion reside. The plutocracy infrastructure of financial language / neural pathways is well-developed; the democracy infrastructure of human rights language / neural pathways is extremely underdeveloped.

If our existing infrastructure of two party representatives per precinct in our county of 38 precincts were actively seeking to facilitate neighborhood conversations that matter in our county, that would mean 76 weekly conversations.

Assuming a dozen people at each weekly gathering to exercise our 1st Amendment freedoms to petition government, where do we find 76 public meeting rooms? Just a thought.