Prepping for the Election: Pre-Election Security & Care Planning
Nov 01, 2024WHO: This online event is for people who are concerned about safety and security during the election and aftermath to plan how to keep each other safe.
WHAT: This is the fifth part of a 5 part series called “Navigating a World On Fire” The series will cover the current terrain of the poly-crises we are facing as well as ways we can get through it together. In this final session we will discuss how difficult how to keep each other safe during the election and its aftermath.
WHY: We believe that the central cause of our poly crises is that we have a contradiction between our overemphasis of building wealth as a society and our social, emotional and spiritual underdevelopment. This contradiction gives rise to three crises: belonging, social reproduction and unacknowledged history.There are a lot of signs that these crises might escalate around and after the election. It is important to take time and talk through how we can keep each other safe when the world is on fire.
Click here for the link to the presentation featured in the Fireside Chat.
SPEAKER: Aaron Goggans is the Steward of the Pattern at the WildSeed Society - where he builds movement infrastructure before people know they need it and helps them achieve things even he never imagined were possible. Aaron is writer, facilitator and organizer working within the Black Radical Tradition to support the Labor, anti-war and Black Liberation movements for almost 20 years.
Here are the resources from the slideshow:
Scenario Planning Support:
Building Movement Project Planning Worksheet
Nationswell Guide For Businesses
Build Infrastructure:
How To Start A Mutual Aid Program
Broader Strategies To Connect Your Work To
WildSeed's Medium Term Strategy
Convergence Magazine's Build and Block Strategy
Liberation Road's Block. Broaden. Build.
Black Road Anarchist Federation General Strategy
WildSeed Safety And Wellness Resources
A list questions to help you figure out who your people are and what they need
A template for building and running a response team. Comes with protocols and role descriptions
An short plan for structuring check ins with folks and the front line and what to do when people don’t check in
Social Reproductive Defense Workbook
A series of exercises to support you creating a comprehensive wellness and safety plan for yourself.
Organizations With Additional Resources
WILDSEED SOCIETY is a political, spiritual and economic community that is inviting people to build a 21st century Underground Railroad together. We are building a series of refuges from the current exploitative world to new worlds where we all get to belong and be cared for - by focusing on Spiritual Liberation, Social Transformation and Economic Revolution. We seek to experiment and prototype our way into a new way of life - in community and in right relationship with the land.
The WildSeed Society is stewarded by a collective of movement veterans, spiritual teachers, and organizational development nerds. Many of the instigators of the collective were involved in the Black Lives Matter movement before starting WildSeed. It is inspired by the vision of futurist Octavia Butler of gifted misfits finding community together before transforming the world.
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