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Organizing Statements
Vision:
We see a community and world where individuals demonstrate a commitment to peace, justice, diversity and the dignity
of human life. We see social groups cooperating across secular and
faith-based preferences and across political and class boundaries. We see people
resolving conflicts without violence, treating each other with honor
and equity.
Mission:
Celebrate peace.
Take action, big and small, to work for peace and
justice.
Strategy, Tactics, Objectives and Methodologies:
Push for, not against.
Build a tradition of annual and continual peace celebration.
Encourage participation, volunteering, and citizen engagement.
Support education, advocacy and community building.
Encourage, support, and celebrate interfaith initiatives.
Welcome all, reach out to all people, and work for diversity.
Heal and respond to needs.
Speak out and confront the human rights, needs and issues of our
culture.
Build peace by working in our own hearts.
Provide a platform and a bandwagon.
Encourage and support individual and small group activist actions, to
provide personal support for members undertaking peace and justice
actions.
Talk about, get informed about , and help others learn about current
issues. Seek out and establish new links and connections, both strong
and weak, distant and close, between people and groups.
Communicate who we are and what we are about.
Grow responsibly and credibly, while acting as a hub for activities and
people.
Keep talking.
Identify the needs of the community and ways to meet those needs.
Notes:
Rather than a listing of several separate items, descriptions of the key
concepts of an organization form a conceptual system, a structure of
ideas, a deeply interconnected web of thinking.
The statements reflect the authentic
voice of the group. This is what people are saying.
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