Friday, September 28, 2007

A brief description of a Community Gathering

A community gathering is a way for people of all ages and backgrounds to come together around a common theme: to make their lives better through connection and cooperation. Sharing a meal, having a safe place for children to play, providing a space for promotional materials of all types, and creating fun networking tools are the basics.

What are your needs and goals? You have an opportunity to share this at a Community Gathering, and find others with whom you can be mutually supportive. Starting a community garden, getting a neighborhood emergency plan together, getting a play group together, learning and teaching valuable skills and knowledge, creating alternatives to the money system, electing officals who are honest and accountable, finding support in hard times—all of this can happen. And in the process, you might just make some wonderful friends. All of these things can happen at a community gathering, and more.

I hope that Ron Paul supporters, especially ones who have families and who find it difficult to go to meetings and other get togethers where it might be hard for children to attend, might sponsor community gatherings in their neighborhoods and communities. I want to be available to help people to do this, by writing a handbook, providing a forum and continuing to write this blog. I really hope a lot of Ron Paul supporters come to the local gathering on Oct. 5 at Walker Park in Fayetteville at the large gazebo near S. College. You can bring all the Ron Paul promotional material you want, and talk to people as well!

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