Fwd: Join or Start a Citizen Circle in Your Area

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Here's one example. There are alternatives...

 

CARA-CARE , Ernie Karhu <erniekarhu@n...> wrote:

 

I urge every member of this list to join a local Citizen Circle.

If there are none in your area, start one. Your work is to emphasize

the efforts of Animal Liberation and Veganism as a part of your

Circles efforts.

 

http://www.renaissancealliance.org/GRA/circle_toc.html

 

Citizen Circles are open, emotionally safe forums in which people

join together to not only expand their political awareness but to

also take action to help make manifest the most compassionate

society. If you would like to join a circle, please check the

" locate a Citizen Circle " section listed. If there are no

circles in your community and you would like to start a circle, I

suggest reading over the Circle Meeting Handbook and then contacting

the Regional Leader in your area or the office at Circles@r...

They have great materials and can then send you to help facilitate

a circle. They can also list you on their website so others can

contact you to join. It can be a truly inspiring experience!

 

" The Power of the Circle

 

" Power doesn't flow from the top down, but from the bottom up.

Wisdom doesn't flow from the outside in, but from the inside out.

Both of those spiritual tenets are at the core of a highly

functioning democratic process. Where a top-down, authoritarian

power holds sway, democracy is diminished. Where people

get their guidance only from external sources, as opposed to the

goodness of our own hearts, democracy is diminished as well.

Disconnection from our internal selves produces a decrease in

personal energy, or chi, and where personal energy diminishes,

the last thing we feel we have time for is participation in the

democratic process. Tired people don't do democracy, and that

is why a distracted, burdened, overstressed population is literally

a threat to our liberty. President Eisenhower said, " Politics should

be the part-time profession of every American. " But tell that to

someone who already has two part-time jobs! "

 

http://www.renaissancealliance.org/GRA/circle_list.html

 

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