Substance Process Priorities

Substance and Process Meditations on DRAFT Priorities Recommendations for FCNL’s work in the 116th Congress

DRAFT as to be presented at Meeting for Business ( Process point: THANK YOU to everyone for HUGE accessibility measure of sending out draft documents by email)

1. Address deregulation of banks and other lending institutions that ends up driving up debt. Restore regulations.

2. Support policies that encourage economic equality and sustainable infrastructure development.

3. Support policies that address climate disruption.

4. Support policies that address gun violence, including holding gun manufactures and NRA accountable.

5. Continue to support policies that address Native American Issues.

6. Promote Peacebuilding a) support diplomacy and peaceful prevention and resolution of violent conflict, eg. North Korea b) support nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation c) reduce military spending and armed interventions.

7. Continue to work on criminal justice reform, eg. stop military equipment being given to local police departments.

Submitted by 15 people at Seattle’s University Meeting’s Adult Education hour.

 

Substance Meditations:

Crap! RantWoman SHOULD just let it be and not feel called to do more as an individual.

Crap. RantWoman should try to chill out and hold the thought of her twitches coming from other places also participating in the priorities process

Crap! RantWoman reads more carefully the second time around and does sort of recognize the deregulation point. But the transparency and accountability point is missing.

Where are the people? They are not here as well as some years and particularly not a sense of people around the world should all have the same rights.

Add dealing with the AUMF issue to the anti-militarism item.

Gun violence is in at least 3 places but for instance criminal justice reform is way more that curtailing militarized policing.

 

Process meditation 1. why oh why does the State of Society Report, posted elsewhere,  not mention our experience trying movable microphones in at least some of our meeting activities? RantWoman’s experience is that the movable mic works a lot the same way interpretation at FWCC events does. Using the mic ensures that people can hear and increases the odds of understanding; moving the mic also gaps between offerings. RantWoman would be inestimably grateful if other people also noticed this improvement.

Process meditation 2. Group editing in any format is a fraught exercise. RantWoman having to get used to only audio and no visual refresher is only part of the problem. RantWoman can at least see whether she has brain space to hold others in the Light. RantWoman CAN try.