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San Francisco, You’re Invited: Tue 11/25 6:30pm – “Citizenship”

Friday, November 21st, 2008

This month we’re holding a low key meeting with our regular member announcements and a casual discussion about citizenship. Come with some thoughts to share about what citizenship means to you and how you plan to exercise it in the coming year.

We hope to see you then for a great discussion. And as always, come ready to talk about your passions, needs, and gifts (in about a minute) during announcements so that we can help each other create the lives, projects, and communities of our dreams – right here in reality.

This our last meeting for this year, so come on out!

NOTE: We’re trying out a new location and day of the week. See details below.

MEETING
When: Tuesday, Nov. 25th, 6:30-9:30pm (you can come and go anytime during the meeting)
Where: The Center for Sex & Culture, 1519 Mission Street @ 11th
Our fab room is upstairs to the left. If you the door is locked when you arrive, dial 415.867.0429 to be let in.

AGENDA
6:30 - 7:00 Arrive, mingle, nosh
7:00 - 7:45 Member announcements (your passions, needs and gifts)
7:45 - 8:15 Break - exchange support, mingle, nosh
8:15 - 9:00 Discussion
9:00 - 9:30 Wind discussion down, mingle, clean up
9:30 - Optional - continue socializing at a nearby wine bar

Learn more about our meetings here:
http://abundanceleague.org/monthly-format

And join our new Ning social networking site (in beta) which links members from all three Abundance League chapters:
http://social.abundanceleague.org

BRING
-Yourself, friends
-Healthy finger food for the potluck
-Shares: books, CDs, DVDs or anything that you’d like to loan or gift at the meeting

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San Francisco Meeting Notes: October 2008 – Fashion Among Friends

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

The clothing swap we held in October was amazing from several perspectives. First, I was blown away by how much clothes showed up. Several people brought big rollie suitcases filled with clothes. And not the carry-on type! And one woman brought a two large backpacks of clothes…by bike. Talk about a low carbon approach to fashion!

Secondly, the turnout and amount of interaction was impressive. At least 30 people showed. And people exchanged a ton of friendly “fashion support” - folks suggesting pieces to each other, feedback on how pieces looked on, sharing of mirrors, etc. The vibe was 100% positive.
Kim Connector of Fashion Slave helped keep the whole thing moving. She brought a huge amount of clothes and was expertly hooking people up with the goods - one of her trademark superpowers for sure.

Lastly, everyone seemed to get something they were pleased with. One women brought some pieces back to her housemates, so the benefit extended beyond those who attended. I got two fun bold-patterned shirts.

In the end, we had several large bags of clothes leftover to donate. On our way out, we met an employee of Brainwash Cafe who has a big family. We gave her two bags of clothes including one with filled shoes. She was stoked! The rest went to Community Thrift on Valencia.

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San Francisco Meeting Notes: September 2008

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

We had a pretty good turn out for an often unsettling topic like race. For something folks don’t often talk about, especially in mixed-race groups, leaguers handled it with ease and openness. Perhaps this is example of how the league tells a new story about people that sees them as generous, understanding, and helpful, and how people easily live into that story. Or maybe it’s because many of us are good friends by now. Whatever the case, it’s inspiring. Here’s a few of the lessons learned in discussion:

-Everyone’s experience with race is different and that can be about life history or it can be a thing that changes moment-to-moment.

-Our ideas about race are often subconscious. Sometimes we can do things that are embarrassing and harmful, even if we’re well intentioned.

-We should not become paralyzed by guild when this happens, but rather understand that we’re conditioned or trained by society and therefore can untrain ourselves.

-With increased awareness, we can avoid doing things that are harmful.

Big thanks goes out to Caren and Janet at UNtraining for facilitating a difficult topic and to SoMa Creativity Center for hosting us at their wonderful space. Thank you Pearl and Pam. You did a wonderful job of facilitating the overall meeting.

Our next meeting is Thursday, October 16th. Mark your calendars. We haven’t settled on a featured speaker, artist, or activity yet. Got an idea? Just let gorenflo [at] gmail dot com know.

We hope to see you then.

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MEMBER ANNOUNCEMENTS
Name:Pamela
Passions: arcane literature, politics, social process
Needs: good for now
Gifts: webstuff, research, connections
E-mail: palexb [at] stanford dot edu

Name: Michael Beutler
Passions: Sustainability, solving problems
Needs: funding for bio-tech start-up
Gifts: Business advice
E-mail: michael dot beutler [at] comcast dot net

Name: Kim Connector
Passions: san francisco culture, art, fashion and people
Needs: new local talent
Gifts: Great listener, brainstorming, organizing, cooking collaboration
Email: thebrainpoolconnector [at] gmail dot com

Name: ruth davis fyer
Passions: dreamwork, expressive arts
Needs: raise money to keep somacc open!
Gifts: artist, healer
E-mail: buddhamuse [at] gmail dot com

Name: Janet Carter
Passions: writing, sharing stories, anti-racism work, history
Needs: Check out our Untraining Racism work, publishing connections
Gifts: Communicating, (Listening, teaching, researching, writing, editing)
Email: info [at] untraining dot org; janetecarter [at] yahoo dot com

Name: Neal
Passions: people working together
Needs: inspiration, consulting gigs in research, strategy, business development, and project management for social enterprises
Gifts: hypermiling, google it on the web, way to drive that saves gas, that’s all I have today
E-mail: gorenflo [at] gmail dot com

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