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suterussu wrote

What does your community need? Don't take this as a rude dismissal of your question or anything, but you should probably be asking them instead of us.

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Green_Mountain_Makhno OP wrote

I will be asking them, but from what I know the community needs access to healthy food and affordable housing.

I think some other projects that might be good are:

  1. A Gym or fitness facility/community
  2. A Really Really Free Market
  3. An anarchist library
  4. A place for people to hang out
  5. A place to organize training that would focus on organizations that could support people in crisis without having to call the police

I really want to expand what I'm thinking about though and start with a very wide net and then focus down on what would be most helpful to the liberation of my community.

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GrimWillow wrote (edited )

Creating a space for those sorts of things, as long as access doesn't come with strings attached, sounds like a good idea to me!

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tamarack wrote (edited )

This. If a community chooses to entrust a person with leadership, the person so chosen has a responsibility to carry out the will of the community--quite literally, to execute it, to bring it into being. Indeed, this is from whence cometh the term "executive".

OP has a duty to the community which has bestowed its trust, not to us.

That being said, I think it would be a good idea, generally speaking, to pursue ideas which promote both self-governance of the community and mutual aid within it.

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Green_Mountain_Makhno OP wrote

The community that is entrusting me wants to help our local community and build real community where people can grow and connect with each other. This is definitely a starting point that radical programs can grow out of without violating the trust or taking advantage of people.

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