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February Voices notes (draft for review)

 

Voices Forum Notes & Attendance

February, 9th 2021

 

 

AGENDA 

  • Meeting opens: Feel free to socialize with neighbors!
  • Opening/ Welcome - Centering - Community Agreements
  • Tech Overview
  • Unpacking White Supremacy Culture
  • Action circles: Health and Environmental Justice, Land Use, Housing Justice, Community Care
  • Report back 
  • Community Announcements
  •  Closing reflection
  • Meeting closes



MEETING SUMMARY BY AGENDA ITEMS AND BREAKOUT GROUP

 

  • Community Conversations

 

      • Martin: Alicia Lucio told me she heard gunshots
      • Kareem- folks on his block page, things happening with super frozen stuff (pipes burst, furnaces going out). What support and resources can WSCO offer in this cold time? 
      • Marcus- thanks for wishing him well. Has a back brace. Concerns: still have to watch out for people who haven’t shoveled their sidewalks. Also, mail: 5 tenants moving in and out, and they’re still getting their mail. Places are vacant. Mac offered to help!

 

  • Black History grounding by Mike Herndon 
  • Overview of Community agreements

 

      • Which of these resonate with you? What are we missing? (discussion)

 

  • Community Announcements

 

      • La Clinica is scheduling vaccine appointments for folks over 65 years - you don’t have to be a regular patient there. 
      • Special agreements for Zoom meetings - this could look like agreement about how the facilitator selects people to speak, or being on a list that you come next, or maybe certain people speak about certain topics and others don't. (progressive stack or stack where you put your name in the chat if you want to speak) 
      • Vibe Checks - if one of these agreements is broken or strained, tonight you can message Monica Bravo privately if you want to voice your feelings 

 

  • Dismantling White Supremacy Culture (break-out for BIPOC & for white attendees)

 

      • We’re working on shifting the culture at Voices away from white supremacist practices. Break-out spaces and ask for white leaders to help us move to leader-led model.  (Discussion was extended at the request of members.)

 

  • Action Circles Summaries
  • HEJ

 

        • Very exciting cooperative solar project!!  If interested, contact Ellie

 

  • Land Use

 

        • Senior housing on Stryker. Updates on scorecard

 

  • Housing Justice

 

        • Goal of 500 signatures for the West Side to contribute to the city-wide rent stabilization campaign: Marcus, Lauren, Sherilyn, Ellie and Kathleen are block leaders! Join us and contact [email protected] to become a block leader. 

 

  • Community Care

 

        • Find ways to reconnect during this time and get some action steps

 

  • Other Reports
  • Leader-Led Model

 

        • Transforming Voices to be leader-led and fully represent our neighborhood. If you want to join a working group, contact Genevieve. 

 

  • Have + Need

 

      • Alicia has starters for Amish Bread
      • Sherilyn knows a youth looking for a job! Snow-shoveling, odd jobs. 
      • Elizabeth Dickinson has a 5-minute guided meditation 
      • 100 free chick filet and free gun locks, jackets, etc. at 88 Cesar Chavez between 10am-2pm this Saturday. 
      • Leah has pothos and spider plant cuttings. 

 

 

  • Approval of the January Notes. 

 

    • Approved.

 

ATTENDANCE

 

Attending: Lauren Glass, Sylvia Schwarz, Kareem Smith, Mac Dolo-Tolstoy, Anna Ferris, Monica Bryand, Petra, Marcus Troy, Gail Merriam, Alicia Lucio, Kathleen Ganley, Becky Dale, Maria McNamara, Signe Hushagen, Mike Herndon, Sherilyn Young, Sue Letourneau, Barb Rose, Dan Conlan, Alicia Wold, Hokan Miller, Jen Crea, Kared Reid, Derek Johnson, Elizabeth Dickinson, Katrina Mendoza, Martin Hernandez, Leah Mathiason 



Staff Attendance: Genevieve Roudané, Monica Bravo, Charlotte Colantti, Leah Shepard, Ellie Leonardsmith, Michael McDowell

 

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