2. Reach Out:
You do not need to know everything or do everything yourself. It is good to make inquiries, ask questions, and find others to work with as well as to communicate with those most directly affected so you can know how they would like to be supported.
Reach out:
- to gather others to work with.
- to start a collective.
- to start temporary group for one goal.
- to put out a call for allies.
- to look for alternatives, answers, suggestions, others involved or who might be possible allies.
- to the children and caregivers in your communities and ask others to do so as well.
- by putting childcare questions on your registration
- by making sure “Childcare is available” on ALL your media, literature, flyers and publicity. (If parents do not know there is childcare they might not plan on being able to attend.)
- to the organizers and their networks.
- to your networks.
- in your geographical location.
- to those who are involved in the issue you are working on.
- to those who have done it before,
- to those who are doing it now, and
- to those who have never done it before!
This can take the form of emails, phone calls, research, reading, face-to-face questions, fliers, and meetings. Go to others meetings and spaces as well as invite others to your own. What are the resources in your community? Who may be interested in this concern? You might also be surprised that by getting the word out, as you reach out to others, that you find allies in unlikely places. Keep your mind open as you reach out. Building relationships is a form of activism. Find what resources are out there and orient yourself with your mission. Don’t feel limited to only one approach or that everything must be collective or unpaid in order to be radical, for doing everything collectively can also take too much energy and time. One option may be, for instance, paying a mother owned small business in the community to cater the food. Continue to reach out but starting with reaching out is a crucial step. You need input and to consult with others (Ask specific questions, like “what do you like to eat?”) in order to gain ideas; and build strategies and collaborations. Together we can do more than we can alone.
You do not need to know everything or do everything yourself. It is good to make inquiries, ask questions, and find others to work with as well as to communicate with those most directly affected so you can know how they would like to be supported.
Reach out:
- to gather others to work with.
- to start a collective.
- to start temporary group for one goal.
- to put out a call for allies.
- to look for alternatives, answers, suggestions, others involved or who might be possible allies.
- to the children and caregivers in your communities and ask others to do so as well.
- by putting childcare questions on your registration
- by making sure “Childcare is available” on ALL your media, literature, flyers and publicity. (If parents do not know there is childcare they might not plan on being able to attend.)
- to the organizers and their networks.
- to your networks.
- in your geographical location.
- to those who are involved in the issue you are working on.
- to those who have done it before,
- to those who are doing it now, and
- to those who have never done it before!
This can take the form of emails, phone calls, research, reading, face-to-face questions, fliers, and meetings. Go to others meetings and spaces as well as invite others to your own. What are the resources in your community? Who may be interested in this concern? You might also be surprised that by getting the word out, as you reach out to others, that you find allies in unlikely places. Keep your mind open as you reach out. Building relationships is a form of activism. Find what resources are out there and orient yourself with your mission. Don’t feel limited to only one approach or that everything must be collective or unpaid in order to be radical, for doing everything collectively can also take too much energy and time. One option may be, for instance, paying a mother owned small business in the community to cater the food. Continue to reach out but starting with reaching out is a crucial step. You need input and to consult with others (Ask specific questions, like “what do you like to eat?”) in order to gain ideas; and build strategies and collaborations. Together we can do more than we can alone.
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