Post by ralph on Feb 9, 2017 5:13:55 GMT -7
JPAT gets support and advice from the Jefferson Humanist (JH) organization.
We're happy they've agreed to be a sounding board for our dreams and plans, so we don't get too untethered to planet Earth.
This is the document I presented to the JH board the day they voted to support us.
Statement of Purpose.pdf (146.18 KB)
Key passages
We provide an easy on-ramp to political activism as a service to the members of JH and to the secular community of the Denver metro area.
This service can be outlined as “find, inform, collaborate, and define,” with the following details:
• Find the alienated and disaffected citizens and residents in the Denver metro area
• Inform them about a) political actions they can take right away and in the future, and b) the techniques of non-violence
• Collaborate with other, like-minded groups, supporting their initiatives and activities rather than “reinventing the wheel”
• Devise creative opportunities to “fill the gaps” of issues not yet addressed by the groups we collaborate with
We emphasize effective action and aim for a balance between “fast and loud” and “strategic and well informed,” realizing this mix allows us to attract a wider spectrum of participants from the community and to provide a more meaningful political experience for them. The fast and load aspect of our activities will include actions such as street protests, street theatre, phone campaigns, and office visits with our members of Congress. The strategic and well informed aspect will include events such as democracy schools, Cambridge-style issue debates for the public, regular opinion editorials for the printed press. Both aspects will undoubtedly result in many videos posted to social media in order to amplify our impact and to make our influence more durable.
Our group is not a collection of extremists, and we use several foundational texts in order to instill rationality to our practices. These texts include:
We're happy they've agreed to be a sounding board for our dreams and plans, so we don't get too untethered to planet Earth.
This is the document I presented to the JH board the day they voted to support us.
Statement of Purpose.pdf (146.18 KB)
Key passages
We provide an easy on-ramp to political activism as a service to the members of JH and to the secular community of the Denver metro area.
This service can be outlined as “find, inform, collaborate, and define,” with the following details:
• Find the alienated and disaffected citizens and residents in the Denver metro area
• Inform them about a) political actions they can take right away and in the future, and b) the techniques of non-violence
• Collaborate with other, like-minded groups, supporting their initiatives and activities rather than “reinventing the wheel”
• Devise creative opportunities to “fill the gaps” of issues not yet addressed by the groups we collaborate with
We emphasize effective action and aim for a balance between “fast and loud” and “strategic and well informed,” realizing this mix allows us to attract a wider spectrum of participants from the community and to provide a more meaningful political experience for them. The fast and load aspect of our activities will include actions such as street protests, street theatre, phone campaigns, and office visits with our members of Congress. The strategic and well informed aspect will include events such as democracy schools, Cambridge-style issue debates for the public, regular opinion editorials for the printed press. Both aspects will undoubtedly result in many videos posted to social media in order to amplify our impact and to make our influence more durable.
Our group is not a collection of extremists, and we use several foundational texts in order to instill rationality to our practices. These texts include:
- 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action (Albert Einstein Institution)
- Indivisible: Former congressional staffers reveal best practices for making Congress listen
- Humanist Manifesto III (American Humanists Association)
- Ten Commitments for Humanists (American Humanists Association)