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Wednesday Night Dinners
What the Dinners are about:
Wednesday Night Dinners are an opportunity for you as an individual, group of friends, family, and neighbors to gather in a congenial setting while sharing wholesome, nutritious (healthy) foods. In this setting the goal is to create an encouraging environment to allow discussions of social concerns affecting our country and world. The dinners are an opportunity for America to talk about ways in which our Nation, community, neighbors, each of us individually, can address Racism, Sexism, Violence, our Environmental Health, and develop practical methods each of us can perform in everyday living to overcome these challenges.
We would also like for someone from the United Kingdom to contact us to set-up a similar idea in your country if you so have the desire. Britain has the same social issues as us here across the pond. You are also as culpable as we are in the support on what is going on in Iraq, Africa and many other places in the world as we know. It’s time to heal.
In light of a friends wisdom please join us:
Australia...France....Germany....Turkey....Canada....no matter where you live...try having a Wednesday Night dinner for new friends around you...strangers around you...write and tell us how it goes!!
Why Wednesday Night Dinners are necessary:
The Healing of our Nation – Ourselves – Our Communities – Each Other. A truly bright future encompassing us all where everyone benefits is only truly possible when we believe; there is a lack of belief out there that we can handle these social matters because they seem so out there, so overwhelming. They are not!
Collective minds have the ability to solve challenges addressing us all. Our collective minds need to focus on simple, everyday, practical concrete things we can each do to “Make It Real.†Make solutions that impact us all immediately real where buy in can be had by everyone. Just like people rallying against Wal-Mart or marching on a campus or in a neighborhood against senseless violence. There are practical solutions out there in your minds, let’s connect under this forum to bring those solutions into the light so everyone can look at them and decide on the ones acceptable to them to put into practice.
The dinners are an outgrowth of what a group of us practice where we live and continue to do. They are a place of peace, of comfort during the week, a place where friendships are born, strengthened, and where people can be comfortable addressing tough moral issues that need solutions now. Wednesday nights are a time of love and sharing without fear, they are a place for those who find during the week they need an opportunity to connect with good people. You have the ability to create this atmosphere in your own lives.
We have an opportunity now to put forth a mandate as a whole people no matter your political affiliation asking, no, demanding, as a democratic people, that our elections are fair and actively address the issues of social ills plaguing our history and threatening to further sour a future that should be bright with exploration and promise. The choice is yours, we are asking here that everyone who chooses to be a part of this do so with the faith/belief that we can in the common good ask Independents, Green Party Candidates, Republicans, Democrats and any others, their support in keeping the 2008 election clean of any taints.
Most importantly, we can create an environment of good will where people can see through to practical things they can do to help combat Racism, to help stop violence in their community, and to help our streets be safer for everyone, Today! We must go beyond Rock The Vote campaigns and other ideas to really penetrate communities where people have not traditionally voted and get these fellow citizens into positions where they can make intelligent choices that can only help us all. We have two years to make this happen; we have an opportunity to create an organization here whose shelf-life is two years. We don’t need another group of people; we have enough groups and communities, civic groups, and religious organizations in place to help make this happen. Our goal is to set this up, have the 08' election, and then go away because we are no longer needed.
How can you participate?
By simply wanting America to be a better place for everyone. Love conquers all in the end; we are asking you to practice Love. We have chosen to post this first part to MySpace for feedback and participation by those ‘buying’ in to what we are attempting to create here. We need all of your help in order to make this thing work, look at what MoveOn.org has become.
We need College students and anyone else who cares, to comment on this project in constructive, positive, intelligent, well thought out solutions. We need College volunteers for organizing the dinners on campus and in your hometowns. We then need for these organizers to help create content and to report back the content people at your school come-up with so we can form guidelines for people when we present this to the rest of the country. We are counting on your help to encourage people in the right manner to take responsibility and in this non-intrusive manner begin the healing process.
We also are looking for college volunteers to go out in there communities to find programs that work to address social ills and bring those to the table. These programs are the basis of us being able to approach the entertainers, athletes (who come from your student bodies), and others in the community who are identified as “Connectors†(from the Tipping Point) so they can help bring this National program called Wednesday Night Dinners into practical reality.
High School students are asked to participate in the same manner within your own communities and we encourage you to look for the same results as we are asking from your older peers.
What Now?
If your interest has been captured then read on where more philosophy is explained behind the concept and sign-up in our ‘friend list.’ We are in the process of creating a website for the rest of the concept to be presented and flushed out. We know attention spans our short so… we ask that if you are willing based off of what you have read here, to become involved, then we welcome you.
