Fix things Friday
Jan. 5th, 2018 05:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzulaHi, newcomers! I have some new people in my circle from dolorosa_12's post-Yuletide friending meme. Maybe I'll write up an intro post about me some other day? But today it's Friday and I haven't done this meme since (ahem) December 1.
The idea is that every Friday (or every other Friday, in my case) you write up the political action, in a broad sense, that you have taken. The idea is to hold yourself accountable, inspire other people, and feel that you have accomplished something.
Since December 1 I have:
- Attended and taken minutes at a union city-level members' meeting.
- Attended and taken minutes at a union board meeting.
- Chaired a union meeting at the university.
- Called new union members and then held an introductory meeting for them.
- Put together union email newsletter for December and January.
- Contributed to the union member magazine.
- Helped prepare a union conference in January.
- Helped handle an issue involving union office equipment. In short, it consists of: 1) a bad financial decision by the previous board (DO NOT lease things!!), 2) neglect by the previous union administrator, 3) a decision by the new board that turned out to be bad because it was based on faulty information. This whole thing wastes money and I hate it. /o\
- Occupied a threatened forest.
- Talked to people living near another threatened forest to see if we could help them.
- Contributed to and translated parts of a report about infractions against the FSC (an environmental forest certification).
- Got an op-ed criticizing a forest company published in a local newspaper.
- Put together the next newsletter of environmental organization (much longer than the union one).
- Prepared a lecture on biofuels, forest and climate, to be held next weekend.
- Wrote a grant proposal for doing inventories of threatened forests in the summer, and gave feedback on another proposal.
- Wrote another grant proposal about printing a second edition of a pamphlet about forest issues I wrote years ago.
- Eeeeemailed a lot in both organizations.
Whew. That was a lot, and I might've forgotten some things, too.
dolorosa_12's post-Yuletide friending meme. Maybe I'll write up an intro post about me some other day? But today it's Friday and I haven't done this meme since (ahem) December 1. The idea is that every Friday (or every other Friday, in my case) you write up the political action, in a broad sense, that you have taken. The idea is to hold yourself accountable, inspire other people, and feel that you have accomplished something.
Since December 1 I have:
- Attended and taken minutes at a union city-level members' meeting.
- Attended and taken minutes at a union board meeting.
- Chaired a union meeting at the university.
- Called new union members and then held an introductory meeting for them.
- Put together union email newsletter for December and January.
- Contributed to the union member magazine.
- Helped prepare a union conference in January.
- Helped handle an issue involving union office equipment. In short, it consists of: 1) a bad financial decision by the previous board (DO NOT lease things!!), 2) neglect by the previous union administrator, 3) a decision by the new board that turned out to be bad because it was based on faulty information. This whole thing wastes money and I hate it. /o\
- Occupied a threatened forest.
- Talked to people living near another threatened forest to see if we could help them.
- Contributed to and translated parts of a report about infractions against the FSC (an environmental forest certification).
- Got an op-ed criticizing a forest company published in a local newspaper.
- Put together the next newsletter of environmental organization (much longer than the union one).
- Prepared a lecture on biofuels, forest and climate, to be held next weekend.
- Wrote a grant proposal for doing inventories of threatened forests in the summer, and gave feedback on another proposal.
- Wrote another grant proposal about printing a second edition of a pamphlet about forest issues I wrote years ago.
- Eeeeemailed a lot in both organizations.
Whew. That was a lot, and I might've forgotten some things, too.
