Our Purpose
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Our Mission Statement
Activist San Diego has the objective
of promoting cyber contact to help progressive activists meet and mobilize
with each other in real life. Web communications is a methodology and tactic
for promoting social change, not a substitute for it.
Activist San
Diego is the Activist Yellow Pages for the community of conscience.
The Activist San Diego web site serves
the following functions:
1) COMMUNITY CALENDAR:
A place where we can always find a community calendar of local events. The
calendars of Progressive Activist Organizations in San Diego can be downloaded
and posted. Calendars can be hotlinked to the WEB pages of the sponsoring
organization, linked to pages about a presenter, linked to maps of the location
and linked to full page information fliers for the event. Distribution is
timely, there is no printing costs or printing delays and no postage to
pay! The calendar can also easily be emailed to individuals and organizations
that request it.
2) FLIER DISTRIBUTION: Progressive
organizations can get their fliers to their members in a timely fashion
and not burn up gas or funds for postage. Other organizations and individuals
can download copies of fliers. Email messages can have a hotlinks to the
web locations where the flier has been posted.
3) NETWORKING, COALITION BUILDING
AND MEMBERSHIP RECRUITMENT:
No more meetings where time is taken up writing down the names of other
people and organizations. No more reinventing the wheel for each activity.
Using Activist San Diego as your central clearinghouse for progressive organizations
and activities will make your base-building or coalition-building much more
effective. Organized directories of service, progressive and activist organizations
will facilitate networking and coalition building.
4)NEW MEMBER OUTREACH:
Members of the community who are looking to join or volunteer with an organization
will have a much easier time finding the groups or organizations that match
their goals. They can send an email inquiry at the touch of a key or download
a copy of the organization's vision statement, phone contacts or meeting
schedule. Organizations are indexed by name and by issues areas and can
sign up members on the web with links to their home page.
5) EMERGENCY RESPONSE NETWORK:
Activist San Diego arose in response to the real need for a rapid way for
activist to respond to the bombing in Iraq last year. We needed a central
place to look for the latest news and information updates and to inform
others about the actions, that we would take the very day the bombing began.
The WEB is an ideal communicator for many of these needs, when phonebankers
are not available. Now all progressives will know where to look when a crisis
arises making us a much more effective community and group of organizers.
6) SKILLS BUILDING AND A WEB ADDRESS:
Many smaller organizations
do not have web pages or means of economically creating them. We'd like
to see every progressive group with a Web presence linking them to other
activists and potential members. Activist San Diego provides web space for
these organizations at a nominal fee. We also provide basic web skills workshop
for small organizations that would facilitate their use of these tools and
organizing resources. Also for a nominal fee organizations can email their
fliers to us saved as HTML documents (or mail to us to scan)which we will
post on the Web.
7) FUTURE EXPANSION:
San Diegans could benefit by having local listserves where discussions could
occur. Political and cultural chat rooms or discussion groups will be established
for the free exchange of ideas and networking. Community bulletin boards
will also be created. In the future it will be important to become a truly
bilingual service where Spanish speakers in particular could participate.
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