[Green] Join or Die documentary

[Annie Warmke]

I am thinking about hosting a showing of this Netflix documentary the 
week of Jan. 19th.  It demonstrates a compelling argument for what we 
are doing in the Philips Subdivision neighborhood, and by passes so much 
of what we've been taught makes us "American" and cuts right to the 
chase for the reason we must learn how to form clubs and associations if 
we are to save our democracy.  When I first pitched the idea of the 
Neighborhood Group to ReImagine Appalachia it competed with poor 
communities needing clean water, or safer access roads and more.  I 
thought everyone would think it just didn't have enough importance to 
real cultural change for a community.  This documentary shows the 
science of what we are doing, and it's re-affirming to see what's 
possible if we just keep trying.

If you'd be interested in joining me to watch the documentary and 
discuss how it might influence the work that each of us is doing in 
different areas please let me know a date a time (could be in daytime).  
I hope to have others from the neighborhood to join us.

“A leader today needs to be one who convenes people, who convenes 
diversity, who convenes all viewpoints in processes where our 
intelligence can come forth. So these kinds of leaders do not give us 
the answers, but they help us gather together so that together we can 
discover the answers.”  –Margaret Wheatley

The feature documentary "*/Join or Die/*" (2023) 
<https://www.joinordiefilm.com/#about>, illustrating the work of *Robert 
Putnam* (book /“Bowling Alone”/), is now on *Netflix*.(This film is also 
inspiring*/local/ events*:  Following this link, scroll down to 
"upcoming *community screenings*" on this *community-building film's* 
website.)This is “*a film about why you should join* a 'club' -- and why 
the fate of America depends on it.”

America’s decades-long *decline in community connections* (including at 
parishes) could hold the answers to our democracy’s present *crisis*.

See the related and excellent book, highlighted in this film, 
co-authored by Putnam “*/The Upswing: How America Came Together a 
Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again 
<https://millercenter.org/news-events/events/upswing-how-america-came-together-century-ago-and-how-we-can-do-it-again>/*” 
(2020).

See also:

  * Film-maker’s book /Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of
    Infinite Browsing
    <https://classic.netaddress.com/tpl/https://classic.netaddress.com/tpl/https://classic.netaddress.com/tpl/https://classic.netaddress.com/tpl/https://classic.netaddress.com/tpl/https://classic.netaddress.com/tpl/https://classic.netaddress.com/tpl/https://classic.netaddress.com/tpl/https://classic.netaddress.com/tpl/https://www.simonandschuster.com/.../Pete.../9781797126500>/
    (audio clip available).
  * *Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez*: (recent 2m video
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQV33d92n3c>) ".../Creating
    community around you is one of the strongest, most powerful, and
    also one of the most radical things you can do in an environment
    like this.. /.."
  *
    https://grist.org/language/climate-change-culture-wars-depolarization
    <https://www.grist.org/language/climate-change-culture-wars-depolarization>


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Annie Warmke
Owner/manager Blue Rock Station LLC & Warmke Farm LLC
President, Women's Peacepower Foundation
(740) 252-6295
@bluerockstation
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