[Green] Join or Die documentary

[elin Jones]

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	ej

> On Jan 4, 2025, at 5:31 PM, Annie Warmke via Green <green at fuusm.org> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> “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 
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> 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:
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> 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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