[Green] Join or Die documentary

Mon Jan 6 11:16:39 CST 2025

Hi again, Annie,

This documentary sounds interesting and worthwhile!  It is doubtful that I
would be able to attend the viewing; we are on the final reviews of the
book I've been working on for 7 months, and the due date is January 31. The
author review is taking much longer than I anticipated--and I'm only up
through Chapter 3 right now. It's going to be a busy month for me. I will
be much more available in February!

P.S. Debra is in Hawaii for several more months.

--dawn

On Sat, Jan 4, 2025 at 5:31 PM Annie Warmke <annie at bluerockstation.com>
wrote:

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