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  • From: Toby Hemenway <hemenway@jeffnet.org>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] City Repair Project, and leadership
  • Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 11:25:36 -0800


On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 12:17 AM, georg parlow wrote:

i bet my ass that "the neighbourhood
residents" are far from 100% of all residents in the affected area. propably
less than 10%. and even within those few % of activists, there will be a few
ringleaders (mostly male,

When City Repair does its most visible work, a project called Intersection repair, the 4 homeowners or renters on each corner of the intersection need to be committed to work on the project (i.e. 100% of the most directly affected residents). All neighbors on the adjoining blocks are consulted, and there is a process for input from any neighbors within a certain radius. On the weekend that the project is done, over 50 people--often several times as many--show up to work on the intersection, and the vast majority live within a few houses of the intersection.

The staff of City Repair--the folks who do the organizing--are 6 women and 3 men. The founder is male, but when I've worked with them, the women are just as vocal and active as Mark Lakeman is, and he's outstanding at distributing power.

These people are a good model, I think.
http:// www.cityrepair.org

Toby
http://www.patternliteracy.com





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