Community involvement focused on prevention of Right Wing extremism infiltration in our schools.  encourage greater citizen involvement – eg: support "grow a candidate" efforts. Citizen oversight by attending School board meetings, meet with trustees during office hours, and keep the community informed and activated around issues where community input is needed.

Identify aspects our community where we can have impact that needs safety and inclusion who have been marginalized,  historically underserved or historically excluded EG: LGTBQIA+, transgender, BIPOC, Neurodiverse or disabled, women, youth, immigrants, religious groups.  

This group will look at how this impacts our community and elevate DEIA visibility and safety within the community

Discussion groups, Kitchen table strategizing, letter writing, phone calling.  How to start talking across the aisle to neighbors who “did not vote for this”.  Keep track of local and national actions that our community would want to be involved with and keep an updated calendar with efforts to get the word out as widely as possible.  Create local actions and promote ideas for community involvement from the Wake UP Sonoma "Inform, Organize, Resist, Disrupt Resources to Promote Democracy - toolkit.  Hold workshops or teach ins.

Stay on top of the Boycotts, Strikes, and actions people can get involved with. Supporting local businesses as opposed to large corporations that are supporting the Oligarchy.

Mutual aid is one way that communities can come together to support one another when the government can’t or won’t. Community gardens, neighborhood pods, food distribution projects, financial solidarity projects, support in case of natural disaster, Bartering, etc.  Create a Mutual Aid Network Pod or set of Pods in our community.

Staying abreast of developments in the medical care and benefits arena in response to the current administration and local impact – how to address concerns. Make recommendations on how to create safety nets if systems get broken. Inform the community on risks so that people can put their own safety nets in place, and keep abreast of resources and strategies. 

Wellness strategies – Islands of Sanity, neighborhood walks, potlucks, support circles, spiritual meet-ups and develop a directory of resources where people can find support.  Create new supportive resources in response to unmet needs. 

Currently this group's lead is working out of Davis with "Common Grounds", but looking for local Veterans to join that effort and bring more information back to Sonoma Community on how Vets can get more involved in those efforts.