Cohousing-L Mailing List: Cohousing listserv messages & activism

[normangauss (normangauss]

I think that posting messages here unrelated to cohousing is inappropriate.
If any activism is going to happen here, IMO, it should be confined to
promoting cohousing.

There may be many cohousers, myself included, that just want to live in
community without having to delete spam from their mailboxes.  Non-cohousing
messages are spam IMHO.

Norm Gauss
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave and Diane" <daveanddee [at] verizon.net>
To: <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 5:13 AM
Subject: [C-L]_ Re: Peace, Justice,and Marketing (was EMERGENCY
INTERNATIONAL VIGIL]


> Hi everyone,
> I have a question for all of you out there in coho-land. Is the message
> below appropriate for cohousing-l? I and some others are supposed to be
> helping Fred monitor the list while he's away. Here's the reason I am
> asking:
>
> Recently we have had a unit for sale at JP cohousing. I have been
> knocking myself out running ads in the Boston Globe, holding Open
> Houses, and doing the whole nine yards. None of the people who came
> through followed up.
>
> This past week, a woman who came by to pick up her CSA veggie box (we
> are a drop-off site) saw the flyer and went over to see the available
> unit. She fell in love with it, loved the group, and came back the
> following night to join.
>
> At a recent general meeting we had about 25 members present. I did a
> survey and found out the following things:
> --16 considered themselves to be educators
> --15 considered themselves to be activists
> --13 considered themselves to be pacifists
> --10 considered themselves to be health care people
> --10 considered themselves to be working for marriage equality
> --8 considered themselves to be environmentalists
> --5 considered themselves to be artists/musicians
>
> As you can see, peace and justice activities are right up there under
> education as the top cohousing-related priority in our group. Does that
> indicate that more peace-and-justice activities should be announced on
> this list?  How many of you out there are involved in peace-and-justice
> activities? How do you feel about these news items going out on coho-L?
> And how does your group find its new members?
>
> Thanks for your feedback,
> --Diane(:^]
> MARKETING FACILITATOR
> JP COHOUSING  617-522-2209
> P.O. BOX 420 BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS
> HTTP://WWW.JPCOHOUSING.ORG
>
> On Monday, June 20, 2005, at 06:16 AM, abwwrpeace [at] riseup.net wrote:
> >
> > Dear friends nearby, friends from outside the country, and friends
> > we've
> > never met, Currently, we have an emergency, International vigil that
> > will happen on
> > June 23. Members of A Better World Is Within Reach Peace Network and
> > all
> > members of the public are invited to attend.  We will have a peace
> > vigil
> > at 6pm at the Portland Federal building located on SW 3rd, between
> > Madison
> > and Jefferson.
>
>
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