Welcome
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The Network's Popular Education Working Group was honored to participate
in the regional Media
Justice Gathering sponsored by the Appalachian Community Fund and Fund for Southern Communities at the Knoxville Hilton on Feb.
2-3, 2007. The Network received rave reviews on the pop ed piece we facilitated with Solutions Youth Group on corporate media control.
Check
out our growing Popular Education Resource
Bank
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ETNPRONET
is very excited about the initiatives undertaken by its Popular Education
(Pop Ed) Working Group. The Pop Ed Group is exploring ways to help people
think about how pop ed could enhance their work (for example, Lady Liberty
who came to a meeting) and to develop an on-line pop ed resource bank.
Want to join the Network's Pop Ed Working Group? Come to the next meeting
or send a message to poped@etnpronet.org.
>>Click here for more info
about the pop ed working group.
Link
Up with other East Tennessee progressives
ETNPRONET is committed to providing the space for bringing people together
throughout the region who are working for peace and justice in our relationships
and our communities. At small gatherings -house parties -Network volunteers
are helping to
cultivate our collective strength as progressives through relationship
building.
To keep the progressive community connected between gatherings, we're
also offering "one stop" resources of regional progressive
happenings through a listing of a "who is here" and "what
they are doing" in our organizational
directory and a community calendar
of progressive meetings and events in East
Tennessee. They're resources for people with a history
of community involvement and those just beginning to get active alike!
Let's
continue to co-create this movement together and utilize the East Tennessee
Progressive Network as a vehicle and resource for community building,
supporting social change efforts, and our collective strength as progressives.
You
can help grow the Network and this movement. If you can't attend the
gathering, visit our join us page or write
to us and find out how you can get involved!
- Host
and Attend House Parties - Build Community!
This movement is about relationship building. Through small social gatherings, new and old friends are learning about each other, sharing ideas and experiences, and building community around long-lasting relationships across diverse backgrounds. Its Activism at Home - come have fun and deepen our region's progressive network for social change. Contact us today to host a house party and advance this movement; you're needed now more than ever! - Use the ETNPRONET Progressive Community Calendar. Add your organization to the progressive regional directory and add meetings and events happening in East Tennessee to the most comprehensive progressive community calendar.
- Join our directory as an individual to stay connected and informed about the Network movement. Personal contact info will not be publicly displayed and we will respect your time and attention and only use this list for important updates/activities of the Network.
- Get Involved - Click here to learn how!
In Partnership -- Kimberly, Chris & James
How
we got here!
Since
its launch in 2004, ETNPRONET has been engaging multiple strategies
to advance a movement of relationship building amongst progressives
(and those with progressive leanings who've not become active yet)
in East Tennessee. Three regional potlucks, multiple house parties,
80+ directory listings, and innumerable calendar posts later, the
Network remains committed to its original vision of building collective
strength and solidarity through its primary focus on relationship
building.
The
Network's regional potlucks and relationship-building house parties
have been setting the stage for the Charting the Course Strategy Meeting
that took place on Saturday, October 15, 2005 at the UNITE HERE Building
in Knoxville. Find out more.
Check
out the FAQs for more details about the Network's
strategy and philosophy.