RAFF IT UP! - February/March, 2002

A wonderful definition of community and also a great resource is Syracuse Cultural Workers - check out their website at: www.syrculturalworkers.org

Below is their definition of "How To Build Community"

• Turn off your TV
• Leave your house
• Know your neighbors
• Look up when you are walking
• Greet people
• Sit on your stoop
• Plant flowers
• Use your Library
• Play together
• Buy from local merchants
• Share what you have
• Help a lost dog
• Take children to the park
• Garden together
• Support neighborhood schools
• Fix it even if you didn't break it
• Have Pot Lucks
• Honor Elders
• Pick up litter
• Read stories aloud
• Dance in the street
• Talk to the Mail Carrier
• Listen to the birds
• Put up a swing
• Help carry something heavy
• Barter for your goods
• Start a tradition
• Ask a question
• Hire young people for odd jobs
• Organize a Block Party
• Bake extra and share
• Ask for help when you need it
• Open your shades
• Sing together
• Share your skills
• Take back the night
• Turn up the music
• Turn down the music
• Listen before you react to anger
• Mediate a conflict
• Seek to understand
• Learn from new and uncomfortable angles
• Know that no one is silent though many are not heard - Work to Change this

See....you're community building and didn't even know it!

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