On Sunday, December 15, 3-5:00 pm, members and friends are invited to meet in person at the Mendocino Community Center.  Or join online with this link:  Launch Meeting - Zoom

3-4:00 pm – Converstion, ideas & suggestions on building our community ever stronger and more resilient.

 4-5:00 pm – We’ll party!  Nibbles, sparkling cider, chat with new & longtime friends.

• “We the People” – a community that works toward the benefit of all is the bedrock of how democracy grows stronger, more resilient and benefits everyone.
• Most things are possible.

All are welcome.  Please invite friends & neighbors.  We will meet in the first room on the right through the door next to the north parking lot. 

"At its very core, democracy is about one thing:  community.

"A community made up of people from every walk of life and possessing every sort of opinion, but who still agree that it’s better to find common cause and coexist than it is to fracture into factions and fall apart.

“Democracy was never meant to be easy, and the work of building and maintaining these communities is a 365-day job.  It requires foregoing online arguments in favor of honest to goodness human connections made in grocery stores, town meetings, rec centers, churches, and neighborhood pubs.  It requires grace toward those who do not think like we do and humility from ourselves when we don’t have all the facts.

“At the end of the day, building community through civil discourse is the only thing that’s going to strengthen the democracy that all of us call home – because it’s the only thing that ever has strengthened the democracy we call home.”

Excerpt from a Nonprofit VOTE article by Travis Morin, November 26, 2024