How to Build Community
I ran across this poster written by Eileen Mosca with the Syracuse Cultural Workers.I think it is a great picture of community. What does community look like for you?
Here is the text from the poster:
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.
05/19/2010 at 5:47 am
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06/10/2010 at 6:10 pm
Hi there: Thanks for spreading this wonderful message about community!
I love it but I am not the author. It was written by the Syracuse Cultural Workers Collective.
I bought the poster from them and at one point I wanted to get its message out to everyone in my hometown, Vancouver,BC,Canada. So I asked the Syracuse folks for permission to use it and created a new border for the words made of Vancouver scenes. Then I had thousands of copies made and recruited a diverse group of people who agreed to do guerilla postering, 150 copies each. We set a weekend for this project, purposely avoided publicity, and on the Monday morning Vancouver was plastered with this message.
We found that people loved this message…and we loved doing the project.
I’d recommend it highly to anyone who wants to remind their town or city about what we can do as individuals to build community.
02/16/2013 at 7:14 pm
How can I get hold of the poster to print? I know a bunch of people who would LOVE this, and I would love to screen print it onto tea towels to give away.
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