August 2-8, 2004
(All my friends and neighbors)
(Meggie is sweaty and pumped for youth council)
(People are tired maybe they need to get to bed earlier)
Resolutions need to be done by 7pm Thursday
Lack of respect for DYSC
Their web site was hacked in to by an old con go-er
Held a LDC (love youth office)
They had decide to never have a con in PA in December
Increasing communications about events
Both their disks (old and new) met and talked about positives and deltas and how to work on them
CAC (con affairs committee) (deal with breaking rules
No AR this year but will be having an AR con in January 2005
Had a AR work shop at their election con
Younger crowd
YAC is mostly under 18
Breaking down in communication
Canceling cons because of not having churches booked
There age range may be changing to 14-20 \
Massachusetts Bay
They had 5 cons
At second con they did YCR selections
No having cons in Malden too much snow
They had an LDC (had problems with advisors and there behavior)
They had a really successful SAC con
Massive con (resistance to AR work, advisors behavior)
Next year want to do a SDC and AR conference
Advisors taking control of meetings being disempowering
Had a SAC con (did workshop about homelessness)
Elected new YAC
Had a problem with distrust with youth
Youth want co-ed sleeping areas and adults don’t want
Youth are trying to come up with solutions
Adults do not want it to happen and are holding process up
Had AR training
Hold 2 large cons fall and spring (250-+ people)
They have smaller “clusters” which are small groups that lead smaller conference
Gold mine (youth leader ship camp) (people from other districts can go)
Youth work camp (UU youth and muckle shout youth) if successful hope to do more in the future
6 cons
Not a lot of problems
Problems with not having a spirit committee meeting when they feel they should have
Had a good bridging con
Now they have 5 chaplains (both youth and young adults)
Maybe having a SDC in 2005
Also may have a AR con or SAC con
AL and Sean worked a lot so there was at least 1 SAC workshop
Mookie is trying to work with YAC bringing things from local to district
Had to let go of a couple of their disk reps
How to further incorporate their adults in their district
Maybe changing the name of the district
Central and eastern Canada
YAC is having trouble with
Large (land mass
Not enough money
Hard to communicate with local youth
Communication issues
No social justice done yet
SAC has disappeared
YAC is really tying to have at least one con in this coming year
They had the Quam con
Elect YAC
St. Laurence district cons
Had an Advisor trainer
Had problems with YAC
No communication with each other
Low attendance due to no flyers
No Bonding activities
The web site person was feeling unheard so dropped off YAC
Last YCR has been MIA
They have a new website
Going to be sending out flyers to churches
People will be going to churches to Hype Cons
Little attendance to cons
Need more adults to come to cons
YAC 19 people
Fears not having younger youth not wanting
Board will be revising the Youth and young adult relationships
Made before looking at YRUU’s policy
Having a large con that includes
No AR work
For the
Energy break
called @ 10:30 am
“Gigolo”
Lot of problems with rule violations
2 major violations at SDC LDC
Big 4 a problem
But trying to work on skits to solve
Spirit Committee at all rallies and chaplains
YAC is revising their election process because of under qualified people running for positions
There are 5 dates broken up between the regions
They are trying to clarify what it means to be on YAC with binders and notes explaining Job
Jedi Program-Older experienced youth helping younger youth
Looking for a TAR to head up the Jedi Program
AR con was small but people who went got a lot out of it
Working on another one with more people
Problem was that it was right after a rally
9 cons
Each con is run by local youth group funded by the district
There were 6 all age cons 12-20
2 Transition in cons 12-14, which are introductions to cons
1 social action con but it wasn’t very social action oriented
No Anti-Racism or Anti-Oppression no diversity
YCR would like to work on creating more diversity.
District Board wants the YAC to go to the AGM
But it conflicts with the election con and there is no youth programming at the AGM
There are 9 more scheduled for this year
Lost the website because of a buyout but then bought it back
DYSC is called RYSC
A bunch of members were voted in last October.
Newsletter is up and running and looks awesome!
Working on email list serves
Only one regional conference a year
Upcoming conference has a junior high con as well as a LDC
AR/AO there were workshops at the election and at the LDC there will be a component of AR/AO there too
3 senior high cons
1 junior high con
1st overall conference size small
Might be due to a higher registration fee
Cons ended up being on the same weekends as holidays
Social Action conference grew quite a bit
New SAC and Chair
Held and LDC went great
High level of tension between Youth and Adults
Many rules broken
Having problems with cliques and popularity vs. leadership
AR/AO little
Problems with Communication between YCR and district and old YCR
Trying out the cluster model
2 YAC events
Summer elections
Website is hopeful
Financially set
The future of YAC is safe
Did some AR work
Movie
People look at cons as a hang out time
Made up of white people mostly
Advisor training in Oct.
Trying to connect with Canada
Not allowed to give them money
Social action has not been happening
Joint YAC meeting somewhere
Youth adult relationships really good
The relationships between YRUU and the congregations is not as good
People were tense at the last con because the church it was held at was very touchy
Social action work was food drives and clothing drives
AR/AO is not very good
3 Cons a year 150-200 people @ each con
Running well
Working on a Con manual to help churches plan a con
Thinking about holding and LDC and a SDC
Worried about costs
Had some problems with drugs at last con
Sex Death Squad looks for people having sex and doing other bad things
Interim DYSC
Interim YCR
Very first election con coming up in December
Having problems with the district youth consultant
Having problems with youth empowerment
Finally pushing their way through
AR/AO is not a main focus but after the DYSC is set there will be hardcore planning
Social action is a biggy at cons
No bylaws
District has not been quite as supportive as hoping
Working on a project to bring a youth caucus to district events
Cons are great with very few problems
Out reach program right now to get more youth involved
Adults at Large have been great
Communications are poor
Mistrust between the adults and the rules
Due to a sexual assault at the bridging con last year
Trying to fix through group discussions on a local and district level
The issues of mistrust seem to be dissolving
A couple of the new rules have been affecting the community in a negative way
There is a district rule change committee
New website! And there is a District Newsletter
Communications officer has been doing a good job
There has been much about bridging the gap between YA and youth
Outreach to Texas and Montana
They now attend con
There was a Junior Senior conference held in Montana which was good
13 Cons
3 Social action cons
4 cluster junior high retreats
Week long summer con
And junior high senior high retreat
And an advisor training in Bozeman
No AR/AO
Trouble with elections
Got a SAC
LDC in the fall, which was a success but a problem with a youth leader
A ginger bread-making workshop for fundraising
Wasn’t too successful and there was trouble selling some of the houses
7 principle T-Shirts was another fundraiser
11 people going to cunoodle
Plans for an SDC in the fall
For spring con 2005 there was trouble finding a youth group
BC YAC is going to organize
Joint meeting in Victoria BC
PNWD YAC chair took full chair
Communication issues
Coffee houses have been other fundraisers
YAC has made final steps to the emergency system task force
Revised many of the Bylaws
Advisor Training
1st YAC meeting was canceled due to poor planning
1st con was Social action con
Set calendar for the rest of the year
Supposed to be an SDC but it didn’t go through
Discussed Youth adult relations at YAC meetings
Large focus is on Youth Events Manual
March small con Consumption
April Contemplation
First youth led AR workshop
May Last High school youth con of the year
June Junior High Con
Southern Poverty Law center led a workshop at con
Trying to strengthen AR/AO
And working on youth empowerment
A website is new and a Spirituality Development coordinator
Biggest con at the beginning and smallest was at the end
Only 40 at the election con due to poor outreach
Advertise more to get more people
They need to update their list serve
Con staff was elitist
A few people have been in the same positions
Need new leaders
AR/AO was not so great
Social Justice Con Concern was good but only twenty went
Some youth said they have noticed change in Anti Oppressive language
Hope for a solid AR/AO work
New cluster system
Hoping to beef it up
AGM many many accounts of youth disempowerment
AR/AO is not very great
SAC moved
Tried to have a SAC con but cancelled due to poor registration
Not very many people push for stuff at their district
Cons are well attended but the cons are very good
A lot of people view mandatory as lets go take a nap
Upwards of 200 people
YAC has been really bad with power dynamics and Youth Disempowerment
Spanking committee
A newsletter called Visions
Drug problems need help
Much more opportunities
Several largely attended AR cons
Great senior high camp
PSWD is getting more involved in continental YRUU
Large attendance to GA
3 our whole lives cons
Outreach to Arizona
SDC this year
Winter con on Social Justice
Several rule infractions executed by youth in leadership positions
Reformative Justice
Board resigned
No scholarships
Brainstorming possible ways to avoid these problems in the future
Elected by members of Youth Council
3 members are elected by PoCC
5 At large positions
18-20 Rep, 16-18 Rep, 14-16 Rep Bring the viewpoint of the age duuhhhhh………
Elections will be Sat during Plenary 6
Same jobs as at large
Share the work
Like a youth advisor
Support the SC
And brings an adult perspective
Process observe the group
All SC meetings as well as Youth Council
Not elected but the Youth office decides on using consensus
Research other organizations for reference
Strongly support the AR/AO work
Works with the SC as a member
Tries to offer the view of the Board of Trustee to the SC and tries to be a liaison
Covenant:
Description of a covenant- a promise with the community that we all create together and promise to with hold during our time together
Anti
Racism with Jenny, Clare and Chris
(ARTOP
and Challenging White Supremacy)
-Introductions
-Covenanting
-Group Culture
-Learning Zone
-Goals
-Building Common Analysis of linked Oppressions
-Resources
-Evaluations
Jenny introduces her self
Chris introduces what Challenging White Supremacy and the history of how it became
Clare talks about how she got involved with CWS
Step up step down
Challenging assumptions (ask non confrontational questions)
Stay at the table (be present)
Talk to each other
Engage in Conflict Lovingly
Share what is said (not who said it)
Get out of your comfort zone
Think out side the box
Right to pass
Challenge the statement and not the person
Be aware of power dynamics
Plus group covenant from plenary
Group Culture (dynamics)
Strive for equal participation from youth and adults
Wait 10 sec. Before talking (pop corn style)
White people asking POC to explain them selves and educate
How do you know when you have gone in to these zones?
Comfort zone
Bored, heard it all before
Feel safe
Routine
Agree with every thing
Muscles loose
Stop caring what is said
You’re in controlled
Growth zone
Afraid
Intimidated
Questioning
Excited
Inter act more
Stretching
Sit up more and you are alert
Heart races
Red zone
Angry
Defensive
Can’t communicate
Frustrated
Every one else is wrong
Clenching muscles
Melt down
Sadness
People write their personal goals
-A system of government based on money
-Oppressive power (People with lots of money over people with out money)
-Pawns in the system
-Works in with other systems
-Goal is profit
-Consumerism
-Rigid and controlled
-Had power over the “clay”
-Superior
-Ability to disapprove
-Masculinity
-Dominating power
-Nothing but what “I” said mattered
-Socially it is handed down to people
-Domination of white culture
Heterosexism (with a little emotion)
-Males are more arrogant
-Females are submissive
-Over-sexualized
-Plays in to patriarchy
-Close mindedness
-Assuming everyone is in heterosexual
Gender binary System
-Gender does not exists
-There is nothing past male and female
Group Sculpture of:
White Supremacy
-Had the power or did not have the power
-Not many POC were in it
-The POC who were in it were put in positions of powerless
-White folks with most of the power
-Some white folks stepped in and tried to “protect” the POC
Group Sculpture of:
Observation
Lots of white people taking over POC’s sculpture
Surrounding POC doing their own thing
People using the Black Power symbol (a symbol of the black power movement but was stolen by white folks)
Not many youth and young adults
All these systems are connected and support each other
The interaction of white folks doing liberation work and working with people of color and these all inter weave
Plenary 2 - Wednesday
Canada at large
They have a slightly larger RE budget
Conuudle went well
The radical religious people are helping pull together
Age rang issue they were told By the CUC that the age
range for the national conference
Continental Social Action Coordinator (C*SAC)
Have been defining their roll
Working
on a system where there would be chapters where district SAC’s organize the
local SAC’s
Sean- made some great connections at GA
Both- YSJC pre site was good
SAC-Pack is going to be done by YSJC
The first Regional YSJC is going to be in CMWD
Post High Transitional Age Range Representative (TARR)
Created a questionnaire to find out the needs of 18-22
5
sets of questions
Received 5 questioners back
Need to
have more transitioning
Re-think AR/AO programming
Junior High TARR
Clarification of position
From Heartland
Create a resource for junior high events
Help start junior high work in your district
Tried to have a JH welcoming circle at GA did not go so
well
Working Action Manager (WAM)
Education Reform and Multiculturalism
YSJC-Inner City Struggle did a great job
At GA did a lot of networking
Met
William Upskie Wimsatt
The SWAT PoAT is amazing
Education
reform
Un
schooling
Super Working Action Team (SWAT)
Working
on education reform and multiculturalism
Challenging- not many people know about the SWAT POT
Need a congregation to support the issue
Lifespan Learning (Canada)
Established a Youth advisory group
4 Reigns
Building Communication
Grateful for the YFUUD grant
Tim and Jessie went to the Conference
Sylvia made Tim an official CUC member Gave him a pin
Had SDC’s and LDC’s
UUA Youth Programs Director
We
got 30,000 dollars for Youth Advisor Hand Book and Youth group Hand Book (will
be printing soon)
Youth
advisor handbook has been re-printed
5 steps on how to higher a paid
youth advisor
Youth
group handbook will be coming out before GA 2005
Go
to the web site for great resources
Youth
office is with the Life Span faith development
Coming of age resource
Poetry resource to spared poetry
(social justice, etc.)
Talk to youth office about your ideas for new resources
Jesse is nervous because
Bill and Nada are watching
Jesse talks about budget
UUA (filled with nice people who need to be paid)
APF annual Program Fund (your church gives money to UUA)
Friends of the UUA- fund raising effort (on line you can
find out how to donate)
Just did a capital campaign that raised 35.2 million
UUA endowment
And large gifts
Talk to your parents about giving to youth programming
Story
time with Jesse (oh I love story time with Jessie)
Youth can pledge also
If your family have means talk about making a large gift
Youth Office
Money
Operating
budget
Capital campaign (bucket with money
in it and can use it for special Projects)
(not a real bucket)
YRUU
Money
(Can be used for scholarships, etc.)
Gets
money through events (Youth caucus, Con Con, etc.)
YRUU
checking account (small scale fund raising)
T-shirt
from GA
Are
we going to get back our 3 YPS? No time
soon
Capital Campaign
Used
money to support DRUUMM and youth and young adults of color
ARTOP
(Jason found an out side source from the UU Sunday School Society)
Utilizing
volenters to help get their work done
Also summer interns
In
the upcoming year
Keep
funding DRUUMM
Resource
development
Staff
Megan
and Jason were AMAZING
They did
so much and started so many new things
Nada Speaks
Worked with LRY (back in the day)
Why we had common ground
Myths
of LRY and its falling
There
was stress between adults and youth
The
scapegoat period; if there were any problems they were blamed on youth
The
youth thought that if you gave the youth all the money it would all be ok
Adults
checking out (not showing up)
The
Truth of LRY
Adults
were getting frustrated with the direction
There
were adults who were doing youth empowerment
Local
groups were in disarray
Youth
were doing organizing
Lots of things political and social justice
in the country
Adults
did show some times and they were shut down
Yes
there may have been nudity
Did
not have any formal training for advisors
Concuss shuts people up
Anti Racism
Defining Racism
Development of us racism
Institutional racism
Internalized racism
Allies
Evaluations
Siri does a reading
Common analysis
Picture
of person
It’s a
woman
Putting
down seeds
Child/youth
Pollution
Hope
Dark
ness falling on her
Comment about how people
assumed it was a woman
Next
picture
No
smoking
Racism = racial prejudice
+ institutional power
Development of U.S. Racism
Genocide- the
violence/intentional killing of people and a culture
Genocide
Japanese concentration
camps- during WWII took Japanese
Christopher Columbus
coming to America- landed in to the Caribbean and
Taking of children of
first nations taking and putting them in schools not teaching their native
langue
The sterilization of
women of color
Enslavement and slave labor
The abuse of Chinese
labor building labor
Prison/drug laws and how
they target people of color
The Patriot Act- putting
people of Arab decent in jail for no reason
Theft of land and resources
Manifest destiny-
Europeans puritans coming and spreading gods
will that they span from cotenant
to
save the native people from them self
Trail of tears- moving the native peoples away from their
land
The first time white came up referring to
people
-You could vote if you owned land
-You had a choice
-It also has manifested its self in other countries and
the colonization of them
White
The term white (people)
was created by Virginia Slave owners and colonial rulers in the (7th
century) it replaced terms like “Christians” and “Englishmen” to distinguish
European colonists from African and indigenous peoples. European colonial powers established
“whites” as a legal concept after Bacon’s rebellion in 1676 during which
indentured servants of European and African descent had united against the
colonial elite. The legal distinction
of “white” separated
The term People of Color
People of color in the
U.S. share the common experience of being targeted and oppressed by
racism. Unfortunately one of the ways
racism operates is to keep People of Color divided. Many people only think about their specific ethnic racial group
when discussing oppression or the need to keep political power. By using the term people of color, we begin
to push people to think more broadly.
We need to build relationships with other groups of color the term
people of color has movement building potential.
Western States Center
(Not a black white issue)
Universalizing White Experience
When “white” is presented
as standard/normal/good, people with white privilege internalize this
superiority and sense of being “normal”, viewing the world through that
lens. Images of leadership, beauty,
“average Americans” in institutions like schools, the media and popular
culture; presentations of history that foreground white figures and their
influence; and other ways in which whiteness is made central led to an
institutionalized standard of experience.
This phenomenon is often invisible to those who experience. This
phenomenon is often invisible to those who experience and protesting are the
right/best/only ways.”
Deracialization
Deracialization is to
remove an issue from its context, treating it in a way that does not recognize
the impact of racism or that reduces the propriety of directly challenging
those impacts. Deracialization an issue
restricts the self-determination of the people who are most impacted by that
issue to be defining their won struggle.
In a white supremacist society, all issues intersect with racism; the
privilege to reframe an issue with out understanding the impact of race is not
available.
Blinded by the White
Reinforced by
deracialized politics, this is a blindness of white activists to seeing and
understanding resistance coming from communities of color. 500+years of liberation struggles on this
continent have been led by people of color, from colonization on through
today. The backwards idea of
“recruiting” people of color into “the” movement, defined as white radical
struggle, ignores this historical and contemporary reality. Instead of “recruiting” people of color into
majority white organizations in an attempt to “diversify”, white social justice
activist can focus on participating in anti-racist struggle.
Contradictory Resistance
Non-ruling class white
people caught in the intersection of experiencing privilege and also
oppression, and so their resistance often expresses this contradiction:
protesting that which oppresses while fighting to maintain privilege. Along racial lines, this often has
maintained privilege. Along racial
lines, this often has manifested as white activists sacrificing long-term
strength and the goals of activists of color, in order to win short-term gains
for their own agenda. The resulting
dynamic has historically shattered the potential of various multiracial
movements, which were making real progress toward radical social change.
These definitions are
used by Anti-Racism for Global Justice,
a project of the Challenging White Supremacy Workshop.
Plenary#3
YPS reports
Jason:
·
-Hey I’m September.
YPS
·
-We lost January YPS.
So each YPS has more work
·
-Anti-Racism Identity
Development (ARID) resource group includes design team, Anti-Racism
Trainer-Organizer Program (ARTOP), Youth Office
·
-Been working with the
design team
·
-We don’t have enough
money to do AR…SCARY!!
·
-The money just isn’t
there
·
-Please keep talking
about how to raise that money
·
-Trying to network
with YA
·
Lot of recent AR STUFF
HAS BEEN YAYA
·
-Been working with
Laurel in the Office of Young Adult and Campus Ministry; Petra is Laurel’s
replacement.
·
-We been working with
our strong adult allies
·
-We need to keep UUA
accountable to AR work
·
-GA went well, it was
huge
·
Sheraton letter said
awful things that aren’t all that true but been working with the GA Planning
Committee and Revisioning Taskforce to change the bad things
·
-We also been trying
to do more drug and alcohol awareness so we don’t develop leaders into this
addiction problems
·
-SATUURDAY was cool,
·
-Didn’t do local
support, we don’t have the structure for it
·
-No new leadership
coming up
·
-There also needs to
be more two-way relationships
Betty Jeanne
·
-Had an exciting start
·
-Went to GA; GA staff
was awesome
·
-Impressed with id
groups
·
-SATUURDAY awesome
looking forward to continuing working on queer caucus
·
-For SATUURDAY has a
great interim group to keep momentum going and finding new youth leadership for
SATUURDAY
·
-Big event YSJC, good
pre-site, this year will connect a lot more with faith
·
-Working toward regional
YSJC to empower more local and regional leadership to take over
·
-Trainings…. every
year training or trainers people who go will be sent out to work on helping
local/district youth to develop leadership skills
·
-Shout out to Nan
Moore for doing amazing work on trainings
·
-AR being apart of AR
working group, hard because of lack of funding
·
-Excited about
fundraising for AR programming
·
-Excited about
supporting DRUUMM and white allies
·
-Working with interns
on synapse theme is anti-racism
·
-Thrilled about BOT
here at youth council encourages people to talk to them about important
concerns
·
-Jason in for a few
weeks call him and say hi!!!!!!!
·
-Call Betty Jeanne and
say HEY really inspired by all of us people at youth council
SINKFORD SPEAKS!!!!!
·
-Thanks for welcoming
him back to YC
·
-Truly blessed with
people serving as YPSs gives thanks to them
·
-In an effort to make
a better communication path agrees that YPS and bill would meet so that he
could get a person sense of what’s going on with YRUU
·
-Came into UUism
through LRY, culture with YRUU and LRY connect
·
-Lots of hair colors
in YRUU….hehe
·
-Likes the openness
that UUism gives to youth
·
-Likes how it has felt
friendly to some but unfriendly to others and the dynamic and strength of YRUU
and culture works for many but has not worked for all. Common Ground 3 (CG3)
might help to fix this dilemma
·
-CG1 AND 2 different
from the situation today with YRUU
·
-YRUU is healthy doing
positive things and leadership for AR/AO is out passing the adult community
·
-Because situation is
different sees CG3 as a way to continue strength and that it will help us take
steps forward to strengthen youth and adult relations
·
-For cg3 to happen
planning for it need to happen very soon
·
-Funding needs to be
from a variety for sources
·
-Imagination calls for
planning team, which is largely represented to do the work
·
-Requires us all to
say we trust planning committee to do the best job that they can on CG3 so that
we can do good work
·
-Thinks it’s a big
opportunity for strength to be built
·
-Youth programming
very good at GA
·
-GA this year a pivot
point for UUism made worship central for the whole community
·
-Important change was
the presence of congregational-based community work
·
-Covenant groups at GA
these groups changing the way we do religious intimacy
·
-How to get adults and
youth to stay UU
·
-4th
important thing that happened at GA for the first time made intentional effort
to get congregational presidents to GA not just members/ GA junkies
·
-GA this year very big
pivot point, moving ahead with building better community
·
-Happy to be here!
Questions asked to Bill
What if people aren’t a part of one congregation what do they do?
Bill replies- if they belong to CLF we help
to connect them with the larger community
We are 1st generation with principles how do you think leadership will change in the uua?
Bill replies-wants us to look at religious
language ethical to a fault but don’t contain religious language believes that
principles have grounded much of the work we have done on AR and economical
justice. How it will play out he doesn’t know
Heard him say CG3 is next summer or is it going to be GA 2006?
Bill replies -it will be
GA 2006 active conversation with board on cg3, BOARD EXCITED about it.
What kind of work does uua do to support queer youth do they support SATUURDAY?
Huge support of marriage
initiative. Couldn’t have stronger
support for queer youth. Not institutional support for SATUURDAY but supports
the idea of it
Can you further explain changing the language of reverence?
As long as we don’t have
a language and practice of reverence we need to recognize that we don’t walk
alone and participate with something larger than ourselves thinks we need a
language to practice ways to get deeper spiritual connection. UUs don’t like
talking about power other then our own wants us to understand that there is a
love which has not broken faith with us and we need to open ourselves to it.
What is your definition of youth empowerment?
Hopes cg3 will clearly
define it wants kids and youth to be considered part of the community. Knows some work in uua to increase
leadership positions for youth what are these?
Board and committees
working to have more youth and YA apart of things wants congregations to
understand that youth leadership starts at home fundamental change needs to
start there
Is it true that youth and YA don’t come back after they become adults?
Not in all cases but most
people drift away after a period of time UUs seem to encourage it instead of
work against it
There are challenges in districts/regions. To bring adult advisor trainings how can we help districts/Regions fund this?
-
It’s very easy in this
faith to have a hub and spoke of what UUism is centered on authority. UUA is
really us congregations and groups the way we do outer work I can direct things
to happen but the work that we do is coming together to decide what need to
happen around a cluster of youth work thinks cg3 will help this move forward
END OF SINKFORD SPEAKS,
EVERYBODY CLAPS
Thursday
Anti-racism part III
Part two of the poem
Anti-racism Journey
Being in the red zone
Overwhelmed
Examining why we censor ourselves (why we do it,
Feeling
discouraged)
Transforming
guilt into something else useful
Feeling
like the blame is being placed all the white folks
POC-
feeling like they have to justify every thing that they say having to do with
AR wok
POC-
having to censor self to white people so they don’t feel bad and feeling
tokenized
People are feeling uncomfortable
S.S. YRUU
Personal Racism
Most of what’s labeled” racism” on TV-land in news
media is acts of personal racism- one person acting out their racial
prejudice. If we accept that Personal
Racism
Institutional racism
Education system -imprisoning of so many People of Color -“Justice” system -stricter laws on crack than cocaine -People of Color being paid less for the same work as white people -poverty
Cultural Racism
“Flesh” Color Band-Aids -white
is norm –all white models in
stores and advertising –airplane
emergency pamphlet people are white -people
of color playing stereotypical rolls in movies and TV shows
-color and how it relates to what good and what’s bad -mascots for schools and how the are
taking from different cultures -comic books and super heroes -over sexulizaition of Asian woman - cultural misappropriation/theft
Cultural Misappropriation
(what does to it feel like if this happened)
-Changing the meaning
-Violated
-Taking away community
-Create association
-Destroying shared meaning
-Issue of respect
-It
can be hard
Most of the time when
people are oppressed they can see it and those who are not oppressed do not see
it because they have the ability to ignore what is going on
PLENARY 4 with Bill Sinkford
·
Overview of Consensus
and lead into the discussion of the proposal for Common Ground III to happen
o Question to the Board folks about how they intend to
work with youth to help them feel empowered.
Answer from Bill Sinkford in addressing the power dynamics that exist
hopes that the youth and adults could work together.
o Lots of great ideas came out of Long Range Planning
meeting but nothing came out of that and CG III needs to be sure that does not
happen.
o Question about the planning groups structure. Answer from Laura Manning includes a
direction to look at the letter that precedes the resolution.
o Bill expands on the idea that there are areas to
work on to address power dynamics that might come up
o What are we trying to change?
o When people were going around in their reports there
are lots of the same problems around communication and adult support. The current structure of Steering Committee
and Youth Council do not meet the needs of all the youth in UUism. Plus we haven’t revisioned YRUU in 20 years.
o Where did this all come from in the first
place? Are the problems consistent from
year to year?
o The By-laws are really out of touch with what we’re
working on now and the way to change the by-laws takes a long time and since we
often don’t follow the By-laws they seem to be useless.
o The idea behind Common Ground III is about getting
youth who aren’t involved in the conversation at all to come together. The youth who don’t come to Youth Council
and aren’t involved but are part of our denomination.
o Calling this a Common Ground meeting is in some ways
a disrespect to the first Common Grounds.
We’re not exactly working to come to a Common Ground as everyone wants
to expand YRUUs constituencies
o How are we going to get the results of Common Ground
III back to the districts? There are
often people in power who feel threatened by YRUU and whatever structure is in
existence.
o This is not a visioning meeting; it’s a revisioning
meeting. How does this get out to
everyone, including affiliated YRUU groups?
How do we make sure this is not just a continental change?
o Some congregations will probably jump right on board
with what comes from Common ground III and others will not, very similarly to
AR/AO work in the Association. Plus the
support from Boston UUA is really helpful.
o Common Ground 1 and 2 dissolved one organization to
form a new one and we may want to change the language if that’s not what we’re
looking to do. It doesn’t seem that
important to revision on a continental level to change the district
problems. When there are strong
outreach projects in districts more youth might come to continental events and
then revisioning may be needed. If CG
III happens and things change the way other groups have to work is this body
being accountable to those constituents?
o CG III resembles a meeting that happened in Florida
from which some believe nothing came out of it.
o Common Ground could be so huge and will encourage
all those churches and congregations that have been trying to change things to
actually do that.
o Common Ground is about drawing out inactive youth
and if this meeting happens and these youth come at all then already there is a
start in change because more people are getting involved.
o If local participation is what is desired maybe what
would be helpful is to have cluster conversations before we try to do a
top/bottom approach.
o If Common Ground III decides things is everything
then going to have to go by Youth Council?
It seems that it would make sense to do things that way.
o Estimated cost???
o A thought is that decisions could be passed at CGIII
and that would be good enough
o There is a lot that needs to happen for change to
happen and this meeting might make sense but called something different.
o How do we deal with the concerns that are really
different in districts? It’s really
disempowering to youth to hear that congregations need to hear it from the UUA
to make changes and that the voice of youth isn’t respected enough.
o Bill’s goal for CGIII is to have a BIG conversation
about youth ministry and being sure to include youth involved in congregational
ministry, district ministry, and YRUU.
This is not just about the structure of YRUU but also about having a BIG
conversation about meeting the needs of ALL our UU youth. Too many UU congregations are not willing to
be in relationship with YRUU in district or continental levels and that’s
distressing. At each step along the way
we need to model the change we’re looking for which means authorizing the
leadership of the planning committee to take the leadership needed. This will be VERY expensive but Bill is
committed to finding the money.
o How many folks will be at Common Ground?
o Thoughts that the planning committees will make the
decisions about how many folks are at Common Ground.
o We’re talking about this at a level of happening and
not leaving room for us to say “no” to this.
o What happened to the Long Range Planning
Meeting? Why aren’t we implementing
some of the ideas that came from that meeting?
We’ve already started this discussion and we need to have some of these
ideas explored before CGIII happens
o The Long Range Planning Meeting came up with the
idea that there were more people needed to have the revisioning discussion
o The rubber stamp from Bill Sinkford and Steering
Committee makes it very difficult to say no and not feel bad.
o The UUA is trying to improve relations with YRUU and
this is a step towards that
o Maybe we could bring this back to our
districts/Regions
o There is a survey and that brings up a lot of the
concerns that people have
o How can we ask youth who are not involved in YRUU to
revision things if they haven’t even tried our YRUU?
o There are many people who feel alienated by YRUU and
many people have ideas on how we can change things to better meet their needs.
o Slightly under 400 people is not enough to get an
answer to this survey
Plenary
5
It’s a resolution party
plenary baby (Jason sings)
Meggie goes over
consensus and how we are going to go through this whole process.
“It
ain’t just about marriage!”
·
INTERWEAVE, the UUA
affiliated organization for queer folks and allies, is not an acronym even
though it is capitalized in the resolution
·
Concerns brought up
about unpacked acronyms, lack of inclusion of Canadian inclusive language, use
of the term heterosexual instead of straight
Call for consensus:
resolution passed with 4 amendments
·
Change “districts”
to “Districts/Regions”
·
Unpack “SATUURDAY”
to read “Sexually Accepting Teenage Unitarian Universalists Respecting
Diversity Among Youth”
·
Change “INTERWEAVE”
to “Interweave” as it is not an acronym
·
Change the word
“straight” in Long Term Goals to “heterosexual”
“Making
Education Reform and Multiculturalism Long-Term Working Action Issue (WAI)
of YRUU”
·
“Short Term” Goals
needs to be changed to “short-term” goals
·
“District” needs to be
changed to “Regions/District”
·
Third bullet under
long-term goals, which reads, “to revolutionize the purpose of education…”
·
Under “How will this
further the greater denomination and the world?” there is concern with the
sentence that reads, “Further the focus on multiculturalism…”
·
“Organizations/Books”
should just read “Organizations”
·
Need specification on
the letter writing piece about the
Betty Jeanne ate the
silly putty instead of gum, folks laugh in a very distracting way.
·
The youth office needs
to be sure not to change definitions of words when doing grammar and spelling
·
Change “Bell Hooks” to
“bell hooks”
·
Add something about
the WAM working with Canadian structure
Resolve the Concerns:
·
Third bullet under
long-term goals which reads “to revolutionize the purpose of education…” could
be changed to “to revolutionize the purpose of schooling in the US and Canada”
·
WAM and C*SACs will
each write two letters: one to Steering
Committee and one to Youth Council
·
Add under short-term
goals something about collaborating with Canadian leadership
·
Under short-term goal
change “inform” to “work with”
·
Strike the sentence
that starts with “Further the focus on multiculturalism…”
·
“Organizations/Books”
should just read “Organizations”
·
Change “Lie My Teacher
Told Me” to “Lies…”
Call for consensus: it
passes!
·
Spell Dylan Uscher’s
name correctly, please
·
Where will we get the
money for District/Regional TAR Program Consultants, or for developing a new
COA resource?
·
We need to get buy-in
from C*UUYAN about this or the ball we be dropped on their end.
·
Why do we mention jr.
high resources in the resolution? Should be post-high only.
·
Isn’t a lot of
post-high programming up to individual congregations, rather than Youth
Council?
·
In terms of resources,
aren’t there lots of resources already available? Do we need another one, is
that effective? There seems to be a lot of overlap of resources or resources
that are out there, but not being utilized.
·
Based on a lot of the
YCR reports, it doesn’t seem that YCRs can take on a project like this.
·
The resolution doesn’t
bind YCR’s to the resolution in general – instead it’s showing Dylan, Greg, and
Nora’s commitment which is awesome.
·
Would like to replace
“guru” with “specialist” or “expert”.
Cosmic Trucker Butler
taught Annie all about consensus at GA, holler.
·
Don’t think the Youth
Office has the time or $ to do all of this, and it’s not their job. Should be
Lifespan Faith Development and C*UUYAN
Resolving Concerns:
·
As far as $ is
concerned, Nora will help seek out funding in the form of a grant. Also, it’s a
long-term goal so we don’t need the answers yet. Right now, there is a commitment
to searching for money.
·
Add an amendment about
being in conversation with C*UUYAN during this whole process. Put this in the
short-term goals.
·
Change “junior high”
to “senior high” in local and district/regional resources.
·
List resources already
available from C*UUYAN, LFD, etc. and utilize these.
·
Remove “guru”.
·
Add an amendment about
YRUU (not Youth Office) needing to ask for support from C*UUYAN and Lifespan
Faith Development to develop resources, particularly financial support. (Need
to decide where to add this amendment.)
·
Change the hyphen in
16-22 to n-dash.
Call for consensus:
One person stands aside with no listed concerns. Resolution passes!
Resolution
to Establish a Joint YRUU-C*UUYAN Anti-Racism Transformation Team
·
As far as requirements
for selection of Transformation Team (TT), i.e. “some members” and “majority”
having AR or organizing experience, this is a decision of the Design Team (DT)
– they will decide the specifics around how members are chosen.
·
CUC isn’t mentioned in
any part of this except potentially asking CUC for $ to have a paid staff
position. CUC needs to be a part of this beyond just YRUU and C*UUYAN.
·
The proposal isn’t
consistent about whether the TT is working on AR/AO and multiculturalism, or
just AR.
·
Should provide a
gender-neutral pronoun in the Accountability section.
·
CUC needs to be in
relationship with TT, but other organizations as well, i.e. LUUNA. But probably
many others as well!
In keeping with Youth
Council tradition, Betty Jeanne puts silly putty in Kyle’s hair. It doesn’t
stay because his hair is way too gelled.
Resolving Concerns:
·
Recommendation to the
TT/DT that in the TT/DT mission statement, add something about outreach to
other orgs like CUC, LUUNA, etc.
·
In regards to CUC
specifically, TT/DT realizes that the goal of having a paid staff position,
both with UUA and CUC, is a long-term goal, which will require intentional
outreach and accountability between TT/DT and these organizations.
·
Recommendation to
TT/DT to name as many stakeholders as currently known.
All these
recommendations to the DT/TT about CUC and other stuff should be typed up as an
amendment to the resolution.
·
Change “s/he” to be
more inclusive of folks who identify outside of a gender binary system. In
order to do this Youth Office will provide space for input and dialogue around
how to best achieve this. For now, “ze/she/he” will be used.
The stuff about
dialogue around gender inclusive language goes for everything YRUU/Youth Office
does, not just this resolution. A related suggestion was making an YC
resolution for next year that would institutionalize gender inclusive language.
·
In anti-racism
history, specify that AAUUM and LUUNA came together to form DRUUMM. It is
important to make sure this change happens so that the history will be
accurate.
·
Write a letter to
recommend to TT/DT that they clarify whether their work is around AR or AR/AO
or AR/AO/MC. The title of the Transformation Team as an AR TT differs from
their mission which refers to AR/AO rather than AR. One person stands aside.
Call for consensus:
four people stand aside. One person standing aside notes that the process has
broken down and the way this conversation has been going has broken down
community. It passes.
SATURDAY, August 7, 2004
SC elections:
Let it be noted that we
need to have a better understanding of the process around POCAC elections and
how they relate to at-large SC elections. This is highly undefined and has
happened in different ways in the past.
Let it also be noted that
there is no definition with whether 14-16 reps, etc. have to be within the age
range at the time of election or during their entire term.
And the new SC at-larges
are Siri, Nora, Greg, Jennifer, Laurel, and Heather. The POCC reports back
that the PoCAC members will be Jova and Lehna. While the POCC has decided
to adopt a two-year position on PoCAC as well (see
YC resolution on Steering Committee Continuity), that position has not
been filled as of yet and a process will be developed around that. Sean Jones
is the new DRUUMM YaYA rep from YRUU.
Resolution: In the Spirit of Canada
·
$1 extra should be
optional, only if able.
·
Bullet added to
acknowledge classism inherent in the lack of funding for AR and the need to ask
youth for this money as opposed to other sources
·
Need for a sliding
scale: $1-$2 option
·
How well will this
actually get followed through on? A lot of districts won’t pick it up or may
drop the ball after a while
·
There is a need to
organize within individual congregations to raise $ for AR.
Resolving Concerns:
·
Adjust “$1 for every
conference” to “roughly one dollar per conference attendee” and leave the
specifics to each district/region.
Specifics on this
language are written out in the steps to achieve section. Should read: “Ask
districts and regions for roughly one additional dollar for each attendee to
their youth conferences, leaving specific methods of fundraisers to each
district/region.
·
Add an amendment about
other options for districts/regions, such as simply taking one dollar out
of conference fees, rather than adding a dollar to the registration fee.
·
Change word “continual”
to “continental” in long term goals
·
Change word “national”
to “continental” in long term goals
·
Add language in an
amendment around encouraging local congregations and youth groups to fundraise
for YaYA AR work as well.
·
Add amendment around
classism: “We acknowledge the fact that any monetary requests systematically
perpetuate classism, how ever, actively challenge racism oppressions and
prejudice that we ask for support of this resolution.
Call for consensus:
one person stands aside. Reason noted is that it might be more effective to
take this to the UUA Board of Trustees Finance Committee instead. The
resolution passes!!
YRUU’s
Commitment to Involvement with the Paper Campaign
·
Need to change the US
and American to USA or some other more accountable language to be inclusive
·
Man, woman and child
should be changed to person
·
“The” foundation to
“a” foundation
·
Repeating sentences
·
Don’t list the
companies
Resolving Concerns:
·
Need to change all
“US” references to “US of A”
·
Questions about
whether or not “Corporate America” is the appropriate term to be used in this
resolution can be addressed by the writers and the paper campaign folks
·
Man woman and child is
changed to person
·
Changing “The”
Foundation to “a” foundation
·
Deleting the repeating
bullet points
·
Listing the
corporations but changing it to “Certain corporations”
Resolution
to Establish A Reading Panel for the Selection of Youth Trustee
·
Need to explicitly
state that consensus should be used to decide which candidate to recommend.
Resolve Concerns:
·
Add a statement in the
resolution about how consensus must be used to decide which candidate to
recommend.
·
Add a note on the
actual resolution that two people were not in attendance when the resolution
was passed.
Call for consensus:
two people were absent from the plenary. No stand-asides. Resolution passes.
YFUUD Report: Did
lots of work and awarded the following:
·
Drug Use/Abuse grant -
$1000.00
·
DRUUMM Youth and Young
Adult and POCC meeting $1000.00
·
BAGSLY - $500.00
·
Transformation Team -
$2000.00
·
Interfaith (Uncommon)
– $500.00
·
Chaplain Training -
$1000.00
Consensus
Common
Ground III: Can we just change
the world already?
Concerns:
·
Planning Committee –
selection, who will be in it, youth/adult ratio, youth empowerment
·
How it will be
accountable to youth and how the people attending CGIII will be chosen
·
Purpose of CGIII, who
YRUU serves and what is youth ministry
·
After CG III don’t
want what happened to LRP to happen to this
·
Concerns about the
name, it’s not appropriate for this event
·
Grammar
·
Before CGIII got to
get buy in and get people interested
·
Want involvement of
LRP in the creation of the CG III
·
Date and the length of
the actual event
·
Is there an
alternative
·
Bill’s role
·
Role of relationship
with BOT
·
Somewhere it should be
noted that it was originally proposed by the youth, youth ownership of Common
Ground.
·
Doesn’t need to happen
·
Next steps and
implementation
Resolving the Concerns:
·
Does it or doesn’t
it need to happen? Is there an
alternative – Want to have this
because the UUA is supporting this and this is a good chance to work with them.
o At first feelings of pressure to vote for this but
thinking about local district makes it seem important
o Heather, the adult, strongly encourages it and
thinks that the community needs to deal with issues
o The pressure from the UUA about this models exactly
the relationships that are a problem in YRUU and this should be done
o This is not just about youth in YRUU but also about
youth ministry in all of our UU community.
This is about revising youth ministry as well as revising YRUU.
o It’s part of what UUism is. There is constant institutional evolution in
order to represent the current status of UUism.
o The Long Range Plan needs to be implemented. We already did this revisioning
o In terms of YRUU there are a ton of churches and
youth on a local and district level that are not involved and thus Youth
ministry even in YRUU is not fully represented
o CG III needs to deal with larger issues that were
not thought of at the LRP
o The LRP report describes a process similar to CG III
as a next step
o The presentation of the resolution was not done in
an accountable way to youth on the local, district, and even continental
level. It appears that there is a lot
of politics, money, and other issues coming into the reason behind the
motivation for this.
o Can’t agree to something that has the aura of simply
needing the stamp from Youth Council but that it is already backed by the
institution
o Either implement the entire LRP or none of it at
all.
o Not enough buy-in from the constituents about
whether or not CG should happen
o This does not seem to be just an evaluation, but a
complete restructure of YRUU
o A large part of Bill’s commitment to the presidency
included working and revisioning with YRUU
o CG will help build on the youth/ adult relationship
issues that are going on in YRUU
o This is an opportunity
o It is concerning that many times questions about the
history of this resolution
o This could be a good chance to really revision
o We’re not being accountable to all of our
constituencies and that’s the need for CGIII
o We sure could use some money to make YRUU a better
organization and CG III could do that.
o There are lots of problems in YRUU that need to be
addressed. We’re not meeting the needs
of all youth in our organization and key stakeholders in the UUA are supporting
this work. YCRs were supposed to bring
this back to everyone last year and it didn’t happen. There are big cracks in this organization and CG is the best way
to revision these cracks.
o Can’t represent district well enough on this issue
o Long Range Planning is not a tool and is instead
something that we need to follow through on and implement.
o Blocking Consensus may be about devaluing the LRP
and the LRP could be heavily incorporated CG3
o
·
What the purpose is,
including who YRUU serves and what needs to be fixed if anything at all does
·
LRP, Involvement of
LRP results and ideas
o Commitment on LRP from the UUA and they have said
that they are financially committed to CG3, need financial support on LRP to
move forward with the LRP and maybe not CG3
o Honors LRP work but that LRP is hopes and dreams.
Not a long range plan, more a set of dreams and wishes
o Sounds like CG3 came out of the LRP
o Maybe 40 people isn’t enough
o LRP was almost 50/50 (adult/youth) and maybe that
was too much adult involvement
o Has issues with empowering or supporting a idea that
doesn’t come out of our constituency basis, SC resolution not youth council
o Clarification- 3 youth: 1adult
o Unclear why the UUA would not be willing to fund
some other way to “revision” YRUU
o Discussion on funding for CG3 (yes) but is there
funding for what is after CG3 (funding has not been talked about because UUA
doesn’t know what is going to come out of it)
o People have expressed that they wanted LRP
implemented instead of YRUU
o UUA not sure what is going to come out of CG3 so
they don’t know about funding
o Thinking about cost but something else to consider
is how much money is realistic
o If CG3 is held with the funding has been promised to
CG3 and if we come out with the same things as the LRP that’s a whole lot of
money
o Add amendment to say that LRP would be a guiding
force for the decisions that they made at the CG3 in planning process and on
site
o How is the LRP mutually exclusive from CG3
o LRP was not an accountable group to YRUU
o Resolution that formed LRP maybe should be looked at
o LRP wasn’t involving Non-YRUU people
o CG3 is part of evaluation that came out of the LRP
(page 14 LRP document)
Discussion of whether or
not the inclusion of LRP results as a part of CGIII is resolvable
Proposed Implementation
of the LRP of have CGIII
Proposed Amendments to
the Amendment
·
That LRP is a guiding
force for CGIII and that CGIII is an LRP suggestion
·
Decision making within
CGIII should coincide with the results of the LRP
·
With the exception of
the goal which would hold a CGIII to keep the amendment the same
A POCC member has a
problem with the current process of decision-making
Answer to above proposed
amendments
Putting parts of LRP into
CGIII makes it more viable for the UUA
Discussion
·
The question of many
people uninvolved with YRUU will continue to grow
·
Possible inpass
because of: lack of information, not listening, not knowing how to “deal” with
LRP, sleep deprivation
·
Before we can call for
consensus, we have to touch all those other concerns, right? There are lots of
irresolvable concerns out there.
·
Need to remember
Jazmin’s suggestion to name any unresolved concerns currently out there.
·
Issues going around
and around in circles means they’re irresolvable. But not sure that is the
basis to call for a block.
·
Need to name
irresolvable concerns right away. There is an irresolvable concern.
Irresolvable concern that would block consensus must state principle concern.
·
Principle concern is
that YRUU has other options instead of CG3, i.e. the LRP, which was ratified by
YC 2001 and is more representative to our constituencies than the present CG3
resolution.
·
Don’t have the
information needed at hand right now to proceed with this. Namely, don’t know
what the LRP resolution says about implementation, etc.
·
LRP implementation
couldn’t be carried out fully due to lack of funding. Would like to note that
yesterday’s UUniTARP resolution resembles one of the LRP recommendations.
·
Need to call for consensus immediately, there is an irresolvable concern.
·
Folks are raising
voices; community is unhealthy, need to look at that, not in a good place right
now.
·
This entire process
has been corrupted by personal agendas and opinions that did not change on all
sides of the issue. This whole thing is disgusting right now that we’ve been
here for hours, saddening that folks in support of CG3 now prefer a committee,
and the resolution can’t be passed.
·
General statement
about the resolution: if folks right now weren’t solved by current youth
ministry, the resolution wouldn’t be in front of us. People are putting too
much of their personal experience into this. There are obviously UUs that are
not being served by the youth ministry structure.
·
New irresolvable
concern for the community: problem with accountability. Struggling with it, but
it cannot be resolved.
·
Sending it to
committee is not an easy answer, need to decide who’s going to be on it, how
they’re accountable, how they will report back, etc. There will be a lot of
decisions made about this committee because this can’t just be sent away and
not dealt with.
·
Lots of concerns
brought up about this community not being healthy, needing personal care, lots
of dynamics have been brought up. It’s important not to disregard these things
as we continue.
·
As SC member, it is
important to note that SC and BOT have been struggling to form a relationship.
Bill and BOT is hugely in support of CG3 – can they go ahead and do CG3 even
without the passing of this resolution by YC? Answer: yes, the Board and Bill
have the authority to review any structure in the Association, including youth
ministry. Difficult to review youth ministry without the buy-in of the youth,
but Board will nonetheless take responsibility needed to review youth ministry.
·
Necessary to now move
this forward and call for consensus. Call for consensus: ten stand asides,
three blocks.
Reasons for stand asides:
we didn’t address all of the concerns listed. Can’t support CG3 without
addressing all of the concerns. Still confused as to why we even need a CG3, we
already had LRP. Feel very strongly to pass CG3 but that seems to block
consensus, and this resolution wouldn’t have been brought up if everyone in UU
youth ministries was being served. During this process people have not
listened, not represented constituencies, have gone off topic and been led off
topic. This CG3 can happen whether we buy into it or not, feel lonely here
about that. Mental capacity is not allowing to pay attention long enough to
understand what is being said. Need self-care and can’t pass this without going
through all the concerns. We can’t possibly solve this without sending it to
committee. Can’t agree with resolution as it stands.
Irresolvable concerns:
Feel that we would have better
accountability for our constituents under the precedent set by LRP; since we
don’t have resolution in front of us there’s lots of information missing.
Really disheartened by the fact that Bill came out here to build a relationship
and made it clear that this wouldn’t necessarily pass but that YC must come to
consensus on this resolution before any more steps can be taken; see too much
conflict. Seems like a problem of youth empowerment vs. youth entitlement.
Clarification:
Lyn said the Board can do this without youth buy-in, but won’t
necessarily do that.
Suggestion:
YRUU evaluates its decision process. Thank you so much for staying at the
table, it means so much, this says volumes.
Suggestion:
assume good intentions on both sides of Board and YRUU.
Question:
if this doesn’t pass, will Board look into any of the concerns listed here if
they choose to evaluate youth ministry anyway?
Answer:
The entire Board will get Lyn’s notes, which have times on them. Board will
probably refer this to the Board Working Group.
Concern:
If we don’t pass this the Board still could.
Concern: Hidden agenda from the Steering Committee
through the entire process and that broke down the community. Feelings of being betrayed by people who
were controlling the process. It is
disruptive to the consensus process for this breakdown to exist. If people are so outside of their needs from
self care that they are falling asleep during the process they are not
representing their constituencies and are hurting the consensus process.
Sending the Resolution to Committee:
Proposal: old Steering Committee would get the names
and information from people who are interested specifically from Adults, youth
at large, People of Color Caucus, Youth Council Representatives, New Steering
Committee, and Old Steering Committee