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Upcoming Meetings and Events
Upcoming Events
May 8th - 6-8PM | Working Meeting - Organizing Conversation Training Development (Calendar)
May 22nd - 6-8PM | Working Meeting - Finalize Spinach Strike Presentation (Calendar) (Thread)
May 31st - 10-12PM | The Spinach Strike Teach-In (Calendar) (Thread)
June 21st - 10-12PM | TU - Tenant Union Workshop
Tenant Union Canvassing
May 15th - 5-7PM | Canvassing
May 18th - 10-12PM | Canvassing
May 19th - 5-7PM | Canvassing
June 5th - 5-7PM | Canvassing
June 8th - 10-12PM | Canvassing
June 12th - 5-7PM | Canvassing
Focus Campaigns
Tenant Union Focus Campaign: May-June Plans
Tenant Union Campaign
Canvassing for Tenant Union Outreach
Canvassing will involve dropping off flyers. The dates can be found above and on the calendar.
There are several action items that are still in progress for the Tenant Union FC besides canvassing:
- Finalizing the language for the tenant union flyers that we will be hanging on doors and in public spaces
- Researching the remaining questions about local law in the tenant union handbook
- Finally, planning the actual Tenant Union Workshop itself
Side Quests
Side-Quest Proposal: Endorsing Petition to Protect Street Vendors from City Council Ordinance
@Bozzii posted a side-quest proposal for supporting Steet Vendors against a new ordinance put forward by Stockton City Council. This is in support of the work that @aleiva01 has been doing as well. The proposal is for WCU to endorse a petition and toolkit (linked below). You can read more about it and vote in the thread below.
There is a Stockton Town Hall on this issue TODAY (June 8th) from 6-8PM at Oak Park Senior Center.
The Spinach Strike: When Stockton Workers Declared War on the Bosses
@chima needs to stop fing around and get this uploaded to the website this week.
The final draft of our article and the draft presentation can be found in this thread.
The Spinach Strike Teach-In will be held on May 31.
Union of Unions Outreach
We are planning to do outreach to local unions simply to introduce our organization and our current work. We have collected a list of unions to reach out to. Currently, we need to write out a template email to reach out to unions with, alongside talking points for Members that attend any potential meetings with the union. You can find the list of unions and related discussion here: [Union of Unions Outreach Side-Quest](Union of Unions Outreach Side-Quest)
Submit Feedback for “Whatever Happened to Medicare for All”
We held the Whatever Happened to Medicare for All Townhall last month. For those that attended, please remember to leave your feedback in this thread. If we want to hold more events like this, it will be important to get feedback on how we improve reaching our goals while holding public events like this.
Solidarity-Con
At the previous General Meeting, we voted to continue participating in the Solidarity-Con being hosted by North Central Valley DSA, SJC UCM, and various other partners. The next meeting is on Sunday (5/11) at 6pm. If you would like to attend on behalf of WCU, please reach out to a member of @WCU_Steering
Membership and Education Committees
Membership Survey
@HipGnosis and @Adri_Martinez have put together a Membership Survey asking for feedback on experiences, priorities, and suggestions to help WCU assess our current status and identify areas for improvement and member engagement.
Training on Organizing Conversations
We have been working on developing a short training on how to have organizing conversations. The training is based on the AEIOU framework. The goal of these conversations is to help the person you are speaking with to process their grievances and emotions about an issue, and to collaboratively explore, plan, and commit to collective action to address these issues, while also inoculating against opposition. The goal of the framework is to move the person from a state of inaction/complaining to one of focused, determined, collective action.
This training should be designed to work in various circumstances. It would obviously be useful for our Members, but also my Tenants and Workers who want to organize their buildings and workspaces.
The current progress and discussion can be found here: Short Training on Organizing Conversations.
As a part of the 2025-05-01 General Meeting, we also discussed incorporating “how to have conversations with non-leftists” as a part of this training and incorporate it either as an additional module or as a core part of the training.
Website Updates
- Virtual WCU Calendar Events should now properly include Zoom passwords. I had documented the incorrect code previously. Updated snippet can be found here.
- Hosting has been moved to FlokiNet with a VPS hosted in Iceland for €75.99EUR/month. Iceland was chosen because they are not a part of the 14 Eyes (international intelligence sharing and surveillance) and they do not have mutual legal assistance treaties with other countries to share information to enforce criminal laws. While this does not fully protect us, it does set up a layer of protection from local authorities and a hurdle for federal ones.
- We were running into performance issues initially, especially when trying to host the various services on the same server. But we have upgraded to a 8 core / 12 GB RAM server and things have looked okay so far. We will have to monitor this if we move from Zoom to self-hosted Jitsi.
- We have a Coolify instance that can be reached at coolify.workingclassunity.com . All Steering Committee Members have access through 1Password. If anyone is familiar with hosting/docker, please reach out.
RSVPs
Upcoming Events
May 8th - 6-8PM | Working Meeting - Organizing Conversation Training Development - @Englishpete08 @Kayla_Park @Veewok @Bozzii @HipGnosis
May 22nd - 6-8PM | Working Meeting - Finalize Spinach Strike Presentation - @Turcotte @Englishpete08 @Kayla_Park
May 31st - 10-12PM | The Spinach Strike Teach-In - @Englishpete08 @Veewok @Tanner @Turcotte @Bozzii
June 21st - 10-12PM | TU - Tenant Union Workshop - @Veewok @Englishpete08 @Kayla_Park
Tenant Union Canvassing
May 15th - 5-7PM | Canvassing - @Turcotte @Adri_Martinez @SeanHun
May 18th - 10-12PM | Canvassing - @Kayla_Park @chima @SeanHun
May 19th - 5-7PM | Canvassing - @Turcotte @Bozzii @HipGnosis @SeanHun
June 5th - 5-7PM | Canvassing - @Bozzii @Kayla_Park
June 8th - 10-12PM | Canvassing - @HipGnosis @chima
June 12th - 5-7PM | Canvassing - @HipGnosis @Adri_Martinez