Next Meeting! Sunday Dec 3rd, at 4:00pm

Hello INCITE! Boston sisters,

Our next meeting will be this Sunday December 3rd at 4:00pm at Encuentro5.
Join us and bring your project ideas!

33 Harrison Ave, 5th Floor, Boston, MA 02111
Directions: http://www.encuentro5.org/contact.htm

Proposed agenda:

1) Intros / Announcements
2) Recap / report from INCITE retreat (changes to mission -now 'statement of purpose'-, vision, guidelines for how to treat each other, guidelines for membership)
3) Revisit and assess the work we have done in the past year
- what worked, what didn't, what we liked & want to invest more energy in
4) Where are we now, where to go from here?
- project ideas ( i.e. Women of Color Film / discussion series)
5) Solidifying organizational processes:
- decision-making (explain & fine-tune process discussed at retreat)
- communication (report from retreat, assign tasks)
- decide on procedures for addressing political differences & interpersonal grievances between active members

INCITE meetings are intended to be a safe space for women of color. Allies are warmly invited to work with us, and attend meetings on a pre-arranged basis.
Bring fellow political women of color!
Questions? inciteboston@yahoo.com or call 781-962-1983.

Notes from the November 4th meeting

Agenda topics

1) Purpose and vision (reviewing)

Purpose statement- defines what your work is about Incite Boston is a group of radical womanist /feminist of color committed to building a movement to end violence against women of color in our communities through education, creative expression, critical dialog, grassroots organizing, mobilizing, and direct action. Through this work we are actively engaged in re-imagining a fair and just world and effecting the change towards it.

Vision statement- projects a general work plan

INCITE! is a national, activist organization of radical feminists of color that is mobilizing to end all forms of violence against women of color and our communities. By supporting grassroots organizing, we intend to advance a national movement to nurture the health and well-being of communities of color. Through the efforts of Incite!, women of color and our communities will move closer towards global peace, justice, equality, and liberation. (to be revised)

Womanist/ feminist/ feminist

*Womanist

Coined by Alice Walker

Community, love, motherhood is important. Womanist has a lot of religious connotations.

*Ifeminist- new movement from the right that says that you can be religious and pro-life and a feminist

2) Scheduling meetings

3) Resolving conflict

a. who should be there

b. facilitated by

c. goals

4) Process for conflict resolution

5) Task

6) Email moderators

7) Policy for repeat offenders

8) Phone tree

9) Voting consensus process

10) Formal orientation on consensus process

11)Definition of membership

a.Who is an active member?