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GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY WORC’s Grassroots Democracy Program is the political and civic engagement arm of our region. The Program provides a model for coordination among our member groups for a region-wide network of organizations committed to the goal of ensuring that all of our WESTERN NATIVE VOICE COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: SILVER LITTLE We are excited to share with you Western Native Voice’s Community Spotlight, designed to highlight grassroots organizing and individuals creating change from across Indian Country. This month, we would like to introduce Silver Little Eagle, 23, Northern Cheyenne’s youngest councilwoman. She is the 7th generation of Little Wolf and Woodenleg and a descendant of Humpback Woman and Little Eagle. INVESTIGATION OF RAMACO PRINCIPALS REVEALS SHADY An investigation into the background of the primary individuals behind the proposed Brook Coal Mine and Ramaco Carbon reveal a disturbing history and serve as a cautionary tale for Sheridan County and Wyoming. Ramaco’s principal officers, Charles Atkins who is the director of development for Ramaco Carbon and his brother, RandallAtkins who
THE 10 WORST CHECKOFF PROGRAM ABUSES A checkoff program should: Be paid for, administered by, and to benefit all US cattle producers. Be a $1 per head producer-directed assessment. Be voluntary at the point of sale. Direct funds collected from the program to eligible organizations through a fiduciary clearinghouse as directed by individual payers. FIVE COMMON INTIMIDATION TACTICS PAGE 2 HOW TO DEAL WITH INTIMIDATION 1. DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM IMMEDIATELY Rumors and fear spawned by an opponents’s intimidation tactic can spread rapidly through your group (and your INJECTION WELLS NEAR HOMES RILE RESIDENTS IN COLORADO AND Injection wells near homes rile residents in Colorado and Wyoming. Two injection wells sited near homes, one in Western Colorado, and one in Laramie County, Wyoming, have stirred up controversy in recent weeks. WORC member groups Western Colorado Congress and Powder River Basin Resource Council are working with residents to wage campaigns FRACKING COVER-UP CONTINUES GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION Action Alerts. The degradation of water quality falls in line with a surge in gas development in the Pavillion gas field throughout the 1990’s. Then, in the 2000’s, the density of wells went from one well per 160 acres to four. Currently, the Pavillion gas field has 169 wells. Those wells are drilled into the Wind River Formation, a THE ROLE OF A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER PAGE 2 HOW TO undeRsTand The Role of a communiTy oRganizeR Another role of the organizer is to work with people to define problems and issues, and help them think through the strategies and tactics necessary to act with GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY ORGANIZING IN WESTERN STATES Addressing The Collapse of the Coal Industry. This post was adapted from a fact sheet produced by WORC, Northern Plains Resource Council, Powder River Basin Resource Council, and a collaboration of allied organizations. Subscribe to WORC's blog As coal mines close, there's an urgent need for regulatory action to restore lands and waters. HOW TO RECRUIT CANDIDATES TO RUN FOR OFFICE The first order of business is to make a list of bottom-line issues that your organization feels very strongly and passionately about. You should keep this list front-and-center during the recruitment process because it makes no sense to recruit someone to run for office thatdisagrees with you
GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY WORC’s Grassroots Democracy Program is the political and civic engagement arm of our region. The Program provides a model for coordination among our member groups for a region-wide network of organizations committed to the goal of ensuring that all of our WESTERN NATIVE VOICE COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: SILVER LITTLE We are excited to share with you Western Native Voice’s Community Spotlight, designed to highlight grassroots organizing and individuals creating change from across Indian Country. This month, we would like to introduce Silver Little Eagle, 23, Northern Cheyenne’s youngest councilwoman. She is the 7th generation of Little Wolf and Woodenleg and a descendant of Humpback Woman and Little Eagle. INVESTIGATION OF RAMACO PRINCIPALS REVEALS SHADY An investigation into the background of the primary individuals behind the proposed Brook Coal Mine and Ramaco Carbon reveal a disturbing history and serve as a cautionary tale for Sheridan County and Wyoming. Ramaco’s principal officers, Charles Atkins who is the director of development for Ramaco Carbon and his brother, RandallAtkins who
THE 10 WORST CHECKOFF PROGRAM ABUSES A checkoff program should: Be paid for, administered by, and to benefit all US cattle producers. Be a $1 per head producer-directed assessment. Be voluntary at the point of sale. Direct funds collected from the program to eligible organizations through a fiduciary clearinghouse as directed by individual payers. FIVE COMMON INTIMIDATION TACTICS PAGE 2 HOW TO DEAL WITH INTIMIDATION 1. DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM IMMEDIATELY Rumors and fear spawned by an opponents’s intimidation tactic can spread rapidly through your group (and your INJECTION WELLS NEAR HOMES RILE RESIDENTS IN COLORADO AND Injection wells near homes rile residents in Colorado and Wyoming. Two injection wells sited near homes, one in Western Colorado, and one in Laramie County, Wyoming, have stirred up controversy in recent weeks. WORC member groups Western Colorado Congress and Powder River Basin Resource Council are working with residents to wage campaigns FRACKING COVER-UP CONTINUES GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION Action Alerts. The degradation of water quality falls in line with a surge in gas development in the Pavillion gas field throughout the 1990’s. Then, in the 2000’s, the density of wells went from one well per 160 acres to four. Currently, the Pavillion gas field has 169 wells. Those wells are drilled into the Wind River Formation, a THE ROLE OF A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER PAGE 2 HOW TO undeRsTand The Role of a communiTy oRganizeR Another role of the organizer is to work with people to define problems and issues, and help them think through the strategies and tactics necessary to act with ADDRESSING THE COLLAPSE OF THE COAL INDUSTRY As coal mines close, there’s an urgent need for regulatory action to restore lands and waters.. In just the past few years, coal electricity and corresponding production from mines have been cut in half as utilities switch out aging coal plants with lower-cost renewable energy and natural gas.The coal plants that are still running are running less, and looming compliance obligations for GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY WORC’s Grassroots Democracy Program is the political and civic engagement arm of our region. The Program provides a model for coordination among our member groups for a region-wide network of organizations committed to the goal of ensuring that all of ourCOAL - WORC
Holding Big Coal Accountable. WORC and its first member groups were founded by ranch families whose land and livelihoods were threatened by the booming coal industry in the 1970s, when dozens of coal strip mines and power plants were proposed across the Northern Great Plains. INJECTION WELLS NEAR HOMES RILE RESIDENTS IN COLORADO AND Injection wells near homes rile residents in Colorado and Wyoming. Two injection wells sited near homes, one in Western Colorado, and one in Laramie County, Wyoming, have stirred up controversy in recent weeks. WORC member groups Western Colorado Congress and Powder River Basin Resource Council are working with residents to wage campaigns RURAL GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATIONS CALL FOR SWEEPING RURAL This grassroots platform of co-op reforms will help our rural electric cooperatives provide reliable, inexpensive, and cleaner energy for decades to come; dramatically cut household energy bills; and provide funds for necessary infrastructure upgrades in our rural communities. Co-ops could cut member-owner bills by switching to lower-cost WESTERN NATIVE VOICE COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: LAURIE SUN CHILD Rocky Boy’s Shining Star Has Deep Rooted Connection to Elders, Community, and Culture. We are excited to share with you Western Native Voice’s Community Spotlight, designed to highlight grassroots organizing and individuals creating change from across Indian Country.This month, we would like to introduce Laurie Sun Child, a member of the Chippewa Cree Tribe, located in Rocky Boy, Montana. SPLIT ESTATE LEAVES PEOPLE LIVING NEAR MINERAL DEPOSITS AT A “split estate” is where separate parties own the rights to the surface of a parcel of land and to the minerals beneath that parcel of land. In western states, the most common instance of split estate is where the surface rights are privately owned and the federal government owns the mineral rights. This is the kind of split estatewe’ll
ANTIBIOTICS RESISTANCE IMPACTED BY CAFO’S During the hearing on South Dakota’s General Permit for Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO), former Dakota Rural Action Chair Don Kelley was prepared to give testimony about the rapidly worsening issue of antibiotics resistance and how CAFO’s contribute to the problem. However, industry representatives objected to Kelley’s testimony and he was not allowed to present at the hearing. FACT-CHECK: MEATPACKERS ARE LYING TO YOU ABOUT COUNTRY OF Frankly, the meatpackers are selling you a load of a different type of cattle product. The Western Organization of Resource Councils has worked for decades to cut through the labeling malarkey. In 2002, WORC spearheaded efforts to get Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) into the Farm Bill. Unfortunately, in 2015 Congress voted to repeal COOL for THE ROLE OF A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER PAGE 2 HOW TO undeRsTand The Role of a communiTy oRganizeR Another role of the organizer is to work with people to define problems and issues, and help them think through the strategies and tactics necessary to act with GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY ORGANIZING IN WESTERN STATES Addressing The Collapse of the Coal Industry. This post was adapted from a fact sheet produced by WORC, Northern Plains Resource Council, Powder River Basin Resource Council, and a collaboration of allied organizations. Subscribe to WORC's blog As coal mines close, there's an urgent need for regulatory action to restore lands and waters. WESTERN NATIVE VOICE COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: SILVER LITTLE We are excited to share with you Western Native Voice’s Community Spotlight, designed to highlight grassroots organizing and individuals creating change from across Indian Country. This month, we would like to introduce Silver Little Eagle, 23, Northern Cheyenne’s youngest councilwoman. She is the 7th generation of Little Wolf and Woodenleg and a descendant of Humpback Woman and Little Eagle. GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY WORC’s Grassroots Democracy Program is the political and civic engagement arm of our region. The Program provides a model for coordination among our member groups for a region-wide network of organizations committed to the goal of ensuring that all of our HOW TO RECRUIT CANDIDATES TO RUN FOR OFFICE The first order of business is to make a list of bottom-line issues that your organization feels very strongly and passionately about. You should keep this list front-and-center during the recruitment process because it makes no sense to recruit someone to run for office thatdisagrees with you
THE 10 WORST CHECKOFF PROGRAM ABUSES A checkoff program should: Be paid for, administered by, and to benefit all US cattle producers. Be a $1 per head producer-directed assessment. Be voluntary at the point of sale. Direct funds collected from the program to eligible organizations through a fiduciary clearinghouse as directed by individual payers. INJECTION WELLS NEAR HOMES RILE RESIDENTS IN COLORADO AND Injection wells near homes rile residents in Colorado and Wyoming. Two injection wells sited near homes, one in Western Colorado, and one in Laramie County, Wyoming, have stirred up controversy in recent weeks. WORC member groups Western Colorado Congress and Powder River Basin Resource Council are working with residents to wage campaigns INVESTIGATION OF RAMACO PRINCIPALS REVEALS SHADY An investigation into the background of the primary individuals behind the proposed Brook Coal Mine and Ramaco Carbon reveal a disturbing history and serve as a cautionary tale for Sheridan County and Wyoming. Ramaco’s principal officers, Charles Atkins who is the director of development for Ramaco Carbon and his brother, RandallAtkins who
FIVE COMMON INTIMIDATION TACTICS PAGE 2 HOW TO DEAL WITH INTIMIDATION 1. DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM IMMEDIATELY Rumors and fear spawned by an opponents’s intimidation tactic can spread rapidly through your group (and your THE ROLE OF A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER PAGE 2 HOW TO undeRsTand The Role of a communiTy oRganizeR Another role of the organizer is to work with people to define problems and issues, and help them think through the strategies and tactics necessary to act with A GUIDE TO GENETICALLY MODIFIED ALFALFA Evidence Evidence Problems with GM Alfalfa Agricultural Risks Genetic Contamination Alfalfa is a cross-pollinating crop, so genetically modified (GM) DNA from Roundup Ready (RR) GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY ORGANIZING IN WESTERN STATES Addressing The Collapse of the Coal Industry. This post was adapted from a fact sheet produced by WORC, Northern Plains Resource Council, Powder River Basin Resource Council, and a collaboration of allied organizations. Subscribe to WORC's blog As coal mines close, there's an urgent need for regulatory action to restore lands and waters. WESTERN NATIVE VOICE COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: SILVER LITTLE We are excited to share with you Western Native Voice’s Community Spotlight, designed to highlight grassroots organizing and individuals creating change from across Indian Country. This month, we would like to introduce Silver Little Eagle, 23, Northern Cheyenne’s youngest councilwoman. She is the 7th generation of Little Wolf and Woodenleg and a descendant of Humpback Woman and Little Eagle. GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY WORC’s Grassroots Democracy Program is the political and civic engagement arm of our region. The Program provides a model for coordination among our member groups for a region-wide network of organizations committed to the goal of ensuring that all of our HOW TO RECRUIT CANDIDATES TO RUN FOR OFFICE The first order of business is to make a list of bottom-line issues that your organization feels very strongly and passionately about. You should keep this list front-and-center during the recruitment process because it makes no sense to recruit someone to run for office thatdisagrees with you
THE 10 WORST CHECKOFF PROGRAM ABUSES A checkoff program should: Be paid for, administered by, and to benefit all US cattle producers. Be a $1 per head producer-directed assessment. Be voluntary at the point of sale. Direct funds collected from the program to eligible organizations through a fiduciary clearinghouse as directed by individual payers. INJECTION WELLS NEAR HOMES RILE RESIDENTS IN COLORADO AND Injection wells near homes rile residents in Colorado and Wyoming. Two injection wells sited near homes, one in Western Colorado, and one in Laramie County, Wyoming, have stirred up controversy in recent weeks. WORC member groups Western Colorado Congress and Powder River Basin Resource Council are working with residents to wage campaigns INVESTIGATION OF RAMACO PRINCIPALS REVEALS SHADY An investigation into the background of the primary individuals behind the proposed Brook Coal Mine and Ramaco Carbon reveal a disturbing history and serve as a cautionary tale for Sheridan County and Wyoming. Ramaco’s principal officers, Charles Atkins who is the director of development for Ramaco Carbon and his brother, RandallAtkins who
FIVE COMMON INTIMIDATION TACTICS PAGE 2 HOW TO DEAL WITH INTIMIDATION 1. DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM IMMEDIATELY Rumors and fear spawned by an opponents’s intimidation tactic can spread rapidly through your group (and your THE ROLE OF A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER PAGE 2 HOW TO undeRsTand The Role of a communiTy oRganizeR Another role of the organizer is to work with people to define problems and issues, and help them think through the strategies and tactics necessary to act with A GUIDE TO GENETICALLY MODIFIED ALFALFA Evidence Evidence Problems with GM Alfalfa Agricultural Risks Genetic Contamination Alfalfa is a cross-pollinating crop, so genetically modified (GM) DNA from Roundup Ready (RR) GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY WORC’s Grassroots Democracy Program is the political and civic engagement arm of our region. The Program provides a model for coordination among our member groups for a region-wide network of organizations committed to the goal of ensuring that all of our LEADERSHIP & CAPACITY BUILDING Leadership & Capacity Building. As practitioners of community organizing, WORC keeps two basic goals at the forefront of our efforts: Win our issues. Build our organizations. A successful organization knows it needs to build the capacity to effect change and fulfill its mission. Leadership and staff development are corecomponents of our
HOW TO RECRUIT CANDIDATES TO RUN FOR OFFICE The first order of business is to make a list of bottom-line issues that your organization feels very strongly and passionately about. You should keep this list front-and-center during the recruitment process because it makes no sense to recruit someone to run for office thatdisagrees with you
INJECTION WELLS NEAR HOMES RILE RESIDENTS IN COLORADO AND Injection wells near homes rile residents in Colorado and Wyoming. Two injection wells sited near homes, one in Western Colorado, and one in Laramie County, Wyoming, have stirred up controversy in recent weeks. WORC member groups Western Colorado Congress and Powder River Basin Resource Council are working with residents to wage campaigns FRACKING COVER-UP CONTINUES GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION Action Alerts. The degradation of water quality falls in line with a surge in gas development in the Pavillion gas field throughout the 1990’s. Then, in the 2000’s, the density of wells went from one well per 160 acres to four. Currently, the Pavillion gas field has 169 wells. Those wells are drilled into the Wind River Formation, a RURAL GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATIONS CALL FOR SWEEPING RURAL This grassroots platform of co-op reforms will help our rural electric cooperatives provide reliable, inexpensive, and cleaner energy for decades to come; dramatically cut household energy bills; and provide funds for necessary infrastructure upgrades in our rural communities. Co-ops could cut member-owner bills by switching to lower-cost ANTIBIOTICS RESISTANCE IMPACTED BY CAFO’S During the hearing on South Dakota’s General Permit for Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO), former Dakota Rural Action Chair Don Kelley was prepared to give testimony about the rapidly worsening issue of antibiotics resistance and how CAFO’s contribute to the problem. However, industry representatives objected to Kelley’s testimony and he was not allowed to present at the hearing. THE ORGANIZING PROCESS PAGE 2 HOW TO ORGANIZE STRONG LOCAL CHAPTERS THE ORGANIZING PROCESS continued Turf: What are the natural boundaries of the potential organizing area? The community to be organized should be defined by the people who live there. A rural chapter may be HOLD A HOUSE MEETING HOUSE MEETING A house meeting is a small gathering of ten to fifteen people who are invited to the home of someone they know and trust todiscuss issues
WHY RECRUIT CANDIDATES? PAGE 2 HOW TO recruit candidates to run for office Who can recruit candidates (continued) Employees and leaders of these organizations are allowed to freely GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY ORGANIZING IN WESTERN STATES Addressing The Collapse of the Coal Industry. This post was adapted from a fact sheet produced by WORC, Northern Plains Resource Council, Powder River Basin Resource Council, and a collaboration of allied organizations. Subscribe to WORC's blog As coal mines close, there's an urgent need for regulatory action to restore lands and waters. WESTERN NATIVE VOICE COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: SILVER LITTLE We are excited to share with you Western Native Voice’s Community Spotlight, designed to highlight grassroots organizing and individuals creating change from across Indian Country. This month, we would like to introduce Silver Little Eagle, 23, Northern Cheyenne’s youngest councilwoman. She is the 7th generation of Little Wolf and Woodenleg and a descendant of Humpback Woman and Little Eagle. GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY WORC’s Grassroots Democracy Program is the political and civic engagement arm of our region. The Program provides a model for coordination among our member groups for a region-wide network of organizations committed to the goal of ensuring that all of our HOW TO RECRUIT CANDIDATES TO RUN FOR OFFICE The first order of business is to make a list of bottom-line issues that your organization feels very strongly and passionately about. You should keep this list front-and-center during the recruitment process because it makes no sense to recruit someone to run for office thatdisagrees with you
THE 10 WORST CHECKOFF PROGRAM ABUSES A checkoff program should: Be paid for, administered by, and to benefit all US cattle producers. Be a $1 per head producer-directed assessment. Be voluntary at the point of sale. Direct funds collected from the program to eligible organizations through a fiduciary clearinghouse as directed by individual payers. INJECTION WELLS NEAR HOMES RILE RESIDENTS IN COLORADO AND Injection wells near homes rile residents in Colorado and Wyoming. Two injection wells sited near homes, one in Western Colorado, and one in Laramie County, Wyoming, have stirred up controversy in recent weeks. WORC member groups Western Colorado Congress and Powder River Basin Resource Council are working with residents to wage campaigns INVESTIGATION OF RAMACO PRINCIPALS REVEALS SHADY An investigation into the background of the primary individuals behind the proposed Brook Coal Mine and Ramaco Carbon reveal a disturbing history and serve as a cautionary tale for Sheridan County and Wyoming. Ramaco’s principal officers, Charles Atkins who is the director of development for Ramaco Carbon and his brother, RandallAtkins who
FIVE COMMON INTIMIDATION TACTICS PAGE 2 HOW TO DEAL WITH INTIMIDATION 1. DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM IMMEDIATELY Rumors and fear spawned by an opponents’s intimidation tactic can spread rapidly through your group (and your THE ROLE OF A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER PAGE 2 HOW TO undeRsTand The Role of a communiTy oRganizeR Another role of the organizer is to work with people to define problems and issues, and help them think through the strategies and tactics necessary to act with A GUIDE TO GENETICALLY MODIFIED ALFALFA Evidence Evidence Problems with GM Alfalfa Agricultural Risks Genetic Contamination Alfalfa is a cross-pollinating crop, so genetically modified (GM) DNA from Roundup Ready (RR) GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY ORGANIZING IN WESTERN STATES Addressing The Collapse of the Coal Industry. This post was adapted from a fact sheet produced by WORC, Northern Plains Resource Council, Powder River Basin Resource Council, and a collaboration of allied organizations. Subscribe to WORC's blog As coal mines close, there's an urgent need for regulatory action to restore lands and waters. WESTERN NATIVE VOICE COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: SILVER LITTLE We are excited to share with you Western Native Voice’s Community Spotlight, designed to highlight grassroots organizing and individuals creating change from across Indian Country. This month, we would like to introduce Silver Little Eagle, 23, Northern Cheyenne’s youngest councilwoman. She is the 7th generation of Little Wolf and Woodenleg and a descendant of Humpback Woman and Little Eagle. GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY WORC’s Grassroots Democracy Program is the political and civic engagement arm of our region. The Program provides a model for coordination among our member groups for a region-wide network of organizations committed to the goal of ensuring that all of our HOW TO RECRUIT CANDIDATES TO RUN FOR OFFICE The first order of business is to make a list of bottom-line issues that your organization feels very strongly and passionately about. You should keep this list front-and-center during the recruitment process because it makes no sense to recruit someone to run for office thatdisagrees with you
THE 10 WORST CHECKOFF PROGRAM ABUSES A checkoff program should: Be paid for, administered by, and to benefit all US cattle producers. Be a $1 per head producer-directed assessment. Be voluntary at the point of sale. Direct funds collected from the program to eligible organizations through a fiduciary clearinghouse as directed by individual payers. INJECTION WELLS NEAR HOMES RILE RESIDENTS IN COLORADO AND Injection wells near homes rile residents in Colorado and Wyoming. Two injection wells sited near homes, one in Western Colorado, and one in Laramie County, Wyoming, have stirred up controversy in recent weeks. WORC member groups Western Colorado Congress and Powder River Basin Resource Council are working with residents to wage campaigns INVESTIGATION OF RAMACO PRINCIPALS REVEALS SHADY An investigation into the background of the primary individuals behind the proposed Brook Coal Mine and Ramaco Carbon reveal a disturbing history and serve as a cautionary tale for Sheridan County and Wyoming. Ramaco’s principal officers, Charles Atkins who is the director of development for Ramaco Carbon and his brother, RandallAtkins who
FIVE COMMON INTIMIDATION TACTICS PAGE 2 HOW TO DEAL WITH INTIMIDATION 1. DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM IMMEDIATELY Rumors and fear spawned by an opponents’s intimidation tactic can spread rapidly through your group (and your THE ROLE OF A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER PAGE 2 HOW TO undeRsTand The Role of a communiTy oRganizeR Another role of the organizer is to work with people to define problems and issues, and help them think through the strategies and tactics necessary to act with A GUIDE TO GENETICALLY MODIFIED ALFALFA Evidence Evidence Problems with GM Alfalfa Agricultural Risks Genetic Contamination Alfalfa is a cross-pollinating crop, so genetically modified (GM) DNA from Roundup Ready (RR) GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY WORC’s Grassroots Democracy Program is the political and civic engagement arm of our region. The Program provides a model for coordination among our member groups for a region-wide network of organizations committed to the goal of ensuring that all of our LEADERSHIP & CAPACITY BUILDING Leadership & Capacity Building. As practitioners of community organizing, WORC keeps two basic goals at the forefront of our efforts: Win our issues. Build our organizations. A successful organization knows it needs to build the capacity to effect change and fulfill its mission. Leadership and staff development are corecomponents of our
HOW TO RECRUIT CANDIDATES TO RUN FOR OFFICE The first order of business is to make a list of bottom-line issues that your organization feels very strongly and passionately about. You should keep this list front-and-center during the recruitment process because it makes no sense to recruit someone to run for office thatdisagrees with you
INJECTION WELLS NEAR HOMES RILE RESIDENTS IN COLORADO AND Injection wells near homes rile residents in Colorado and Wyoming. Two injection wells sited near homes, one in Western Colorado, and one in Laramie County, Wyoming, have stirred up controversy in recent weeks. WORC member groups Western Colorado Congress and Powder River Basin Resource Council are working with residents to wage campaigns FRACKING COVER-UP CONTINUES GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION Action Alerts. The degradation of water quality falls in line with a surge in gas development in the Pavillion gas field throughout the 1990’s. Then, in the 2000’s, the density of wells went from one well per 160 acres to four. Currently, the Pavillion gas field has 169 wells. Those wells are drilled into the Wind River Formation, a RURAL GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATIONS CALL FOR SWEEPING RURAL This grassroots platform of co-op reforms will help our rural electric cooperatives provide reliable, inexpensive, and cleaner energy for decades to come; dramatically cut household energy bills; and provide funds for necessary infrastructure upgrades in our rural communities. Co-ops could cut member-owner bills by switching to lower-cost ANTIBIOTICS RESISTANCE IMPACTED BY CAFO’S During the hearing on South Dakota’s General Permit for Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO), former Dakota Rural Action Chair Don Kelley was prepared to give testimony about the rapidly worsening issue of antibiotics resistance and how CAFO’s contribute to the problem. However, industry representatives objected to Kelley’s testimony and he was not allowed to present at the hearing. THE ORGANIZING PROCESS PAGE 2 HOW TO ORGANIZE STRONG LOCAL CHAPTERS THE ORGANIZING PROCESS continued Turf: What are the natural boundaries of the potential organizing area? The community to be organized should be defined by the people who live there. A rural chapter may be HOLD A HOUSE MEETING HOUSE MEETING A house meeting is a small gathering of ten to fifteen people who are invited to the home of someone they know and trust todiscuss issues
WHY RECRUIT CANDIDATES? PAGE 2 HOW TO recruit candidates to run for office Who can recruit candidates (continued) Employees and leaders of these organizations are allowed to freely GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY ORGANIZING IN WESTERN STATES Addressing The Collapse of the Coal Industry. This post was adapted from a fact sheet produced by WORC, Northern Plains Resource Council, Powder River Basin Resource Council, and a collaboration of allied organizations. Subscribe to WORC's blog As coal mines close, there's an urgent need for regulatory action to restore lands and waters. WESTERN NATIVE VOICE COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: SILVER LITTLE We are excited to share with you Western Native Voice’s Community Spotlight, designed to highlight grassroots organizing and individuals creating change from across Indian Country. This month, we would like to introduce Silver Little Eagle, 23, Northern Cheyenne’s youngest councilwoman. She is the 7th generation of Little Wolf and Woodenleg and a descendant of Humpback Woman and Little Eagle. GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY WORC’s Grassroots Democracy Program is the political and civic engagement arm of our region. The Program provides a model for coordination among our member groups for a region-wide network of organizations committed to the goal of ensuring that all of our HOW TO RECRUIT CANDIDATES TO RUN FOR OFFICE The first order of business is to make a list of bottom-line issues that your organization feels very strongly and passionately about. You should keep this list front-and-center during the recruitment process because it makes no sense to recruit someone to run for office thatdisagrees with you
THE 10 WORST CHECKOFF PROGRAM ABUSES A checkoff program should: Be paid for, administered by, and to benefit all US cattle producers. Be a $1 per head producer-directed assessment. Be voluntary at the point of sale. Direct funds collected from the program to eligible organizations through a fiduciary clearinghouse as directed by individual payers. INJECTION WELLS NEAR HOMES RILE RESIDENTS IN COLORADO AND Injection wells near homes rile residents in Colorado and Wyoming. Two injection wells sited near homes, one in Western Colorado, and one in Laramie County, Wyoming, have stirred up controversy in recent weeks. WORC member groups Western Colorado Congress and Powder River Basin Resource Council are working with residents to wage campaigns INVESTIGATION OF RAMACO PRINCIPALS REVEALS SHADY An investigation into the background of the primary individuals behind the proposed Brook Coal Mine and Ramaco Carbon reveal a disturbing history and serve as a cautionary tale for Sheridan County and Wyoming. Ramaco’s principal officers, Charles Atkins who is the director of development for Ramaco Carbon and his brother, RandallAtkins who
FIVE COMMON INTIMIDATION TACTICS PAGE 2 HOW TO DEAL WITH INTIMIDATION 1. DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM IMMEDIATELY Rumors and fear spawned by an opponents’s intimidation tactic can spread rapidly through your group (and your THE ROLE OF A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER PAGE 2 HOW TO undeRsTand The Role of a communiTy oRganizeR Another role of the organizer is to work with people to define problems and issues, and help them think through the strategies and tactics necessary to act with A GUIDE TO GENETICALLY MODIFIED ALFALFA Evidence Evidence Problems with GM Alfalfa Agricultural Risks Genetic Contamination Alfalfa is a cross-pollinating crop, so genetically modified (GM) DNA from Roundup Ready (RR) GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY ORGANIZING IN WESTERN STATES Addressing The Collapse of the Coal Industry. This post was adapted from a fact sheet produced by WORC, Northern Plains Resource Council, Powder River Basin Resource Council, and a collaboration of allied organizations. Subscribe to WORC's blog As coal mines close, there's an urgent need for regulatory action to restore lands and waters. WESTERN NATIVE VOICE COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: SILVER LITTLE We are excited to share with you Western Native Voice’s Community Spotlight, designed to highlight grassroots organizing and individuals creating change from across Indian Country. This month, we would like to introduce Silver Little Eagle, 23, Northern Cheyenne’s youngest councilwoman. She is the 7th generation of Little Wolf and Woodenleg and a descendant of Humpback Woman and Little Eagle. GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY WORC’s Grassroots Democracy Program is the political and civic engagement arm of our region. The Program provides a model for coordination among our member groups for a region-wide network of organizations committed to the goal of ensuring that all of our HOW TO RECRUIT CANDIDATES TO RUN FOR OFFICE The first order of business is to make a list of bottom-line issues that your organization feels very strongly and passionately about. You should keep this list front-and-center during the recruitment process because it makes no sense to recruit someone to run for office thatdisagrees with you
THE 10 WORST CHECKOFF PROGRAM ABUSES A checkoff program should: Be paid for, administered by, and to benefit all US cattle producers. Be a $1 per head producer-directed assessment. Be voluntary at the point of sale. Direct funds collected from the program to eligible organizations through a fiduciary clearinghouse as directed by individual payers. INJECTION WELLS NEAR HOMES RILE RESIDENTS IN COLORADO AND Injection wells near homes rile residents in Colorado and Wyoming. Two injection wells sited near homes, one in Western Colorado, and one in Laramie County, Wyoming, have stirred up controversy in recent weeks. WORC member groups Western Colorado Congress and Powder River Basin Resource Council are working with residents to wage campaigns INVESTIGATION OF RAMACO PRINCIPALS REVEALS SHADY An investigation into the background of the primary individuals behind the proposed Brook Coal Mine and Ramaco Carbon reveal a disturbing history and serve as a cautionary tale for Sheridan County and Wyoming. Ramaco’s principal officers, Charles Atkins who is the director of development for Ramaco Carbon and his brother, RandallAtkins who
FIVE COMMON INTIMIDATION TACTICS PAGE 2 HOW TO DEAL WITH INTIMIDATION 1. DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM IMMEDIATELY Rumors and fear spawned by an opponents’s intimidation tactic can spread rapidly through your group (and your THE ROLE OF A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER PAGE 2 HOW TO undeRsTand The Role of a communiTy oRganizeR Another role of the organizer is to work with people to define problems and issues, and help them think through the strategies and tactics necessary to act with A GUIDE TO GENETICALLY MODIFIED ALFALFA Evidence Evidence Problems with GM Alfalfa Agricultural Risks Genetic Contamination Alfalfa is a cross-pollinating crop, so genetically modified (GM) DNA from Roundup Ready (RR) GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY WORC’s Grassroots Democracy Program is the political and civic engagement arm of our region. The Program provides a model for coordination among our member groups for a region-wide network of organizations committed to the goal of ensuring that all of our LEADERSHIP & CAPACITY BUILDING Leadership & Capacity Building. As practitioners of community organizing, WORC keeps two basic goals at the forefront of our efforts: Win our issues. Build our organizations. A successful organization knows it needs to build the capacity to effect change and fulfill its mission. Leadership and staff development are corecomponents of our
HOW TO RECRUIT CANDIDATES TO RUN FOR OFFICE The first order of business is to make a list of bottom-line issues that your organization feels very strongly and passionately about. You should keep this list front-and-center during the recruitment process because it makes no sense to recruit someone to run for office thatdisagrees with you
INJECTION WELLS NEAR HOMES RILE RESIDENTS IN COLORADO AND Injection wells near homes rile residents in Colorado and Wyoming. Two injection wells sited near homes, one in Western Colorado, and one in Laramie County, Wyoming, have stirred up controversy in recent weeks. WORC member groups Western Colorado Congress and Powder River Basin Resource Council are working with residents to wage campaigns FRACKING COVER-UP CONTINUES GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION Action Alerts. The degradation of water quality falls in line with a surge in gas development in the Pavillion gas field throughout the 1990’s. Then, in the 2000’s, the density of wells went from one well per 160 acres to four. Currently, the Pavillion gas field has 169 wells. Those wells are drilled into the Wind River Formation, a RURAL GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATIONS CALL FOR SWEEPING RURAL This grassroots platform of co-op reforms will help our rural electric cooperatives provide reliable, inexpensive, and cleaner energy for decades to come; dramatically cut household energy bills; and provide funds for necessary infrastructure upgrades in our rural communities. Co-ops could cut member-owner bills by switching to lower-cost ANTIBIOTICS RESISTANCE IMPACTED BY CAFO’S During the hearing on South Dakota’s General Permit for Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO), former Dakota Rural Action Chair Don Kelley was prepared to give testimony about the rapidly worsening issue of antibiotics resistance and how CAFO’s contribute to the problem. However, industry representatives objected to Kelley’s testimony and he was not allowed to present at the hearing. THE ORGANIZING PROCESS PAGE 2 HOW TO ORGANIZE STRONG LOCAL CHAPTERS THE ORGANIZING PROCESS continued Turf: What are the natural boundaries of the potential organizing area? The community to be organized should be defined by the people who live there. A rural chapter may be HOLD A HOUSE MEETING HOUSE MEETING A house meeting is a small gathering of ten to fifteen people who are invited to the home of someone they know and trust todiscuss issues
WHY RECRUIT CANDIDATES? PAGE 2 HOW TO recruit candidates to run for office Who can recruit candidates (continued) Employees and leaders of these organizations are allowed to freely GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY ORGANIZING IN WESTERN STATES Addressing The Collapse of the Coal Industry. This post was adapted from a fact sheet produced by WORC, Northern Plains Resource Council, Powder River Basin Resource Council, and a collaboration of allied organizations. Subscribe to WORC's blog As coal mines close, there's an urgent need for regulatory action to restore lands and waters. GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY WORC’s Grassroots Democracy Program is the political and civic engagement arm of our region. The Program provides a model for coordination among our member groups for a region-wide network of organizations committed to the goal of ensuring that all of our HOW TO RECRUIT CANDIDATES TO RUN FOR OFFICE The first order of business is to make a list of bottom-line issues that your organization feels very strongly and passionately about. You should keep this list front-and-center during the recruitment process because it makes no sense to recruit someone to run for office thatdisagrees with you
THE 10 WORST CHECKOFF PROGRAM ABUSES A checkoff program should: Be paid for, administered by, and to benefit all US cattle producers. Be a $1 per head producer-directed assessment. Be voluntary at the point of sale. Direct funds collected from the program to eligible organizations through a fiduciary clearinghouse as directed by individual payers. WESTERN NATIVE VOICE COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: SILVER LITTLE We are excited to share with you Western Native Voice’s Community Spotlight, designed to highlight grassroots organizing and individuals creating change from across Indian Country. This month, we would like to introduce Silver Little Eagle, 23, Northern Cheyenne’s youngest councilwoman. She is the 7th generation of Little Wolf and Woodenleg and a descendant of Humpback Woman and Little Eagle. INVESTIGATION OF RAMACO PRINCIPALS REVEALS SHADY An investigation into the background of the primary individuals behind the proposed Brook Coal Mine and Ramaco Carbon reveal a disturbing history and serve as a cautionary tale for Sheridan County and Wyoming. Ramaco’s principal officers, Charles Atkins who is the director of development for Ramaco Carbon and his brother, RandallAtkins who
FRACKING COVER-UP CONTINUES GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION Action Alerts. The degradation of water quality falls in line with a surge in gas development in the Pavillion gas field throughout the 1990’s. Then, in the 2000’s, the density of wells went from one well per 160 acres to four. Currently, the Pavillion gas field has 169 wells. Those wells are drilled into the Wind River Formation, a INJECTION WELLS NEAR HOMES RILE RESIDENTS IN COLORADO AND Injection wells near homes rile residents in Colorado and Wyoming. Two injection wells sited near homes, one in Western Colorado, and one in Laramie County, Wyoming, have stirred up controversy in recent weeks. WORC member groups Western Colorado Congress and Powder River Basin Resource Council are working with residents to wage campaigns WHAT IS A MAJOR DONOR? IT’S ALL ABOUT BUILDING …ANDWHAT IS A DONORWHAT IS DONOR DEVELOPMENTMAJOR DONOR EVENTSHOW TO FIND MAJOR DONORSMAJOR DONOR PROFILE TEMPLATEMAJOR DONOR FUNDRAISING PAGE 2 HOW TO BUILD A SUccESSfUL MAJOR DONOR PROGRAM Major donor fundraising is all about building strong and lasting relationships with individuals, so it is important to understand the types of strategies that create and improve these FIVE COMMON INTIMIDATION TACTICS PAGE 2 HOW TO DEAL WITH INTIMIDATION 1. DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM IMMEDIATELY Rumors and fear spawned by an opponents’s intimidation tactic can spread rapidly through your group (and your GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY ORGANIZING IN WESTERN STATES Addressing The Collapse of the Coal Industry. This post was adapted from a fact sheet produced by WORC, Northern Plains Resource Council, Powder River Basin Resource Council, and a collaboration of allied organizations. Subscribe to WORC's blog As coal mines close, there's an urgent need for regulatory action to restore lands and waters. GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY WORC’s Grassroots Democracy Program is the political and civic engagement arm of our region. The Program provides a model for coordination among our member groups for a region-wide network of organizations committed to the goal of ensuring that all of our HOW TO RECRUIT CANDIDATES TO RUN FOR OFFICE The first order of business is to make a list of bottom-line issues that your organization feels very strongly and passionately about. You should keep this list front-and-center during the recruitment process because it makes no sense to recruit someone to run for office thatdisagrees with you
THE 10 WORST CHECKOFF PROGRAM ABUSES A checkoff program should: Be paid for, administered by, and to benefit all US cattle producers. Be a $1 per head producer-directed assessment. Be voluntary at the point of sale. Direct funds collected from the program to eligible organizations through a fiduciary clearinghouse as directed by individual payers. WESTERN NATIVE VOICE COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: SILVER LITTLE We are excited to share with you Western Native Voice’s Community Spotlight, designed to highlight grassroots organizing and individuals creating change from across Indian Country. This month, we would like to introduce Silver Little Eagle, 23, Northern Cheyenne’s youngest councilwoman. She is the 7th generation of Little Wolf and Woodenleg and a descendant of Humpback Woman and Little Eagle. INVESTIGATION OF RAMACO PRINCIPALS REVEALS SHADY An investigation into the background of the primary individuals behind the proposed Brook Coal Mine and Ramaco Carbon reveal a disturbing history and serve as a cautionary tale for Sheridan County and Wyoming. Ramaco’s principal officers, Charles Atkins who is the director of development for Ramaco Carbon and his brother, RandallAtkins who
FRACKING COVER-UP CONTINUES GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION Action Alerts. The degradation of water quality falls in line with a surge in gas development in the Pavillion gas field throughout the 1990’s. Then, in the 2000’s, the density of wells went from one well per 160 acres to four. Currently, the Pavillion gas field has 169 wells. Those wells are drilled into the Wind River Formation, a INJECTION WELLS NEAR HOMES RILE RESIDENTS IN COLORADO AND Injection wells near homes rile residents in Colorado and Wyoming. Two injection wells sited near homes, one in Western Colorado, and one in Laramie County, Wyoming, have stirred up controversy in recent weeks. WORC member groups Western Colorado Congress and Powder River Basin Resource Council are working with residents to wage campaigns WHAT IS A MAJOR DONOR? IT’S ALL ABOUT BUILDING …ANDWHAT IS A DONORWHAT IS DONOR DEVELOPMENTMAJOR DONOR EVENTSHOW TO FIND MAJOR DONORSMAJOR DONOR PROFILE TEMPLATEMAJOR DONOR FUNDRAISING PAGE 2 HOW TO BUILD A SUccESSfUL MAJOR DONOR PROGRAM Major donor fundraising is all about building strong and lasting relationships with individuals, so it is important to understand the types of strategies that create and improve these FIVE COMMON INTIMIDATION TACTICS PAGE 2 HOW TO DEAL WITH INTIMIDATION 1. DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM IMMEDIATELY Rumors and fear spawned by an opponents’s intimidation tactic can spread rapidly through your group (and yourABOUT US - WORC
WORC’s guiding principles. 1. We work to affirm people’s abilities, develop their own talents, and speak and act for themselves. 2. We promote a bottom-up philosophy and process. 3. We develop public relationships by meeting with people one-to-one, face-to-face. 4. We foster democratic values. LEADERSHIP & CAPACITY BUILDING Leadership & Capacity Building. As practitioners of community organizing, WORC keeps two basic goals at the forefront of our efforts: Win our issues. Build our organizations. A successful organization knows it needs to build the capacity to effect change and fulfill its mission. Leadership and staff development are corecomponents of our
WESTERN NATIVE VOICE COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: SILVER LITTLE We are excited to share with you Western Native Voice’s Community Spotlight, designed to highlight grassroots organizing and individuals creating change from across Indian Country. This month, we would like to introduce Silver Little Eagle, 23, Northern Cheyenne’s youngest councilwoman. She is the 7th generation of Little Wolf and Woodenleg and a descendant of Humpback Woman and Little Eagle. WORC BOARD OF DIRECTORS Dakota Resource Council. Lisa DeVille – An enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes on the Fort Berthold Reservation, Lisa holds a Master of Management, MBA, and BS in Management from the University of Mary. Active in her community, Lisa was awarded the North Dakota 2015 Human Rights Award. Linda Weiss – Linda lives in Belfield, North Dakota, where she is a volunteer Emergency THE ROLE OF A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER PAGE 2 HOW TO undeRsTand The Role of a communiTy oRganizeR Another role of the organizer is to work with people to define problems and issues, and help them think through the strategies and tactics necessary to act with ANTIBIOTICS RESISTANCE IMPACTED BY CAFO’S During the hearing on South Dakota’s General Permit for Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO), former Dakota Rural Action Chair Don Kelley was prepared to give testimony about the rapidly worsening issue of antibiotics resistance and how CAFO’s contribute to the problem. However, industry representatives objected to Kelley’s testimony and he was not allowed to present at the hearing. 40 YEARS OF GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING The WORC network has big plans for the next 40 years. A wave of new, enthusiastic leaders is beginning to shape the organization. They’re harnessing the wisdom of members who have worked for decades for a democratic, sustainable, and just society, and looking toward a bold future of building homegrown prosperity through clean, renewable energy, properly implemented coal mine reclamation, and THE ORGANIZING PROCESS PAGE 2 HOW TO ORGANIZE STRONG LOCAL CHAPTERS THE ORGANIZING PROCESS continued Turf: What are the natural boundaries of the potential organizing area? The community to be organized should be defined by the people who live there. A rural chapter may be HOLD A HOUSE MEETING HOUSE MEETING A house meeting is a small gathering of ten to fifteen people who are invited to the home of someone they know and trust todiscuss issues
FLARING AND VENTING
Recent events In May 2016, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized the first national standards to curb methane emissions in the oil and gas industry.3 The new standards apply only to new and modified sites, and serve to limit flaring, venting, and leakage ofnatural
GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY ORGANIZING IN WESTERN STATES Addressing The Collapse of the Coal Industry. This post was adapted from a fact sheet produced by WORC, Northern Plains Resource Council, Powder River Basin Resource Council, and a collaboration of allied organizations. Subscribe to WORC's blog As coal mines close, there's an urgent need for regulatory action to restore lands and waters. GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY WORC’s Grassroots Democracy Program is the political and civic engagement arm of our region. The Program provides a model for coordination among our member groups for a region-wide network of organizations committed to the goal of ensuring that all of our HOW TO RECRUIT CANDIDATES TO RUN FOR OFFICE The first order of business is to make a list of bottom-line issues that your organization feels very strongly and passionately about. You should keep this list front-and-center during the recruitment process because it makes no sense to recruit someone to run for office thatdisagrees with you
THE 10 WORST CHECKOFF PROGRAM ABUSES A checkoff program should: Be paid for, administered by, and to benefit all US cattle producers. Be a $1 per head producer-directed assessment. Be voluntary at the point of sale. Direct funds collected from the program to eligible organizations through a fiduciary clearinghouse as directed by individual payers. WESTERN NATIVE VOICE COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: SILVER LITTLE We are excited to share with you Western Native Voice’s Community Spotlight, designed to highlight grassroots organizing and individuals creating change from across Indian Country. This month, we would like to introduce Silver Little Eagle, 23, Northern Cheyenne’s youngest councilwoman. She is the 7th generation of Little Wolf and Woodenleg and a descendant of Humpback Woman and Little Eagle. INVESTIGATION OF RAMACO PRINCIPALS REVEALS SHADY An investigation into the background of the primary individuals behind the proposed Brook Coal Mine and Ramaco Carbon reveal a disturbing history and serve as a cautionary tale for Sheridan County and Wyoming. Ramaco’s principal officers, Charles Atkins who is the director of development for Ramaco Carbon and his brother, RandallAtkins who
FRACKING COVER-UP CONTINUES GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION Action Alerts. The degradation of water quality falls in line with a surge in gas development in the Pavillion gas field throughout the 1990’s. Then, in the 2000’s, the density of wells went from one well per 160 acres to four. Currently, the Pavillion gas field has 169 wells. Those wells are drilled into the Wind River Formation, a INJECTION WELLS NEAR HOMES RILE RESIDENTS IN COLORADO AND Injection wells near homes rile residents in Colorado and Wyoming. Two injection wells sited near homes, one in Western Colorado, and one in Laramie County, Wyoming, have stirred up controversy in recent weeks. WORC member groups Western Colorado Congress and Powder River Basin Resource Council are working with residents to wage campaigns WHAT IS A MAJOR DONOR? IT’S ALL ABOUT BUILDING …ANDWHAT IS A DONORWHAT IS DONOR DEVELOPMENTMAJOR DONOR EVENTSHOW TO FIND MAJOR DONORSMAJOR DONOR PROFILE TEMPLATEMAJOR DONOR FUNDRAISING PAGE 2 HOW TO BUILD A SUccESSfUL MAJOR DONOR PROGRAM Major donor fundraising is all about building strong and lasting relationships with individuals, so it is important to understand the types of strategies that create and improve these FIVE COMMON INTIMIDATION TACTICS PAGE 2 HOW TO DEAL WITH INTIMIDATION 1. DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM IMMEDIATELY Rumors and fear spawned by an opponents’s intimidation tactic can spread rapidly through your group (and your GRASSROOTS COMMUNITY ORGANIZING IN WESTERN STATES Addressing The Collapse of the Coal Industry. This post was adapted from a fact sheet produced by WORC, Northern Plains Resource Council, Powder River Basin Resource Council, and a collaboration of allied organizations. Subscribe to WORC's blog As coal mines close, there's an urgent need for regulatory action to restore lands and waters. GRASSROOTS DEMOCRACY WORC’s Grassroots Democracy Program is the political and civic engagement arm of our region. The Program provides a model for coordination among our member groups for a region-wide network of organizations committed to the goal of ensuring that all of our HOW TO RECRUIT CANDIDATES TO RUN FOR OFFICE The first order of business is to make a list of bottom-line issues that your organization feels very strongly and passionately about. You should keep this list front-and-center during the recruitment process because it makes no sense to recruit someone to run for office thatdisagrees with you
THE 10 WORST CHECKOFF PROGRAM ABUSES A checkoff program should: Be paid for, administered by, and to benefit all US cattle producers. Be a $1 per head producer-directed assessment. Be voluntary at the point of sale. Direct funds collected from the program to eligible organizations through a fiduciary clearinghouse as directed by individual payers. WESTERN NATIVE VOICE COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: SILVER LITTLE We are excited to share with you Western Native Voice’s Community Spotlight, designed to highlight grassroots organizing and individuals creating change from across Indian Country. This month, we would like to introduce Silver Little Eagle, 23, Northern Cheyenne’s youngest councilwoman. She is the 7th generation of Little Wolf and Woodenleg and a descendant of Humpback Woman and Little Eagle. INVESTIGATION OF RAMACO PRINCIPALS REVEALS SHADY An investigation into the background of the primary individuals behind the proposed Brook Coal Mine and Ramaco Carbon reveal a disturbing history and serve as a cautionary tale for Sheridan County and Wyoming. Ramaco’s principal officers, Charles Atkins who is the director of development for Ramaco Carbon and his brother, RandallAtkins who
FRACKING COVER-UP CONTINUES GROUNDWATER CONTAMINATION Action Alerts. The degradation of water quality falls in line with a surge in gas development in the Pavillion gas field throughout the 1990’s. Then, in the 2000’s, the density of wells went from one well per 160 acres to four. Currently, the Pavillion gas field has 169 wells. Those wells are drilled into the Wind River Formation, a INJECTION WELLS NEAR HOMES RILE RESIDENTS IN COLORADO AND Injection wells near homes rile residents in Colorado and Wyoming. Two injection wells sited near homes, one in Western Colorado, and one in Laramie County, Wyoming, have stirred up controversy in recent weeks. WORC member groups Western Colorado Congress and Powder River Basin Resource Council are working with residents to wage campaigns WHAT IS A MAJOR DONOR? IT’S ALL ABOUT BUILDING …ANDWHAT IS A DONORWHAT IS DONOR DEVELOPMENTMAJOR DONOR EVENTSHOW TO FIND MAJOR DONORSMAJOR DONOR PROFILE TEMPLATEMAJOR DONOR FUNDRAISING PAGE 2 HOW TO BUILD A SUccESSfUL MAJOR DONOR PROGRAM Major donor fundraising is all about building strong and lasting relationships with individuals, so it is important to understand the types of strategies that create and improve these FIVE COMMON INTIMIDATION TACTICS PAGE 2 HOW TO DEAL WITH INTIMIDATION 1. DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM IMMEDIATELY Rumors and fear spawned by an opponents’s intimidation tactic can spread rapidly through your group (and yourABOUT US - WORC
WORC’s guiding principles. 1. We work to affirm people’s abilities, develop their own talents, and speak and act for themselves. 2. We promote a bottom-up philosophy and process. 3. We develop public relationships by meeting with people one-to-one, face-to-face. 4. We foster democratic values. LEADERSHIP & CAPACITY BUILDING Leadership & Capacity Building. As practitioners of community organizing, WORC keeps two basic goals at the forefront of our efforts: Win our issues. Build our organizations. A successful organization knows it needs to build the capacity to effect change and fulfill its mission. Leadership and staff development are corecomponents of our
WESTERN NATIVE VOICE COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: SILVER LITTLE We are excited to share with you Western Native Voice’s Community Spotlight, designed to highlight grassroots organizing and individuals creating change from across Indian Country. This month, we would like to introduce Silver Little Eagle, 23, Northern Cheyenne’s youngest councilwoman. She is the 7th generation of Little Wolf and Woodenleg and a descendant of Humpback Woman and Little Eagle. WORC BOARD OF DIRECTORS Dakota Resource Council. Lisa DeVille – An enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes on the Fort Berthold Reservation, Lisa holds a Master of Management, MBA, and BS in Management from the University of Mary. Active in her community, Lisa was awarded the North Dakota 2015 Human Rights Award. Linda Weiss – Linda lives in Belfield, North Dakota, where she is a volunteer Emergency THE ROLE OF A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER PAGE 2 HOW TO undeRsTand The Role of a communiTy oRganizeR Another role of the organizer is to work with people to define problems and issues, and help them think through the strategies and tactics necessary to act with ANTIBIOTICS RESISTANCE IMPACTED BY CAFO’S During the hearing on South Dakota’s General Permit for Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO), former Dakota Rural Action Chair Don Kelley was prepared to give testimony about the rapidly worsening issue of antibiotics resistance and how CAFO’s contribute to the problem. However, industry representatives objected to Kelley’s testimony and he was not allowed to present at the hearing. 40 YEARS OF GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING The WORC network has big plans for the next 40 years. A wave of new, enthusiastic leaders is beginning to shape the organization. They’re harnessing the wisdom of members who have worked for decades for a democratic, sustainable, and just society, and looking toward a bold future of building homegrown prosperity through clean, renewable energy, properly implemented coal mine reclamation, and THE ORGANIZING PROCESS PAGE 2 HOW TO ORGANIZE STRONG LOCAL CHAPTERS THE ORGANIZING PROCESS continued Turf: What are the natural boundaries of the potential organizing area? The community to be organized should be defined by the people who live there. A rural chapter may be HOLD A HOUSE MEETING HOUSE MEETING A house meeting is a small gathering of ten to fifteen people who are invited to the home of someone they know and trust todiscuss issues
FLARING AND VENTING
Recent events In May 2016, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized the first national standards to curb methane emissions in the oil and gas industry.3 The new standards apply only to new and modified sites, and serve to limit flaring, venting, and leakage ofnatural
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