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BIRCH 2021 Important Information
DATES
Now: Community Conversations on BIRCH proposals. Fundraising.
December 31: Registration deadline for BIRCH
January 11, 2021: Training and BIRCH Meetings Part II on Loomio begin.
January 16-17, 23-24, 30-31: BIRCH Meeting Part II. Three 3-hour Zoom Meetings.
BIRCH 2021 Registration:
Please use the link below to register, first as a participant and then as a representative if you have been selected by your community. In order to attend BIRCH 2021 you must register as a participant, even if you were already registered for BIRCH 2020 or if you are coming as a representative.
- Participants: https://forms.gle/N7NJg696i2LoTtFb6
- Representative: https://forms.gle/KWxFQDdfLU9QRHee9
E-mail list. We are currently compiling a BIRCH list to streamline our communications. Please email Reclaiming-BIRCH-subscribe@googlegroups.com to be added to this list.
Call for BIRCH Committee members
Guidelines for Friendly Amendments
BIRCH 2021Consensus Agenda:
Proposal #1: Revise BIRCH Structure and Process
Replace the original BIRCH structure from 2004. The new structure discusses proposals in communities BEFORE the meetings to inform Community Representatives’ consensus decision-making. This allows full participation with a more concise and nimbler consensus process. Anyone in Reclaiming may participate in the facilitated portion (Loomio) of the BIRCH meetings. All communities (5 or more) may select 1 Representative and 1 Shadow/Alternate to attend the online BIRCH meeting (Zoom). Ideally, every other year is an in-person meeting.
Proposal #2: Change Principles of Unity to support Reclaiming’s evolution into an anti-racist tradition. Final proposal from DARC http://tinyurl.com/birch-darc-proposal
Proposal #3: Principles of Accountability
Draft to be expanded with community input: http://tinyurl.com/birch-account-proposal
•Create policies/accountability for transphobia in our communities
•Create policies/accountability for racism in our communities. Commitment to an anti-racist change in our tradition
•How will we implement it in our PoA in our communities?
•We encourage trans/non-binary folks, people with disabilities, and BIPOC interested in refinining the Principles of Accountabilty to contact BirchCommittee@gmail.com.
Proposal #4: Magically and financially support marginalized people/communities to create the structures that they need to be in and support leadership.
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