Priorities
The 2021 membership meeting approved and ranked the following priorities for 2022:
- 390 Votes: Engage with movements to both provide useful technical resources while also developing their agency over their use of technology.
- 366 Votes: Reorganize and improve documentation to fill gaps, ensure accessible language and guide members to using May First’s tools and services.
- 346 Votes: Encourage member participation in May First program teams by creating a welcoming environment that overcomes exclusions originated by any type of oppression.
- 334 Votes: Promote multiple methods of orientation for new members to facilitate participation in organizational processes and use of services.
- 333 Votes: Deepen our internal understanding and awareness of global grassroots methodologies and engage with movements via building relationships, trust, and participation.
- 332 Votes: Elevate our collective understanding of the political moment and how we organize together to take action toward long term social transformation.
- 329 Votes: Challenge the link between corporate technology tools and the professionalization of movement organizing by highlighting the white supremacy, patriarchy and other forms of oppression inherent in corporate tools.
- 325 Votes: Raise consciousness within global movements about what May First is doing and internally within May First about what global and local movements are doing.
- 324 Votes: Find unity and common cause with other organizations and movements via shared values and principles.
- 313 Votes: Center participation of members in processes of evaluation, renewal, and introduction of new technology services and tools to ensure these are relevant to movement work and sustainable by our cooperative
- 271 Votes: Work towards making the details and usage of the cooperative’s physical infrastructure and energy consumption more transparent for members.
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