Alternate ROOTS

🪇 HUGE THANKS to all of the ROOTS members who made our FIRST EVER Virtual Business Meeting a SUCCESS! 🪇

🛠️ Our participatory governance includes art, committee reports, breakout discussions, staff updates, and voting! It’s hard work! And it takes all of us. 🛠️

📊 Do you want to get more involved in the work of Alternate ROOTS? Here are some ways you can plug in:

☎️ Register for the next Cross-Regional Call on Monday, May 11 at 7:00pm ET / 6:00pm CT. Check your May 1 Member News Email for the link to register or reach out via our contact form at our link in bio. 🔗

✉️ Read your Member News email (every month!) –the May 1 Member News features a report-back with future actions! ✉️

🙋🏽‍♂️ Check Member News email for a list of all of the active Work Groups and how to join! 🙋🏽‍♂️

🛝 Join us for the Annual Business Meeting during ROOTS Week in August. If you can’t make it in person, join us in the Virtual Business Meeting space. Details coming soon. 🛝

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🪇 Virtual Business Meetings are FUN at Alternate ROOTS! 🪇

🎨 Our participatory governance includes ART! 🎨

☑️ (And breakout discussions, and grounding, and voting) ☑️

📊 Friday, April 24, 4:30-7pm CT / 5:30-8pm ET
📊 Saturday, April 25, 9:30am-2pm CT / 10:30am-3pm ET

✉️ Check your March 25 email for full details and a link to register! ✉️

The Virtual Business Meeting that will include brief reports from staff as well as Work Groups including Heal/Teal, ROOTS Week, Fundraising, 50th Anniversary, YOOTS, and UpROOTing Ableism. ROOTS members have been hard at work all year guiding important initiatives.

🛝 We will still hold the Annual Business Meeting during ROOTS Week in August. 🛝

🙋🏽‍♂️ Join us in April as we re-connect with community and engage deeply with our vision for the future of Alternate ROOTS! 🙋🏽‍♂️

✉️ Can’t find the link to register in your March 24 email? Reach out via our contact form at our link in bio. 🔗

☎️ Reactivating Our Regional Reps Model with Regional Warm-Up Calls ☎️

ROOTers! We are reviving our former model of regional representation and kicking that process off with some Warm-UpCalls anchored by and Omari Fox!

We are building a membership collective to anchor our regions. At the moment, our regional template is comprised of the following (though these are soft outlines to get the momentum flowing):

⬆️ The Upsouth: Virginia, West Virginia, Washington DC, Maryland

↩️ The Mid-South: Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky

↘️ The South East Coast: North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

⬇️ The Gulf Coast: Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Florida, Alabama

📞 Join us for the first set of Warm-Up Calls this April! 📞

⬆️ & ↘️ The Upsouth & South East Coast: Regional Warm-Up Call Thursday, April 9

Members in Virginia, West Virginia, Washington DC, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia please join Omari Fox on Thursday, April 9 at 6:30pm ET / 5:30pm CT.

↩️ & ⬇️ The Mid South & Gulf Coast: Regional Warm-Up Call Thursday, April 16

Members in Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Florida, and Alabama please join King Shakur on Thursday, April 16 at 7:30pm ET / 6:30pm CT.

🖥️ REGISTER NOW for these calls! Find registration links in your April 13 email from Alternate ROOTS. Can’t find the link to register in your email? Reach out via our contact form at our link in bio. 🔗

📢 Attention ROOTS Members! Register NOW for Virtual Business Meeting Friday & Saturday, April 24-25 📢

🛠️ Participatory governance is hard work! And it takes all of us. 🛠️

✉️ Check your March 25 email for full details and a link to register! ✉️

The Alternate ROOTS Executive Committee will be leading a virtual Business Meeting :

📊 Friday, April 24, 5:30-8pm ET / 4:30-7pm CT
📊 Saturday, April 25, 10:30am-3pm ET / 9:30am-2pm CT.

Big thanks to the Membership Development Work Group of 2022-2024 who pushed for more opportunities for members to be meaningfully involved in the work of the organization!

🧑🏼‍❤️‍🧑🏽 We will still hold the Annual Business Meeting during ROOTS Week in August. 🧑🏼‍❤️‍🧑🏽

🙋🏽‍♂️ Join us in April as we re-connect with community and engage deeply with our vision for the future of Alternate ROOTS! 🙋🏽‍♂️

✉️ Can’t find the link to register in your March 24 email? Reach out via our contact form at our link in bio. 🔗

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