How Can I Get Involved?

Link Up!

• Share information about your progressive, non-profit organization through the on-line progressive directory
• Add progressive events and meetings to the on-line progressive community calendar. If you don't want to wait on us to push a button behind the scenes for your post to appear, all you need is a user account. Simply write to webmaster@etnpronet.org and request one.
• Use your writing skills to write a newsletter for the Network or an article about the Network for your newsletter, paper, and bulletins – We can help with the copy if you’d like.
• Make a donation - We're an all-volunteer effort; every dollar donated and every hour volunteered makes a difference! You donation will be used to maintain this website and advance face-to-face gatherings and information sharing.
• Host a House Party - a fun gathering, not a fundraiser - it's "Activism at Home"
• Tell your friends and colleagues about the Network and its resources. Download ETNPRONET flyers and post them around town.
• Add your personal information to a growing directory of progressive-minded individuals (which will not be publicly displayed) so we'll know how to reach you as the Network grows. We will respect your time and attention and will only use this list for important updates/activities of the Network movement.
• Volunteer to contact organizations and encourage them to list their information on the directory and events/meetings on the calendar.
• Help us with graphic design for handbills, flyers, posters, a logo...
• Use your technology skills to help develop and maintain features on the website.
• Send us digital pictures of your house parties & progressive events to share on the website.
• Link www.etnpronet.org to your website.

Activism At Home!

Together we can increase the strength and solidarity of the progressive community base in East Tennessee by organizing around relationship building nurtured through small house parties. "Activism at Home" is what we've called it. The ETNPRONET house parties are not fundraisers, but rather are intended to be small intimate gatherings fostering dialogue among participants to get to know one another as individuals rather than as just names attached to causes, issues, or organizations. We also intend for this space to welcome people who have progressive leanings but have not gotten active before to be meet other like-hearted and minded individuals and find out about the Network's resources to connect them with groups working on issues that match their interests.

The agenda for these gatherings is first and foremost about getting to know one another through dialogue and letting topics of interest and concern arise from the wisdom of those in the group. The parties can be focused on a specific topic, however, such as sustainable community development, how to articulate values, information sharing on a civil liberties issue, etc.

After a number of house parties have been held, we will invite everyone who has attended a house party to a larger gathering to meet each other. This cycle will build on itself and we'll repeat the process several more times. Once we have representatives from a number of the counties in East Tennessee, we will work with members to sponsor a regional, community based, collaboration-building gathering(s). And we won't stop there. Please visit our FAQ's to find out more about the Network's strategy.

Host a house party and co-create the movement! Its simple and fun, and we have a house party kit to help with the planning.

Click here to download a house party kit (in PDF format). We look forward to meeting you, and hearing about your party plans!

The Circle has healing power. In the Circle, we are all equal. When in the Circle, no one is in front of you. No one is behind you. No one is above you. No one is below you. The Sacred Circle is designed to create unity. The Hoop of Life is also a circle. On this hoop there is a place for every species, every race, every tree and every plant. It is this completeness of Life that must be respected in order to
bring about health on this planet.
~Dave Chief, Oglala Lakota~