Get it off my chest: “What’s your stop sign?”

WMN member Chassah Perez knows that all politics is local. Here’s the latest “Get It Off My Chest” member post:

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So last weekend I went to a WMN meeting. The meetings are always great because I feel really re-charged afterward. While we were talking about local politics and how they work (or don’t) for constituents, we started talking about everyday people who get super involved in their communities. The ones who go to all the meetings, know who to call to complain about this or that around the neighborhood, and work tirelessly to get speed bumps installed, street lights put up, and stop signs moved (for example).

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The point is these people know how to get things done, and more often than not they have the time to dedicate to figuring it out. They’ve sat on hold, sent dozens of letters, and yes, have gone to all the meetings.

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But, we don’t all have that kind of time to figure it out. To “figure out” civic participation, how to interact with the bodies that govern our local communities, to get what it is we want done. But maybe we also haven’t identified the thing that stirs us locally, that makes our pulse pound, causes us to talk the ear off of our best friend or inspires us. Maybe we each need to start by identifying our own personal “stop sign.”

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What’s your “stop sign”?

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What’s the thing that you want to see changed where you live? What do you wish was different?

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-Chassah