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Interesting sort of feminist process, yes? Collective agreement re: ground rules, use of parking lot to be sure everyone has right/space to speak…? Did it seem successful, as a process? Any tweaking needed?

Reading this,  I am tracking the feminist orientation: no special knowledge needed to enter/participate in the conversation? . Ditto all the feminist processing above—not just within the organization, but in all community work as well.

Also interesting to note that the planning meeting works on another level, as your orientation…a nice model for doing orientation, I think.

I don’t see the organizing/politicking distinction you make. Is the divide instead between theory and praxis? Thinking and doing? Articulating and organizing?

There’s space, I think, both for liberal and radical feminist action: working w/in the system to get representation for the un- or under-represented, on the one hand, and working to change the system, on the other… not sure though how that lines up w/ your organizing/advocacy distinction….?

I too would be curious to learn the history about how WOMEN’S WAY has selected its three areas of issue advocacy.