Join Us for Our Next General Meeting December 1, 2022 @ 5:30

The year 2022 is nearly at an end. While we actually have much to celebrate, we also have plans to make for 2023.  

Come for a Mix and Mingle and share your thoughts, ideas, wishes for the year ahead. Hear what your Steering Committee has to propose. Enjoy food and drinks as well as seeing the many who you have missed during these uncertain times.

During 2022 our theme for the General Meetings was Opportunities for Engagement. At each of the gatherings, we featured organizations and individuals who informed us about what they were doing, especially in preparation for the November elections, and how each of us could contribute to whatever cause we chose.     We did just that by volunteering to collect signatures, registering voters, using RTS, making calls, mailing post cards, writing letters, tweeting, and so much more. Many of us thought that our actions were small, even inconsequential, given the enormity of what lay ahead, but it is all those individual actions that form the critical mass which engenders change. In the year ahead, let us lead from there.

In 2023, let’s continue demonstrating that, indeed, It Takes a Village and that the community that is PI is ready for the challenge. Bring your suggestions as to what direction our group should take, actions we should promote and tell us what is important to you, how you want to be part of it all.              

The elections brought us some pleasant surprises, and we are glad for those, but there is still much work ahead. The legislature in Phoenix will continue trying to chip away at democracy. The Superintendent of Public Instruction-elect, if he follows through on campaign promises, will in effect turn citizens into classroom vigilantes by setting up a number anyone can call to report alleged CRT instruction. The Rs in Congress, w/ their slight majority, will promote contrarianism and retribution. Our state’s so-called Independent Redistricting Commission gifted us a horrifically redrawn CD which, in turn, brought us an election-denying Congressman about whom we know little, but who managed to get elected thanks to the deep pockets of an out-of-state dark money PAC with coffers of upwards of $1 billion dollars!!!!. And, affordable housing, water, overdevelopment, defunding of public education, all, are still very much part of what we also must address.              

Yes, another overwhelming year. But, with determination, and the full weight of all of our “small” actions, our PI Village can bring about change and create a just Community of which we can all be rightly proud.

-Maria Elena Dunn, Prescott Indivisible Steering Committee