FridaysforFuture School Striker Twitter Workgroup

Twitter Account: https://twitter.com/f4f_ss

Please follow us!

email: f4f_ss@fridaysforfuture.org

As the core work group members are between 13-17 years old, maximum of 8 people, including supporting adults.


There are two ways for adults to be involved:
A. Co-Sponsor
The co sponsorship role involves:
1. joining a 1 hour meeting 2-4 times per year.
2. promoting the account by retweeting a few times a month and
3. agreeing to the core values and agreements of this work group for the Twitter account.

B. Supporting Adult -
The supporting adult role involves:
1. Joining a 1 hour meeting per week. Also, preparation and follow up for these meetings, e.g. minutes, action points.
2. Promoting the account by actively retweeting around once per day.
3. Discussing, negotiating and supporting the work group through the agreement process of the core values and agreements for the Twitter account. Following through by working with sharing within the work group.
4. Working with sharing towards other work groups within Fridays For Future and other more external parties.
5. Training and support in areas where clear courses may be lacking, including twitter training:
a. how to separate private and public social media?
b. How to deal with trolls?
c. How to react on twitter?
d. How to find out who to try to trust?

e. How to welcome followers?

f. Who to call on for support and help?

g. What techniques to watch and learn how to retweet to gain maximum following?

And other media and work group training. Long term work groups are built and need parity to work well together. Long term power imbalance needs adjusting for, what options can we see?

Also, how do we create a good landing place as we move out of school?


At present the work group members are in the Slack.
To gain an invitation to the Slack please agree to this Vision Proposal:

Suggested Core Values and Agreements

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/gdpr-agreement-form/




Tips:

1. basic setup, twitter, and why twitter?

2. How does reporting our work build the greater good?

1. a. how to separate private and public social media?

b. How to deal with trolls?
c. How to react on twitter?
d. How to find out who to try to trust?

e. How to welcome followers?

f. Who to call on for support and help?

g. What techniques to watch and learn how to retweet to gain maximum following?

h. Learn to use Tweetdeck and share your account and join in on other accounts.

https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/


2. Climate gets all activists down. What options do you have when Climate gets you down?

You may be able to choose to be either depressed or angry.

When Climate gets you down, if you can steer yourself away from the lonely depression experience, which can be a negative spiral, and towards the more public angry feeling. Anger can be done in a group and actually can lead to a from of therapy together.

That is why 'public' action is often a form of public anger and is very important, especially for the people being active. We can be angry together!

Think of FridaysForFuture as a form of Mexican waves of anger across the world every week. This is why reporting regularly to show others your anger, becomes important for both them and you.


3. A friend asks to join Climate and asks for advice on how.

a. Send through the Vision and Core Values documents

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/vision/

https://actionnetwork.org/forms/gdpr-agreement-form/

This way they know the boundaries which enable them to work with others and fell safe. This will also bring them into the chat groups, eg slack.

b. Ask questions about their interests, goals and plans.

c. Or are they looking for a 'social method' of joining, eg doing some work to meet people and working their way from there.


4. Local autonomy versus xxxx led?

They pushed out some people to another place to remove an activists power. And the activist never objected, the activist was of the thinking. 'I could not see why we could not be on another side of the building or with a big city another location. I get it that some activists did not want me sitting on their knee, when you are 18 you are searching for a partner and means you do not want your parents hanging around. It was all fine with me. My goal is climate.'

Can one group push a person away from a location or a time and how shall this happen?

5. Public figure process and collectivism

A person choosing a path of building a brand. An activist said, 'I did it because it seemed ridiculous to make it so that there was only one or a few people were doing the personal public stuff and to not do it seemed silly.'.

There is a difference with a person who is truly trying to break the 'big time' with publicity and those that do it just because it feels like it is needed. The difference is hard to see but it is probably an important one, and it shows probably in how genuinely inclusive the activist is. eg. sex, race, age etc

The easiest way to see this may be to think in terms of:

Is this action 'in service of' the climate?
Is this action 'in service of' someone or something else?


6. What is activism?

It is standing up to the powerful in a public way.

7. Why are private issues, car, plastic and meat, closely associated individual 'needs' more likely to produce guilt and reduce the chances of individuals 'speaking truth to power'?

Maybe this approach works:



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