[hope this is sufficiently relevant to this mailing list! and some of you may receive this email twice or already be involved with 30friends--thank you!]

Usually this time of year quite a few of us would be on Playa!

Some folks from my camp Starbarf have decided to pivot our usual Burning Man camp-building efforts to organize for the November election instead [1].

This week we're holding a few workshops at Virtual Burning Man to share what we've learned. We want to inspire & help other Burning Man camps to organize for increasing voter engagement (Burners Organizing Burners, some info here, more coming soon: https://30friends.mailchimpsites.com/)

Current schedule is 3 workshops, MWF 6pm PST this week (yes everything is very immediate in true playa spirit...).

If you or anyone in your camp/network wants to learn more and maybe join a workshop this week, please let me know / share this message! We're hoping to reach 500 camps :)

If you know anyone leading similar efforts, please connect us--we're looking for existing initiatives and haven't found anything yet.

The broad goal is to leverage the amazing collaborative organizational skills and value alignment of Burners to help save our democracy. We'll be continuing the effort beyond the week of the Virtual Burn of course, and there are many many ways to get involved.

An easy one is to sign up for weekly action emails through 30friends here: https://30friends.mailchimpsites.com/

With all my active hope,

Stacey

P.S. Happy to answer any questions! I realize this is a last minute and really appreciate your time and any connections you're willing to make.

[1] This effort became 30friends, a group of campmates + friends who have been phone banking, helping with design/branding/outreach, and basically working with existing organizations and campaigns as much as we can to get more people to vote, support vote-by-mail, turn more states/seats blue, and do everything in our power to prevent 4 more years of Trump.