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For four years, we have pushed through countless meetings to convince and never give up to convincing that this park isn't just for beautification or recreation: it must help the city deal with water, it must help the city confront climate change.
There are no emergency meetings, no headlines, no breaking news.
The husband won't clear up his clothes, or the wife's always late for meetings, whatever it is, OK?
Four years from now, we will recognize the 100th commemoration of that awful event, and in Tulsa, we are bringing every tool that we can to address that life-expectancy disparity, and we're not checking party registration cards at the door to the meetings.
He had frequently clashed with Harvey at Board meetings, and resented the spirit of change which Milk personified for many.
The board members, like Martha Lane Fox, who has hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter, and highly influential in business, tweeted how impressed she was, and within 10 months, we'd had meetings with Marks and Spencer to say, "We know this is difficult to be a living wage employer, but if you can be one, the rest of the sector will look at it, and it's not right that some of your amazing workers are working full time and still can't pay their bills.
We had lots of meetings with them.
Like Joyce, a flight attendant supervisor whose boss, in meetings every day, would tell her about the porn that he'd watched the night before while drawing penises on his notepad.
We have off-line meetings.
Or the weird timing of Nigel Farage's meetings with Julian Assange and with Trump's buddy, Roger Stone, now indicted, immediately before two massive WikiLeaks dumps, both of which happened to benefit Donald Trump.
Something I never talk about in scientific meetings is how I actually got to this state and why I do the work that I do.
He said, OK, we're going to start having these meetings.
And then I spent a year going to long, tedious, boring meetings, trying to sell this logo through to a huge corporation to the point of tears.
So during this time I needed some kind of counterbalance for this crazy, crazy existence of going to these long, idiotic meetings.
All the Freedom Riders, that's where they planned all their meetings.
Twenty years ago, my family introduced a system called "Friday Democracy Meetings."
These meetings were facilitated by one of my parents, and we even had a notetaker.
These meetings had two rules.
The topics which were discussed in these meetings varied from one week to another.
These meetings sound very peaceful, civil and democratic, right?
I thought that if I stopped attending these meetings anymore, the system would collapse, (Laughter) but my family continued with the meetings, and they often made decisions that I disliked.
But I could not challenge these decisions, because I was not attending the meetings, and thus had no right to go against it.
Ironically, when I turned about 13 years old, I ended up attending one of these meetings again, after I boycotted them for a long time.
And while they can hold their cabinet meetings underwater to send an SOS to the world, their country can keep existing only if their islands keep existing.
We took a lot of meetings and we seriously considered it.
So we started to have early team meetings, and we got everybody together, and it was really more like therapy in the beginning, convincing each other and reassuring each other that we could actually undertake this.
And what they found was, just having these meetings, it was like a kind of Alcoholics Anonymous for consumerism, right?
Getting people to have these meetings, articulate these values, determine to act on them and check in with each other, led to a marked shift in people's values.
And that actually is just our community mobilization process, it starts with village meetings, neighborhood meetings, and as you see, individual counseling of parents and families, to be able to bring the girls back into school.
And one of their projects was to see what makes meetings boring, and to try and do something about it.
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