E.A.T

EAT    Everyone Ate Today

This is the logo and the idea and the statement and the acronym and the sole goal of this, hopefully, self-organizing concept in which people get together in any way they want to and celebrate, discuss, raise funds which go to their local PTA organization (this could be the first order of business and method; saving the volunteers from having to create a separate economic and structural vehicle) to be earmarked for use only for making sure that the hungry amongst us also eat, as it is unhealthy and distasteful and mutually damaging for people to be eating next to people who are not; in other words if you are eating “next to” someone else who is not, especially children (who do not have the means to be self sustaining-being children), then there is psychological (loosely interpreted here) damage to both parties ( the eater and the hungry will both be “hurting”), which can only be solved by making sure that ……Everyone Ate Today.

It is quite important that there is consideration and basic anonymity relating to helping this situation; the children should be protected from being made into a public spectacle or being singled out or being celebrated, even, or made into “poster” situations to either aggrandize the donors or belittle or embarrass the recipients.  The idea is to prevent hunger and protect that need by being discreet and prudent in the distribution; again, these people do not have the power to control their destinies yet and so need to be protected until they do gain the power needed for them to choose publicity or anonymity.

The wording for fund raising should simply be: we are supporting EAT, a self organizing way for us to help the hungry, especially children in our community. It should be made clear that donations should be done in trust and people should not give more than they are willing to do without needing to follow the exact path of their monies and to not be interested in press, fame, or filming of the process.  The political colors of the activities can and should be diverse.

The structure for organization will basically be set up by volunteers who are loosely organized into “captains” and “volunteers”; self organizing through email connections (never giving out email lists though) and contacting each other with ideas where the recipients of the ideas can reach out to others through their own resources and contacts and come together to form an activity of one sort or another that supports EAT and the goals of EAT.

So….think of something that you want to do, be a captain of, or volunteer for and watch the exciting, fun and exceptional activities happen and feel the benefits of making sure that Everyone Ate Today.  Yahoo!