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How To Build Community


Turn off your TV * Leave your house
Know Your Neighbors * Pick up litter * Greet People
Share what you have * Mediate a conflict
Look Up when you’re walking * Honor elders * Sit on your stoop
Help a lost dog * Take Children to the park * Plant flowers
Use your library * Play together * Read stories aloud
Support the neighborhood schools * Have pot lucks
Buy from local merchants * Garden together
Fix it even if you didn't break it * Seek to understand
Start a tradition * Dance in the street * Talk to the mail carrier
Listen to the birds * Put up a swing * Ask a question
Help carry something heavy * Barter for your goods
Organize a block party * Hire young people for odd jobs
Ask for help when you need it * Bake extra and share
Sing together * Share your skills * Open your shades
Take back the night * Turn up the music * Turn down the music
Listen before you react to anger * Learn from new and uncomfortable angles
Know that no one is silent, though many are not heard
Work to change this.
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