How To Build Community

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


Poster #P470CW SCW1998. Text: Members of SCW Community. Karen Kerney, watercolor. Available laminated, also as a T-shirt, notecard, postcard, bookmark and in Spanish. TOOLS FOR CHANGE catalog from Syracuse Cultural Workers (SCW), box 6367, syracuse, NY 13217 USA 315.474.1132, www.syrculturalworkers.com. Also available: How to Build GLOBAL community. Printed by union labor on recycled paper containing postconsumer waste. 9/04