You're invited to the Somerville City Council
Let's go to a meeting together!
I’ve been going to Somerville City Council meetings with friends and have found the experience to be very rewarding:
It has humanized our elected officials. Many are friendly and proactively introduce themselves!
I’ve gotten a pretty good handle on what’s going on in the city, and I feel more deeply connected with it.
Most people don’t attend the meetings, so we stand out in a good way.
There’s something special about going to City Hall. It’s a beautiful old building and it feels nice.
Witnessing government demystifies it in a hundred ways. It is no longer an amorphous blob, but specific humans doing concrete things for understandable reasons. I’ve gained a much better handle on how I might make political change happen at some point.
Like most things, this experience is more fun with friends. We catch more subtleties, laugh at the funny parts together, and share the occasional good-natured eye-roll.
The next meeting I’m attending is February 27th, 2025. If you’d like to join me and have a nice time, drop me an email at ben@benorenstein.com. Please share a little bit about yourself and what you’d like to get out of the meeting.
