MEMBER INTERVIEW Warren 20142021

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00:56 Introduction, family life • 2:18 High school, military school • 2:42 events leading up to finding out about East Wind and moving there • 5:25 Wrote letters to East Wind and Twin Oaks, comparing the two • 6:51 What were you reasons and motivations for visiting East Wind? (didn’t know anyone) • 8:18 Flying into Springfield, getting picked up, etc. • 10:01 Arriving on the land, only visitor on the his Visitor Period • 11:11 First full day on the land, first impressions, visitor period • 13:30 Any standout memories from those first few months? • 14:48 Who were your first friends? (ranch program) • 15:42 Where did you live first? When did you move to Sunnyside? • 17:05 Sunnyside is the party dorm, as someone who isn’t a big drinker, etc. how did you fit in there? (extended talk on Sunnyside culture, social scene) • 21:27 So, the person who kicked down your door, who had to fix it? =) • 21:50 Overconsumption, availability and opportunity for drinking/smoking • 23:13 Do you think alcohol and substance abuse is a problem at East Wind? (talk on trauma, excess, people not being themselves, building habits, seeing people where they are, avoiding judgment, etc.) • 26:13 Living with people, having a routine and seeing other people’s routines, communal life making it easier to pick up when someone is feeling out of ways. However, things usually don’t come into focus unless there is an acute event. How has your experience been in dealing with issues that result from excess drinking, anger, trauma? (community process, engagement) • 27:58 What have you learned from being a participant in meetings and these various processes? (explanation of meetings and formats, emergency meetings, lack of community cohesion, meeting exhaustion, lack of work done PREmeeting, etc.) • 34:02 Can we get a candle here, brah? • 34:08 What were some of your first work areas? (EWNutButters sanitation manager) • 36:27 Holding a managership for multiple years (a rarity at EWNB), the learning curve, competency • 38:06 Burn out in East Wind Nut Butters (EWNB) • 39:16 Training people at East Wind, getting someone to take over a managership (passing on responsibilities), advice for people working in EWNB **lots of great stuff here!** • 43:50 Which skills learned at East Wind do you value the most? • 44:39 Moving to East Wind, helping to deal with video game addiction (addiction to computer stuff) • 46:31 When are you leaving? • 46:36 Why are you leaving? (1. party culture, 2. business leadership, 3. Strong disagreement with two relatively new members {~3 yr members} guiding community conversation) • 48:55 Where do you see the direction at East Wind going? • 50:40 What do you appreciate most about living at East Wind? • 52:06 What do you like least? (so much, so many resources, so many options, excess pet projects, the overwhelming nature of these conditions, etc.) • 53:01 What is an actually bad thing that you actually don’t like? (lack of vision, future, planning for children) • 54:13 How do you define egalitarianism? And what is your opinion of East Wind as an egalitarian community? • 54:40 Egalitarianism and the labor system, what is your opinion of the labor system (one hour of work is one hour of work)? • 56:54 What are you looking forward to most, moving back out? • • You can learn many practical skills at East Wind. http://www.eastwind.org • • Please feel free to ask questions and post critiques! • • Video put together by Sumner

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