After the first days of 2016, I knew we should all start documenting the changing national movements. The headlines from week to week blasted across social media, memes and hashtags in solidarity, everyone was engaged in one way or another and everyone had an opinion.

Did we all get sucked into a time warp, volunteering away our time with no eyes on the prize, zooming in on issue after issue and policy after policy…all of them needing changes, along with, needing people to make those changes and change to make change spread.

International and national foundations, have that change to mobilize a nation. Populate press releases, nail down media communications, develop social media graphics for all platforms…teams in uniform to take action at the blast of the horn from above.

As grassroots, it’s a freestyle session, much like web3. A blend of skills, passions and viewpoints all coming together with the inner heart to show up and offering that heart to the cause. Often times there is no single pointed vision, we’re forced into reactionary calls to actions as the headlines shift and sway. Policy going through, call to action! Campaign to push “win the house,” call to action! Web3 it’s new drops, new sales, now policy has entered the chat.

How do we prepare better, how do we mobilize better? How do we better nurture those roots in communities where they may not even use a hashtag, but are already standing up in their community even it’s only to decorate a pine tree at a busy four way intersection. Passing on smiles to those who pass by, sometimes those are the “fights” that can prevent us from getting into these reactionary ways.

From the ground up, solidarity, trust, loyalty, friendship…these represent also the space of web3. Where now more than ever must we put our differences into a pile and spider map our way into efficiency. No top down directions, but a true assembly of the people, where we chart our way forward. Policy is coming. Candidates who will speak highly of cryptocurrencies too, but yet many have ignored the call to action from us begging them to learn, but the campaigns will suck up energy, will toss and turn emotions and pull us all in many directions (as it’s already doing). We may not have a single pointed focus. Often in grassroots there isn’t one either, but through our range of experiences and expressions, we will be able to not only educate the everyday worker and grassroots politicians who will more readily be on the side of the people over the banks, but we’ll be able to use (and grow) this technology of blockchain far into the future.

This isn’t for us…it’s for the future, we’re only helping lay the foundation, which hopefully lasts longer than the rickety one so many generations have been left with before. We can make repairs, we can look to those who have been here and there before, but the key is everyone taking action. “For us, by us…” let’s turn the hashtag movements into lessons for the future. Changing the meaning of divide and conquer from it’s competitive nature to more coalition based definition, where we all realize how important it’s going to be to work together.

Take these movements as a reflection, mass mobilization…international recognition and still fighting for the change with now years of new issues piled on top of them. Looking to the top won’t be enough, each of our steps forward are either condoning the issues or building new systems where we’re providing solutions for those issues.

Meme on…hashtag on…let’s keep mobilizing the people and the politicians or the tools.