There are 120,000 Nepalis in America. 40,000 of them are in New York City. Say we try to organize 25% of them. That is 10,000 people. How do you go about it?
I think the basic building block has to be the House Party. If you gather 10 people on average per party, that is 1,000 house parties in the city you are looking at.
All these 10,000 people do not need to belong to the same organization. As long as they all are interconnected is all that matters.
That is where blogging comes in. Text, audio, video, photo.
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Blogging is what will make all the difference. Once you blog a house party, it can be related to at the city level, it can be related to by the people in Nepal.
It would help to have it at the same time all over the place. What would that be? The first Sunday of each month in the evening? Or the first weekend of each month? So it is okay if some people have it on Friday, some on Saturday, some on Sunday. Some might have it for lunch, some for dinner.
But you can only get the effect if all house parties feel connected. And for that there has to be an overriding theme.
That theme has to be political empowerment of the Nepali diaspora in New York City. That has to emerge as the topic that brings it all together. That is still a broad topic. And so this is at best the beginning of a conversation.
It has to get much more specific. Like voting rights in New York City. The goal has to be specific, and achievable. When you achieve one, you set a new goal, the next, bigger goal.
Once you set up the infrastructure, you go up, up and up.
Do events, blog events.
Expand organizations, launch organizations.
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