The Volunteer Recruitment Manifesto

Do you have a passion for proofreading? Can you do website updates in your sleep? Are you happiest when you’re dragging your tongue across an envelope? Do visions of mailing address labels dance in your head at night? Would nothing please you more than helping to plan a successful fundraiser?

And — most important — are you excited about alternative media and willing to put in a couple of hours here and there to help it flourish?

Then this is the opportunity you’ve been waiting for….

It turns out — I just counted — there are 1,138 separate tasks involved in promoting, administering, writing, editing, designing, funding, circulating, webmastering (and, hopefully soon, broadcasting!) Briarpatch Magazine, and in our ongoing efforts to produce the best fiesty lefty rag possible, we’re looking to develop a pool of dedicated volunteers to help with one aspect or another of the process.

If you’re interested, email editor ~at~ briarpatchmagazine.com and I’ll add you to a volunteer email list. From time to time (perhaps once a month), we’ll send out a list of upcoming volunteer opportunities that you may or may not choose to help out with.

Here’s an example of a few of the tasks we might include in one of these volunteer call-outs (though I doubt any call-out would include *all* of these):

- we need someone to count laps at our swim-a-thon
- we need 2-3 people to help with the next mail-out
- we need 1-2 proofreaders to hunt typos on the morning of __
- we need someone to transcribe a recording of a debate between Tom Waits and Donald Rumsfeld
- we need someone to edit that transcript
- we need help planning a kick-ass benefit concert at the Exchange
- we need someone to upload the latest issue of the magazine to our website
- we’re painting the office and could use the assistance of a couple of amateur Picassos
etc, etc….

(Many, not all, of these tasks will be limited to folks who live in the Regina area. If you live elsewhere but have long-distance-travelling skills to offer, drop us a line…

[Signed,]
Dave Mitchell
on behalf of
the Clandestine Revolutionary Volunteer Management Committee