An Invitation to Commonweal Subscribers
REINVENTING THE CLEVELAND COMMONWEAL LOCAL COMMUNITY The Cleveland CLC met 29 times, about once a month, between September 13, 2017, until we ceased gathering after February 24, 2020, due to the pandemic. A total of 36 names appeared at one time or another on the membership list. Almost all of these were Commonweal subscribers. In 2018 there were about 165 Commonweal subscribers with an email address within thirty miles of the center of Cleveland. Therefore, about one out of five of subscribers expressed some interest in our CLC. Commonweal provided me with the zip codes of subscribers with an email address who lived within thirty miles of downtown Cleveland. Analyzing that data I concluded: "In order to have CLC meetings within easy driving distance, there would have to be at least four or five CLC groups. If half of the subscribers in the area came, non-subscribers would have to be recruited if more than six persons were desired at meetings." Only about half of...