The Pull-Together Strategy
The two-week orchestration of mutual aid, assemblies and the open conversation — published so anyone can run it, here or in any neighbourhood.
Companion to the Candidate Team Playbook; the playbook's rules — the non-partisan floor, consent, no money — govern every line below. This calendar goes identically to every candidate team in both races. The budget it assumes: a team of five volunteers, no more than three hours each per week. Everything below fits inside that.
Beaches–East York Mutual Aid Networks ("BEY Mutual Aid") runs this calendar; your team plugs into it. Nothing here asks your campaign to run anything.
Week 0 — now through Sunday, August 17: open the doors
What the network does: stands up the directory, the ask-and-offer loop, and the public invite.
What your five can contribute in three hours or less:
- Share the public invite link — the same link everyone has — in your volunteer channels and
your conversations.
- Identify two volunteers willing to host: a listening hour now, or an assembly room later.
Hosts convene in their own name, as neighbours; the network equips them with the kit.
- All five read the one-page 101 and the playbook. Ten minutes each.
Week 1 — Monday, August 18 to Sunday, August 24: first assembly, first Hub Hour
What the network does: the pol.is conversation link goes out, identically to every team and every resident; the first citizens assembly weekend runs August 22–23, convened by local hosts; the first Hub Hour opens on the Danforth.
What your five can contribute in three hours or less:
- Share the pol.is link exactly the way everyone else does — one link, no framing, no campaign
wrapper.
- Attend the first Hub Hour — colours welcome, come as you are. (Just no literature or
canvassing at the table.)
- If one of your two hosts is ready, they convene their listening hour this week with the
network's kit.
- Start the consent habit at the doors: where a resident names a need and says yes, pass it to
the network's intake. Never without the yes.
Week 2 — Monday, August 25 to Monday, August 31: proof before the vote
What the network does: second assembly weekend August 29–30; then the first receipts post — needs surfaced, asks matched, neighbours met — published before voting day, Monday, August 31.
What your five can contribute in three hours or less:
- Keep consented, door-heard needs flowing into the loop all week.
- Attend the second assembly weekend as neighbours, if a host's room has space.
- The candidate's own hour: if it hasn't happened yet, this is the week — one Hub Hour, one
hour of listening, no speech.
- When the receipts post publishes, share it as-is. It is the network's proof, not anyone's
campaign material.
Week 3 — Tuesday, September 1 to Monday, September 7: hand it forward
What the network does: a retro with every volunteer — the research on networks like this is blunt that the week after the push is when they die, so the retro is load-bearing, not ceremonial — and the replication kit for Scarborough Southwest ships before that riding's voting day, Thursday, September 3.
What your five can contribute in three hours or less:
- Join the volunteer retro as neighbours: what worked, what broke, who is near the edge.
- Scarborough Southwest teams: the replication kit reaches you before September 3 — your own
Week 0 starts the day you open it.
- Any volunteer who wants to keep going joins the network as what they always were inside it:
a neighbour. The election ends. The needs don't.