Join LILA

Are you interested in helping build our community?

Are you someone who lives in the Lehigh Valley that cares about creating an inclusive community upholding freedom for everyone? Would you consider yourself “left-leaning?” Do you reject fascism, neoconfederatism, totalitarianism, and other extremist ideologies? Do you want to give back to the Valley, support our underrepresented or oppressed community, and become prepared to handle emergencies? If so, LILA wants to hear from you!

Requirements

To join LILA, you must meet the following requirements:

• Must be 18 years old or older
• Must be a citizen of the United States
• Must be a resident of the Lehigh Valley
• You have no recent and relevant history of expressing sympathy or support for fascism, neoconfederatism, totalitarianism, or other related extremist ideologies.
• You do not actively participate in exclusionary ideologies such as, but not limited to, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, or religious discrimination.
• You are not currently employed, in a volunteer or paid capacity, as any manner of law enforcement who has the powers of arrest in their jurisdiction.
• You have not expressed clear intent to cause harm to the name or structure of the organization.
• You have not been expelled from other sympathetic or otherwise leftist organizations for character-based charges.
• From time to time, the organization may ask additional questions to applicants to better gauge the character and history of the applicant. You acknowledge that LILA may reach out to verify this information. LILA reserves the right to deny applicants who they feel will bring harm to the organization or whose views contradict the nature of the organization’s mission.

From time to time, our organization may ask additional questions to applicants to better gauge the character and history of the applicant. You acknowledge that LILA may reach out to verify your information. LILA reserves the right to deny applicants who they feel will bring harm to the organization or whose views contradict the nature of the organization’s mission.

What Happens Next

LILA plans on hosting monthly virtual meetings, quarterly in-person meetings, and various ad-hoc training sessions. We anticipate this to take some time to develop as the organization grows. We will ask members to attend all meetings when they are able. As we curate members, we will ask members to take turns hosting training sessions for their areas of expertise. We would expect members to participate in various training sessions as their schedules allow. We also plan on hosting regular “range days” at local shooting ranges to help our members become proficient in marksmanship and firearms.

Please have patience with us as we grow!

Are you ready?

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Name *

What should we call you? Feel free to use your legal name or a pseudonym.

Email *

How should we contact you?

Alternate Contact Method

If you have an alternate contact method (Signal, WhatsApp, etc.) please list it here and the method of contact. Example “@abc123 on WhatsApp.” If you plan on joining our Discord, let us know your username there so we can verify you.

What skills do you posses that are directly related to LILA's mission? *

• Disaster relief and/or emergency management
• First aid and/or field medicine
• Logistics
• Agriculture and/or gardening
• Survival skills and/or bushcraft
• Firearms and combat
• Communications
• Physical and/or digital security
• None of the above

Review the Our Mission page on our website (https://lehighinclusiveliberty.org/our-mission/) to learn more about skills that may be directly related to our mission. Don’t worry if you don’t see anything here that fits.

What skills do you hope to learn through LILA? *

• Disaster relief and/or emergency management
• First aid and/or field medicine
• Logistics
• Agriculture and/or gardening
• Survival skills and/or bushcraft
• Firearms and combat
• Communications
• Physical and/or digital security

Review the Our Mission page (https://lehighinclusiveliberty.org/our-mission/) and our What We Do page (https://lehighinclusiveliberty.org/what-we-do/) to learn more about what we hope to accomplish in building our community.

What skills do you posses that are indirectly related to LILA's mission? *

• Project management
• Graphic and/or web design
• Accounting
• Public speaking
• Volunteer management
• Fundraising
• None of the above

Review the Our Mission page on our website (https://lehighinclusiveliberty.org/our-mission/) to learn more about skills that may be indirectly related to our mission. Don’t worry if you don’t see anything here that fits.

What areas of focus do you wish to support LILA with? *

• Giving back: volunteering and charity
• Support: allyship and inclusiveness
• Preparedness
• Resource gathering: contacts and information
• Building the community
• Fundraising

Review the Our Mission page on our website (https://lehighinclusiveliberty.org/our-mission/) to learn more about skills that may be indirectly related to our mission. Don’t worry if you don’t see anything here that fits.

Tell us more about yourself *

Let us know a little bit more about you and how you want to help support LILA’s mission. We don’t expect you to put any Personally-Identifiable Information (PII) here, but any information you can provide to help us verify that you will support our mission will be helpful. Do you volunteer anywhere? Any special skills we should know about? Help us get to know you!

How will you support building an inclusive Lehigh Valley in these uncertain times? *

What do you hope to accomplish by joining LILA? Help us better understand why you want to join an organization of like-minded, left-leaning individuals.

What ideas, if any, do you have to support building LILA?

While not required, we would love to get your ideas on how LILA can fulfill its mission. Review the Our Mission page (https://lehighinclusiveliberty.org/our-mission/) and our What We Do page (https://lehighinclusiveliberty.org/what-we-do/) to learn more about what we hope to accomplish in building our community.

Membership Administrative Agreement *

• I understand and agree to the terms.

In checking the box above, you agree and confirm that you are 18 or older, a citizen of the United States, and reside in the Lehigh Valley. You acknowledge that LILA may reach out to verify this information.

Administrative with? LILA?

Membership Character Agreement *

• I understand and agree to the terms.

In checking the box above, you agree and confirm that you:

1) Have no recent and relevant history of expressing sympathy or support for fascism, neoconfederatism, totalitarianism, or other related extremist ideologies.
2) Do not actively participate in exclusionary ideologies such as, but not limited to, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, or religious discrimination.
3) Are not currently employed, in a volunteer or paid capacity, as any manner of law enforcement who has the powers of arrest in their jurisdiction.
4) Have not expressed clear intent to cause harm to the name or structure of the organization.
5) Have not been expelled from other sympathetic or otherwise leftist organizations for character-based charges.

From time to time, the organization may ask additional questions to applicants to better gauge the character and history of the applicant. You acknowledge that LILA may reach out to verify this information. LILA reserves the right to deny applicants who they feel will bring harm to the organization or whose views contradict the nature of the organization’s mission.

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