TRUTH NEVER DIES COMMUNITY'S

THE TRUTH NEVER DIES COMMUNITY’S Leadership Board of Conductor INTRODUCTION “The great leaders are like the best conductors- they reach beyond the notes to reach the players”. -Blain Lee, THE POWER PRINCIPLE The Truth Never Dies movement has been a dynamic force behind the fight of liberation for Leon Benson (LB), an innocent & political prisoner, wrongfully incarcerated in Indiana. Although there has been some progress & success a long the way, the mission is far from being completed. The key to some of the progress over the years has been due to LB’s personal efforts from the inside. However, the bigger portion of the progress happened as a result of many supporters, women & men, from around the world. Seemingly ordinary people, these supporters are what we deem as leaders. Leaders because they each had the courage, patience, direction, creativity, & humanity to take appropriate action on behalf of LB. However, they each lacked a major element to secure victory: unified efforts. There is only so much one person can do without the help of a community, i.e, common unity. Here the community we are referring to are the group of people around the world who not only proclaim, but actually stand for the values of truth & justice; & who also live by the faith, belief, & practical mantra: “TRUTH NEVER DIES IT’S ONLY REDISCOVERED!” We live in an Information Age where the sense of community is global. To connect with people w/ the same values & purposes are but a click a way on a cell phone or computer. Our friend LB has been wrongfully in prison for 20 yrs too long. Therefore, we are now bringing together the best available leaders in an organized & productive structure. For its founders “Truth Never Dies!” is a way of life & philosophy, not merely a movement’s slogan. We envision nothing will manifest without the assembling of a unique symphony of conductors to make the world dance to the musical notes of truth, freedom, & justice. Therefore, if you are sincerely interested & committed in becoming a TND conductor. This memorandum will be an outline & guide to the expectations & duties of each Leader-ship Board Conductor & team supporter. LEADERSHIP BOARD’S CONDUCTOR ROLES “The voice of individuals are hidden in a chorus while the voices of all are heard, & thus a harmony emerges”. -Macrobius 1.Management Conductor 2.Events Conductor 3.Membership Conductor 4.Public Relations Conductor 5.Legal Conductor 6.Fundraiser Conductor 7.Arts & Designs Conductor 8.Team Supporters In order for you to lead your team effectively you must first understand your role & the roles of others within the organization. Having a clear understanding of your expectations, procedures, & responsibilities is key to & maintaining a successful community. Having systemic structure & formation allows for all individuals to harmonize in efforts, which is of great importance when building anything of enduring success. Whether it be a building, business, movement, or family. The the above roles are each different, yet when they are performed in unity, they will act as the same mind, voice, & body. Leaders achieve results for their communities by giving priority attention to the needs of their members. Consider yourself than to be conductor of symphony of human resource- creativity, networks, knowledge, & spiritual energy. While each conductor is responsible to fulfill her’s or his own role, they must do so w/ the purpose & desire to serve others. You must be committed to serve in order to lead. The only ways to achieve this type of service • leadership is to be trustworthy, self- aware, empathetic, empowering, visionary, & humble. Therefore, your role or position does not matter in the community in order to have a great impact, you’ll display service in your leadership whether you’re the CEO or a mail sorter. Here’s an inspiring example below: “ In the early days of space research, John F. Kennedy visited NASA. He met many great scientists & researchers. He met men & women w/ great ambition to conquer space travel & engineers. He met administrators & accountants; & many others whose contributions to the project was priceless. These men & women had a sense of destiny , purpose, & pride. While walking back to his limousine from out the facility, he crossed a stooped, gray- haired man who held a bucket in one hand & a mop in the other. It seemed to be almost patronizing to ask , but the President asked politely, “And what it is you do here at NASA?” Straightening his posture, the cleaner looked squarely into the President’s eyes & w/ a strong sense of inspiration & dignity in his voice he replied, “Sir, I’m doing the same work over here as everyone else. I’m doing my part to put man on the moon! The old man in the story was a service- leader in his role at NASA. He was committed to doing his part. He did not let his e.g.o ( erasing God out) get in the way of his performance doing clean up work w/ common unity, i.e., community. And it is this type of leader we need to be TND conductors. As a conductor or team supporter you will have many opportunities to assist the TND movement. But it will take team work to run a successful campaign. The following are the expectations & duties of each leadership role. 1.Management Conductor You are the tone setter, for not only the other conductors, but the entire movement. You are expected to provide helpful & supportive leadership for all functions. Here are more specific expectations & duties: •Must have some type of management experiences in business or campaign organizing; •Must keep things properly functioning & organized in all conductor departments; •a Must keep persistent correspondence w/ LB & consult key issues w: him; •Must be knowledgeable of LB’s case story, appeal status, & all major campaign happenings; •Must organize & schedule leadership board meetings w/ all other conductors at least twice a month via conference by phone, skype, or in person to review ideas, problems, & progress reports from each department; •Must be willing to perform any conductor role when needed or until the position is filled properly ; •Must hold conductors & team supporters accountable when discover they are not performing their agreed upon duties or projects properly; •Must call leadership board meeting to vote to select a conductor or to demote one. All these decisions must be voted upon; •Must attend any major TND event or at least have a management emissary in your absence. As the management conductor you must create a positive learning & safe environment to enhance the movement’s quality of professionalism through well ran, energetic, & interesting events & content. You must listen to others w/ patience to resolve conflicts as they arise. Therefore, you must be flexible & innovation in your thinking & leadership. In the book “Geeks & Geezers” author Warren G. Bennis observed, “Leaders create meaning out of events & relationships that devastate non- leaders. Leaders who succeed again & again are geniuses at grasping context.” You must keep the movement in context & see practical meaning in every event & relationship involved. 2. Events Conductor As the events conductor you will be tasked to make a schedule for events such as fundraisers, court dates, rallies, & all major releases (news, petitions, music, books, video, interviews etc.,.) You will set order & direction of the movement. All conductors will notify you about events they are planning so you can fit it into the TND public calendar online. Here are more specific expectations & duties: •Must have experience & a natural sense of organizing business or activity calendars; •Must help management conductor schedule & plan leadership board meetings; •Must encourage conductors & team supporters to fulfill their event duties thru phone call,text,email, &/ or inbox; •Must work w/ promotions conductor to promote events online; •Must be willing to help other conductor teams w/ event preparations, if need be; •Must create an events team to reduce any of your work load. However, accountability will always be heavier on your shoulders; •Must allow events to be planned at least 90 days in advance before posting them on the public/ online calendar to ensure flexibility in rescheduling if needed; •Must attend leadership board meetings & provide an events report; •Must make an events success & impact. And to honor conductors & team supporters who organized them. Your jobs keeps the movement in a purposeful direction. By having a public calendar of all events it not only gives the community a chance to prepare for them, but it keeps record of the things we completed. Both of which heightens an environment of competence & professionalism. For every successful event is like a stream set in motion that leads to a bigger ocean. And that oceanic even will be justice & freedom for LB. 0. Membership Conductor. Your task is to bring competent people into TND’s membership. Typically, membership is anyone deemed worthy of being a team supporter. Team supporters do not have to directly work w/ conductors, but all team supporters must make contributions of persistent efforts in advancing any project, event, & over all movement’s agenda. Therefore, you must have experience w/ dealing w/ people of all backgrounds & reading them. It is vital that you select the right people who have the same core values: Truth Never Dies! Because we want to harmonize these energies into realistic results. Therefore, you must be attentive to team supporter membership numbers & their locations in order to effectively place each member w/ an appropriate conductor’s team. You are like a master chess player positioning key pieces on the board to acquire victory. Here are more specific expectations & duties: •Must have some background in judging the characters of people; •Must create a team supporter expectation packet; •Must create a team supporter list /data & have demographic lists. And you must use this info to help other conductors to effectively gage support for events in particular areas; •Must attend at leadership board meetings w/ a membership progress report; •Must connect mentors for new team supporters members; •Must help create a code of conduct & membership application; •Must seek out high profile team supporter membership too; •Must create events to build membership; •Must be able to speak to others about your personal inspiration for being a TND member. Essentially, you will be the lead cultivator of a community of leaders. You must have deep vision & empathy to identify & select members w/ a sincere spirit & w/ practical resources to aid the whole. 4.Public Relations Conductor You will promote TND to the world. You are our spokesperson. You will be seen in the public eye more than any other member. Your image is very important because it will be connected to the TND movement & missions. The public must relate to you. As a whole, promotions can be an enormous task. You will need a promotion team. In which you will interact to keep the team functioning effectively. Promotion will operate in the following capacities: a) websites, b) social media, c) radio/ podcast, d) video, e) print & f) live events. You must want to see the movement as a brand & want it to succeed. You’ll help create & maintain social network presence on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Meet up etc.,. You must creat, promote, & protect a powerful, positive image & presence in media. Here are more specific expectations & duties: •Must have some background experience in promotions & public relations; •Must be a natural people person & love communication; •Must be knowledgeable of different cultures, religion, & politic. Being able to speak a second language is a plus; •Must be a good public speak.And always be prepared to speak about any aspect of the movement at any time; •Must attend all leadership board meetings & provide a PR/ promotional report; •Must assemble appropriate promotional teams to assist you (you’ll be accountable for them); •Must communicate w/ other conductors & LB to know which content to promote & upon which out let; •Must organize an inter department promotional schedule where each day of the week will focus on different aspects of the movement; •Must always be innovative w/ promotional strategies (e.g., When & how to release video, news, music, blogs, etc.,.); •Must review all promotional content to assure its quality & effectiveness. You will be a beaconing light to the community through your work. Your appearance on any public platform will not only promote TND, but will protect the integrity of the brand, & ensure respect from the public. 5. Legal Conductor As the legal conductor you will be tasked w/ creating & maintaining the movement’s records, files, documents, & correspondence. You will have to keep these records organized & readily available when needed for different reasons. You are responsible for having up-to-date records of all conductors & team supporters status w/ in the TND community . And you will perform tasks that keeps the movement organized by all means. Here are more specific expectations & duties: •Must have some secretarial experience. And being OCD is a plus; •Must have at least a basic understanding of how the three branches of U.S, government operates on federal & state levels (i.e., executive, judicial & legislative); •Must have a basic understanding in how the procedural processes operate in criminal & civil trials, state appeals, & federal appeal; •Must be able to answers a legal questions & concerns regarding LB’s pending case; •Must be able to effectively consult & converse w/ any one in the legal community (I.e., lawyers, judges, governors, law professors etc.,.) when needed; •Must create a legal community support packet of LB’s legal needs of his case; •Must proof read content for blogs, promotions, & events for any spelling & grammar errors; •Must attend all leadership board meetings & have a legal report; •Must take the minutes at every leadership board meetings; •Must help create, maintain, & amend a code of conduct for all TND members; •Must help draft & proof read business/ legal contracts when ever they are needed or arise from other entities; •Must be ready to speak publicly regarding the legality of LB’s case & the contradictions in the U.S, criminal justice system as a whole. Your role as legal conductor is powerful toward maintaining order, organization, understanding, & communication throughout the TND community & w/ outside entities. By your logistical organizing it will set a professional tone in the environment. Everything that is powerful & successful is orderly. And there can be no order w/o things being in their correct relation to each other. By creating & maintaining the correct relations of records in the movement, then justice will evolve more freely. 6.Fundraiser Conductor You will plan & assist other conductors (if need be) in planning fundraisers. Part of your responsibilities will be preparing & over seeing fundraises budgets, filing necessary tax forms; & keeping timely, accurate & updated financial records. All fundraiser proposals are to be presented to you first. And during leadership board meetings you present the proposal & your opinions about it & a vote must be made to pass or deny the proposal. When approved by majority of leadership board members an event date will be set & preparation will be made to make the event happen (whether online or live venue). Here are more specific expectations & duties: •Must have fundraising experience of some sort. Having accountant experience is a plus; •Must not have any history of dishonesty; •Must attend all leadership board meetings & provide fundraiser report; •Must keep financial records & send all copies to legal conductor; •Must know how to set up & run crowd funding websites & how to utilize promotion team when needed; •Must review all proposals of fundraising from all conductors before approval. Through creative fundraising you will build appropriate finances to re- invest into more fundraising opportunities. You will utilize all the creative skills & talents of the TND community. And use this independence to achieve necessary goals on our own terms. 7.Arts & Designs Conductor You will provide on artistic touch through the movement. You will utilize every available artistic out let: visual, logo/ branding, music,video, performing,etc.,. But the way this out is presented to the world is of great importance. The TND community does not take its image for granted. You and your A&D team must be innovative, especially when it comes to promotional & fundraiser aims. Art is powerful. Art communicates on a deeper level than regular messages. The work you do will transcend & out live the movement. Here are more specific expectations & duties: •Must have a background in the outs as to have the insights in the process of creating; •Must have a good work ethic in completing projects in a timely manner; •Must work closely w/ other conductors, but especially the Public Relation Conductor; •Must attend all leadership board meeting & provide an A&D progress report; •Must assemble A&D team that can handle the artistic needs of: clothing designs, video & audio commercials, documentaries, mimes, music, media outs, album/book covers, fliers etc.,., •Must always secure proper copyrights for all TND projects & credit artists for their work; •Must create proper contracts w/ all artists in house & those out sourced. And share all contracts w/ legal conductor for review & filing; •Must create an A&D packet. As the A&D conductor you’ll keep the movement inspired to create more & the world inspired to look closer to our plight. You will make the public embrace the TND movement in a unique & even iconic way. 8. Team Supporters “The master mind group is defined as coordination of knowledge & effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people for the attainment of a definite purpose”. -Napoleon Hill As a team supporter you will be different from a moral supporter (i.e., who only repost content, like, & comment on social media; who show up every now & again at live events). You are agreeing to do more direct & useful work in the movement, whether w/ a specific conductor’s team or on your own. As a TS your work will be specific & project based. This will allow you room to do other things in your personal life if need be after completing project tasks. We understand that some TS work will be seasonal or when they are able to fully commit support aims. However there will be many other TS who are more persistent w/ their work w/ the TND collective. You will always be called to participate in events that are held in your area. And you can choose to commit to such a project or not. But never make any empty promises (if you can not provide a respectful excuse for your absence you will be terminated as TS). In either case, for the short or long term, your work assignments will be vital to the movement. Your position is just as important as a conductors. Because you will touch the common people more through your work. They will see your examples of team work & attainment of definite purpose, & be inspired. The conductor’s team you may be assigned will be done so by your unique skill sets, desires, & location. As a TS you will promote TND in everyday places (i.e., school, work, the gym, club etc.,.,) your aim will be to get more people to register to be TND members & TS. Even more, you will assist in the leg work of your team: passing out fliers, protesting, fundraising, typing content, & making suggestions of improvement to any project your working. Here are more specific expectations & duties: •Must register as TS w/ membership conductor & list your skill sets & where you will like to work. And why you want to help the movement; •Must always follow your conductors project plan ( if you don’t have a better idea); •Must be willing to work in teams & in hands on situations; •Must never mix your personal &/ or other’s political agendas w/ that of TND if they do not naturally align; •Must be respectful to opposing groups; •Must report any suspected wrong doing of any member to management conductor or any conductor; •Must always brings a positive attitude & leave your e.g.o at the door. Look at RS & the TND collective like a starfish community. When a starfish is cut into seven different pieces, they become seven different starfish on the same mission. Ordinary movements die off if you cut an arm , head, or leg from the body. Not our starfish community. We don’t die, we multiply. Now it’s obvious why we chant: TRUTH NEVER DIES ITS ONLY REDISCOVERED!” IN CONCLUSION The above role descriptions are but on outline & guide to the aspired leadership structure. There are more details to be shared. But for now, this will give you an ideal of what is expected if you’d like to be amongst the leadership of the TND community. Accountability & responsibility are key points in establishing leadership in any organization. Nothing can be done appropriately w/ out procedural we look forward to working w/ you soon. Until then, be prepared to play your role. Now we await your reply. Let’s win! #TND