The Grassroots Vorpal Pipeline (GVP)

The Grassroots Vorpal Pipeline (GVP) is the codename for The People's Coalition's calendar system. This webpage is an effective tool that enables you to find groups with like-minded goals, keep your own list of groups, and view the events of numerous grassroots groups on one calendar. For group organizers, the GVP also strengthens intergroup communication and cooperation by harnessing resources.

Group and Event Visibility

The GVP quickly allows you to easily keep track of everyone’s events on a single calendar, which inevitably increases the membership and visibility of each of the groups registered with the system. In fact, as more groups sign up, the system becomes more powerful because the grassroot efforts gain more exposure.

Inter-Group Communication

The GVP helps groups work together by enhancing communication, enabling distinct groups, if so desired, to become influential coalitions. For instance, your group may request other groups co-sponsor an event and, in turn, those groups may add your event to their individual calendars, exponentially increasing your event’s visibility. Further, it allows group organizers to effectively communicate amongst themselves.

So, let's say you form a new group and have a fantastic idea for an event—but your group has almost no membership or resources. The GVP enables your group to contact other groups who may be interested in co-sponsoring your event, spontaneously facilitating the formation of a powerful coalition.

Each group’s administrator could then put your event on their group’s calendar, e-mail their membership about your event, and even share resources with you.

In fact, other groups may see your event co-sponsored on another group’s calendar and then decide to back it themselves. This process, in effect, immediately creates a global consciousness. Simply put, what started as a basic idea, let’s say for a demonstration or a march, can end up becoming a significant large-scale event backed by a commanding coalition of like-minded groups—allowing you to realize your ultimate goal of affecting social change.

So there you have it. A spark of a basic idea placed on the GVP can instantaneously ignite a grassroots wildfire, strategically connecting you to other groups, events, and resources.

What's in a Name?

The word vorpal comes from the poem “Jabberwocky,” published in 1871 in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

By context, the term implies a type of weapon used to cut off the head of an opponent. In the poem, the opponent is the monster “Jabberwocky.”

For grassroots groups, the opponent is inevitably the Establishment’s pithy disregard of the people’s voice. However, because of the unlimited potential of the GVP, the Establishment can no longer pretend the people have no power. In fact, the GVP unleashes the power of the people—all to the betterment of society and its individuals.

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