Total wordiness to the extreme, but here is a conglomerate of all your fabulous ideas:

Vision:

Loftier and more abstract ideas about our ideals and what we'd like to see in the community/world:

We want to create a culture that empowers groups and individuals to make the world that they want to see. We don't aim to promote an individual agenda, but allow others to make an environment that makes them feel comfortable, and part of a more equitable and just society that doesn't breed the devaluing social hierarchies that we're all used to.

Promote information, free information, accessable, helping people live simple and according to what's comfortable.

(how we can be more inclusive to groups that fit our values, and are just as legit, but don't fit our "subcultural style" - by going TO other groups meetings, us making a conscious effort to support their missions -Q: how to we define "inclusive"? How inclusive are we?)

Q: why do we include the things on our calendar that we do - what's the connection between basement shows, potlucks, political actions, free markets, etc? We're creating OUR OWN community. It's not a commodified community that's controlled by people who aren't in our community.

* Seattle DIY supports the active networking of individuals, organizations, places, resources, and communities undertaking artistic and activist ventures. Through this network Seattle DIY aims to increase access to knowledge, skills, and resources from the bottom-up, and build an inclusive community that gives voice to marginalized groups, encourages interdependence, as well as empowering people to be active agents of positive social change in their own lives and in their communities, shifting the role of the individual from being spectator, to participator and instigator.

Values:

The principles on which we base our values:

Through a non-hierarchical, anti-oppression framework that stresses the importance of collaboration and collective action, Seattle DIY challenges the idea that we need to be guided by experts and institutions. Instead we strive to build culture as a resistance to a capitalist, hetero-normative, classist, ageist, abilist, sexist, racist society that is built to disempower and disconnect. Through a Do-It-Yourself/Do-It-Together ethos that can move us away from dependence and complacency with the oppressive dominate culture and towards creating and sharing access to and awareness of alternatives. 

Goals:

How we aim to take action on our vision and values.

• Promotion of events and organizations in the DIY community
• Aim to be a mechanism through which disparate parts of our community can communicate
• Make DIY movement more inclusive, inviting, engaging, and sustainable
• Highlight the connection between personal, cultural, and political action, while encouraging participation in all three arenas
• Function as a pool of resources and labor to help facilitate the success of projects, from zine making to free meals to...
• (let's brainstorm more about what our projects (past, present, and future) aim to achieve in terms of function or goals)