[GPSCC-chat] critical mass

[John Thielking]

the premise is not mistaken.  if you think that giving allied committees and individuals more autonomy to the point where they don't even have to attend ga meetings is an appropriate goal then by all means cast your vote for that when and if we decide to delegate that authority.  however even mta has at least one rep from each committee give a report at the ga meeting and i think we should require this too at our ga meetings.  john thielking
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Date: Tuesday, December 25, 2012 8:47:30 pm
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From: "Drew" <rainbeaufriend at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] critical mass

Happy Holidays all.

The mistaken premise of this discussion is that the only Greens that could possibly participate are the few that come to our business meetings. I don't believe in requiring people to come to our business meetings in order to participate. i rather think that without serious reformation of our business meetings to make them much, much more productive and engaging it is a severe mistake to ask people to come to our business meetings!!! Yes I do say that!

So while the business meeting and the Council need to guide the direction its completely counterproductive and anti-Green to insist on centralization of our work. One of our 10 Key Values is Decentralization and another is Local Control and another is Personal Responsibility. So these values run counter to trying to control all party functions via the county party apparatus. 

Instead we need to be creating about 5 semi autonomous Locals to cover the work of the party throughout the county. Sure there are some functions like media, tr