Changes between Version 9 and Version 10 of projects/leadership-committee/feb-2011/lc2011report

Timestamp:

Feb 14, 2011, 6:03:19 PM (14 years ago)

Author:

alfredo

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projects/leadership-committee/feb-2011/lc2011report

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 3 -- While there is some growth, we have yet to establish and implement the real recruitment plan that was stipulated as a major goal last year by the Leadership Committee.
 
-4 -- No matter our member composition, MF/PL is view as a white organization by many activists of color. In part, this is because there is a deep-seated segregation in the left of this country and the first glimpse many organizations of color get of us is our techies. They are almost all white. In addition, the above mentioned stances on Social Networking sites and FOSS often cast us, in the eyes of people of color organizations, as technocrats, purists or eccentric scientists...and not practical activists.
+4 -- The Leadership Committee is consciously a project in process that is growing from a consultative body to a genuine body of direction and leadership. It has not, up to now, moved in that direction and LC does not yet run this organization.
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+5 -- No matter our member composition, MF/PL is view as a white organization by many activists of color. In part, this is because there is a deep-seated segregation in the left of this country and the first glimpse many organizations of color get of us is our techies. They are almost all white. In addition, the above mentioned stances on Social Networking sites and FOSS often cast us, in the eyes of people of color organizations, as technocrats, purists or eccentric scientists...and not practical activists.
 
 For that reason, our current recruitment is mainly of white people and white organizations. This, given the way the world is going, is organizational and political suicide. And, of course, it means we aren't doing our job politically.