Changes between Version 13 and Version 14 of projects/leadership-committee/feb-2011/lc2011report

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Feb 15, 2011, 9:16:14 PM (14 years ago)

Author:

alfredo

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projects/leadership-committee/feb-2011/lc2011report

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 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.
 
-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.
+5 -- No matter our member composition, MF/PL is viewed 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.
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 These are the "thematic bases" for the challenges mentioned about. Our work objectives for the coming year are designed to address those challenges and effectively deal with these thematic problems.
 
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+Our objectives for 2010, as defined by the LC, were:
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+1 -- work within the Social Forum movement, particularly the USSF 2010
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+2 -- the Hemispheric Initiative (including the consulta hemisferica)
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+3 -- Techie National Congress
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+4 -- Resource shift from colocation to paid staff
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+5 -- 50 percent growth in membership through outreach and recruitment
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+Some of these were met spectacularly well and we struggled with some of these goals.
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+The Social Forum was among our greatest achievements this year. From the remarkable 
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 WorkPlan 2011
 
 1 -- Continue and expand work with the Social Forum movement
 
-2 -- Continue Hemispheric Iniative -- particularly around Climate Control
+There are several Social Forum events scheduled in Global South countries this coming year and we already been invited to do tech work at some of them. We should continue providing this support work to the Social Forum movement as a strategic initiative on our part.
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+2 -- Continue Hemispheric Initiative -- particularly around Climate Control
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+The Initiative was among our most successful 
 
 3 -- Bring on one part-time staff member to concentrate on server maintenance work