Carl Gunther wrote: > > So, the question is, how can we have democracy without becoming mainstream? > > The only answer that I have found is to carefully define those who are part of > our organization, support its mission, and hence should be given the right to > vote in its elections. > > In other words, you can not open up Pacifica's elections indiscriminately to > everyone who wants to vote and expect Pacifica to survive as a distinct voice. If people send in donations they'll have to be allowed to vote. Period. > As a part of doing this, we could lower the bar of entry as voters to people >in > groups such as prisoners, the unemployed, welfare recipients and those tossed > off welfare when their benefits have expired, the mass transit dependent, and > those with disabilities. > .... Most of New York city is dependent on mass transit. The unemployed vastly outnumber the current listener base, etc. You're not going to be able to find a PC class to allow to vote for free that won't be used as leverage for a takeover of the network. I say, let's leave it simple: you pay $50 or $25 or more and you get one vote. Having listeners come around to the station to "do work" assumes that there's a ton of work that listeners can do there. This isn't the case, but of course it could be used by Management to enfranchise a bunch of people whom Management might have arranged to vote for its candidate. Leaving enfranchisement for those who donate more than a set dollar amount looks like the only viable method of establishing the electorate to me. -- http://www.glib.com/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get your FREE credit report with a FREE CreditCheck Monitoring Service trial http://us.click.yahoo.com/ACHqaB/bQ8CAA/ySSFAA/xYTolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> New Pacifica Working Group http://www.egroups.com/group/NewPacifica 'Save Our Stations!' To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: NewPacifica-unsubscribe@egroups.com Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/