[CRNMC] crn Digest, Vol 5, Issue 7

[Baile Oakes]

Thank you, Charles.

I believe we all can make mindful decisions regarding postings to the list serve that are relevant to the work before us.

love

baile


On Jul 7, 2014, at 4:03 PM, agnes at mcn.org wrote:

> hank you Charles and amen.
> 
> Agnes
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> 
>> Thank you Caitlin for asking us to focus our postings so that they have
>> some relevance to those things related to the Community Rights Network of
>> Mendocino County. I believe you have provoked a conversation that we all
>> needed to have, and for that I am appreciative. To my knowledge there are
>> no published guidelines for the topics to be addressed by this listserv,
>> but such guidelines are needed. Based on Caitlin's posting, the approach
>> that seems to be adopted by the core group -- of banning certain things,
>> is, as I see it, the opposite of what it needs to be -- specifically
>> inviting a focus on certain things.
>> 
>> I believe that if we develop a list of things we wish to focus upon, that
>> list will guide people in their postings. I do, however, think that we
>> should not ban any particular types of postings. If the connection to the
>> Community Rights Movement, or fracking, or this November's ballot measure,
>> is not immediately obvious from the topic, then the poster should explain
>> the connection.
>> 
>> I don't think that we want to be authoritarian or dictatorial here, nor do
>> I believe we should use any type of censorship. We should encourage all
>> sorts of new ideas, different thinking that is "outside the box,"
>> innovative approaches used by other groups, etc. If the list of
>> permissible topics is too narrow, as I believe it was with Caitlin's
>> message, this CRNMC will soon start to rigidify, the excitement will turn
>> to boredom and thankless hard work, the group will increasingly turn into
>> a bureaucracy, and we will take on undesirable aspects of hierarchical
>> corporate America.
>> 
>> So let's not have any moderation on this listserv, and let take a positive
>> and expansive view, encouraging people to focus on CRNMC, fracking, and
>> this ballot measure, but at the same time encourage them to post on
>> related topics if those topics would contribute to the work that we are
>> doing together. For example, the event that I just help to produce, in the
>> village of Mendocino, about colonization of mind, would be off-limits
>> under the new guidelines that Caitlin published. Yet the colonization of
>> mind is a fundamental conversation underlying the whole community rights
>> movement and absolutely should be part of our ongoing discussions. Those
>> of us who attended Paul Cienfuegos' workshops remember that we talked
>> about this topic in his workshops.
>> 
>> Similarly, new ways to organize a community effectively, as demonstrated
>> by other groups, should be of particular interest to us all. Likewise,
>> some related things being done by the Occupy movement folks, the public
>> bank folks, the Move to Amend folks, and others are all related to
>> community rights, and we should encourage collaboration with those groups.
>> So let's not say anything is off limits per se, let's simply say this and
>> that is what we want to focus upon, and then go on to periodically remind
>> people about that agreed-upon general focus.
>> 
>> /s/ Charles
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