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Michael, would you write up a proposal for recognition of the name change? I will cosponsor. Let's make it official. Are new bylaws in order too…are you changing leadership structure in any way?Congrats on the new direction!
Thanks for this, Michael. I am uploading new data to the Nationbuilder installation, and we need to first start out by calling existing Greens to get them up to speed on Arn and Jill and Robert (where appropriate).The objective will be to improve our contacts in the database and to whip up more volunteers. The people who have just come on board can help with that.Next, we need to call out to persuadeable independents. The people who are lukewarm to Arn and Jill and Robert could then be touched in a couple ways: lit drops, then door knocks.We definitely could get volunteer help on that.I would say that in an effort to get them all ready to go, go ahead and schedule a Jeffco phone bank (and others can as well). I just need a day or two more to be ready to hold trainings on how to phone bank with Nationbuilder and to let people go. Do you have email addresses? I will need those to build phone banker accounts.Cool?
Everyone, my mistake. I forgot Poudre Valley in the list, and I've fixed that and adjusted the quorum and voting counts.Apologies.
Thanks everyone for your support, and thanks especially to my comrade Bill, who laid out the vision so clearly.Congratulations! Colorado is now the co-sponsor on a plank of great importance to the livelihood of all Americans.
Here's what the author of the proposal, Michael Trudeau of North Carolina, has to say about the issue of small business:
Most cooperatives are small businesses. There is nothing green about private, hierarchical ownership of capital. We are for small business—small, democratically owned and operated business, that is, as the platform plank lays out. Hierarchy is not green. Top-down is not green.Small businesses are fine if the relationships within them are egalitarian. Why would we let one person own another person's labor within, say, a mom-and-pop family business? We would not.That said, even in "actually existing" socialist and communist countries, the government did not seize mom-and-pop-style small businesses. So if that sort of argument is being made by anyone, that we would "not allow" the existence of such businesses, it is a red herring—the platform plank is not about expropriation; rather, it talks about the kind of economy we want to create. We are allowed to propose the type of economy we'd like to create.
For my own part, this makes the need for unions ever more necessary, because it provides the worker some rudimentary control over the value of their work.Let me know your thoughts, Michael. Thanks.
I agree with most of the proposal and disagree with parts of the proposal. There is no mention of preserving small businesses (on the scale of a local family or individual business, not the current federal interpretation of what is "small"). Therefore I am opposed to this wording, and if that means a block, then I block.I'd prefer that we have a discussion of the wording of such proposals rather than a take-it-or-leave-it approach.Michael HaugheyAJ Greens
Michael, what do you suggest as alternate wording, then?
