Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Can ya tell I'm running out of email space?
I am now using Riseup.net as my email provider, but since they are a collective with fairly shallow pockets, the allotment for old email is fairly small.
I am discarding old emails, and running across stuff I want to post here.
Behind this "Read more!" link, for example, is a message to the National Committee in reference to the National Women's caucus and their refusal for more than a year to answer the simple request of a Green to join the caucus. To read his concerns, hit the "Read more!" link...
On Behalf Of Matthew R.Abel
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 6:28 PM
To: Votes list
Subject: [usgp-coo] Annual review of committees
In regard to having some kind of annual review of committee work, would it be appropriate to task the Accreditation Committee with the annual review, or should that be done by some other committee, or by the NC itself?
My view is that it should be in the purview of some committee. The NC seems not to do much itself. The real work is done in committee, it seems, and will be more so in the future as (we hope) our job of building the party structure, rules and processes gets pretty much done.
Seems to me that part of the reason that the NC seems to be treading water, is that we don't well understand our mission, and get sidetracked by poor communication.
There are long-standing issues unresolved within the Black Caucus and the Women's Caucus. On the one hand, since I am in neither group, I feel that hands off as much as possible is better. On the other, my good friend and "constituent" who is transgendered (male to female) has not been able to get an answer (even if the answer is no) from the NWC for well over a year whether she can join. A complaint has been filed and is purportedly pending with the Accreditation Committee, I believe, but there is no evidence of progress being made. I am told there is a "gag order" and so have been unable to learn much more. One of the Michigan delegates to the AC has
become frustrated with lack of process and action.
Perhaps this issue is more properly within the purview of the Dispute Resolution Committee, and it's stalled because the AC does not know what to do with it. Do the rules provide for sanctions against a committee, other than dissolution?
While the issue may be important, the bigger thing is that our process is not working very well.
Could committees be required to make short reports and answer questions during the Annual Meeting?
Think Green, Act Green, Vote Green!
Matthew R. Abel
Detroit, Michigan
www.attorneyabel.com
attorneyabel@riseup.net
Green Party of Michigan State Committee
Green Party U.S. National Delegate
I am discarding old emails, and running across stuff I want to post here.
Behind this "Read more!" link, for example, is a message to the National Committee in reference to the National Women's caucus and their refusal for more than a year to answer the simple request of a Green to join the caucus. To read his concerns, hit the "Read more!" link...
On Behalf Of Matthew R.Abel
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 6:28 PM
To: Votes list
Subject: [usgp-coo] Annual review of committees
In regard to having some kind of annual review of committee work, would it be appropriate to task the Accreditation Committee with the annual review, or should that be done by some other committee, or by the NC itself?
My view is that it should be in the purview of some committee. The NC seems not to do much itself. The real work is done in committee, it seems, and will be more so in the future as (we hope) our job of building the party structure, rules and processes gets pretty much done.
Seems to me that part of the reason that the NC seems to be treading water, is that we don't well understand our mission, and get sidetracked by poor communication.
There are long-standing issues unresolved within the Black Caucus and the Women's Caucus. On the one hand, since I am in neither group, I feel that hands off as much as possible is better. On the other, my good friend and "constituent" who is transgendered (male to female) has not been able to get an answer (even if the answer is no) from the NWC for well over a year whether she can join. A complaint has been filed and is purportedly pending with the Accreditation Committee, I believe, but there is no evidence of progress being made. I am told there is a "gag order" and so have been unable to learn much more. One of the Michigan delegates to the AC has
become frustrated with lack of process and action.
Perhaps this issue is more properly within the purview of the Dispute Resolution Committee, and it's stalled because the AC does not know what to do with it. Do the rules provide for sanctions against a committee, other than dissolution?
While the issue may be important, the bigger thing is that our process is not working very well.
Could committees be required to make short reports and answer questions during the Annual Meeting?
Think Green, Act Green, Vote Green!
Matthew R. Abel
Detroit, Michigan
www.attorneyabel.com
attorneyabel@riseup.net
Green Party of Michigan State Committee
Green Party U.S. National Delegate
// posted by Gregg Jocoy @ 2:27 PM 
