[Imc-cleveland] Mini-Meetings

[jesse]

I'm glad to hear that other people are getting
involved in cleveimc, and it sounds like people are
having some good ideas.  I have a couple concerns
about the "mini-meetings" that we've been having,
however, mostly regarding procedural issues that they
raise.    

1.  I'm under the impression that these are not
"official" cleveimc meetings, but instead some people
getting together with Patrick to discuss ideas.  I'm
not saying I disagree with any of the ideas being
discussed at the "mini-meeting", but I don't think any
website decisions should be made outside the official
monthly meetings.

2.  I do not think there should be any "official"
cleveimc meetings unless they are discussed and
established at a monthly meeting, or at least receive
consensus over the listserve.  I have reservations
with having meetings at someone's house, short notice
being given for meetings, and established collective
members being unavailable for the meetings.  I was
under the impression we were rescheduling the monthly
meetings for Sunday afternoons instead of evenings,
and were looking into Talkies, Arabica, or a similar
location (not someone's house).

3.  We established a policy several meetings ago that
someone must attend at least 3 "official" meetings to
be considered a collective member.  There were many
reasons for this.  No offense towards new people
getting involved, which I encourage, but I don't think
the mini-meetings should count towards the 3 required
for collective membership.

Again, I am happy and excited that more people want to
get involved, but I don't think we should proceed in a
manner that disrespects people in the collective or
established practices/policy.  



jesse

"In the expansion of the great Western empires, profit and hope of further profit were obviously tremendously important...But there is more than that to imperialism and colonialism.  There was a commitment to them over and above profit, a commitment in constant circulation and recirculation, which, on the one hand, allowed decent men and women to accept the notion that distant territories and their native peoples should be subjugated, and, on the other, replenished metropolitan energies so that these decent people could think of the imperium as a protracted, almost metaphysical obligation to rule sobordinate, inferior, or less advanced peoples."

~Edward Said, 1993

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