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Any grassroots project must have a well defined aim, which when is achieved is only one among many steps together constituting a grassroots movement. In such process the organization must be flexible to allow some of its parts to exit itself and some new parts to enter itself, so that the organization could become a grassroots movement.
Yes Again We Can Be Reorganized!!!
The obama's grassroots movement is in a problem which could be helped by ComComizing1 the movement.
Mitch2 (…and whom it may concern),
hi, we believe that Any grassroots movement can only be such of which assets are owned mainly or completely by its activists!!! This open letter is both: a Criticism3 and a call or suggestion to allow the members in the mailing list running upon a specific domain-name to own (as c-holders) the domain and the list (see also ComCom-Social). We do consider such a move as an essential act for the long run benefit of any grassroots movement4 and specifically the one putting obama in the office5.
Here are some questions, leading us and hopefully you to the above conclusion:
- Do you remember this one? "Let me be very clear. You are the ones who built this campaign, and Barack wants you to be the first to know who will join him in leading our movement for change."
- The obama movement, is it still a movement for a change going from bottom-up? Is this still a grassroots movement/operation6 ? Does changes still can only go from bottom up? And still do we need to bring the change?
- As an activist, how can you know that in your mailing list the strategy of information processing and knowledge ordering is a Bottom-up or a Top-down and how can you make sure that it will continue be so?
- How to (re)stimulate your activists?
- What if the domain name (barackobama.com) with its mailing list of 13 million members was owned by those members who donated for the campaign for obama's presidency and then would you still believe that the transformation to the Organizing_for_America project7 could be made possible just by a call of obama8?
Having us supporting the obama's health insurance reform plan, still we argue that The Organizing_for_America (OFA) is a case to study for being the switching point from a real grassroots movement bringing the change from bottom up to a top-down distribution of ordering9, which is weakening the movement all togther: The OFA is such switching point since the mailing list of 13M members together with the domain name (barackobama.com) had been handed to the DNC without any permission (i.e. Just because the owners of the list are not its members and only upon one time announcement of obama the person) and since the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is the only one body governing the United States Democratic Party on a day to day basis and as such the DNC is by no means identical to the the body of the members in the mailing list.
This act of handing the mailing list +domain to the DNC was claimed for seeking "to mobilize Obama supporters to elect other political candidates and support President Obama's legislative agenda".
Such agenda are pushing Obama's health insurance reform plan10 but not (in addition to or instead of the endless bailouts) making GovComCom out of the bank of America (with 45 billion) and of the Aig (with 182,5 billion).
Last this: Still remembering the reaction in the mailing list for one additional mail calling for supporting obama, still remembering the flow of some levels of the Re:Re:Re…, still remembering the new ideas , the new information, the new todos and so much of the warm and intelligent support, still remembering all that but nowadays nothing of that is to be found. Oh Mithch here we think we know why:
And so Mitch: It is never to late to transfer ownership to your activists, so that you could still see more of their actions and in a (building) manner of grassroots movement.
The ComComism was NOT used to support Barak Obama during
his election!!! (and yes while about half of his budget was risen by
small donations from about 13 Million people being the members of said
mailing list).
But if that mailing list had been comcomized, then obama could NOT
switch the aim, the governing body and director of the organization just
by saying what they should become. Instead, the members in the mailing
list would have a say about it. (see also this letter to mitch)
This, in short is the sad cycle of any grassroots operation/organization
(including the one producing the linux in all its diversity but see also
who are the code writers of the 85% of all the source
http://iswith.wikidot.com/for-whom-is-the-knowledge-making-profit):
Yes, as a grassroots movement we can get be organized but only per one
aim, since when we complete the mission and hence as the mailing list is
proven to be mature and its power is proven, then we either close it
(and losing our power) or change its aim.
In changing the aim of grassroots movement some of us would not like the modification of the new aim
(would exit) and some other could join into it. And so, in the
modification of the aim of grassroots organization, comcomism (which
allows entry and exit for equal member ) could help, since its provides
equal ownership to equal members over the mailing list.
see more here if you like http://is-with.wikidot.com/arguments-the-test
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