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Roblin: Re: Re: Some general remarks
Forum Post, June, 23 2011
Stephen Roblin
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Quick comments . . . Clearly, experimenting with death, misery, and oppression has no place in a decent society, which includes remuneration based on purchasing power. My point on experimentation had to do with deciding between the parecon remun...
Roblin: Some general remarks
Forum Post, June, 23 2011
Stephen Roblin
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Just a few general remarks which by no means address all the rebuttals I can think of . . . 1. Expanding on the first critique, that "[p]roposing visionary blueprints exceeds what we can know," putting forth a detailed proposal may limi...
Roblin: Avoiding Deterrents
Forum Post, June, 07 2011
Stephen Roblin
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"The initial description is - or hopefully will be - enough to guide initial and interim activity which won't impinge on the rights and responsibilities of future members of a real organization. And that is precisely as it should be becau...
Roblin: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: three things to work on now
Forum Post, June, 02 2011
Stephen Roblin
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"Regarding policies - Im only suggesting a working group could be set-up to produce a proposal for the ICC to consider and suggest refinements and for the membership to formally and officially endorse once we are up and running. And of ...
Roblin: Re: Re: Re: three things to work on now
Forum Post, June, 01 2011
Stephen Roblin
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Hi Mark, Regarding local chapter development, I'd be interested to hear what others think are good ways to begin organizing them. I anticipate that some, particularly among seasoned activists, may not be inclined intitially to join another or...
Roblin: Re: three things to work on now
Forum Post, May, 31 2011
Stephen Roblin
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Hi Mark, Glad to see that you're enthusiastic about IOPS. "What should our initial set of demands be?" Brainstorimg ideas is of course always welcome. But it's important to remember that any set of demands, whether they be in...
Roblin: Re: Re: Re: Re:
Forum Post, May, 21 2011
Stephen Roblin
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Hi David. I look forward to hearing your update. Thanks!
Roblin: Re: Re:
Forum Post, May, 20 2011
Stephen Roblin
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David - Great piece. I'm very much interested in hearing more about the movement's development.
Roblin: Ugandan Spring?: “Instability” Spreads to East Africa
Znet Article, May, 09 2011
Stephen Roblin
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The government's violent crackdown on the smallest displays of dissent has triggered “unexpected levels of activism,”
Roblin: Poll Outreach: How to Avoid the Email Trash Bin
Blog Post, April, 29 2011
Stephen Roblin
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As we promote the poll for the new political organization, it would be a good idea to share what approaches work well.
Roblin: Re: What better place than here, what better time than now?
Forum Post, April, 27 2011
Stephen Roblin
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I'm also very glad that you all are moving ahead.
Roblin: Re: Re: Re: Re: 650 is not bad
Forum Post, April, 19 2011
Stephen Roblin
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"Well, one can think of lots of ways particular people could try to induce others to read the descritpion, comment, take the poll, etc. That is one...but that is a very hard one, I would assume." Yes, a video is a lot work. But a 30 sec...
Roblin: Re: Re: 650 is not bad
Forum Post, April, 18 2011
Stephen Roblin
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"to fail would just induce new layers of cynicism...so one shouldn't proceed with[out] a good likelihood of success." Agreed. Depending on the case, the costs of failure can be greater than waiting. "if we had 5,000 folk...
Roblin: 650 is not bad
Forum Post, April, 18 2011
Stephen Roblin
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While the goal should be to get more people to take the polls, some 650 said they would particpate in the organization in a meaningful way. That's enough to start building an organization I would think. Am I wrong?
Roblin: Re: Re: Re: Re: A few questions
Forum Post, April, 15 2011
Stephen Roblin
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By "moving forward" I was thinking in terms of reaching out to those who have expressed interest and then taking some course of action to move towards the organization-building task. Neverthless, if the goal is to get as many people as ...
Roblin: Re: Re: A few questions
Forum Post, April, 15 2011
Stephen Roblin
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I passed the link to the poll to a bunch of people. But again, in your mind what's the minimal number of people who need to express interest in order to move forward? And what would moving forward look like? Just curious what your though...
Roblin: A few questions
Forum Post, April, 15 2011
Stephen Roblin
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Hi Michael, This kind of an organization is of course badly needed. And I agree with your assessment of the left and its relationship to the larger US public. My guess is that the points generalizes elsewhere. A few additional points. One limiti...
Roblin:
Forum Post, April, 11 2011
Stephen Roblin
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Hi David, It would be interesting to look at more recent poll results. Following the intervention, right-wing pundits, like Sean Hannity, critiqued the intervention on two grounds: one, Obama was too slow (a result of going through international ...
Roblin: Arab Unrest Spreads to the Horn
Znet Article, March, 10 2011
Stephen Roblin
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The unrest in the Arab world has spread south to the small Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti, host to the only official U.S. military base on the African mainland.
Roblin: The Terror of Somali Piracy
Znet Article, February, 24 2011
Stephen Roblin
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The situation in southern and central Somalia is widely recognized as “one of the world’s most intractable crises.”
