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Evans: Re: Re: Re: Alternative
Forum Post, July, 11 2010
Mark Evans
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Im sorry you feel that way Jack. I only hope that you will reserve final judgement until you have had actual experience organising with us. My feeling is that your strong criticisms and conclusion that we are "not doing a very goo...
Johnston: Re: Re: Alternative
Forum Post, July, 07 2010
Jack Johnston
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My sentiment is based on that fact that I have attended no meetings, and neither have most of us! Sharing tasks amongst one people is the difficult bit (i.e. most chapters). They can ‘discuss’ meaningful issues and make d...
Evans: Re: Alternative
Forum Post, July, 05 2010
Mark Evans
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Hi Jack – You say “I find the chapters to be anything but participatory”.What is this conclusion based upon? How many local chapter meeting have you attended?According to you local chapters aren’t participatory ...
Evans: PPS-UK: A New Society in the Making
Forum Post, July, 04 2010
Mark Evans
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A proposed Script, in three parts, for a short introductory video to Project for a Partipatory Society - United Kingdom. It is intended as a voice-over for a video to be accompanied with background music as well as appropriate visual images.
Johnston: Alternative
Forum Post, July, 04 2010
Jack Johnston
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How we are Organised As Mark explains PPS-UK currently functions through a combination of geographically based chapters and UK wide projects. I find the chapters to be anything but participatory, namely because the vast majorit...
Evans: Coalition Proposal
Forum Post, May, 27 2010
Mark Evans
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A draft proposal calling on the British Left to form a coalition for a participatory democracy in preporation for the formation of a Fifth International.
Smith: Re: Are you sure it's Z-Net that you are reading?
Forum Post, May, 24 2010
Mark E. Smith
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To John Andrews:I gave the link that statistic came from. It is a very conservative figure and the true percentage is likely much greater.As for the burqa, it is merely a male preference in a patriarchal society. Whereas our own patriarchal societ...
Smith: Re: Re: Re: Re: Znet Sexism?
Forum Post, May, 24 2010
Mark E. Smith
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Yes, Steve, "Minor point: "histrionics" means theatrical or stagey behaviour, i.e., being overly dramatic." In other words it was addressed to me, to the person, as an ad hominem attack, rather than to the issue or topic of dis...
Smith: Re: Re: Znet Sexism?
Forum Post, May, 24 2010
Mark E. Smith
Smith's ZSpace page
Some years ago I attended a seminar on racism. One of the things that they said was that predominantly white groups were always talking about reaching out to people of color and trying to get people of color to join their groups. This is a form of...
Administrator: Re: Znet Sexism?
Forum Post, May, 24 2010
Site Administrator
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Mark,As you of course know, and I apologize if you really don't know this - women are exactly as able as men to submit, write, post, and use every other feature of the site. As far as welcoming women's submissions in the parts of the site where we...
Smith: Islamic vs. American Oppression of Women
Forum Post, May, 23 2010
Mark E. Smith
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I keep seeing U.S. government propaganda posted by users here on Znet about the terrible treatment of women by Islam as an excuse for our wars of aggression. The treatment of women and girls in the United States and by the United States in Islamic...
Smith: Znet Sexism?
Forum Post, May, 23 2010
Mark E. Smith
Smith's ZSpace page
Clicking on "blogs" and then "all bloggers," I do not see a single female name.Not one.There must be at least some honorary or token female members or sustainers on Znet--where are you keeping them, in purdah?Egalitarians group...
Albert: Using This Forum
Forum Post, May, 14 2010
Michael Albert
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HI,In this new Parpolity Group Forum, like for all other forums in the ZForum system, comments from Z Sustainers on content that is tagged for the group will appear in addition to being appended to what is commented on.BUT - addi...
Albert: ZGroups?!
Forum Post, April, 25 2010
Michael Albert
Albert's ZSpace page
An account of and information about the NEW ZGroups facility!
Albert: Re: Great!
Forum Post, April, 25 2010
Michael Albert
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What you suggest is doable already, perhaps not as elegantly as you would ideally like.But, honestly, the real task, first, is to get people excited about using them, involved in using them, etc.So - as to what can already be done - even before fu...
