Re: Consensus changing the world | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Racheli Gai (rachelisonoracohousing.com) | |
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 16:02:28 -0700 (PDT) |
And of course there are peace and justice groups who use consensus. Racheli, Tucson. On Oct 16, 2011, at 3:38 PM, Moz wrote: > > Note that I use the term "anarchist" to describe a mode of political > organisation and analysis, rather than as a pejorative, even though I'm > aware that the latter is ubiquitous in the USA. > >> I wonder where the folks who are doing the facilitation training learned >> it themselves? > > There are large anarchist groups who are active in the US and involved > with OWS - Food Not Bombs, Indymedia, Critical Mass and so on. At least > some of those groups have used consensus since they started (and they > started more than ten years ago). Then you have the queer and > anti-capitalist groups who mostly use consensus internally and often the > older of those groups have consciously made a switch from democratic > organisation to consensus, while the newer ones have probably started with > explicit consensus. So it's quite possibly "the way things are done" for > many of the participants and especially for the organisers. > > Those techniques are common in Australia, and the hand signals being used > are familiar to me. Most activist groups here use either direct consensus > or a spokescouncil model (representative consensus to facilitate > large-group decisions). Anarchist groups here are used to (repeatedly) > explaining to the socialist groups that we don't recognise their coercive > powers so it's consensus or nothing. Dealing with a non-organised bunch of > people who are merely unfamiliar with consensus would be easy by > comparison - we do that every time we deal with media or p*lice. > > Moz > > _________________________________________________________________ > Cohousing-L mailing list -- Unsubscribe, archives and other info at: > http://www.cohousing.org/cohousing-L/ > >
- Re: Consensus changing the world, (continued)
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Re: Consensus changing the world Sharon Villines, October 16 2011
- Re: Consensus changing the world Madeline Nelson, October 16 2011
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Re: Consensus changing the world hedgpeth, October 16 2011
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Re: Consensus changing the world Moz, October 16 2011
- Re: Consensus changing the world Racheli Gai, October 16 2011
- Re: Consensus changing the world Racheli Gai, October 16 2011
- Re: Consensus changing the world Moz, October 16 2011
- Re: Consensus changing the world Jessie Kome, October 16 2011
- Re: Consensus changing the world Madeline Nelson, October 17 2011
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Re: Consensus changing the world Moz, October 16 2011
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Re: Consensus changing the world Sharon Villines, October 16 2011
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