Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: The "ideology" thing

[Wayne Tyson (landrest]

CoHo:

It's nomdb, but strictly as an ethics issue, given what I have read, it 
seems to me that the mistake of making a deal with a hotel that you can't 
get out of was an honest mistake with respect to the strike. If the union 
brushes off your offers of support and demands that you bail at great cost, 
I just might say something like "Brothers and sisters, I'm with you in 
principle, but your leadership would not work with us, kinda like management 
wouldn't work with them; therefore, we're having our meeting, next time and 
in the future we'll put a refund demand in our contract, and we will 
minimize our cooperation/business with the hotel this time.

I could be wrong, but that's the way I see it--for what an uninvolved third 
party opinion may be worth . . .

WT


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sharon Villines" <sharon [at] sharonvillines.com>
To: "Cohousing-L" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ The "ideology" thing


> On 7 Jun 2011, at 6:15 PM, Katie Henry wrote:
>
> > I expect these associations to focus on their mission and not get
> > derailed by unrelated issues that may or may not be important to some or 
> > all of
> > the association's members.
>
> But would you expect a cohousing association to rent space in a KKK 
> building or purchase stolen goods or buy appliances from proven polluters?
>
> I think it is too late for the conference to move and I think the board is 
> now alerted to these issues so it won't happen again, but the issue is 
> still worth discussing because it is educational. People are sorting out 
> their values by participating in it.
>
> Sharon
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> Takoma Village Cohousing, Washington DC
> http://www.takomavillage.org
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