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THE TYRANNY of STRUCTURELESSNESS https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm by Jo Freeman aka Joreen  Audio : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ttKaxy3OgE

The informal groups' vested interests will be sustained by the informal structures which exist, and the movement will have no way of determining who shall exercise power within it. If the movement continues deliberately to not select who shall exercise power, it does not thereby abolish power. All it does is abdicate the right to demand that those who do exercise power and influence be responsible for it. If the movement continues to keep power as diffuse as possible because it knows it cannot demand responsibility from those who have it, it does prevent any group or person from totally dominating. But it simultaneously insures that the movement is as ineffective as possible. Some middle ground between domination and ineffectiveness can and must be found.

(The movement) now needs I to establish its priorities, articulate its goals, and pursue its objectives in a coordinated fashion. To do this it must get organized -- locally, regionally, and nationally.

some principles .. essential to democratic structuring 

1) Delegation of specific authority to specific individuals for specific tasks by democratic procedures. 

2) Requiring all those to whom authority has been delegated to be responsible to those who selected them. 

3) Distribution of authority among as many people as is reasonably possible. 

4) Rotation of tasks among individuals. 

5) Allocation of tasks along rational criteria. Ability, interest, and responsibility have got to be the major concerns in such selection.

6) Diffusion of information to everyone as frequently as possible. 

7) Equal access to resources needed by the group. 

Olive Jones about the Renaissance intentional community in New Zealand 

I- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CyHKVc95oo

II - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Y_2zuEKAaM 

III - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-F2i-2ssxU

IV - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKOmNWKSZNs

Clearly, India’s ‘strong leader’ is caught between his aspiration to emerge as national war hero and thus sweep the polls with a two-thirds majority on the one hand and be a trusted Trump buddy on the other. https://thewire.in/politics/modi-silent-maun-ceasefire-trump-response-public-relations 

The Wire had in these columns narrated how Narendra Modi had often lampooned his predecessor as ‘Maunmohan’ Singh but how he had himself sought the cover of silence as prime minister. Since then, there is a lengthening list of Modi’s silences on crucial issues facing the nation. The latest entry on the list is the total maun on Donald Trump’s repeated claims that he had forced a ceasefire on India and Pakistan.

by P. Raman

28/05/2025

https://thewire.in/rights/seeking-justice-for-lynching-demolitions-not-a-crime-former-civil-servants-group-on-mahmudabad 

The Constitutional Conduct Group, a group of former civil servants, on Wednesday (May 28) released a statement of solidarity with Ashoka University professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad who was arrested over his posts on Operation Sindoor.

“We are greatly distressed by the grave criminal charges levelled against Mahmudabad and his subsequent arrest,” the statement said, calling the charges “outrageous and absurd.” “The main burden of his posts was to make eloquent and heartfelt calls for peace,” it noted.

Calling the charges against Mahmudabad reminiscent of the colonial-era sedition law, the statement said that it “be a crime to seek justice for victims of lynching and bulldozer demolitions, or to  call for peace and restraint.”

29/05/2025