Organized Communications

[zoemorganz]

There is too much tedium at GA's & with all the mic checks things are slow. Nor is everyone able to come to every meeting every day. No detailed prescription is ever likely to surface from all of this, nor any truly pertinent ACTION besides the already accomplished calling of the world's attention to dissatisfaction over the great disparity of incomes. Organized Communciations ("OC") is small randomly assigned discussion groups electing reps to higher & higher random levels by means of Ranked (secret) Ballot. "RB" is voters/members ranking candidates in order of preference. The first choices are counted & if no-one has 50%, the next choices are added in, & so on ‘til someone finally does. This is the “additive” form of RB. This would be useful for the Occupy Movement, as well as for any political party, or for the selection of the winners in any majoritarian election (from Mayor to President or Prime Minister) Within the movement for OWS, or RB, a committee chosen by OC would, by its mere invite to speak, virtuallty indicate the next winner of the next election. (They’ll be falling all over themselves before we even get organized, if that's not why they're playing so nice to begin with.) I've been putting this out for 15 years now. This would be virtually instantaneous. Ten levels of groups of ten would be sufficient to organize all mankind, at the indivisible individual level, not just "leaders" or elites. Perhap such an idea might not be suited to such an anarchic group as OWS, but perhaps at least some OWSers would see the point of such a notion. Those should then proceed to call themselves together to accomplish the task of holding the process & creating the commmittee to speak for them. And represent & discuss what to do with them. Let us hope it is not too soon. Nor too late. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater now. [e-mail]