Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder "Our view: NAACP’s Minneapolis branch must embrace reform"
"...There are four major actions we believe the branch must take to restore its capacity to effectively advocate for the city’s communities of color: 1) Let the general membership elect all officers...2) Conduct branch business in an open, democratic fashion. The elitist, authoritarian style of recent leadership has relied on police to eject dissident members and resorted to armed guards for maintaining order at meetings. Secrecy, a defining characteristic of police states, has come to characterize branch operations...3) Open the books...4) Act on community issues. By this we don’t mean holding social events, attending conventions, and signing on as cosponsors of actions initiated by others, which seem to be all the branch has accomplished under recent leadership..." Full text at: http://www.spokesman-recorder.com/News/Article/Article.asp?NewsID=33612&sID=16 -Doug Mann, King Field Mann for school board web site http://educationright.tripod.com (no more popup ads) - REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
