[pp.int.general] Formal protest from Pirate Party Australia

[Enrique Herrera Noya]

+1 at the back of the idea
-1 in the form a follow

the list is not the party (international)
the list is not the assembly

is only OUR communication channel ...

in Chile have the same problem as in Australia, the distance
and tools that we are implementing for the assemblies are similar ...

which is the work program we have given as parties?
that will be the theme that we emphasize this year?







On 10/03/13 01:13, Simon Frew wrote:
> Below is an official mail sent to the Board of PPI.
> 
> We have yet to receive any sort of acknowledgement that it was received
> or discussed by the Board. So in the interests of transparency I thought
> the best course of action was to post it to the general discussion list
> as the formal means of communication seem to be failing.
> 
> Greetings
> 
> I am writing on behalf of Pirate Party Australia to lodge a formal
> protest concerning the conduct of the previous two Pirate Party
> International General Assemblies and the malaise it has caused within
> ourorganisation.  
> 
> The problem is exacerbated by the lack of response to the resignation of
> the Court of Arbitration. The CoA should be working to address the root
> causes of the in-fighting that is a feature of the PPI discussion lists
> over the last months and could provide added insight into these feuds
> and to help bring them to a resolution.
> 
> The threat to sue the CoA illustrates problems within PPI. The
> Constitution is being routinely ignored. The threat itself demonstrates
> a lack of respect for the rules governing the International. How can an
> organisation function when a body elected to apply the constitution is
> threatened with Lawyers when they make a decision a member Party doesn't
> like?
> 
> The Constitution states that only one member be allowed from each
> country, yet we have two parties from Spain. From a historical
> perspective this is an understandable decision, so it raises the need to
> address this in the Constitution as the decision itself is unconstitutional.
> 
> The above examples show a disregard for the statutesand decision making
> processes agreed upon at the first GA. It is perfectly fine to radically
> change the statutesif the current model is not working, it is not fine
> to ignore it when its inconvenient. This sort of disregard of due
> process is the sort of thing that enables corruption to flourish.
> 
> The issues that remote delegates experienced at the last General
> Assembly were hard to stomach because it was largely a re-run of the
> problems of the year before. Remote delegates were ignored, much of the
> meeting got bogged down in process and important resolutions were tabled
> for a whole year so celebrity speakers could address the meeting. The
> organisation is not yet fully formed and getting through motions with
> ample participation and debate should be the first and overriding
> priority. Everything else is just dressing which can come later.
> 
> Addressing these issues is not a matter of holding a PPI congress
> outside of Europe, but actually facilitating better participation by
> remote delegates. Personally,I think the motivation for the GA to be
> held outside of Europe was to make Europeans take remote participation
> seriously by creating a much greater need for it to function. The cost
> of sending delegates from Australia would run into the multiple
> thousands of dollars and is not economically feasible,withthis money
> beingmuch better spent on campaigns. This is not a cost we
> /must/incur;remote participation has a negligible cost and will help out
> every single Party unable to attend.
> 
> PPAU holds our annual congresses with a large amount of participation
> online. Being roughly the size of the EU but much more sparsely
> populated, we had to get online participation right immediately or we
> risked disenfranchising pretty much everyone not from Sydney or the
> surrounding areas. Consequently,we'd like to offer the following advice
> for facilitating better participation in the next PPI GA based on our
> success at facilitating online participation.
> 
> The single most important thing is to integrate online participation
> into the GA. Assigning one person to monitor IRC is not adequate. Every
> single delegate attending, where they are technically able, should log
> into IRC and all participate, monitor and share the discussion raised by
> the remote delegates to the real-world meeting.
> 
> On the technical side it is just a matter of maintaining the streams,
> which need to be easily accessible by people with a low technical
> proficiency.For example our congress utilises a cheap & simple
> audio/video stream combined with web based IRC client in one simple web
> portal.If possible,a projector showing the discussion on a screen for
> all to see would also work well. If there is an issue with people who
> are not members participating in votes, a password protected link for a
> specific official channel can be sent to delegates before the GA. Time
> should be left at the end of each item for lag, people still typing etc.
> You can get a sense of the amount of lag by the delay in the online
> comments and wait accordingly.
> 
> We expect better of Pirate PartiesInternational. An umbrella
> organisation for the world's Pirate Parties needs to embody Pirate
> principles. We expect the organisation to be participatory, not
> exclusionary. We expect democracy, transparency and accountability, all
> of which seem to be currently lacking.
> 
> If this year's GA is not serious about fixing the above problems,
> theNational Council of PPAU will have no choice but to propose
> withdrawing from the organisation at our next National Congress.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Simon Frew
> 
> On behalf of Pirate Party Australia
> 
> 
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