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Election 2006 (and beyond): Digital Copyright Canada
From: Russell McOrmond <russell_-at-_flora.ca>
To: flora-admin-design_-at-_flora.org
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 16:03:47 -0400 (EDT)
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Sandra P. Hoffman wrote: > There is a listing of circumstances under which the organization > accepts violence or vandalism at: > http://www.greenfyre.org/SIGN/mandate.html Thanks for the reminder. > I have problems with the Acts of Self-defence exemption. I believe I > have heard almost the exact same wording to justify wars. > I also have problems with points 3-6 under the vandalism exceptions. We agree on this. It isn't enough for me to not sign up for SIGN, but it isn't a definition I am entirely comfortable with. I just don't have a better option as these things are unfortunately not easy to put into objective 'rules'. > How far will you go with this though? For organizations currently on > FLORA that are neutral on the topic, will you require them to support > this move? Or is it enough that they do not advocate violent change? Where it is obvious they are neutral (meaning, have no connection with the issue at all), then there won't be any questions asked. With the home based learning support groups this is obvious. For groups that advocate change that 'might' get into this area, that is different. It is unfortunate, but the alternative transportation groups have had some part of this. There has been debates within CfSC as to whether or not "critical mass rides" are far too aggressive. While I do not believe that a CM is violent, there are some who disagree. Where there will be a potential issue is groups like NOWAR which avoided questions around "Take The Capital" last year, the MAI-NOT forum, and related groups. These aren't groups that volunteers like yourself have been involved in at all. --- Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/> See http://weblog.flora.ca/ for announcements, activities, and opinions Speaking next in Montreal: "Open Source vs Free Software" http://weblog.flora.ca/article.php3?story_id=253
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