[Cja] [{SPAM} (HC)] - results of the doodle for the holland meeting, and what i think they imply

[Asad Rehman]

Hi Tadzio

 

Thanks for your email, I was about to drop you a note asking you about
the CJA assembly. I wanted to come specifically to take part in the
wider discussions about The Global Day of Action, and any EU wide
actions that were being planned, and if so which would be the best day
to be there to take part in those wider discussions. But seeing your
email about how few people there will be at the meeting do you think
there will be any substantive discussions on any of these issues.

 

Asad

 

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From: Tadzio Mueller [mailto:tadziom at yahoo.com] 
Sent: 23 August 2010 12:34
To: Cja at lists.aktivix.org
Subject: [{SPAM} (HC)] - [Cja] results of the doodle for the holland
meeting,and what i think they imply

 

hey friends,

 

so the way i see it, a total of 10 people (!) have said that they'll
attend the meeting in holland, at least for 1 day, most for 2, some for
3 (see results here:
http://www.doodle.com/avmahuguwxrtasvg?adminKey=&participantKey)

 

obviously, some folks from the EF-gathering might join us, as happened
in bonn.

 

but: together with tasks that are basically not being done (and please
don't take this as a bitching critique, i'm being just as shite with
stuff), this means that CJA is a barely functioning network. as such,
this is not surprising, since i don't recall a single network that was
formed around organising actions at one summit that survived much longer
beyond that original summit. then again, CJA was a bit different, and
the need for such a network, i think exists (the difference being that
most summit networks were largely local/national, and CJA was from the
beginning very international).

 

but this, to me, has to be clear: we need to be very realistic about
what we can do. for example, given how few people we are, can we really
organise a big 'strategy conference' for next year? unless things go
much better than i'm anticipating, our day of action won't be a huge
success. a big conference? with only about 4 cadre doing real work
around it? let's have a chat about this stuff before we plan new things
that are possibly beyond our capacity to do. any maybe none of this is
bad or wrong. at least in germany, we're trying to do local-capacity
building and networking, so maybe the it's not really the time for
international networks... i don't know.

 

anyway, so much for the happy news from berlin :-)

 

hugs

 

t

 

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