[ssf] Constitution

[Dan]

Hey up,

A lot of the constitution stuff can be as wibbly as you like.  It 
doesn't need to be very formal at all.

Although I think it might be useful to have something written down about 
no group dominating proceedings...

I do personally believe it's important to put money in an ethical 
account.  The unethical investment of our money is one of the greatest 
evils of the world.  Just look at some of companies in today's Guardian 
article on the 'new Scramble for Africa' - 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/hearafrica05/story/0,15756,1496561,00.html

It would be good to know that none of SSF's money was being used to 
further this kind of pillage.

See ya

Dan

Chris wrote:

>Hi
>
>Good idea about looking at organising for SSF stuff for
>after the G8 in Sheffield.
>
>On Wed 01-Jun-2005 at 12:18:24PM +0100, Dan wrote:
>  
>
>>To get an account, we need a constitution
>>    
>>
>
>I don't think this is the case for all banks -- Sheffield
>Indymedia has no constitution but it has an account...
>
>  http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/ImcSheffieldBankAccount
>
>The same goes for the UK IMC network:
>
>  http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/UkNetworkAccount
>
>Of course the coop might be a bit more ethical...
>(apparently so is Triodos) but I'm not sure that the
>requirements of the coop bank are are best reason to
>formalise the structure of the SSF...
>
>I seem to remember that there wasn't even agreement on
>using consensus for decision making, though this appears
>to be what happens in practice...
>
>Chris
>
>  
>