[hackerspaces] Leadership abusing powers. Bullying. Extraordinary General Meetings.

[Daniel Harmsworth]

And ladies and gents we have the Godwin point!

On 26 February 2015 at 01:51, peter <phm at riseup.net> wrote:
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> On 23/02/15 05:08, Sparr wrote:
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> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 2:56 PM, peter <phm at riseup.net> wrote:
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>> Does anyone have advice/experience with the leadership abusing their
>> powers, doing unconstitutional/unethical things?
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> Short answer: unless the group's bylaws give you some recourse, then you
> have none. The leadership gets to make up the rules, and if you don't like
> them then you can go start your own club. The actual points of your
> arguments don't matter. They could be telling you to stop wearing yellow
> shirts, and your justification for wearing yellow shirts WOULDNT MATTER.
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> I beg to differ. I don't care what the 'law' says. I care about what is the
> right/moral thing to do.
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> (there is no appeal process, but I can try to call an EGM, which is what I'm
> doing)
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> If your government starts committing genocide, would you say 'oh well, they
> passed a law to make it legal, so there is nothing I can do?'.
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