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

[peter]

On 25/02/15 18:51, Daniel Harmsworth wrote:
> And ladies and gents we have the Godwin point!

I think you jumped the gun there.

But I guess you had to get in early to get the first Godwin point point.


>
> On 26 February 2015 at 01:51, peter <phm at riseup.net> wrote:
>> On 23/02/15 05:08, Sparr wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 2:56 PM, peter <phm at riseup.net> wrote:
>>> Does anyone have advice/experience with the leadership abusing their
>>> powers, doing unconstitutional/unethical things?
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>> I beg to differ. I don't care what the 'law' says. I care about what is the
>> right/moral thing to do.
>>
>> (there is no appeal process, but I can try to call an EGM, which is what I'm
>> doing)
>>
>> 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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