GA/Proposals/18

Proposal: New process for creating a statement of demands. This dovetails with the spirit of proposals #15 & #17 above.

1. 1. Problem: A "list of demands" or "statements of purpose" seems like good ways to unite the movement behind a comprehensible (if general) platform
      
      1. As we've seen in recent GA sessions, a lengthy "list of demands" seems difficult to discuss in GA and takes too long to properly put through the consensus process.
         
      2. The person or group of persons who developed such a list may not be representative of the movement & diverse viewpoints may be lost.
         
   2. Solution: Allocate time in GA to propose individual, itemized demands from the floor.
      
      1. One session could be devoted to proposals - all of which would be recorded & lightly discussed
         
      2. Proposals would be posted on the wiki / distributed on paper & the GA members would be given a few days to ruminate
         
         1. Items would be read in GA, just to review them.
            
         2. Perhaps there could be a "temperature check" on each item to make sure at least 50% of the GA would like to eventually vote on it
            
      3. After a few days' time, a dedicated GA session would review the demands. Perhaps this process could occur over the course of a few sessions, adding approved itms to a growing list to minimize the burn-out and loss of quorum that occurs when an entire list is discussed as a whole
         
      4. Final GA session to ratify the compilation of approved items after they have been individually agreed-upon
         
   3. Next steps: each demand (i.e. "End corporate personhood!") could be used as a platform for launching more concrete proposals for actions, thus providing an organizational structure for discussions of the future of the movement