Walter.Siren@p18.f5.n396.z1.fidonet.org (Walter Siren) (12/05/90)
Index Number: 12282
[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]
JM> Even if you disagree with some of these or other positions
JM> I have taken, are they enough to warrant removing me as an
JM> officer or expelling me as a member? I hardly think so.
You are so right. That is how I have always found the NFB,
however, and people like yourself are gradually finding it out.
Frankly I don't see any problems with those ideas you expounded in
your messages.
JM> Maurer said to me last April that he uses me as an example of the
JM> democratic character of the National Federation of the Blind.
That sure blew up in his face didn't it?
JM> Unfortunately, it appears that this democratic expression has
JM> proved too threatening to the desire of some for strict order and
JM> central control. Are these the kind of organizational processes
JM> that promote collective, considered action? No! I am convinced
JM> that our movement would be stronger and more effective if there
JM> were more open decision making and respect for differing views in
JM> our united cause of first class citizenship for the blind.
You are right. If those problems were not existing, we probably would
have only organization in the movement today.
Walter
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