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Old History: Old leopards don't change their spots:
- 2 leading Revolters tried a power grab years back,
then it was `just' the mail list & web they grabbed,
now its the whole club they want to control, orchestrated
by their web & mail list.
- Way back, one antipodean revolter, now a pensioner,
took a survey of opinions to try to get support for her
idea, , got 2/3 majority Against her idea, so ignored her
own poll, & typically pushed it through anyway: A
change of club definition on the front page of programme,
removing GEA description as a club "For young thinking
people" & so aged the GEA faster than nature
would have, encouraging more older less lively people to
join.
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Summer 2008 Onward
committee numbers always
shrink over each year, sometimes a lot before each new
election:
- A bit before 10 Sep 2008, committee was nominally: {
Alexandra (present) Traudl (present) Birgit (present)
Chris (present, resigned since) Christine (absent,
resigned since) Malcolm (present, resigned since) Teresa
(absent, resigned since) } Some resignations were
apparently already anticipated from regular absentees, so
to compensate, they co-opted (a frequent GEA mid year
practice) Julian & designated him next Chair, after
Chris left.
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The committee was already
under external attack, & has been continuously ever
since, with several fractious issues. (Chronologically:
- DMF/MK schism,
- 3 Stammtisch moves,
- If an expensive musician should be hired for
Halloween
- Guy Fawkes organiser threatened to dump event
& equipment then ran event & refused to hand
money income to Treasurer.
- Communications from committee blocked by revolting
censors;
- Censors promoted fake reform on their censored
GEA media, as a disguise for their 2nd power grab.
(See Old leopards don't change
their spots
- Editor (already being considered for dismissal,
who resigned first) issued an unauthorised January
programme, with editorial promoting revolt, assisted
by now fully revolting censors.
- The trouble, especially from revolting censors
increasingly trying to disrupt committee communication methods to
the membership, deterred several other recruits the committee had approached to
co-opt, who would have otherwise joined to help on the committee till the next
elections.
- Once revolters had helped disrupt committee recruitment, they then made
their grab for power.
- Sat 13th Dec 2008 PARTY
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Editorial of January 2009
Monthly programme
Some people recently tried to hijack the GEA: Funds
diverted; committee postings
blocked; Misinformation promoted via gea@yahoogroups
& http://gea-muc & hijacked monthly programme,
promoting an improper call to convene an EGM (that only
GEA committee can call), to
dump committee &
constitution & snatch control of GEA shortly before
annual elections (due in March).
Communications being disrupted, we revert to the GEA's
original & first ever web http://www.berklix.org/gea/
& mail list: gea-announce @@
mailman.berklix, Many more have recently joined, if
you have not yet, try mailing gea-announce
@@ mailman.berklix.org gea-announce-subscribe @@
mailman.berklix.org (or postmaster @@ mailman.berklix....
if you have problems).
Early spring, the committee
will arrange for annual elections. Subscribe now, to get
not just uncensored event announcements, but also to
ensure you are known as a member entitled to vote later.
(Some may be more interested to check membership at next
election).
committee members welcome
your event suggestions & volunteers to help run the
GEA &/or its events both before &/or after
elections.
Later news: http://www.berklix.org/gea/news/
- Wednesday 7th January
2009
The programme is now available in various formats including
HTML to view on line & PDF now also in 2 single sides,
for use with single sided printers, where you turn &
reinsert paper.
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Wed 14th Jan
Warning, A false deceptive email is about:
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:26:14 +0100 To: GEA
Mailinglist <gea@yahoogroups "An Extraordinary
General Meeting of the GEA will be held on Friday,
January 16th"
No GEA EGM will take place.
Only the GEA committee has
constitutional authority to call an EGM = Extraordinary
General Meeting & they have not done so. Check with
your committee members:
Individual phone numbers & direct email of GEA committee members are on GEA
programme download-able at
http://www.berklix.org/gea/programme/
Collectively via:
gea-committee @@ mailman.berklix
(not via committee@gea-muc as all @gea-muc addresses
are tap-able & block-able by revolters).
The GEA January 2009 Programme Editorial is here: http://www.berklix.org/gea/news/
Arnulf-Str Cellar stammtisch habituees will likely
convene as usual, less some who may not want revolters'
silliness, but numbers supplemented by some innocents
conned into believing a fake GEA EGM. The fake EGM
& will have no authority for GEA, Beware too the
revolters' unauthorised green January programme, (where
in advance of their fake EGM, the revolters already
removed listing the GEA committee).
It might be unpleasant in the cellar Friday, many GEA
people have anyway long since given up regularly
attending there. Other options include Ryan's muddy
boot, already announced to Beer gardeners on bg @@ mailman.berklix
& whatever toytown may
offer. A few occasionally achieve all 3 venues in one
night.
The Revolters:
Half the `reform' core trying to grab control of the
GEA are pensioners, so with time free to run a campaign
of misinformation & disruption. Most, if not all of
the committee still work
(me too, pressing business next), Revolters have
created so much trouble for committee members, they deterred
several normal GEA members who said they would
otherwise have agreed to be co-opted to the committee to help share the work
load. If undemocratic revolters depart & create
some other club with some other name, they are at
liberty to do so. Might both be sad but also good
riddance, & least worst option.
Hopefully a strong new team will run for election to
save the GEA. Candidates welcome to declare themselves
as soon as they want.
This list gea-announce @@
mailman.berklix is Not censored by any human,
(but to block spam, only subscribers can post to it).
Some who still only get GEA info from revolters who
manipulate censored media outlets gea@yahoogroups &
http://gea-muc are less informed, so more easily
conned. You might want to warn them. If you forward
this to a friend, the footer tells people how they can
subscribe & unsubscribe automatically (ask me if
you get stuck).
Julian, GEA committee member.
- Fri 16th Jan 2009 :
Revolting censors & dupes fake an EGM
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- Fake Reformers
The committee were asking
themselves & other club members many similar
questions the fake reformers (the censors in revolt) now
promote their `solutions' for, but unlike the revolting,
the committee was Not rushing
to deliver all GEA control & communication to the
`tender' mercies of un-elected censors & power
grabbers. Were the revolting to manage to grab power,
most likely the dupes would be discarded quickly, &
the more tenacious later, those very few who would retain
control is obvious.
- Real Reform
Please discuss your ideas with elected committee members (who are not averse
to change) &/or promote your ideas, &/or run for
election with your ideas in March, (Best Not join the
revolting censors who want to grab power
undemocratically.)
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Thurs 22nd Jan 2009
Hi GEA people on gea-announce @@ mailman.berklix.org,
We really Welcome more lively events & organisers,
particularly from younger lively native English speakers.
Please send us any event ideas. The more unusual the
better. If you & a friend fancy doing something
anyway, why not also get it listed & get more company
?
http://www.berklix.org/gea/programme/
gea-programme@ berklix.org
Ref. My posting of 14 Jan, (preceeding Harald's of 21 Jan
to his list,
where he promoted outcome of his falsely convened EGM):
Unlike pensioners leading revolt, most GEA committee
are not retired, & no time to correct manipulations
on media censored & controlled by Harald:Web,
Sunny:Mail Ute:Programme. They stripped committee of
communication, & spread disinformation. Their noise
on @yahoo etc gets echoed as hearsay spread by dupes.
Check the source: Ask direct whichever committee
members you voted for in last March's annual elections.
Contacts:
http://www.berklix.org/gea/committee/
gea-committee@
berklix.org
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Editorial of February 2009
Programme
Choose events from 2 programmes: Old editor resigned 17th
Sept, then joined the power grab. This editor was
appointed by the committee 1st Dec. Communication (email,
web & programme) disrupted between GEA membership
& its elected committee, so getting event info in
& out was difficult.
The call for a fake EGM broke Constitution rule 12
(must be proposed at a quorate extra-ordinary committee
meeting). Many were conned by propaganda: some nice
reform ideas camouflaging the real power grab. Few asked
committee members if GEA communications were hijacked,
& democracy subverted.
Annual elections are due in March. Committee look
forward to retiring then. Power grabbers want No
elections.
- Next annual election of committee Members: March 2009,
(Last year: 14.3.2008),
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- Feel free to ask your committee members (listed here
http://www.berklix.org/gea/programme/ ) for their views,
&/or elections details when available, & or to
advance discuss/ register as a candidate or voter
etc.
- Later
More events to be merged in, for version 2 of programm. you
can mail your events to gea-programme @@ mailman.berklix.
org
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