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Points of unity

Decision Making Process

1. Decisions are made through deliberation.

2. Agenda is to be created by and approved by participants. (The agenda can have different sections for the meeting as needed: Such as introductions, report backs, specific discussion topics, and action plans, to announcements, etc.)

3. Delegated and rotating facilitator calls on people as they volunteer to speak OR otherwise meeting can go round-robin style where everyone speaks in turns by passing the speaker role in a circle.

4. There is a search for full agreement through dialogue. (Deliberation involves: Problem analysis, goal setting, alternative proposals, positives, and negatives of multiple proposals)

5. If there is not full agreement, then deliberation occurs until the discussion is sufficiently exhausted.

6. If full agreement is not reached, the item will be classified as either “Noncritical” or “Critical”

A. Noncritical refers to topics that can easily be undone and will not have lasting effects if the general assembly did not notice a flaw. Noncritical votes must pass by 51% of the voting presence

B. Critical refers to topics that cannot be easily undone and should be taken with an above-average degree of seriousness.

i. Critical votes must pass by a quorum and will include a third-party voting system to include as many members as possible

7. Decisions must have a form and content in harmony with the points of unity and/or bylaws/bill of rights of the assembly.

8. Various kinds of direct democracy protocols (such as 2⁄3 voting for an issue, or deliberation style of people in favor of and opposed to a proposal taking turns, etc.) can be mandated and recalled by assembly through the above processes.

9. Assemblies happen every three months or as needed at the HQ in Kumiho or in Discord for emergency situations

Membership

1. Membership is decided by your activity level.

A. Visiting Anarcho Rodentia for at least one week out of three calendar months grants you membership.

i. If you are missing for two calendar months a member of the land powers committee will reach out to you to check up on you and make sure that you are still interested in being a member of the general assembly.

ii. If you do not reply to this message in any capacity within two weeks, you will be demitted from the general assembly.

2. Members must remain in good standing with the community guidelines.

3. You must agree with the points of unity.

Committees/Working groups/Embedded Councils

1. Policy-making power is held within the general assembly.

2. Working groups and embedded councils are to be mandated from below by the general assembly.

3. Working groups and embedded councils cannot make policy over and above the general assembly.

4. Self-management exists for working groups and embedded councils within the bounds of the protocols and policies made by the general assembly.

5. Working groups and embedded councils are made of people who agree to implement specific policies. (*It is very possible to disagree with a policy as ideal but still agree enough with the policy to implement it.)

6. Some of these committees are open committees for any volunteer to join while others are made of those specifically delegated. Some committees are continuous standing committees while others are periodic special committees that dissolve after a specified more short-term function is complete.

7. Working groups and embedded councils report back to the general assembly.

8. Working groups and embedded councils (as well as policies for working groups and embedded councils) are instantly recallable by the general assembly.

Some potential committees are as follows:

1. Common Infrastructure Committee or a Mutual Aid Committee of some kind: Could have general function or specific functions as needed. Specific committees could focus on many ways of developing communal and intercommunal fields, factories, workshops, community housing, building community owned co-ops, communal food systems, free stores, tool libraries, community food programs, community technology projects, community potlucks/block parties, etc.

2. Direct Action Committee/Solidarity Network: Could have general functions or specific functions as needed. Direct action committee/network would help tenants, workers, the unemployed, the exploited, the dominated, and the dispossessed through direct action.

3. Special action committees to organize specific direct actions

4. Special committees for various periodic events

5. Committee for organizing a larger than usual scale assembly or gathering

6. Collective Incubator Committee: a committee of the assembly designed to spawn a separate organization of some kind

Delegated Roles

1. Roles are to be delegated by the general assembly directly.

2. Such roles are to be administrative and communicative and have no representative policy-making power.

3. Roles are to be mandated by people directly and instantly recallable.

4. Roles can be mandated through nomination or self-nomination and voting on a person to have such a role agreement by a person delegated to a role, or through lot agreement by a person delegated and the collective delegating, or through specific roles being and passed around in a circle after a set period in such a way where everyone able and willing takes turns, etc.

5. Such roles exist for a maximum term of 6 months (*Or some other amount of time that makes sense for the specific roles and contexts… Roles can be staggered to help pass on the knowledge needed for various functions to the next delegate).

Some potential delegated roles are as follows:

1. Scribe: takes notes at meetings. (Can alternatively be rotated each meeting or even on a volunteer basis)

2. Backup facilitator: ready to help if no one else wants to. Helps to teach people who want to help how to do so if needed.

3. Digital Communications: reads and responds to specific kinds of emails in specific ways (*Within the bounds of mandates and relevant protocols).

4. Treasurer: Accounts for money. All decisions about spending are made through participatory budgeting.

5. Co-Federal Delegate: Meets up to deliberate with co-federal delegates from other assemblies and report back to the general assembly where actual policy-making power resides.

6. (There could be several roles created that are related to assembly functioning that can be rotated monthly between people able and willing to one. help share responsibility for reproducing the organization and to two. share knowledge and skills)

Co-federal decision making

1. Councils of different assemblies can meet up regularly and as needed.

2. Councils are co-coordinative and communicative.

3. Delegates of assemblies are to bring communication to and from assemblies and delegate councils.

4. All policy making power stays in direct assemblies.

5. Decisions that are co-federal in nature are to be made by a majority vote of persons within co-federal agreements bounded by the points of unity/bylaws, or alternatively simple majority of persons and assemblies bounded by points of unity/bylaws.

6. Decisions are made at the lowest possible level.

7. (*This part is intentionally left extra skeletal and will need to be figured out between multiple groups)

Conflict Resolution

Arbitration/mediation/restorative justice/transformative justice

1. One on One direct communication.

2. Communication and mediation aided by a person or people all parties agree to.

3. Mediation circles helped by trained mediators to find mutual resolution. (If the assembly has relationships with trained mediators willing to support outside of the assembly that can help. In an intercommunal federation, different assemblies can offer one another support for these functions)

4. In the most extreme of cases, involving sufficient levels of harm and violation of freedoms of others: the land powers committee can deliberate and vote to disassociate from a person if and when they are found by sufficient evidence to have caused sufficient unjust violence and/or violations of freedoms of others and/or overall toxic behaviors that cause strife within the community (until if and when such a person has been found by the assembly to have changed their behaviors).

Bill of Rights

(*These are aspirational and make more sense as features for a good society where libertarian socialism can functionally exist and be constitutionalized. For example: a budding community assembly cannot guarantee access to the means of production and existence until those have been sufficiently seized on a sufficiently intercommunal level. This section is intentionally left particularly incomplete but can serve as a starting off point for both aspirational rights. And some of these rights can function within a horizontal assembly that exists within the context of a hierarchical society.):

1. Rights of each and all have the rights to self-management on every scale– including horizontal Politics and economics and the means thereof.

2. Rights of each and all to the means of production and the means of existence.

3. Rights of each and all to freedom/of/from/within associations.

4. Freedom from hierarchy and domination.

5. Rights of communal assemblies to self-management.