Guidelines for participation in Cleveland Economic Democracy Network

These guidelines will be enforced by the collective as a whole.  Any violation of these guidelines will be regarded as a concern of the whole group.  Serious guidelines violations may result in expulsion or censure.

1.  No oppressive behavior, including but not limited to behaviors that are sexist, racist, homophobic, or anti-democratic, will be tolerated.  Persons wishing to be collective members will be bound by this guideline inside and outside of collective activity. It is every collective member's responsibility to learn about and fight against oppression.  Resources for understanding oppression can be found at http://www.soaw.org/article.php?id=530

2.  A security culture will be observed by collective members to the highest extent possible given the collective’s open membership policy.  The email address of the collective will always remain anonymous.  Members should be familiar with types of communication that should only happen face-to-face, and not use email for such conversations.  Resources on security culture can be found at http://www.crimethinc.com/texts/atoz/security.php http://www.crimethinc.com/blog/2009/06/24/towards-a-collective-security-culture/

3.  This collective is not a dating service or a social club.  It is understood by all members that the objective of abolishing capitalism supersedes any petty personal objectives we may have.  So long as we are doing group work, we will not let social concerns interfere with that work.

4.  Group emails are for agreed upon business only.  No personal attacks, security risk conversations, or non-business conversations should take place through group email lists.  Personal emails between individuals are, of course, acceptable between those who know one another, but unsolicited emails of a personal nature that take advantage of group email lists will be treated as guidelines violations and be deal with as such.

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