Second meeting of the project 2008: Many questions and one answer

Last night was the second round of the project 2008. The three commissions meet, to finally start working. We sit all together for a while, and then apart. And as in any other starting meeting of groenlinks, many questions were posed. This time, very few questions were offered.

Few minutes after the plenary started, the air was already quite cluttered with doubts. Some of them:

1) Is the partijraad going to change this commission?
2) Do we write ourselves the program? or do we make other people write it?
3) What should we ask our members to do?
4) Must we write as well a change of statutes?
5) Are we going to discuss dilemmas? are we looking for a good ideological fight?
6) Are we going to discuss values? are we looking for a nice consensus?
7) Are werkgroepen going to get a role in the process? and if yes... a special role?
8) To whom are we going to report? partijraad? congress? partijbestuur?


As usual, very few of these questions got a clear answer. My guesses, after the discussion, are as follows: no, second, to write, probably not, if you want, ditto, yes, but not special, partijbestuur.

The problem is that some possible and even rational answers are a recipe for bad press. The commission would like to find an equilibrium in between being open, and being totally anarchic. So we do not want to decide what the discussions will be, but we want to signal some issues to discuss. And we know now that these commissions are under the partijbestuur command... not under the partijraad... so the partijraad actually has nothing more to say about us... or so the partijbestuur say (I agree, by the way... but what the partijraad thinks?)

In any case, this vague exchange of opinions finally ended, and one clear answer came. From now up to december 31 2007, 12 in the night, as many texts as possible should be produced and collected. That is the ultimate goal of this commission. If we do it by hook or by crook, it does not really matters. It does not matter if werkgroepen write, or persons. It does not matter if we convince some people to write about some issues, or if unasked texts are produced. The only thing that matters now is: spui babe, spui!

So for once, we might as well agree, and write.

So up to 2008: spuiuiuiuiuiuiuiuiuiuiui!!!!!