London Calling

pghwob "Not an apologist for SEIU"
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Submitted by pghwob on 16 December, 2007 - 05:34.

Congratulations to the FWs in London who will host the next General Assembly. This will be the first time the GA has been held outside of North America.

Weaver
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16 December, 2007 - 08:16

Maybe we can start talking about creating a proposal for a delegate assembly, as BIROC folks would likely support this?

ftony "crews are for boats"
Posts: 3659 Joined: 26-05-04 Location: East London
16 December, 2007 - 16:00

fuckin' get in!!!!

re. delegation - i'd be surprised if many BIROCers would oppose it. it seems a pretty sensible and democratic way of doing things.

ncwob "'I hope the bourgoeisie will remember my carbuncles until their dying day' - K. Marx "
Posts: 534 Joined: 05-10-07 Location: North Carolina
16 December, 2007 - 18:40

Fuck Right!! I'm looking forward to meeting all my English (and European) comrades.

Re Delegation: Diddo on ftony

Stripey "Intersectionalist workers of the world"
Posts: 269 Joined: 30-10-03 Location: Ottawa, Canada
17 December, 2007 - 00:52

Hey I am really happy about that!

This means (I hope):
1 - The really loud old skool members will not have their voices over emphasized.
2 - Passing of all sorts of sensible things like delegate councils and an elected web committee (my personal project).
3 - I will have an excuse to visit old friends in Glasgow as well as meet loads of new UK and Euro wobs.
3.1 - Drinking, feasting and general partying will ensue.

/me starts saving her pennies

Stripey "Intersectionalist workers of the world"
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17 December, 2007 - 00:55

Hey does anyone know the precise dates of a london GA?

x357997 "go ahead, make my day...punk"
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17 December, 2007 - 00:58

i think the branch(or GEB) has to set the agenda and thus the exact dates.

pghwob "Not an apologist for SEIU"
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17 December, 2007 - 04:04

The date is supposed to be fixed with the location, and technically, it was supposed to be set by the previous GA, but that has been sent to referendum last few years. i believe it will therefore have to be during US Labor Day, when it is customarily held. However, if someone has information to the contrary, please bring it.

Stripey "Intersectionalist workers of the world"
Posts: 269 Joined: 30-10-03 Location: Ottawa, Canada
17 December, 2007 - 07:36

Well my thinking is that they don't have labour day in the UK so if may be fair to move it around to suit local holidays.

ftony???

x357997 "go ahead, make my day...punk"
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17 December, 2007 - 07:38

but still summer time, yea?

fnbrill "Mocking In the Fee World"
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17 December, 2007 - 07:41
x357997 wrote:
but still summer time, yea?

too cold tongue

x357997 "go ahead, make my day...punk"
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17 December, 2007 - 07:44

?

fnbrill "Mocking In the Fee World"
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17 December, 2007 - 07:53

Making a joke - think about going to the middle coast of British Columbia in the summer, not especially warm. That's about where the UK is.

x357997 "go ahead, make my day...punk"
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17 December, 2007 - 07:57

within a couple of months of being born i was surrounded by snow neutral

EdmontonWobbly "Sombre, jaded class warrior."
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17 December, 2007 - 08:09
Quote:
think about going to the middle coast of British Columbia in the summer, not especially warm.

I live north of that, wimp. smile

fnbrill "Mocking In the Fee World"
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17 December, 2007 - 08:18
EdmontonWobbly wrote:
I live north of that, wimp. :)

Yeah, and how many folks showed up to Edmonton? hand

ftony "crews are for boats"
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17 December, 2007 - 08:35

i assume it'll be labour day weekend. annoyingly it's one week after a nice long bank holiday weekend (and my birthday!).

summer in london is usually about 20-30 degrees C. not sure what that works out as in your crazy yankee temperatures, somewhere in the 70s perhaps?