I think this is good advice from David (delay the fee decision and form
a cooperative first). I'm not sure that waiting a year is going to make
a whole lot of difference - I don't think we can decide a BPS section
membership fee before we have agreed on how we make decisions (i.e.,
consensus, majority role, quorates etc).
Also, I feel we might have become carried away with talking about fees
without fully interrogating the assumption that anyone can join the BPS
Section .... they can't. If you have a criminal record and spent time in
prison, you cannot join the BPS (that rules out a number of our more
hard core social activitist as well as people who have been incarcerated
because they are trapped in poverty and can't pay their bills ). It
would also mean that some of our critical thinkers from the past would
not be eligible to join the CP BPS section today (eg. Gramsci ).
Furthermore, you can be ejected from the BPS if you are deemed to bring
psychology into disrepute - that might rule out membership of BPS for a
whole lot more of us!
Here is the draft of a constitiution for a UKCP members' cooperative
that a few list members worked on earlier this year but has since been
gathering dust:
~~~~~
Provisional constitution:
The UK Community Psychology Members' Co-operative (hereafter referred to
as 'the Co-operative'):
Statute 1) Aims to encouragage the development of Community Psychology
in the UK.
Statute 2) Promotes free and voluntary association for those with an
interest in developing Community Psychology .
2i) The association will have no membership fees
2ii) The association is open to anyone with an
interest in the promotion and development of community psychology in the UK
Statute 3) Provides a structure to facilitate democractic action on
behalf of community psychology in the UK, with each member having one
vote, majority decision making, and an elected board (hereafter referred
to as 'the Board') accountable to its members at large (hereafter
referred to as 'the General Assembly')
3i) The elected board shall consist of two
co-ordinators, two co-treasurers, two co-secretaries and two General
Assembly representatives
3ii) Members of the Elected Board shall serve for a
minimum of one year and no longer than three consecutive years
3iii) All actions undertaken on behalf of the
Co-operative will be agreed by majority rule.
3iiia Majority rule will require a
quorate of 40% or more members voting and 60% of those members agreeing
to the proposed action.
~~~~~
It is stored on the web here:
http://cphe.wikispaces.com/CPUK+Co-op
where you can edit it on line. There is also a link to this on the
Community Psychology hub (on the right hand side of the home page):
http://www.communitypsychology.co.uk/
If this list agrees to establish a cooperative I agree with David and
others who suggested this at the CP conference in York several moons
agos that the BPS section should be accountable to it. As such, we
could have an extra clause to statute 2 that states: no member of the
CPUK cooperative is required to be a member of the BPS section but all
members of the BPS CP section are required to be members of the CPUK
cooperative. And, we could add something to say that CP BPS members are
expected to put the interests of the cooperative before the interests of
the BPS...
p
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