{"article":{"id":13423,"heading":"Response to ISO \u2018Democracy or consensus?\u2019 article on anti-war conferences","author":"I went to the conference","created":"2001-12-08 02:17:42","modified":"2013-11-10 23:43:10","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 06:43:10","article":"
\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"In an article on the controversial student anti-war conferences, \u2018How will the antiwar movement debate the way forward? Democracy or consensus?\u2019 (Page 8, November 30, 2001 Socialist Worker), the ISO lays out their ideas on what are the important issues that arose out of the conferences. Ann, a Southern California student who attended the West Coast regional conference at UC Berkeley, responds directly to the article. Saying the real issue is not \u201cDemocracy vs. Consensus,\u201d as the ISO states, but in her opinion how the ISO behaved. Her response is directly inserted into the article below.","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2001\/12\/response_t.txt","filesize":"13.9 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2001\/12\/13423.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":13432,"heading":"spokes","article":"It's my perception (having not been there) that even more important than consensus is having each representative convene with their group to discuss and come to a group decision, and deliver feedback up to the council of councils.\r\n\r\nThen, it would not matter who the representative was, because they'd be responsible to vote what the groups says to vote, and to deliver messages.\r\n\r\nThe fundamental idea of democracy is that each *person* is given an equal opportunity to influence decisions. If there's representation, the rep is responsible for *accurately* representing the will of their group.","author":"johnk","parent_id":13423,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-12-08 07:20:52","modified":"2001-12-08 07:41:32","fileurl":""}]}