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Shawn Richmand; ". . .our duty to [veto] membership applications."

Shawn Richardson wrote:

You have it backwards. People apply for membership in the local and, if accepted, are put in the national by default. People only join the national party directly when there is no local. You'll notice that, though the applications go to our National Secretary, he does not put them in the party unless the local votes to do so. It is our responsibility and duty, as a local, to [veto] membership applications.

In a message dated 7/13/2004 4:44:45 PM Eastern Standard Time, Jesse heiwa writes:

Shaun, thanks as always for your fine elocution.

It does point out the need to change this so as to allow people to join the national party directly if either the local is not functioning and/or if it represents only a narrow faction thus not approving memberships. I believe we need to be welcoming to all who join us on the basis of the platform we all agree to uphold. No person interested in joining should be denied unless they're not in agreement with our principles. Otherwise we become very much like a "cadre" like Marxist-Leninist party instead of the open party we are (or should be).

Jesse Heiwa

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