Reply #51: it is when the former bylaws state that they can only be changed [View All]

[Kali]

by a vote of the membership and that vote never happened. They changed the bylaws to allow them to self appoint and to be allowed to change the bylaws without a vote of the membership!

We did a membership petition to return majority control to elected board members. Through a long year of bullshit they pulled a "brilliant" maneuver on us before our initiative could go to a vote. They changed the structure to half appointed, half elected, with one "elected" representative from the volunteers. Management then promoted that as a "Majority-elected Board" :eyes: . No way to beat that in a PR battle. By this time they had pretty much purged the volunteers who were sympathetic to what we were doing, installing a more pliant group of grateful and basically ignorant (of the issues - nothing wrong with these people but they don't know any history) Then they started cheating on the elections.

Big lesson in apathy for citizens.