From Sean McNulty: The following is a proposal to link up as many Facebook groups, websites, Twitterers, Instagrams, Tumblrs, blogs, news sites, and offline groups as possible into the YES SOCIAL NETWORK, which we hope to present to the media as tens or hundreds of thousands strong. Above all we want to maximise practical cooperation -- ACTION and then MORE ACTION -- but we also intend to attract media coverage and to provide a strong, unified voice for Scotland’s greatest ever grassroots movement. We also want to appeal to soft Noes and waverers wherever possible, so the Network would only be for groups that require reasonable behaviour from their members. The wording below has been put together by #YesAlliance with a view to further discussion, tweaking and addition from as many others as possible. If interested, please join our group and contribute below to your heart’s content. Individuals, groups and organisations are all welcome. facebook/groups/Yes.Alliance Onwards. ————————— The Yes Social Network How we want to govern ourselves has been transformed. We’ve gone from apathy to engagement, from fear to hope, from No Society to A Yes Society. We’re evolving away from a twentieth-century, corrupt, infantile Old Boys’ Club towards a twenty-first-century, mature, fully-inclusive *social network*. The Yes Social Network exists to preserve and further this evolution, in the following ways: 1. FAIRNESS. We will keep working for a fairer and more sustainable society both before and after independence is achieved. 2. COOPERATION. We will encourage cross-party cooperation wherever possible, with a view to shedding last century’s political tribalism and careerism. In the same spirit, we welcome cooperation with No voters wherever possible, in accordance with the Network’s principles. 3. VOICE. We will pool the Network’s resources to provide a strong, cohesive voice for the Scottish people at the heart of national affairs. 4. ENGAGEMENT. We will bring together people with ideas, projects and events and those with the skills, time and enthusiasm to make them a success. We welcome the arrival of the most socially knowledgeable and engaged younger generation in our country’s history, and ask their help in maintaining such engagement in generations to come. 5. RESPECT. We will encourage greater civility and transparency at all levels of discussion, online and offline, as it affects Scottish politics, society and culture. 6. BALANCE. We will correct twentieth-century-style media bias and propaganda wherever we find it, and employ the full power of new technology to expose how such propaganda operates and to provide alternative news and perspectives. 7. CONSUMER PRESSURE. We will support the boycott of products and services of corporations and media outlets that use their financial, employment and propagandistic power to grossly distort the democratic process. 8. INTERNATIONALISM. We will pool resources with other movements of self-determination that fit with the Network’s principles. 9. ENJOYMENT. We will have fun.
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 10:45:46 +0000
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