{"id":6220,"date":"2010-01-13T15:50:45","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T23:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=6220"},"modified":"2010-01-13T15:50:45","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T23:50:45","slug":"general-assembly-is-dramatically-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=6220","title":{"rendered":"General Assembly is &#8220;dramatically broken&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new article up on uuworld.org titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uuworld.org\/news\/articles\/154573.shtml\">Big Changes Proposed for General Assembly<\/a>.&#8221; General Assembly is the annual gathering of U.S. Unitarian Universalists, ostensibly held to transact the business of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA). In October the UUA Board of Trustees commissioned a report to study whether General Assembly actually provides the setting for democratic decision-making it is supposed to provide. The short answer from the report: &#8220;GA is not really democratic,&#8221; and in fact provides &#8220;faux democracy and unaccountable representation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The UUA Board of Trustees will hear and discuss this report at its current meeting, which begins today and runs through Sunday. Will the Board of Trustees act on this report? If they don&#8217;t, I hope former UUA Moderator Denny Davidoff carries out a threat she made at the 2009 General Assembly, when she said, &#8220;We should get serious about governing ourselves democratically, or I will move in 2010 that we rescind the fifth principle [of the principles and purpose of the UUA Bylaws, calling for democratic process] until we can prove we are democratically represented.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the mean time, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uuworld.org\/news\/articles\/154454.shtml\">the 2010 General Assembly Committee has scheduled only business meetings on Saturday and Sunday of this year&#8217;s General Assembly<\/a>. No doubt this will annoy some who see General Assembly as one big social event, but perhaps it will keep the focus of General Assembly where it should be, to wit, on doing the business of the UUA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new article up on uuworld.org titled &#8220;Big Changes Proposed for General Assembly.&#8221; General Assembly is the annual gathering of U.S. Unitarian Universalists, ostensibly held to transact the business of the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA). In October the UUA Board of Trustees commissioned a report to study whether General Assembly actually provides the setting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[341],"tags":[479],"class_list":["post-6220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uua-politics","tag-uuaga10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6221,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6220\/revisions\/6221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}