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What are the goals of ASFAR?
How do we propose to obtain those goals?
Who is our leadership?
What--exactly--is the ASFAR leadership doing to help us reach our goals?
What number of youth are involved in ASFAR? Adults? Are we effective in combining the talents of both?
I ask these questions because I came here excited, but the excitement is wearing off fast. This is my second day here, and the board seems slower than molasses running uphill on a cold winter morning.
Seriously.................
I have been here 3 days, and this place is like an Internet ghost town.
Anybody?
I would concur. I posted a survey about the voting age in action, and it got one vote-my own.
The whole movement seems to be inactive. Look at NYRA: their only recent action was to get their president featured on a news network.
So what do we do? What is ASFAR doing? Is it all fluff blowing in the wind?
As far as I can tell, nobody is doing anything.
My first idea is to start small and, for instance, protest curfews. If we can set a precedent by getting someone excused on the first amendment defense that has already been noted in the curfews section, it would be an excellent start.
A completely different approach would be to go for the jugular and do something big with the voting age. I'm not sure how though.
I thought that doing "something big" was what ASFAR is all about. Actually, nothing seems to be being done.
Where is the leadership?
Nobody knows. As far as I can tell, nobody on the board has posted on the forums for nearly 2 years.
I recall that some years ago ASFAR used to publish a printed bulletin that was snail-mailed to those who requested it. That went away. So now ASFAR is no longer extant?
Am I just wasting my time here?
It's true that there's been very little going on. Everything that is going on is either at NYRA, or seperate from any organization.
I think ASFAR should serve primarily as a "liberationist" think tank organization. I wouldn't have a problem with it being primarily Web-based, and focused on research rather than large-scale "real world" presence, because that is the role that NYRA serves, and while we speak of "NYRA vs. ASFAR" as though they are two opposing organizations, almost all of the people in this small incarnation of ASFAR are NYRA members, and there have been people that have served as directors for both organizations simultaneously. Hopefully Max will too if we can get him elected this year.
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