James,
You have continued this, and related, lines of questioning of multiple staff members and of the community for quite some time now. It is clear that you have not received an answer that you find satisfactory, and I understand that, but may I ask what makes you think that you will receive an answer that is satisfactory to you by continuing to ask the same questions. It is possible, and in my opinion likely right now, that you will never receive an answer that satisfies you given the realities of the conversation.
My read of the discussions (and lack thereof) that have happened here and elsewhere over the course of many years when you bring these topics up is that the level of interest in pursuing your specific agenda is not only low but, if anything, actively negative. That is not to say that many of us do not, personally, agree with the goals that you espouse just that we do not believe the foundation should be actively participating in them. Spreading us too thin is not helpful for any of our goals and focus, including in advocacy, is incredibly important.
I would encourage you, James, to move on from this line of discussion. Continued work on it, whether it be via passive aggressive emails 'to' staff members (while copying in a public mailing list), attempts to rally up support through different mailing lists or via proposed surveys of the community are unlikely to change the response that has been clear for at least 5 years. I understand that you may not see these emails or proposals in the way I described but I urge you look at them through others eyes.
James Alexander User:Jamesofur
On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 4:47 PM, James Salsman jsalsman@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Geoff,
Would you please clarify which of the advocacy topics below, if any, are precluded by the restrictions at
https://web.archive.org/web/20120621122539/http://www.irs.gov/charities/arti... ?
Since multiple people have claimed that some are without saying which, it would be very helpful to have some clarity from an authority. The topics were designed to address volunteer quality of life issues on which the Foundation has not been active because they were not considered when volunteer survey respondents were polled on their advocacy preferences. I am not interested in correcting those omissions with any topics which are precluded by IRS regulations.
Thank you!
Labor rights, e.g., linking to fixmyjob.com
Support the ratification of the Convention on the Rights of the
Child and its protocols without reservation
Increase infrastructure spending
Increase education spending
Public school class size reduction
College subsidy with income-based repayment terms
More steeply progressive taxation
Negative interest on excess reserves
Telecommuting
Workweek length reduction
Single-payer health care
Renewable power purchase
Increased data center hardware power efficiency
Increased security against eavesdropping
Metropolitan broadband
Oppose monopolization of software, communications, publishing, and
finance industries
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