Hoi,
Is it like in "Animal farm" that all countries are equal but some are more
equal then others? By calling NY a sub chapter, it is inherent that there is
room for a USA chapter. Each chapter has one vote as I understand it or will
each subchapter have one as well ??
Originally the notion of a chapter was very much that it was along the lines
of legislatures. This no longer seems to be relevant or am I missing
something?
Thanks,
GerardM
2009/1/20 Ting Chen <wing.philopp(a)gmx.de>
Gerard Meijssen schrieb:
Hoi,
So in essence by having a New York chapter, it became impossible to have
an
USA chapter? Or do we need to propose an
Amsterdam sub chapter that will
get
all the trimmings like New York? The argument
that the USA is so big is
not
that strong either, we could have a Moscow sub
chapter or one for Bombay.
Thanks,
GerardM
Yes, having a New York chapter pretty ruled out the possibility of
establishing a USA chapter. But then, the USA chapter was discussed for
quite long time and it is quite unprobably that it would become true in
the near future. There are also suggestions that the WM-NYC could serve
as a seed and gradually expand its covering area at sometime to become a
WM-USA. But that's all speculations. We will see how everything develops.
Again, from the view of fundation WM-NYC is not a "sub chapter" but a
wholevalue chapter. Its area doesn't covers a nation, but that doesn't
make it less or more than the chapters whose area cover a country. And
sub-national or cross-national chapters also may be established
somewhere else than USA, right.
As far as I know, there are already two organizations in the
Netherlands, why would you want to create an Amsterdam chapter and what
is the beneficial of it? Or is the question just theoretical?
Greetings
Ting
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