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  • From: "Kathleen O'Brien Blair" <ktho@comcast.net>
  • To: "'permaculture'" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] changes at seed saver's exchange
  • Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:05:54 -0800

Do I have it correctly that the new "board" changed the By-Laws to
remove voting rights from members who have had them all along? If so
that's grounds for a class action and a petition to the Iowa Secretary
of State.

Kathleen

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Subject: Re: [permaculture] changes at seed saver's exchange

Here's some more info on the controversy:

http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/cornucop/msg0119143726856.html?
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In all fairness, note the macmec comment (above), where he offers that
even
if everything were above board, issues of liability intrude whenever
some
rancorous action necessitates lawyers. And if you've fired someone for
cause, you
can't tell anyone what that cause might be without courting the
possibility of
a wrongful action suit.

That's just the way things are done in this country. Still, I have my
opinion
in this. And the takeover sounds ominous. It would be hard to imagine a
situation in which it was actually done for the good of the enterprise.
Laughably
easy of course, is imagining it was done with the clandestine purpose of

killing off SSE.

IMO it would be a disaster for people discouraged by the putsch to just
resign from SSE. Everyone who does this just makes it easier for some
unopposed
Board to decide it would be "in the best interest of the organization
and the
principles for which it stands" to turn the seed bank, the holdings and
the
operation over to some large corporation to manage, so they could then
neglect it
until it falls apart from disuse.

And there are certainly large agro-corps who would find the price of
buying
this gem to be a very affordable way of drowning the competition. I'm
with the
numerous posters connected to SSE-- the total lack of transparency
gives more
than an impression of skullduggery in the way this has come about.

Here's a good article, from a more pleasant time, about SSE and the seed

saving movement generally:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48120-2004Aug30.html
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