permaculture

[Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture
Network <lakinroe@silcom.com> wrote:

> One of the big things i have been struggling with has do do with the
> ethics of PC teachers that hit on the female students at their sites and
> courses and how are we going to address this -can we  set a committee that
> will take complaints  we have nowhere to direct people that have
> complaints-this i feel will undue our movement faster than all the stuff i
> have read on this list serve


It should be an assumed fact, i.e. the default, that all categories of PC
events from A to Z are safe in this respect.
Why don't you take this on yourself, Wes? Here's what you can do without it
becoming a witchhunt.
Create a Google Group and a Google Site. At the site list contact people
and their respective email addresses. These people will
have administrative access to the group and site. Advertise this resource
widely. People who have a complaint could contact the
group-site owner(s) and let them know the circumstances. The admins could
then post said complaints to the Group and then if proven true to a list in
the Site. Each case could be evaluated and discussed in that forum to try
and determine validity of complaints before posting the offending party's
name to a list at the site and again to the group. Permaculture
profesionals could be allowed to subscribe to the Group and have viewing
access to the Site. Otherwise it would all be private, never open for
public viewing. Verified complaints seen by the professional permaculture
community should be adequate to end such behavior by the offending party,
especially since they would know that the group-site exists, what its
purpose is, and that they could quickly go out of business by word of mouth
if their unethical behavior continued. The difficult part would be posting
properly edited complaints that are verified that would not cause a
backlash of slander lawsuits. However, since the audience made aware of any
complaints would be a select group of individuals and not the general
public this might not happen allowing the resource to become quite
effective. This is a simple but highly functional solution. If you can't do
it then find some web-savvy volunteers who can get the job done and the
site created and maintained. You then just subscribe individuals who need
access to this kind of information for the purpose of knowing which of
their colleagues to recommend or not. This system could end or control
rumor-mongering which would be unfair to all parties.


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