Nov. 12, 2008
10:57 p.m.
Not a single reply or comment in days?
Well, I wasn't there, but at all the meetings I attended, they always wasted vast amounts of time reading reports that cut into the open mike time. That's a longstanding problem, as is the hostility of the board to meaningful public comment at meetings.
Danny, to me it felt like there was a significant chunk of the ALAC calendar in Cairo that didn't allow for meaningful participation by those of us who were _there_, and I don't just mean the open forum.
Sigh. That's not a new problem either. When I was on the ALAC, we spent way too much time on process stuff and not enough on substance. R's, John