Just start governing
It’s easier said than done to just start governing in Egypt. A communications hierarchy is essential. For now, decisions can be made based on how big each activist group is estimated to be. They can each elect a point person. Without knowledge of and access to the means of production, obtaining necessities could be daunting I’m afraid. Getting food I would say is a priority. Not sure if they have it in the countryside. I recently finished “All New Square Foot Gardening” by Mel Bartholemew. Not sure if there’s time in Egypt to employ his techniques. Instead of a book review, for now I’ll just say I recommend it.
posted by Tom Cleland @ 1/31/2011 09:29:00 PM
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If the military can remain restrained until a democratically elected government can take office, that would be historic professionalism. One solution to the crisis would be for Mubarak to resign, then his vice president could appoint his own vice president, resign, and so on, until they get a transitional leader that is acceptable to all sides. Then they could work on leapfrogging the U.S. in terms of electoral reform, including IRV, proportional rep, and public financing of campaigns.
They could hold a constitutional convention right there in Tahrir Square. They could use walking subcaucuses to select the first delegates.
Egypt has a population of about 78 million. Let’s have 100 delegates to the constitutional convention. Then to become a delegate you need the support of 780,000 Egyptians. That’s a big number, so let’s have a caucus day where groups need to demonstrate the support of 7,800 people to get a subdelegate. Then any 10 subdelegates can get together to elect one delegate. Then they can convene and draft a new constitution that will earn the trust and respect of the both the people and the military.
Or, people could gather petition signatures to demonstrate popular support, but that would require verification and maybe a database. Maybe people could gather and use aerial photos, but those would need to be synchronized somehow. Maybe various leaders could just claim popular support and see who disputes it. Whoever can organize the biggest demonstrations gets the most delegates.
I'm still waiting for Cynthia McKinney to weigh in on the Libya situation. My understanding was that his governmental system looked good on paper but that he was still a dictator.
Other Greens may disagree, but I would consider air strafing in cases of genocide.
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