This is a serious collective, and there are certain expectations that have been set for members. If you want to become a member, read the criteria. If you are willing to abide by the membership criteria, contact a member of the collective, and you will be invited to the next meeting and asked to sign a membership roster with your contact information, schedule, etc.
Note: You do not need to be a member to work with the collective on projects!

Criteria:

• Commitment of time and effort. Members must have the time and willingness to do work. (it would really help to live in East King county)
• Constant Communication. Members must keep in touch with each other regularly outside of meetings via the listserv, email, phone, etc. We cannot emphasize the importance of this enough.
• Belief in and education about Social Anarchism This is after all, an Anarchist collective.
• Try to show up at every meeting. Unless there is a good reason. Tell us the good reason beforehand.
• At every meeting, bring something, and take something Every member is supposed to come up with ideas before each meeting. Everybody participates at meetings. Everybody takes work to do back home with them, unless there is a good reason not to.

Meetings

The first Thursday of the month is set aside for a collective meeting, with the facilitator rotating amongst the members.
In addition to the monthly meeting there will also be spontaneous, or 'wildcat,' meetings that can be called by any member of the collective. The member who calls a spontaneous meeting will also be the facilitator for the meeting.

Whoever calls the 'wildcat' meeting is delegated a certain amount of responsibility. The person who calls the meeting is the facilitator for the meeting.

The Facilitator:

• A) Sets a primary topic for the meeting
• B) Contacts people in the collective, and organizes the meeting.
• C) Tries to place the meeting at a convenient time for everyone
• D) Ensures an orderly meeting. For example, if two people are talking at the same time, the facilitator may tell them to talk one at a time, and appoint who talks first etc. The Facilitator may act as leader, not in decision making but for the purpose of keeping an orderly meeting.
• E) Makes sure that all positions have been heard and ample time for discussion has taken place before a vote, if necessary, is taken. Dissenting positions will always be highlighted.
• F) Takes notes at the meeting, and posts them on the listserv.

Voting:

When consensus cannot be reached on a major decision, such as changing a rule, a vote will be taken. Decisions will pass with an 80 percent supermajority vote.