[Oops, almost did it again. Darned if I can remember to use "Reply All" every time, this is completely opposite to the behavior of every other mailing list I subscribe to, but oh well.] At 10/7/2008 02:37 PM Tuesday, Timo wrote: >what I have seen so far the only way to be active is to be a board >member of the union or a body member... pretty big gap of duties, >and position of influence. Where I come from, "active" includes just showing up as a rank and file member to meetings, and nothing stops any of us from that. To that end, let me remind everyone that we have a brown bag annual membership meeting in the Spartan rooms of the International Center on Tuesday, 14 Oct 2008. The rooms will open at 11:30a with the meeting agenda to commence at noon. I know all this, and I do not even hold an office in the union. What's stopping you? -- dkm