Examples of using Affinity groups in English and their translations into Slovak
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Affinity Groups.
However, this is not usually necessary in small affinity groups.
Very few affinity groups work long-term.
They are an opportunity for a group to build solidarity and to develop affinity groups.
Do affinity groups need training in group process?
It is an opportunity for a group to build solidarity with each other and develop affinity groups.
Affinity groups" are autonomous groups of 5-15 persons.
An affinity group can work together with other affinity groups, in what is sometimes called a cluster.
Individual affinity groups routinely initiate revolutions in the visual arts and popular music.
In the spokesperson's council, time is needed to consult with Affinity Groups so that they can reach their own consensus.
Or we can join affinity groups, which connects people with similar interests.
For example,the German anti-nuclear campaign"X-thousands in the way" has few on-going affinity groups, though they still exist and form the core of the action.
There are plenty of affinity groups that actively and unashamedly voice their dislike or fear of institutions, religions, ideas and concepts without censure or retribution.
Most activists join the actions of this campaign as individuals orin small groups, and only form affinity groups on arrival at the action.
Many activists organise themselves into affinity groups, irrespective of whether there is a spokespersons committee for an action.
It operates employee discount and reward programs on behalf of 90,000 corporations,organizations and affinity groups which reaches more than 100 million consumers.
Affinity groups and spokescouncils(see description below) challenge top-down power-over decision-making and organizing, and empower those involved to take creative direct action.
Whether your group is large and open or small andlimited by affinity(see'Affinity Groups') you want new people to feel welcome, and you want everyone to feel able to contribute.
Affinity groups often decide to have facilitators to help the group meet its needs, members of the group taking turns to play this role.
In an anarchist economy, decisions are not made by boards of directors,nor tasks carried out by masses of worker drones: affinity groups decide and act together.
Over years of collaborating together, different affinity groups can come to know each other as well as they know themselves, becoming accordingly more comfortable and capable together.
The International Nonviolent March for Demilitarisation(International March) was an annual event in Europe from 1976 until1987 that helped spread the idea of organising through affinity groups, with nonviolence training and consensus decision-making.
And the story has continued, with affinity groups being used in many nonviolent actions around the world(including in the 1999 sit-ins in Seattle to stop the World Trade Organisation meetings).
Updated capital formation, compounded by stronger investor education,can level the commercial playing field for women, affinity groups, fan bases and diaspora communities that also benefit from impact investing's many constructive side effects.
Form into small groups(the affinity groups)- these could be a random selection of people at the meeting, existing affinity groups, or groups based on where people live or based on a shared language.
My first blockade was in 1979 atRamstein when already we were organising in affinity groups, making decisions by consensus and with a speakers' council(that is one'speaker' from each group). .
Affinity groups are not burdened by the procedural protocol of other organizations, the difficulties of reaching agreement with strangers, or the limitations of answering to a body not immediately involved in the action.
Affinity groups are not burdened by the procedural protocol of other organizations, the difficulties of reaching accord among strangers or larger numbers of people, or the limitations of answering to a body not immediately involved in the action.
Affinity groups have been used constructively in mass anti-globalization actions in the USA(Seattle 1997), anti-nuclear protests in Europe and North America(beginning in the 1970s), and other large and small nonviolent protest actions in many countries.