Impetus : Proposed Strategy for Discussion
Take charge of your destiny or somebody else will
Issue: Progressive reservation policy of Indian Political community
Project: Establish an Information Cell to motivate public action for equal opportunity
Time Frame: Two to three years
Strategy:
- Create a core group of committed individuals (25 to 30)
- Establish and sustain Network among targeted audience
- Provide information and action plans that this Network can use
- Function & Project this Network as a single unit
Core Group:
- 25 to 30 like-minded, committed proactive individuals
- Commitment: Four to Eight hours per week (weekends)
- Best not limited to a particular geographical area
- Platform: Blog
Activity:
- Proactive expansion of the network
- Through a website, emails, blogs, meetings
- Sustain the network
- Weekly Articles on Site, Newsletters, E-zine, Blogs dealing with the following
- Evolution of Revolution & its impact (Past)
- Current Affairs- Monitor activities of pro-/anti- reservation groups
- Repercussions of ongoing current discrimination under the reservation policy
- Why free/open competition would benefit everybody (future)
- Guilt Riddance: we are not responsible for what our ancestors did and the caste system is not unique to India-we are proud of our heritage.
- Research politicians who openly or covertly are anti-reservationists
- Project Impetus as a vote bank willing to support a politician who willwork for anti-reservationists
- Action Plans for the network
- Spread the Network
- Identify Equal Opportunity establishments for network
- Recognition to People who provide equal opportunity
- Encourage individual in the network to stand up against reservation at every opportunity
- Inform network about local or national politicians or election
- candidates who are anti-reservationists
- Inform network of election schedules and candidates
- Research candidates who may deserve network’s support
- Advisory to the network on appropriate candidates
- Advisory to non-local networks on how take part in the electoral process
- Encourage network to safe-guard their vote, waste it in the absence of appropriate candidates
- Project the network as a vote bank fit to be pursued and pleased
- Co-ordinate work with other anti-reservationists
- • Attempt sponsorship of a professional lobbyist for the cause
Desired Elements in the Core Group:
- Skill sets: Web experts, corporate communicators, lobbyists, writers, illustrators, researchers.
- Personalities: thinkers, idealists, charismatic personalities, worker bees, pessimists (to tell us what will go wrong)
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