http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/10/27/hong-kong-protestorscancelvote.html
"Protest leaders in Hong Kong have cancelled a vote on what the next
step should be in their month-long street occupation, saying they hadn't
properly consulted with the demonstrators before calling the
referendum.
The two-day vote, which had been scheduled for Sunday and Monday, was
supposed to have gauged support among protesters for counter proposals
to offers made by Hong Kong's government following talks last week between student protest leaders and authorities.
'We admit that we did not have enough discussion with the people
before deciding to go ahead with the vote and we apologize to the
people,' the protest leaders said in a statement.
They also cited 'differing opinions regarding the format, motions and effectiveness' of the referendum."
I watched how the Denver Occupy movement worked and thought it was a definite time waster as they hashed out for hours items of minute concern, it seemed to me. When you have to come to a consensus before you do anything, just expect to be jawboning for a long time, maybe even longer than your eventual actions.
Internet Collective Action is people organizing in a nonhierarchical manner to accomplish a particular goal. The reward is in the doing, and how much or how little anyone participates is completely voluntary, depending on their abilities and commitment to the goal. By this process amazing things can be accomplished. ICA will grow so long as the Internet is free. http://www.lisamcpherson.org/pc.htm is an example of ICA.
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