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Anyone else in a dying org? (hexbear.net)

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I’m in a small-ish org. There are about 60 members total, but only 10 are actually active in any way. There are another 15-20 or so who are semi-regulars, or who will sometimes attend meetings, or sometimes attend demonstrations or actions etc with us.

It’s gotten really bad over the past few years as people have sort of started fading away. People are flaky, and it routinely takes several weeks to get an answer or an update from some members for even trivial things.

Several of us have tried doing social activities of all kinds, but they always end up the same.

This gets really embarrassing when we try to do things with other groups and can’t muster the numbers to be effective.

We’ve tried to do outreach to members to see what’s going on, and we just get the same explanation - I’m busy.

Has anyone here faced something similar? Any tips to get us out of this rut?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

who had been on the leadership committee since before I even joined.

Multiple orgs in the UK have been infiltrated when they're as few as 5 members before even becoming orgs, just at the "marxist book club" stage.

It should absolutely be assumed that infiltration is occurring at the very very earliest stages. It is the easiest time to gain trust.