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301.013A : Virus works in team of one : With 4 hrs a week, YOU can help Right to Recall cause (17-Dec-2011) No.038

December 17, 2011

301.013A : Virus works in team of one : With 4 hrs a week, YOU can help Right to Recall cause


 https://www.facebook.com/notes/rahul-chimanbhai-mehta-rrg/301013a-virus-works-in-team-of-one-with-4-hrs-a-week-you-can-help-right-to-recal/10150423122501922

(for downloading complete PDF , containing 50 chapters on full law-drafts needed to reduce MNC-domination, nepotism in courts, corruption in police/courts/education, improve education, improve Military, reduce cow slaughter, see http://rahulmehta.com/301.htm )

(For index, see notes #301.Index at http://facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150422423416922  )

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13.1    So is this another joke?

The opening line in this book is  “three line RTI2 Gazette Notification is sufficient to reduce poverty, reduce corruption in police, improve Education, improve Military etc in just 4 months”. And if that seemed as a joke, then here is a much bigger joke :  if as few as 200,000 individuals spend mere 4 hours a week in writing 25 postcards a week, to randomly chosen voters from voter list, and executing other steps I mentioned in this chap-13, then within 6 months, their actions would create a mass movement which will force PM to print RTI2 clauses in the Gazette. And tasks involve zero donations and need zero media support.

Most organizations ask for donations of tens of crores of rupees, demand that crores of citizens should become their members and also ask their members to give 10-40 hours a week and these organizations also ask for media support. These organizations wish and demand that media should highlight them, and they clearly say that their success will depend on media coverage. Worse, their “plan” is not media-proof  i.e. hostile mediamen can subvert their plan. Their plan is not clone-proof i.e. their plan can be subverted by MNCs or political parties by creating competing clones and split votes. Whereas, the “methods” I propose needs much less number of volunteers --- only 200,000 volunteers. My proposed methods need less time ---  write 25 postcards or inland letters a week and spend 2-4 hours a week in other tasks. No donations are needed --- I will never ever ask any volunteer to collect money and send it to party officers. And I need ZERO support from media. In fact, my plan is media-proof i.e. all media in India can turn hostile against my RTR-movement, but then also if 200,000 volunteers are giving 4 hours a week, these mediamen will fail to block or subvert the proposed methods. And if MNCs or Missionaries or political parties create clones to split my votes, they will only end up helping RTR-movement !!

 How come so small number of individuals and small number of hours are sufficient for my methods? While others’ plans need lakhs of volunteers and days of work from each? Why do I need zero donations, while others say they need hundreds of crores of rupees? Why I need zero media support and others need media support badly? Because the activities I request activists to take are all clone positive methods , while all other organizations are following clone negative methods. I will repeat : because the methods I request activists to adopt to publicize proposed Right to Recall PM Gazette Notification, RTR Supreme judges GN etc are all clone positive methods. What the heck is this clone positiveness? I have explained it in chap-14 of this book namely rahulmehta.com/301.pdf  . The clone positivity or clone negativity are the most important concepts in activism, which sadly most activists in India have ignored completely till date.

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13.2    List of activities
So what are the enumerated steps I ask activists to take?
I have mentioned these steps in coming sections, and also stated whether the tasks are to be done once in lifetime or to be repeated every month, along with time it would take.

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13.3    Set-1 activities (time needed = less than  2 hours a week)

step-1.1 :  Reading RTI2-draft  - time needed , 1 hour , one time (not every week)
Please obtain following documents by downloading or otherwise
http://rahulmehta.com/001.pdf      (English) OR
http://rahulmehta.com/001.g.pdf   (Gujarati) .    
and please read aloud the draft of RTI2, the first proposed law given in the above document

OR / AND

In case you disagree with RTI2 or reading RTI2, then please find, download and read any draft of the laws that you think can reduce poverty deaths and corruption in police in a few months.

OR / AND

In case you disagree with RTI2 or reading RTI2-draft, and cannot find any better draft, then please write and post the draft of the laws that you think will reduce poverty deaths and corruption in police in few months or few years.

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step-1.2 :  Getting answers to questions on RTI2-draft  - time - 30 minutes or more, one time
If you have any questions on proposed new law RTI2, please do call any RRG volunteer in your District, State or India, or call me, Rahul Mehta at 98251-27780. You can obtain names of RRG volunteers from Facebook community “Right to Recall Against Corruption” and from http://forum.righttorecall.info .

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step-1.3 :  Signing RTI2-petition - time needed - 10 minutes , one time
Please sign the RTI2 petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/rti2en
How will this help us in bringing RTR? Is PM, CM etc ever going to read this petition? And if PM can send 5000 constables to beat 15000 peaceful protestors and set fire to mandap, will such a PM ever listen to petition? Well, petition has no legal value. The petition has advertisement value. More the number of citizens who sign this petition, easier it will be to attract more concerned citizens. The PM will surely disregard and so must he as signature on internet can be forged. But the number will be certainly useful in advertising before more and more concerning citizens. Your signing petition increases the rate at which others will notice this signature. And above all, it will not take more than 10 minutes of your time.
OR / AND
Campaign for any petition demanding RTI2 or any law draft that you think can reduce poverty deaths and corruption in police in few months
OR / AND
Write your petition demanding RTI2

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step-1.4 :  The most important step : sending 25 postcards or inland letters or pamphlets to voters chosen at random from voter list every week  - time needed – 60 min/week.

 This (and/or step-1.5) is the most important step and sadly, least number of activists are putting least number of hours behind this step.

Why send petty things like postcards? Because true-RTR will never get media-support and so we Recallists need to create a new mass-media that informs citizens about RTR-drafts and that mass-media must not have any  centralized control.
We have internet as one media. But some 95% citizens of India don’t have internet and so emails and YouTube videos will never reach them. Hence only ways to reach them is by sending postcards (or inland letters or pamphlets) or advertisements on newspapers, TV channels or hoardings, and all expect postcards, pamphlets are expensive and cant be run at with small money at small scale in an individualized or un-centralized way

The most important plus point of “postcards to voters” is that even a poor person who can spare barely Rs 5 a month can also contribute. In other mechanisms to reach the poor, like newspaper ad or hoardings or TV channels etc , either one person has to either pay huge costs or collect donations to distribute the load. The collection will create too much wastage of time as well as possibility of corruption and siphoning of funds, resulting in loss of trust amongst activists. Instead, in case of postcards, each person spends on his own and no time is wasted in co-ordination. So postcards is superior than hoardings and TV-advertisements.

Further, “postcards to voters” can be run by 1000s of unconnected activists with no centralized control or even decentralized control -- each activist working at small scale. Forget centralized control, I want movement to zero control – i.e. each person who contributes time and money must have his own full control over his time and his money, and no one else should have any control over it. The “postcards and inland letters to voters” is least unideal.

Further, a postcard or an inland letter reaches home and will be read by everyone in the home and it will stay in the drawing room for a few days. A TV-channel advertisement comes and goes away in seconds and then gets erased from the mind. A hoarding too is visible for a few seconds and then gets replaced by sight of another hoarding. Postcard or inland letter not only stays for a few days, some politically active persons may show the contents to neighbors as well. Plus, one line in the post card can be “pls show this postcard to all neighbors” and “pls write such 10 postcards”. Now less than 2% of them will do so. But this number in case of TV-advertisements will be 0%.

The steps I propose in sending postcards are
  1. Please buy or download a voter list of any area or contact near by political party office and get some pages of voter list xeroxed. If a person can spare only Rs 5 per month, I request him to xerox just 10 pages of the voter list.
  2. Please pick any page at random. It is necessary to pick page at random. Why? Because if 10 activists decide to write 100 postcards from voter list of 50000 voters, and if all 10 activists start from page-1, then person on page-1 will bet 10 letters and the one in end will get almost none. So it is necessary to jump to a page at random and send letters.
  3. Please pick page randomly only once and then follow serially, and when you reach end of list, pls move to first page. Why pick random page only once? Because when you pick a page randomly, chances that first of last page will be selected are next to zero, and the chances that pages in middle will be selected are high.
  4. Please send N postcards or inland letters every week. N is your choice. If a person wants to spare only Rs 5 per month, he may send only 10 postcards a month.
  5. The postcards will cost 50 paise and one may need to pay 75 paise to someone to get them written. The inland letter will cost Rs 2.50 and will cost Rs 0.50 for printing , writing address and folding. The advantage of inland letter is that it would take less time. Even if you get people to get postcards written, managing them would consume some time. Where as contents on inland letters can be printed by printers.
This paragraph is being written on Jun-29-2011. I have personally written some 100-200 postcards in past 6 months and hired one person who wrote some 2000-3000 postcards. I have been publicizing “postcards to citizens” approach for past 6 months. Despite my full efforts, I think, not even 10 activists have started writing postcards. Why? Why are activists who spend 10s of hours a week do not spend 1 hr in writing postcards? Because the activists do not realize is that – postcards (and inland letters) are the only way to reach bottom 95% . And it is not just necessary that people in bottom 95% know what Right to Recall is, but it should be clear to most of them that most of them do know what RTR is. And it should be clear to them  that PM, CMs, MLAs, MPs and intellectuals are opposing RTR. This is what I call as creating atmosphere (aka “maahoul” in Hindi). Creating  maahoul aka atmosphere requires widespread campaign via paid-news and advertisements in newspapers, TV-channels, magazines. Those who can sponsors TV-channels and newspapers will never support RTR and so the activists who want this will need work without media. Which is why it is must for activists to send postcards or letters to citizens so that it becomes media of its own.

I request all Recallists to ask mediamen to print/put information on Right to Recall in their newspapers, magazines and TV channels. I request all Recallists to ask mediamen so that Recallists can see for themselves that mediamen are hostile to RTR proposals. Why? Because one of the proposal is RTR over Doordarshan Chairman. When then comes, Doordarshan will improve and ability of all mediamen to twist/hide news will decrease. And when that happens, incomes of mediamen will decrease. Or may be, we Right to Recall is a bad idea. Whatever may be the reason, mediamen will never support RTR.
While sad part is that mediamen will never ever support RTR, a ray of hope is that --- there perhaps exists a way by which RTR movement can be raised without any support from media. And that way is “postcards to voters”. If 200,000 activists are sending say 100 postcards or inland letters or magazines every month, then every month, some over 1 cr families would get some information on what is Gazette, what is proposed RTR GN, what is proposed Mineral Royalties for Citizens GN draft etc. This is more powerful than all media put together. This will be sufficient to raise mass-movement in 6 months that would force PM, CM to printing Gazette Notification. But if crores of citizens have no information on what is Gazette Notification means and what proposed RTI2, MRCM etc GNs are then mass-movement will never happen. So sending postcards are must to generate this mass movement.

Then why are activists not interested in sending postcards? They speak hours over phones, spend hours over net and spend hours in giving talks in meets. But why do they become lazy when to comes to writing postcards.
When activists campaigning for RTR GN-drafts speak on phone or internet, they can see the results right away --- they see that one person was given the information. But when he is sending postcards, he doesn’t see the receiver nor does he know if the receiver at all read it and what he thought. Talking over phone or net also gives a feeling that someone heard him and too his notice. Whereas in sending postcards, there is no feedback that he was noticed. But the activists are not realizing that if all activists confine the talks to people within their social reach, then information will never reach the citizens in bottom 95%. Once activists ask themselves “what did I do to take the information about Gazette Notification, proposed RTI2 GN etc to bottom 95%”, then only he will realize that postcard or letter sending is important.

And the hardest part in writing postcards to 25-50 randomly chosen citizens a week is --- one needs to forget his identity for 4 hours a week. It is not easy to act like virus --- retain memory, retain intelligence and forget identity. It will be a long time before activist learns that he must forget his identity 4 hours a week to become a Recallist. And only after that postcard writing will happen.

All in all, if activists refuse to write postcards, RTR Movement will never ever take off. And there is nothing I can do more to convince activists to write postcards except making requests.

OR / AND

Please write postcards promoting any law-draft that you think will reduce poverty and corruption in India.

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step-1.5 :  The second most important step : sending pamphlets to N voters from voter list every month or year  (time : 10 hours)

I request activist to tie up with a person who owns small magazine and start their own Right to Recall Magazine. The printing cost of 1000 copies of 32-page magazine will be about Rs 2 per copy on newsprint quality paper and Rs 4 on a good quality paper. The distribution cost to voters from voter list will be 25 paise because if a magazine is registered magazine, post department delivers it for 25 paise. This step is expensive and not for all activists.  It is for those who are willing to spend Rs 1000 a month or Rs 1000 a year. If magazine is not registered, then activists will need to hand deliver in a small area.

OR / AND

Please print and distribute pamphlets promoting any law-draft that you think will reduce poverty and corruption in India.

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step-1.6 :  Creating Orkut/Facebook profile with name-part or alternate name as “Right to Recall PM” (time : 30 minutes, one time)

Following are the steps I request you to take
  1. Please join Facebook, and in the Facebook profile, after the name, pls write “(Demands Right to Recall)”. How? Please go to “Accounts” -> click “Account Settings” -> click “Name” and add alternate name as “Right to Recall PM”.
  2. Please join Orkut and in the Orkut profile, after the name, pls write “(Right to Recall PM)”
  3. Please join “Right to Recall Group” orkut.co.in/Main#Community?cmm=21780619  orkut community. How will joining RTR community help in bringing RTR, MRCM GNs? Well, bigger the community, higher are the chances that more concerned citizens would notice it. So your joining the community will increase the rate at which concerned citizens will notice RTI2 law, Right to Recall Group etc.
  4. Please join the Facebook community “Right to Recall against corruption”http://facebook.com/groups/rrgindia/ . How will joining RTR community help in bringing RTR, MRCM GNs? Well, bigger the community, higher are the chances that more concerned citizens would notice it. So your joining the community will increase the rate at which concerned citizens will notice RTI2 law, Right to Recall Group etc.
  5. Join the GoogleGroup at http://groups.google.com/group/RightToRecall  . How will this help me in bringing RTR, MRCM laws? You will easily get emails  the articles posted. And of course, as number of people who join this community increases, it will be easier for me to attract larger number of concerned citizens
  6. If you do not know how to use internet, please ask a close friend or family member to create the profiles for you.
Please keep profile name as it is in English (because search is not possible in other languages) and the picture should be a sober passport size picture, and the name should not have a message, but should be name only.

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step-1.7 :  Join Orkut/Facebook State Right to Recall Communities. (time : 60 minutes, one time)

Please join Right to Recall Group (State) community for your State . e.g. If you are from UP, please join Right to Recall (UP) community at orkut.co.in/Main#Community?cmm=90266403  . If there is no RTR community for your state, please start one. Likewise, please start/join RTR communities at State/District levels. Pls start/join RTR Community in Facebook/Orkut etc. of your state and district.

OR / AND

Please join any internet community which promotes drafts that will reduce poverty, reduce corruption, improve Military, improve Education etc.

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step-1.8 :  Please follow twitter account of at least 5 RTR activists

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step-1.9 :  Join at least 5 internet communities of different political party or political NGOs

Here is a short list of some Orkut Communities. Please join say 2-4 of these communities and write one post a month on RTR. The

  1. Right to Recall Group
  2. I will join Indian Politics
  3. Lok Satta Party Official Comm
  4. Che Guevara
  5. Bharat Swabhiman (trust)
  6. I Love India
  7. We Want To Improve INDIA
  8. Youth of India
  9. WE, the leaders
  10. Shaheed Bhagat Singh (Homage)
  11. Youth Democratic Front
  12. Youth for Equality
  13. IYR National
  14. Jago Party
  15. Indian Judiciary
  16. India needs a Revolution
  17. Youth for India
  18. Bharat Swabhiman Trust Gujarat
  19. Right to Recall Group, Rajsthan
  20. Bharat Punarnirman Dal
There are many more communities on Facebook as well. Please join these communities and post one post a month in one of the communities on RTR.

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step-1.10 :  Attend one garden meeting or other meeting a month on RTR on Saturdays and/or Sundays or any day (1 hour per month)

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step-1.11 :  Watch YouTube videos related to RTR and show to all.
Watch one video a week on RTR topic suggested by fellow RTR-activists.

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step-1.12 :  If elections are going on, then pls find out which candidates in your area or your near by area have worked to spread information on Right to Recall drafts. Via net or otherwise, pls get hold of his pamphlets and distribute his 10-20-1000 pamphlets , as you may wish

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step-1.13 :  If elections are going on, and the candidate is far away, pls download or obtain voterlist and send  10-20 or as many as you want inland letters to voters in his constituency.

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step-1.14 to step-1.20:  to be added

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step-1.21 writing postcards or letters to PM/CM (1 hour  , one time)
Please send a letter to PM and CM asking him to sign RTI2 law. The letter can have full RTI2 draft or may have just one line : “if and when you are convinced that 37 crore citizen voters of India support the Gazette Notification given at http://petitiononline.com/rti2en/  orhttp://rahulmehta.com/002.pdf please sign that notification” would suffice. If possible, please put xerox of voter-ID in the letter

Purpose : The PM and his staff will not notice one or two or 10 letters, but will surely notice 100s letters with same content.

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step-1.22 :  Writing letters to MP, MLA, Corporator, Mayor, Panchayat Members  (2 hrs , one time)
Please send a letter to local MP, MLA, Corporator, Mayor etc to ask PM, CM to print RTI2 in Gazette Notification. The letter will have only one line : “when you are convinced that majority citizen voters in your area want the GN proposed at http://petitiononline.com/rti2en/, please ask PM to sign that GN”. and nothing more. And ask him why he opposed Right to Recall PM, Right to Recall CM, Right to Recall MP, Right to Recall MLA etc. Ask him, “does he oppose RTR because that would reduce bribes they collect?” The tone before MPs, MLAs etc should be insulting and intimidating. If a person in power is opposing Right to Recall, citizens have moral right to insult him.

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step-1.23 :  Speaking to local party members (2 hours  per month)
Every month, personally contact at least one near by grass root political party member and ask him why his party is opposing Right to Recall PM draft, Right to Recall District Education Officer draft, RTI2 draft, MRCM draft etc. You should meet one worker every month and ask him to ask his MLA, MP etc to enact these law-draft. Please be polite to all grass root workers.

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step-1.24 :  Writing postcards, emails to every newspaper, newsmagazine, TV channels etc (1 hour a month)

Please write letter or postcard or email or phone-call to every newspaper/magazine you read or every TV-channel to you watch to hold debate on Right to Recall PM draft, Right to Recall Supreme Court judge draft, RTR Lokpal, Jury System, Causes of Inflation etc

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step-1.25 : Attend meetings of as many NGOs as possible and ask them why do not want to support Right to Recall PM drafts, Right to Recall Lokpal draft, Right to Recall Supreme Court Chief judge draft in this life time. The time needed is say 2 hours a month.

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step-1.26 : Put sticker behind your car etc saying “Demands Right to Recall PM”

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13.4    List of all set-1 activities

Here is the list of all set-I activities

  1. Download and read http://rahulmehta.com/001.pdf  , http://rahulmehta.com/001.h.pdfhttp://rahulmehta.com/001.g.pdf    
  2. Understand RTI2 given in above doc    
  3. Please sign the RTI2 petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/rti2en    
  4. The most important step : sending 25 postcards or inland letters or pamphlets to voters chosen at random from voter list every week  - time needed – 60 min/week.    
  5. Sending pamphlets to N voters from voter list every month or year     
  6. Creating Orkut/Facebook profile with name or alternate name containing (Right to Recall PM) ; Join orkut.co.in/Main#Community?cmm=21780619 ; Joinhttp://facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_154461117936671   ;http://groups.google.com/group/RightToRecall    
  7. Join RTR communities in Orkut and FB at State levels    
  8. Follow tweeter account of 5 RTR activists    
  9. Join at least 5 internet communities of different political party or political NGOs and write one thread on RTR in one of them every month    
  10. Attend one garden meeting or other meeting a month on RTR on Saturdays and/or Sundays or any day    
  11. Watch YouTube videos related to RTR and show to all.    
  12. If elections are going on, and the candidate is far away, pls download or obtain voterlist and send  10-20 or as many as you want inland letters to voters in his constituency.    
  13. If elections are going on, and the candidate is far away, pls download or obtain voterlist and send  10-20 or as many as you want inland letters to voters in his constituency    
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13.5    Proposed working method for RRG activists : Virus works in a team of one

Some say strongest animal is lion, some say elephant and some would say whale. But I think, that in some way, stronger than all of them is a virus. What makes virus so strong? Some factors I think are as follows – (1) a virus never competes against another virus, there is zero cannibalism in virus (2) each virus is self contained (3) each virus has all the memory and intelligence it needs. (4) The viruses never spend time in “organizing” i.e. no virus ever takes orders from any other virus.
Virus does only two things --- interacts to replicate and mutates whenever it interacts.
Each virus works in team of one. If there are 1000 viruses, then there isn’t one team of 1000 viruses, there are 1000 teams of one virus each.

Most organizations I come across discourage members from acquiring all information where as I encourage my fellow colleagues to acquire all information within themselves. Most organizations insists that juniors should blindly obey orders from seniors, while I openly insist that no junior should never take seniors’ words as orders, and should treat it no more than request from a colleague. And above all, at RRG, I ask each one to work in team of one. As per mutation or variation, most organizations discourage and sometimes even punish mutation, where as I openly support all actions of mutations and oppose on case by case basis. And the mutations are the most important aspect in my proposed plan to force PM to print RTI2, RTR drafts in Gazette.

I suggest that RRG activist should inform all activists of all parties/group around himself about Right to Recall law-drafts. And IMO, RRG activists need not create organization with offices and hierarchy to spread information on RTR-drafts. The Recallists should try to convince all selfless activists to become Recallists. Will they convert into Recallists? Well, how did you become a Recallist? The Recallists can try to convince that using their offices and setup to spread information on RTR is must to save India from wars with China/US if wars were to come.
Every time RRG activist comes in contact with non-RRG activist, the interaction will cause mutation in his thoughts, proposed drafts as well as campaign methods. Every activist will ask – should he promote the new version or the version he got? My guideline is –-- make a list of 100-200 people you think are Recallists, and ask 10 of them chosen at random. If over 8 consider your new version as better than original, then your new version is better. You do not need permission of a senior. This screening method will de-promote “inefficient” mutations and promote better “efficient” mutations. The good mutations will make the proposed drafts and methods to spread information stronger !! In fact, the version present of drafts and campaign methods itself are results of several mutations obtained from several activists.

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13.6    Are such small number of activists and hours sufficient?

Yes. The reason why the steps I propose need small number of activists and small number of hours from them is --- because each activist works alone and they involve minimal team work and zero hierarchy !! The hierarchy is must for manufacturing and military but hierarchy is useless in activism, as it decreases total throughput because activists keep waiting for orders and do nothing. Worse, hierarchy makes it easy for MNCs and other political parties to subvert, block, break and worse hijack the movement by bribing top or second layer. Whereas when there is no hierarchy, activists are most active and seldom idle. And a movement which has no hierarchy can not be broken or subverted by enemy by capturing few persons.
And why less team work and more solo activism better? Why are N teams of one in activism is better than one team of N?

  1. Team work may be better than solo, but often each of N activist has 4 hours a week to spare but all activists wont be free at the same time. So in such cases,  N activists will always keep waiting for team to assemble. So all N activists working solo will involve less waiting.
  2. There may be N activists in a small area, but they all may be mutually strangers.  So if they keep waiting for team formation, they will never know that there are N activists in their ward. But if each starts working solo, they will come in contact much sooner.
  3. A solo activist is more mobile and will take the message further
  4. A solo automatically promotes himself to someone who can guide other junior solo.
So I give emphasis on solo work than team building when it comes to activism.
The virus approach is the best way I could see to eliminate bad laws and enact good laws. Once bad laws are gone and good laws come, the market aka personal self-motive with some small inherent goodwill is sufficient to create 1000s of good goods and services. For that, organizations are needed, and Company Act and its improvements are sufficient to create such organizations. The activists can work in any of these companies or create his own companies to create goods. For public goods, Govt depts with RTR are sufficient. Activism is only needed to fine tune these public goods, and this activism needs no hierarchy and control.

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13.7 How do proposed small activities on internet make difference?

The above tasks in List-I will take you 4 hours a week at most, and you may split it over days if you wish. Of course, if you decide to follow options given under “OR / AND” it would take more time. The OR/ AND options are for those who have better alternative that RTI2, MRCM etc or want to modify our RTI2, MRCM etc proposals. We welcome both.
So how do such small steps make impact? The impact will come when 20000 to 200,000 activists execute these steps. Not only it will inform crores of citizens about Right to Recall law-drafts and its value, but will create an atmosphere on RTR-drafts.
One estimate I believe in is that about 6 crore people in India (as on Jul-2011) have access to broadband via their home or office or college. Of these 6 crores, about 15 lakhs to 20 lakhs are interested in reducing corruption in police, courts and also interested spending 2-4 or more hours a week. The rest are not interested at all, or at best would vote for someone whom they think will reduce poverty. But they don’t want to spend 1 hour a week for this task. So to create the movement, one will have to depend on getting support of some of these 15 lakh individuals. The goal is to form a few communication groups amongst these 15 lakhs citizens. I see no need to organize them ; IMO, forming communication groups are sufficient. Please note – I think that a few national level, a few State/District level communication groups are sufficient, we do not need to have an organization. An organization is different from communication group. The task of forming and working in a communication group has following tasks : forming the groups or searching for them, joining these communication groups, reading messages in that communication group, writing messages if time permits, forwarding messages to inside and outside the group and seeking people interested in reducing poverty/corruption and asking them to join the communication groups.

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13.8    How do proposed small activities outside internet make difference?

Using internet, activists can communicate on RTR drafts to netizens. Then what about rest 95% who do not have net?  To inform them about RTR, we can use SMS, postcards, pamphlets, hoardings and newspaper advertisements. For this, those who are very much committed to Right to Recall, Jury and MRCM laws may contribute, but pay directly to newspapers, pamphlet printers etc and never pay not to any RRG member.
The most important step is postcard or inland letters to citizens chosen at random from voter-lists. If 200,000 activists are sending 100 postcards a month, then that means 2 cr families are getting one postcard a month and cost is just Rs 50 per month and time spent is 4 hours a month. Or if 200,000 activists are sending 100 inland letters a month, time spent is 2 hrs (taking printouts) and cost is Rs 250 per month.

Next step is advertisement. A front page 2 column * 25 cm (1/8th of page) advertisement in a major non-English newspaper with circulation of 500,000 copies will cost Rs 200,000 and such an advertisement would cover over two to three  Parliamentary Constituencies. If we have 20,000 activists in India willing to spend Rs 1000 per month, then we have about 300 activists per district willing to contribute Rs 1000 per month or Rs 300,000 per month. If they spend half the money in pamphlet and half the money in newspaper advertisements, then  every year we can have 8 newspaper advertisements on Right to Recall in the newspaper. And one 16 page pamphlet would cost Rs 3 including distribution cost and with Rs 150,000 per month, about 50000 pamphlets can be distributed every month. This too will add to propaganda. So with as few as 300 activists per Parliamentary seat spending mere Rs 1000 per month, RTR-activists can ensure 2% to 5% votes for every Panchayat, Corporation, Assembly and Parliament seat. This will be sufficient to get RTR-PM, RTR-CM in the Gazette Notifications and bring RTR-laws in India.

So actions I am proposing are small but they add up fully. If each activist thinks that he alone will be doing these activities in India, then he wont do these actions. But if the activist believes that he may get 200,000 unknown activists taking same steps mentioned in section-13.2 of this chapter, then RTR law-drafts will come in Gazette in less than 2-3 years.

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13.9    How are expenses managed without donations?

Now do we need money to run communication groups over internet and outside internet? Common sense says that everything needs money. And yes, we do need money to run communication groups. So where is the difference between RRG and other organization who collect money? Well, in other organizations, activists have to send money to those at the apex of organization and then hope that people at top as well as people in middle will not siphon away money. The people at top have a reason not siphon money – fame, which may translate into power one day. So people at top may not siphon out money. But the people in middle have no fame to gain, and the limited fame they get cant translate into power. The people in middle also have insecurity that they may get abandoned later. So expecting that people in middle will not siphon away money is expecting too much. While in RRG model, activist directly do all expenses, and do not give a penny to any RRG office bearer. So there will never be siphoning out of money. The fabric of faith is never there, and so there will never be distrust on financial issues. E.g. the Recallists campaigning over internet are already paying money in form of charges paid to internet company. But they are not paying money to any centralized office which runs campaign over internet and hence no doubt of misuse. Likewise, activists who want to give newspaper advertisement will give newspaper ad themselves or pool in small spot groups and there is no centralized fund collection and thus no possibility of doubts.
Now there is a new breed of organizations these days (May-2011) which don’t collect much money such as IAC. But they have MNC sponsorship and so MNCs give 100s of crores to mediamen to sponsor them. In politics, biggest expense is communication expenses and if MNCs bear that expense behind the curtain, then that organization will not need much money. But Right to Recall Movement can never get sponsorship from MNCs or mediamen. So we cant follow their model.

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13.10    Work solo - no need for hierarchy, no need for team work

Now let me explain why RTR movement does not need organization and organization may end up becoming waste of time. An organization is a group with hierarchy and assets. The hierarchy aka reporting structure is key and the members who defy reporting structures are often expelled or at least never ever promoted. The organization not only makes a list of “to-do” but also makes a list “you must never not  do” and thus reduces efficiency of member. An organization can be also hostile to variations and mutations. The organizations needs assets and significant funds are collected by membership dues or worse by collecting donations . The memberships dues mostly fall short. And so organizations ask members to collect donations. And that’s where the end begins --- the leaders of the organizations have to now accept terms and conditions of donors. The unsuspecting members later realize this, but too much time passes away before this.
If one wants to do activities like running education institutions, hospitals etc then the funding and organization is must. But political reforms only needs communication and nothing more. In general, any activity which needs time and money both needs organization. But if something only needs time and minimal money, organization is not needed, communication group will suffice. We already have an organization called as Government, and our goal is to improve Government. To improve Government we need to enact laws like Right to Recall. To enact laws like Right to Recall, Jury, MCRM etc we need law like RTI2 or we need to win 100-300 Parliamentary elections. Winning election depends more on the mistakes of adversaries and is clone negative approach, while former doesn’t need adversary to mistakes and is clone positive approach. And to have law like RTI2, we need a mass movement, and to create a mass movement, we need communication amongst those who want Recall, MRCM, Jury etc. We do not need an organization where people are giving and accepting orders on physical and material activities. The organization will only end up wasting away precious money and time.
Nevertheless, as I said that I promote mutations. So if any activist feels that forming organization and forming teams will improve the speed at which citizens will get information on RTR and answers to their questions on RTR, I welcome them to form organizations and teams.

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13.11    List of set-2 activists

The first set of activities need 4 hours a week and hardly Rs 10 to Rs 200 per month. The second set of activities are for those who want to contribute more time/money. The first list of activities are for voters, the second list is for election-activists. The activity steps will make it clearer.

These steps will also enable activists to find more activists. One can always try to convince someone that he should spend 4-8 hours a week to fix the nation. But IMO, instead of trying to convert a non-activists into activist, it would less unproductive to spend time in finding activist (i.e. person who is already spending N hours a week) and then requesting him to add RTR-drafts in his activities. A non-activist may become activist, but something that is outside anyone’s powers. Where as asking activists to add an alternative is easy, because activist himself is eagerly looking for alternatives.

step-2.1 : Download rahulmehta.com/rrp_questions.pdf . Try to answer at least one question a day (time : 10 minutes a day)

This PDF has questions on Indian Economy, Indian Politics, World Economy, World Politics, World Economy and Gazette Notification drafts RRG has proposed to reduce the problems of India and improve Indian Military. All questions are open-internet. Pls attempt at least open question a day. As movement advances, much of the information passing will be via asking questions and asking each to seek answers.

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step-2.2 : Finding more activists :- How to find more persons who may be willing to spend time in reducing corruption, reducing poverty, reducing MNC domination over judges, Ministers etc, improving Education, improving Military etc ? Here are some steps I propose

  1. Pls join at least 5-10 Facebook/Orkut communities of other political groups such as groups of political parties or NGOs or any political groups.
  2. Pls read the posts of members in these communities. See if you think that postor may be interested in reducing corruption, poverty. If yes, pls send him a message explaining RTI2, RTR etc. Pls send scrap to 10 persons every month. On an average, about 1-2 will reply.
  3. Upon reply, pls explain them how RTI2 etc law can reduce corruption, poverty.
  4. Pls do not ask him to leave his group and join RRG. We will never have money, offices and staff to house 1000s of activists. Instead pls ask him if can add RTI2, RTR etc drafts in his party’s manifesto.
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step-2.3 : Attend RRG meetings at any near by place. If there are no RRG meetings, pls hold RRG meetings at a near by garden once a month.

It not necessary just to exist, but those who are looking for alternatives must also know that alternative exists. Unlike Anna and team, we will never ever have sponsorship from MNCs which would inform citizens about RTR. So garden meeting is first hand way to let many who come to garden that RRG alternative exists.

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step-2.4 : Large scale pamphlet distribution

  1. The .pdf as well as mirrors of the pdfs of  the pamphlets I have written are on my website http://rahulmehta.com . You may download them
  2. Make xerox or offset of the pamphlets, and distribute 1000-2000 pamphlets in your area at bus stands or by selecting randomly selecting voters from voter-list
  3. If you can spare more time, please register a magazine so that you send pamphlets at 25 paise per pamphlets by post to voters in the voter list.
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step-2.5 :  Large scale pamphlet distribution
  1. The .pdf as well as mirrors of the pdfs of  the pamphlets I have written are on my website http://rahulmehta.com . You may download them
  2. Make xerox or offset of the pamphlets, and distribute 1000-2000 pamphlets in your area at bus stands or by selecting randomly selecting voters from voter-list
  3. If you cam spare more time, please register a magazine so that you send pamphlets at 25 paise per pamphlets by post to voters in the voter list.
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step-2.6: Newspaper advertisement

A good newspaper advertisement will cost Rs 50,000/-  to Rs 200,000. So if you decide to spend Rs 1000 a month i.e. say Rs 12000 a year, then pls find some 10-30 volunteers like you, chip in six months’ funds i.e. about Rs 6000 each and give a newspaper ad on Right to Recall PM, Right to Recall judges, Right to Recall Lokpal, MRCM etc. And then for next 6 months, spend no money except Rs 100 on postcards.

Why are newspaper advertisement must ?

It not just necessary that crores of citizens know what RTR-drafts are, but crores of citizens must also know that crores of citizens already know. And that’s where newspaper advertisements are must. Say I send 1 lakh pamphlets on RTR. Then these 1 lakh citizens know about RTR. But these 1 lakh citizens have no way to know that 1 lakh citizens know about RTR, as they cant know or verify how many pamphlets I distributed.
But when an advertisement is given in the front page of newspaper, every reader of that newspaper knows that the ad reached every other reader of that newspaper. That’s why I request all activists to spend half the money they have decided to spend in newspaper advertisements.

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step-2.7 : Pamphlet, inland letter etc distribution during election time

If it is election time, then pls find which of the candidate has worked most in campaigning for RTR. Pls obtain one copy of his pamphlet from internet or otherwise and make 10-100 or as many or as few copies you wish to make and distribute it. If the candidate is far away, pls download voter list and send inland letters to voters chosen at random from the list.

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step-2.8 : Newspaper ad during election time

A good newspaper advertisement will cost Rs 50,000/-  to Rs 200,000. So if you decide to spend Rs 1000 a month i.e. say Rs 12000 a year, then pls find some 10-30 volunteers like you, chip in six months’ funds i.e. about Rs 6000 each and give a newspaper ad on Right to Recall PM, Right to Recall judges, Right to Recall Lokpal, MRCM etc. And then for next 6 months, spend no money except Rs 100 on postcards.

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13.12    Summary of List-1 and List-2 : over all plan for activists

Following are the type of monthly activists and plan I propose for them

(A1) Rs 10 per month , 5 hours per month   
  1. read RRG drafts
  2. write 20 postcards per month
  3. attend one garden meeting  

(B1) Rs 100 per month  ,  5 hours per month  
  1. read RRG drafts
  2. write 20 postcards and 30 inland letters per month\
  3. attend one garden meeting
(C1) Rs 1000per month , 5 hours per month 
  1. read RRG drafts
  2. send 10 post cards a month
  3. distribute 1000 pamphlets every 2 months
  4. contribute Rs 6000 for one newspaper ad a year
(D1) Rs 5000 per month , 5 hours per month
  1. read RRG drafts
  2. send 10 post cards a month
  3. distribute 5000 pamphlets every 2 months
  4. contribute Rs 30,000 for one newspaper ad a year
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(A2) Rs 10 per month  , 10 hours per month    
  1. read RRG drafts
  2. write 20 postcards per month
  3. attend one garden meeting 
  4. read RRG questions (step-2.1)
  5. attend two garden meetings a month
(B2) Rs 100 per month  ,  10 hours per month  
  1. read RRG drafts
  2. write 20 postcards and 30 inland letters per month\
  3. attend one garden meeting
  4. read RRG questions (step-2.1)
  5. attend two garden meetings a month
(C2) Rs 1000 per month  ,  10 hours per month  
  1. read RRG drafts
  2. send 10 post cards a month
  3. distribute 1000 pamphlets every 2 months
  4. contribute Rs 6000 for one newspaper ad a year
  5. read RRG questions (step-2.1)
  6. attend two garden meetings a month
(D2) Rs 5000 per month  ,  10 hours per month  
  1. read RRG drafts
  2. send 10 post cards a month
  3. distribute 5000 pamphlets every 2 months
  4. contribute Rs 30,000 for one newspaper ad a year
  5. read RRG questions (step-2.1)
  6. attend two garden meetings a month
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(A3) Rs 10 per month  ,  20 hours per month    
  1. read RRG drafts
  2. write 20 postcards per month

  3. attend one garden meeting 
  4. read RRG questions (step-2.1)
  5. attend two garden meetings a month
  6. watch RRG video
(B3) Rs 100 per month  ,  20 hours per month  
  1. read RRG drafts
  2. write 20 postcards and 30 inland letters per month\
  3. attend one garden meeting
  4. read RRG questions (step-2.1)
  5. attend two garden meetings a month
  6. watch RRG video
(C3) Rs 1000 per month  ,  20 hours per month  
  1. read RRG drafts
  2. send 10 post cards a month
  3. distribute 1000 pamphlets every 2 months
  4. contribute Rs 6000 for one newspaper ad a year
  5. read RRG questions (step-21)
  6. attend two garden meetings a month
  7. watch RRG video
(D3) Rs 5000 per month  ,  20 hours per month  
  1. read RRG drafts
  2. send 10 post cards a month
  3. distribute 5000 pamphlets every 2 months
  4. contribute Rs 30,000 for one newspaper ad a year
  5. read RRG questions (step-2.1)
  6. attend two garden meetings a month
  7. watch RRG video
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(A4) Rs 10 per month  ,  40 hours per month    
  1. read RRG drafts
  2. write 20 postcards per month

  3. attend one garden meeting 
  4. read RRG questions (step-2.1)
  5. attend two garden meetings a month
  6. watch RRG video
  7. write articles on RRG
(B3) Rs 100 per month  ,  40 hours per month  
  1. read RRG drafts
  2. write 20 postcards and 30 inland letters per month\
  3. attend one garden meeting
  4. read RRG questions (step-2.1)
  5. attend two garden meetings a month
  6. watch RRG video
  7. write articles on RRG
(C3) Rs 1000 per month  ,  40 hours per month  
  1. read RRG drafts
  2. send 10 post cards a month
  3. distribute 1000 pamphlets every 2 months
  4. contribute Rs 6000 for one newspaper ad a year
  5. read RRG questions (step-2.1)
  6. attend two garden meetings a month
  7. watch RRG video
  8. write articles on RRG
(D3) Rs 5000 per month  ,  40 hours per month  
  1. read RRG drafts
  2. send 10 post cards a month
  3. distribute 5000 pamphlets every 2 months
  4. contribute Rs 30,000 for one newspaper ad a year
  5. read RRG questions (step-2.1)
  6. attend two garden meetings a month
  7. watch RRG video
  8. write articles on RRG
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