Bund Bulletin Volume 1 Issue 6

December 19, 2024 By Provisional Steering Committee

IN THIS BULLETIN:

  • Provisional Membership

  • Local Organizing: 3-10-3

  • Call for Discord Moderators

  • Announcements

Dear Bundists,

In this week’s meeting, the PSC passed Resolution #13 which defines Provisional Membership, and mandates a new form for Bundists to commit to our Principles of Unity and Code of Conduct!

This is a massive step forward that will help us move toward official Bund membership based on aligned values and a healthy culture within our emerging organization. With recognized members, the IJLB will be able to lay out clearer procedures regarding local chapters, committees, and democratic decision-making.

To become a Provisional Member of the International Jewish Labor Bund, you can sign up while filling out the IJLB intake form. If you’ve already filled out the intake form, we’ve created a separate Provisional Membership Agreement so you don’t have to fill out all of the intake form’s required fields again. The Provisional Membership Agreement consists of the Principles of Unity laid out by the Ideology Committee and Code of Conduct from the Moderation & Mediation Committee, both of which can be found in Appendix I of Resolution #13. As outlined in the resolution, Provisional Membership is a prerequisite to serving as a Committee Convener, voting or running in the next Provisional Steering Committee election, and chartering a Local Chapter via the process we’ve elaborated with the Local Development Committee.

The process described above is the 3-10-3 Structure outlined in Resolution #9. We appreciate all of the feedback we’ve gotten from Local Development, and based on our khaveyrim’s questions we’ve made a little diagram to show how it works:

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If you’d like to try the 3-10-3 organizing process with your local, please feel free to dive right in and let us know how it goes! We’ll be experimenting right alongside you with our own locals, and we plan on creating more detailed guidance for establishing a chapter of the Bund. Both our attempts at implementing the 3-10-3 structure and your own experiences, questions, and feedback will help us determine what should be included in that guidance.

In addition to the above, the PSC has agreed to the following action points:

  • Continue work on JewishBund.org

  • Determine channels of communication for each committee, and connect those who expressed interest in committee interest form to each committee channel

  • Assist in building out Moderation & Mediation committee capacity

  • Set up a meeting with the Melbourne Jewish Labour Bund

You can find a more detailed summary of our meeting here. [Link Removed}

ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • The Bund needs mods!

    • First and most importantly, the Moderation and Mediation committee is seeking volunteers to act as moderators for the IJLB Discord Server. If you’d like to volunteer, please fill out the Committee Interest Form.

  • Yiddish New York (December 21-26)

    • Keep an eye out for some Bund discussions at Yiddish New York 2024! From December 22nd to the 25th, there will be four events hosted by J.L. about the Bund: Molly Crabapple presenting the history of the Bund on the 22nd; J.W. hosting a screening of the documentary Bund: The Hope and the Past; D.Z., M.E., and Strawberry discussing the current position of the Bund; and J.W. discussing the future of the Bund. Please check the schedule here to see the time for these and all other YNY events and how to view them! [names anonymized and link removed]

  • Cafe Bund New Years/Zine Reveal/Chanukkah Party

    • If you’re in Kraków on New Years Eve, ring in 2025 and celebrate Chanukkah with Cafe Bund! This will also be the first chance to see Cafe Bund’s new zine, so stop on by!

If you have a project you’d like to promote, a local win you’d like to celebrate, or a request or offer for mutual aid, please submit your announcement to the Provisional Steering Committee via our email and we’ll include it in the next Bulletin!

As always, you can find summaries of all our meetings here, and you can reach us for questions, feedback, or just to say hi at psc@jewishbund.org. Thank you!