11-19-2007, 10:31 AM
What are the requirements for membership? I'm still just a wannabee, but I would like to help out if that is possible.
There are some conscience issues on my own part against sticking my nose where it doesn't belong. Visiting and chatting on a website are benign activities, even if I haven't conformed to everyone's liking, yet. Signing a petition, as a non-citizen, that goes to local government is over the line, to me, and I refused to do that elsewhere, not on political but on citizenship grounds.
Is this group a somewhere-in-between thing that I could actually be helpful or productive in some way, without infringing upon the rights of the citizens of the State of Hawaii? As I said on another thread, community advocacy groups which affect planning decisions with local legislature or governmental agencies are the real way to accomplish things, I believe. Isn't there an attorney on PW who's been chiming in occasionally? Can you help out with this?
How do I know?
There are some conscience issues on my own part against sticking my nose where it doesn't belong. Visiting and chatting on a website are benign activities, even if I haven't conformed to everyone's liking, yet. Signing a petition, as a non-citizen, that goes to local government is over the line, to me, and I refused to do that elsewhere, not on political but on citizenship grounds.
Is this group a somewhere-in-between thing that I could actually be helpful or productive in some way, without infringing upon the rights of the citizens of the State of Hawaii? As I said on another thread, community advocacy groups which affect planning decisions with local legislature or governmental agencies are the real way to accomplish things, I believe. Isn't there an attorney on PW who's been chiming in occasionally? Can you help out with this?
How do I know?
Aloha! ;-)