{"id":577,"date":"2009-08-24T21:19:49","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T21:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hopoi.org\/?page_id=577"},"modified":"2009-08-24T21:19:49","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T21:19:49","slug":"constitution","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/?page_id=577","title":{"rendered":"Our constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Hopi constitution<span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span><span>as agreed at our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hopoi.org\/conference\/conference.html\">launch conference<\/a> on December 8 2007 <\/span><\/span><span> <\/span><\/h3>\n<h2><span> <\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>1. Aims<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n1:1 Hands Off the People of Iran (Hopi) is an anti-war campaign in solidarity with the Iranian people. It fights against the threat of military attacks, economic sanctions or any other imperialist intervention in Iran. Hopi is in active, practical solidarity with the grass-roots progressive and democratic forces in Iran that are struggling against the Islamic regime &#8211; the militant women\u2019s, workers and students movements. <span style=\"color: blue;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>2. <span style=\"color: black;\">Affiliates and members<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2:1 Hopi invites all organisations who accept our aims to join us in this fight               and affiliate to the campaign:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>local organisation \u00a325<\/li>\n<li>small national\/regional organisation \u00a350<\/li>\n<li>large national\/regional organisation  \u00a3100<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2:2 <em><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">Hopi also encourages individuals to become members of               the campaign: <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><!--[endif]--> <em><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">\u00a310 waged, \u00a35 unwaged <\/span><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-style: normal;\"> <\/span><\/em>2:3 Hopi aspires to build a national network of autonomous, self-activated branches that can respond quickly to international political developments.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">3.               Conferences and meetings <\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>3:1 The steering committee               must call an annual HOPI conference with a minimum of one month\u2019s notice;               emergency conferences require one week\u2019s notice. Alternatively a conference can               be called at the request of a minimum of 25% of the membership.<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3:2 All properly convened HOPI conferences can decide by a simple majority to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>amend the constitution<\/li>\n<li>amend                 the \u2018founding statement\u2019<\/li>\n<li>adopt                 new policies or motions                                                   <!--[endif]--><\/li>\n<li>support                 other campaigns                                                   <!--[endif]--><\/li>\n<li>elect                 or recall the steering committee as a whole                                                   <!--[endif]--><\/li>\n<li>elect                 individual members onto the steering committee or recall individuals from it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>3:3 All individual Hopi               members and affiliated organisations have one vote at all Hopi conferences and               membership meetings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Steering committee<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>4:1 The Hopi founding conference shall directly elect a recallable steering               committee.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 6pt;\">4:2               All affiliated organisations have the right to send a representative with <span style=\"color: black;\">full speaking rights<\/span> to steering committee meetings<span style=\"color: black;\">.<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: red;\"> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 6pt;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">4:3 The steering committee has the right to co-opt individuals and               representatives of affiliates as full voting members. These voting additions to               the steering committee must be subsequently ratified by the Hopi conference.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>4:4 This committee (made of               up the directly elected persons, voting and non-voting affiliates) shall decide               amongst itself how to divide up the work of the campaign, though as a minimum               the following posts should be considered: secretary, chair, press officer,               treasurer.<\/p>\n<p>4:5 Meetings of the               steering committee shall be advertised in advance, are open to observers (who are members of  Hopi) and               its minutes shall be circulated to all affiliates and supporters, as well as               published on the website. The committee should aim to meet every six weeks as a               minimum.<\/p>\n<p>4:6 Subject to security               considerations, Hopi will publish its annual accounts and make these publicly               available via its website.<\/p>\n<p>4:7 Amongst the               responsibilities of the SC are: steering HOPI, taking political decisions on               behalf of HOPI in consultation with the members whenever possible, devising a               timed workplan for HOPI\u2019s campaigns and activities, broadening the support base               of HOPI, organising gatherings, rallies, demonstrations, seminars and               conferences, preparing leaflets and other publicity material for the Campaign,               planning and organising the AGMs, organisation and collection of affiliation               fees and financial supports.                              <span><br \/>\n<\/span>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopi constitution as agreed at our launch conference on December 8 2007 1. Aims 1:1 Hands Off the People of Iran (Hopi) is an anti-war campaign in solidarity with the Iranian people. It fights against the threat of military attacks, economic sanctions or any other imperialist intervention in Iran. Hopi is in active, practical solidarity &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/?page_id=577\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Our constitution&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":580,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-577","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/577\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopoi.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}