You'd think that something like this would lead to positive change if they kept it horizontal and did it right. But they're already on the wrong foot having divorced themselves from OWS... Why should a single, narrow working group control the selection of delegates? That's not how the Continental Congress worked... we're being more democratic than that here on DU.
It's a real shame that the people in charge of this working group aren't willing to take a step back, go back to Occupy participants regionally, and say, what if the persons leading this step back and allow new voices to emerge, is there a way to restructure this effort so that more good than harm (i.e. divisiveness) comes out of it? The original Continental Congress was formed through a sort of consensus process between a variety of diverse regional elements... if they had not sought unity they would not have succeeded.
Sadly, most of the people seeking to co-opt the language of the American Revolution are affiliated with the Tea Party movement, and most are either Rand libertarians or Constitutionalists... their insistence on adhering to right-wing dogma has sucked the air out of the room for reclaiming a shared language of resistance.
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