--- In otmushrooms@..., "David Letcher"
<david_letcher@a...> wrote:
> Nick,
>
> The brochuire starts out well, ie; "Your about to be ripped off",
but the
> creditors you plan to give this to will expect you to tell them how
to avoid
> that problem. You only state they should change laws (not helpful
to them).

I wasn't entirely convinced that I could say anything in the leaflet
that would assist them immediately - once you turn up to the first or
second creditors' meetings there is not a lot you can do to change
course.

However, there are a couple of things that come to mind along the
lines of "What can I do in the meeting?" By deleting the "Stop the
abuses" section I can make room for it. I can certainly put expanded
information on the web site, which was already under way, and Version
1 is almost finished.

> You need to assist them to gain and keep their interest.

True. For my next print run, I will consider the balance between
these three things:
+ Assisting creditors now,
+ Political pressure,
+ New blood for the group.
I must admit the last two are fairly prominent in the current leaflet.

> Remember, for most, self-interest will be
> their only motivating factor here.

I also assume there will be a few redundant employees or small
business types who will be sufficiently ruined by the procedure that
they will hound the Government. Remember there are a lot of marriages
that break up, a few deportations, and lots of other adverse side effects.

Thanks for the comments (and your thinking), Dave.
*****

The PTUA model of operation is strictly political pressure - they took
a deliberate decision not to go for member services - such as
discounted metcards, or timetables. They refer people requiring legal
advice to the CLCV or pro-bono lawyers and leave it at that.

The main reason is it takes a lot of cost and energy to run these
types of services, and other organisations that have attempted to do
so have gone down the gurgler in terms of political clout.

The thing we have in common is that we are pushing ideas across to the
Government.

Having said all that, I do note that the only real thing being
proposed by Dave is some "self-help" information, which costs nothing,
apart from the cost of reprinting brochures (once I run out in about a
week's time).

Nick Bishop, grad.com @ nick4mony
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