My towns PSL does some good work, but they're extremely gatekeepy with regards to taking on new members. 9 months of working with them and I got ghosted by the person "screening" me, or whatever you wanna call it. Hell, I did more myself than that person did. I've also had a comrade, who is a member on this site and one I see frequently IRL, tell me they wouldn't offer him membership because they felt they need more minority members. My take on that is, "isn't a comrade a comrade?"
The most basic aspect of organizing is to get other people to do things for your project. If you don't have time to recruit and onboard people, you'll have nobody to do things for you!
Seems to be from location to location. I got some hope for the one in my town, but they're generally actually doing some praxis under that banner.
My towns PSL does some good work, but they're extremely gatekeepy with regards to taking on new members. 9 months of working with them and I got ghosted by the person "screening" me, or whatever you wanna call it. Hell, I did more myself than that person did. I've also had a comrade, who is a member on this site and one I see frequently IRL, tell me they wouldn't offer him membership because they felt they need more minority members. My take on that is, "isn't a comrade a comrade?"
Maybe you could get more minority members if you had more members organizing...
Exactly.
Sounds like they're just plain incompetent.
The most basic aspect of organizing is to get other people to do things for your project. If you don't have time to recruit and onboard people, you'll have nobody to do things for you!