January 30, 2021

Bread & Lead comrades,

Due to unforseen circumstances, the acting de-facto leadership hereby presents the attached text, titled "Member Safety, Succession, & Suspension" for an emergency vote. To pass, this resolution only requires a simple majority, and has a 24 hours total of voting time. Anyone who doesn't vote in this period is considered absent.

Under Section IV of this resolution, the Ethics Council will be chaired by the following individuals: Vandal, Lago, Mando, Nathan, Austin, & TJ.

EMERGENCY RESOLUTION #1

MEMBER SAFETY, SUCCESSION, & SUSPENSION

SECTION I: INTRODUCTION

The #1 priority of all Bread & Lead comrades should be safety. We are a firearm enthusiast group after all, and firearms are incredibly dangerous when used improperly. Due to a recent event requiring an emergency expulsion, the acting de-facto leadership realized there was a lack of guidelines to determine what is and isn't acceptable for members of this organization.

This resolution is designed to provide guidelines to all members, as well as create an Ethics Council, which shall oversee any possible future member emergencies. Additionally, as at this moment our bylaws are not yet ratified, this document shall serve as a framework for member succession & vetting.

SECTION II: SAFETY & BEHAVIOR

The following behaviors are all subject to immediate action by the Ethics Council in order to preserve our group's safety:

• Participating in harassment campaigns, threats of violence, or derogatory behavior is forbidden.
  
• Advocating for illegal actions and activities of any kind is forbidden.
  
• Working to intentionally and actively undermine the organization is forbidden.
  
• Participating in organizations that advocate or otherwise promote fascism, nazism, or neoconfederatism is forbidden.
  
• Any nature of sexual offenses, to include the intentional use of inappropriate sexual language, inappropriate sexual behavior, sexual harassment, and sexual assault, are forbidden.
  
• Any nature of domestic abuse, assault, violence, or other domestic offense, is forbidden.
  

The following actions may be carried out by the Ethics Council by unanimous decision:

• Verbal warning regarding the member’s actions.
  
• Written warning regarding the member’s actions.
  
• Suspension from any working groups or participation in Organization activities, not to last more than one hundred eighty (180) days.
  
• Suspension from communication platforms of the Organization, not to last more than one hundred eighty (180) days.
  
• Probationary period whose conditions are decided by the Welfare Council, not to last more than one hundred eighty (180) days.
  
• Suspension from the Organization as a whole, not to last more than one hundred eighty (180) days.
  
• Expulsion from the Organization, with or without prejudice.
  
• Any other actions as deemed appropiate by the Ethics Council.
  

SECTION III: SUCCESSION

Any individual who applies for membership will be considered for provisional membership. A member may recieve full membership, which includes voting rights, once they have been vetted by members of the Ethics Council. Member vetting is chaired by the the Operations Security officer. An applicant may be instantly denied on the following administrative grounds:

• They are not at least eighteen (18) years old.
  
• They are not a resident of the United States.
  

An application may be denied on the following character grounds:

• They possess a recent and relevant history of expressing sympathy or support for fascism, neoconfederatism, or other reactionary ideologies.
  
•  They actively participate in exclusionary social ideologies such as but not limited to: racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, or religious discrimination.
  
•  They are currently employed, in a volunteer or paid capacity, as any manner of law enforcement officer who has the powers of arrest in their jurisdiction.
  
• They have expressed clear intent to cause harm to the name or structure of the Organization.
  
• They have been expelled from other sympathetic or otherwise leftist organizations for character-based charges.
  

From time to time, the Operations Security Officer or the Ethics Council may ask additional questions to applicants on the membership application form to better gauge the character and history of applicants. Membership is at the discresion of the Ethics Council & the Operations Security Officer.

SECTION IV: ETHICS COUNCIL

The Ethics Council shall be established upon passing of this document. The Ethics Council members shall be stated in this resolution's presenting text.
In the event a member of the Ethics Council may have a significant bias in cases of member investigating, or is the member being investigated, all other members of the Ethics Council must agree on replacement members.