Organisation

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None of this is simple, but the grassroots do currently have the necessary structures in place to make ‘mass membership’ of the YES movement more than feasible: The local YES Groups

YES groups sprang up spontaneously in their own communities during the 2014 referendum campaign and, unlike YES Scotland, have continued campaigning for Independence ever since.

YES groups are local, non-party, autonomous and diverse. Many associate regionally, but with national communication currently much more sporadic and adhoc - for the moment they do not necessarily think of themselves as collectively constituting a national grassroots movement, but in reality, this is exactly what they are.

This means, under the organisational realities of the YES movement as currently constituted, only the local YES groups have the collective capacity to form the required grassroots network, around which a national ‘mass membership’ can be organised.

 

This needs the YES Groups to step up, accept the actual role they play in the decentralised nature of their YES movement and consciously create the openly accessible grassroots network that everyone needs.

 

To make this open network a reality it requires each of the 200+ autonomous YES groups already registered on IndyApp to take responsibility for their own participation.

 

Autonomy as a Tool.

The new IndyApp YES Directory is the practical tool that now enables just two or more members from each local group to come together to form this national grassroots network. A network that is open to all Yessers, but run and controlled by its participating groups.

 

Each group is responsible for their own public information, which IndyApp then collates to create a national grassroots map of the YES Groups and YES Hubs. Updated in real time by each of the groups themselves as they register, grow and change.

 

YES Directory participation brings the groups together and visibly links them as a geographical network. It is this community of autonomous YES groups that supporters of Independence can then associate themselves with by registering for the IndyApp YES Directory and getting issued their own unique grassroots ‘supporter number’, the automated mechanism designed to simply grow a ‘mass membership’ of Independence supporters.

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