Your comment on Focus has me thinking about the difference between organizing and activism.

With activism, you act alone.

In organizing, you work to organize others for collective action.

Both are important, but I think ICPJ’s role is organizing, which takes more discipline and focus than activism. It means both showing leadership and building leadership.

Second – I am with you on the generations bashing and will try to enforce the zero policy as well. I thank you for so eloquently bringing up this issue which is rather divisive in organizing and so dumb! I think it will take some effort to undo the lack of trust between generations, (remember “don’t trust anyone over 30″ … uh oh!) but it is important to start somewhere.

Third – the question of where/how/whether to focus ICPJ is SO hard. From what I have observed at ICPJ (from my brief and rather shallow involvement,) it seems like people want to have an impact, but they also won’t give up what THEY want to work on. This is the paradox and the difficulty of being a multi issue organization. I hope we (ICPJ Steering committee and members) have a chance to delve deeper into this important strategic decision.