a.    We name our council CATALYSIS. [ed: (a) another name, (b) no name, (c) as temporary name]

b.    We agree that only the assembly of the council as a whole, and no section or individual member thereof, shall have sovereignty over the use of this name.

a.    To assemble once every two weeks, which assemblies shall conduct the management of all aspects of the existence in acts of our council; mandate sections; entertain motions to admit and exclude members, hear and decide on proposals for offensives, interventions, and sub-projects of all sorts, and hear reports from the already delegated sections. We agree that only the totality of the membership assembled wields sovereignty in the name of the organization -- our collective name -- and thus, that only the full assembly of the membership constitutes quorum. We further agree, therefore, that absence from the assembly -- i.e., self-exclusion -- constitutes grounds for formal exclusion except under special circumstances as decided by the assembly (delegated missions and the like).

b.    That the first order of business at each meeting is “unfinished business”, meaning an opening in the agenda for the airing of interpersonal conflicts and resentments accumulated in the practice since the last assembly which, if left ulterior, would impede and falsify the process of the whole assembly.  We see this process as the “reassembly” of the assembly; the re-acquaintance of its parts with one another, since the history of the assembly has has gone on “its parts” since disassembly, generating new experience that needs to be made common property if transparency is to be restored.  That is, we see this order of business as an essential part of the reproduction process of the assembly.

d.    That emergency meetings may be arranged by any member, at such a space-time that all members can be attending.

e.    That at the close of each assembly, decisions will be made as to its reproduction:  the time, place, and [ed: tentative] agenda of the next assembly.

a.    That the set of signatories appended to this document constitute the founding membership of this organization for the duration of this contract, the subject of all these articles, named herein by “We".  That further, we agree to the following process of admission to membership and exclusion from membership for the future -- that is, outside the singular process through which we have herein mutually admitted one another, and excluded everyone else in order to insure the expanded reproduction of the foundation of this organization, and its quality, which only the collective control of our association can insure:

b.    (admission)   Any member may move admission of a new member, consideration to proceed without need of a second. The member-select may be requested to express his desires and abilities in writing to the council, as a sort of resume similar to the self-statements which the founding members each contributed to each other. Likewise, the founding documents and contract of the council will be made available to the member-select. Personal [ed: one-to-one] meetings may be requested by members in order to develop mutual personal knowledge and rapport. Collaboration in some intervention may be attempted. All of this, of course, depends on the extent of interpersonal knowledge and affinity already developed with the prospective member. Admission is effected by unanimous consent of the assembled council. Refusal to admit normally entails a written statement to the refused individual, clarifying the reasons for this refusal and, for our part, the grounds, if any, for further association. Refusal also implies an important disagreement with the member who moved admission, and thus may entail renegotiation with that member.

c.    (exclusion)   Any member may move exclusion of any other member, consideration to proceed without need of a second. Such a motion is germane at all times. No grounds of exclusion are laid down in advance: only the likelihood that abrogation of an article of agreement of this contract will lead to exclusion is stated, which is already implied in enactment of the contract itself. This is because no amount of grounds could force us to exclude against our collective desire out of abstract respect for consistency, idolatry of a written document, or to avoid "hypocrisy" and more than any lack of pre-established grounds would prevent us from excluding if such was the collective will. Exclusion shall take effect only by unanimous vote of all "remaining" members (i.e., of all those members other than the one moving exclusion and the one so moved). However, the unanimous failure to exclude implies exclusion of the member moving exclusion. The failure to exclude unanimously implies a split in the organization. Thus, either of these outcomes requires renegotiation of the status of the association for all involved.

d.    (resignation, or self-exclusion)   Any member may resign at any time. However, we each agree at present  to supply the rest of the assembly with a written statement of reasons and criticisms in the event of our resignation, for our mutual benefit in the larger revolutionary project.

a.   To acquire for all external communications a post office box or other channel through the use of non-traceable identification papers, or through other methods of safeguarding out identities and whereabouts.

b.   To sign all group documents, including this contract, and all correspondence with chosen names other than our legal names, the real names behind these assumed names to be known only within the group.

c.    To secure our files and archives and provide a plan of notification for rapid destruction or sequestration of all sensitive materials in the event of police attack.

d.    No plans discussed within the assembly shall be revealed to anyone outside the assembly without prior unanimous consent of the full assembly.

e.    To each acquire and maintain a current and valid passport at all times.

f.    To acquire for the council a bank account for the cashing of checks made out to the organizational name such as will not compromise the identity of any member, or to arrange some other such means for the receipt of monies from outside the organization. The federal government now maintains routine surveillance and record of all bank-mediated financial transactions.

g.    To establish a contingency plan for the evacuation of our membership and the assuming of underground status by us in the event of certain developments (to be specified in the contingency plan).

h.    As a collective project, to encourage all members in the acquisition of skills in the martial arts (karate, tai chi, jujitsu, aikido, etc..

i.    As a collective project, to encourage all members in the acquisition of firearms and the mastery of their use.

j.    To maintain a low media profile in this project (personal media anonymity), and to resist with all means the expropriation of our image by the dominant spectacle.

a.    That the correspondence section of this council shall answer mail addressed to NEGATION as part of the same task of answering mail directed to this council proper.

b.    That together with the former members of NEGATION the rest of this council compose and adopt a letter of supersession to be mailed to all current and future correspondents addressing NEGATION, and to all correspondents and contacts of CATALYSIS who inquire as to relations to or with NEGATION, as an announcement of the sublation of NEGATION. [ed: send all correspondents something within 1 week]

c.    That this council draft critiques of the past practice of NEGATION wherever we do not or no longer feel comfortable with, identified with, or represented in the past practice.

d.   <this letter and attached notes was left out of the a..f sequence>

e.    That the archives of NEGATION will pass into [ed: and be updated by November 10th] those of CATALYSIS.

f.   That the general assembly of CATALYSIS will review for possible continuation the projects pending of NEGATION.

We desire to begin to explore during the 90-day period, and execute whenever possible, the following interventions and projects:

a.    The delegation and pandation of Tom Woodhull as an emissary from this council to contacts and councils known to us in North America, to carry news of our formation and activities, and invitations to federation. Specifically, that he be armed with (1) copies of this contract, (2) copies of the letter from this council proposing a national federation at some point in the near future; its grounds and a process for arriving at it, to be distributed only to local councils in-formation.

b.    A journal, with the general assembly of our council acting as a "section-of-the-whole" for the editorial and production process.

c.    The takeover of the national poster project by this council from NEGATION, as part of the national federation project.

d.    Translation and publication of the most significant unavailable S.I. [ed: partial] texts -- Vaneigem's Traite, Vienet's Enrages et Situationnistes, Debord & Sanguinetti's La Veritable Scission, and selected documents from, or perhaps the whole of, the twelve numbers of the French Section's journal, with critical introductory material written by us.

e.    To make public a critique of situationism and situationist moralism (a la  Bureau of Public Secrets, Point-Blank!, Contradiction and their predecessors up to and including their roots in the S.I.).

f.    An assault on the local spectacle: biilboards. Perhaps propose nationwide coordination and simultaneity to our contacts, though this risks high visibility too early.

g.    A publication of shorter periodicity than a journal, more like a newspaper, to dialectize on current events while they are still current, etc., and to serve as a self-organizing tool. Perhaps to begin as a wall-paper whenever important outbreaks we want to comment on occur. Perhaps concurrent with Tom's project for "Desire City News"?

h.    Further stimulation of the movement of occupations in the U.S., with interventions into strikes, run-away shop situations, and others where the technique of occupation and/or work-ins is applicable.

i.    A psychotherapy theory and practice pillaging section to explore what we can use from primal therapy, gestalt therapy, transactional analysis, Freudian theory, Reichian theory, bio-energetic practices, etc., with an emphasis on practice as opposed to a mere reading-study group. Also to be concerned with our critical appropriation of practices from yoga and the oriental martial arts, and with the furtherance of our critique of the ideologies growing out of all these. Kirlian techniques might be explored as means of research in some of these areas.

j.    A study and research section on the Marxian critique of political economy, and on present developments in the global economy, mandated to make periodic reports to the general assembly, and to prepare articles for inclusion in the journal on these subjects.

k.   A study section to clarify and develop further the concept of the spectacle, mandated to report to the general assembly and prepare articles for the journal on its findings and developments.

l.    A concerted, systematic attack on N.C.L.C. from the moment it is allowed to form a hegemonic Left image in the dominant spectacle, or upon whatever group arises to Left hegemony and appears capable of usurping a proletarian revolution and bringing the Left variety of state-capitalism to power in America, if such a group should develop at all.

m.    To explore the possibility of an intervention into the Watergate scandal or its growing wake.

n.    An intervention into the Christmas spectacle.

o.    An intervention into the Guru spectacle. [ed: Bob's]

p.    To explore the propagation of our critique through media heretofore neglected: film, video tape, record albums, public murals, etc..

q.    An immanent critique of feminist ideology.

r.    Further wall slogan painting projects, with precise planning and wider coordination, and some of our newer slogans.

s.    Investigations into the acquisition of a rural site for retreats and the design of our own psycho-geography, etc..

t.    Investigations into the collectivization of our survival activities; possible products; incorporation as a producers' association; the formation of a collective capital, etc..

u.    Detailed research into previous outbreaks of revolutionary practice by the proletariat -- Europe 1848, Paris Commune 1870, Russia 1905 & 1917, Germany 1918, Spain 1934-6, Hungary 1956, France 1968, Chile 1972-3, etc. -- for the production of new revolutionary theory, this by a study section off the general assembly mandated to report and produce articles for the journal.

v.    Berkeley's pseudo-community.

w.    Sex-Pol wall poster.