Our Mission

In order to "walk the talk" the Chicago Hash House Harriers is making publicly available via our website our general proceedings such as the mismanagement meeting (above) to endeavor to lead by example and continue to strive towards our goal of setting the gold standard among Chicago-area hashing organizations and welcome other area hashes to join us in furthering the highest fiscal, operational, and electoral standards transparency to the public.

How do we make a difference? The Chicago Hash House Harriers is committed to:

  • Participatory Democracy - We conduct free, open, and public elections of our GM annually. Any and all hashers in good standing are free to declare their candidacy. In addition, we conduct regular "town meeting-style" mismanagement meetings which are always publicized in advance and all are welcome to attend and have their opinions heard. You do not have to be part of Mismanagement to attend.

  • Operational Transparency - In all operating matters that affect the membership at large, including but not limited to internal business, finances, major initiatives, and other matters. That is why we make our Mismanagement meeting minutes publicly available to all on the web. Some hashes have a "hash tax" to help fund "ongoing operations". We openly publish our finances. With other area hashes, do you know if they have a hash tax? and if so where your hash tax goes? Hmmm…

  • The Free Marketplace of Ideas – We try and promote ALL Chicago area hashing events that we are aware of, even those that compete with our own. We strongly believe that deliberate suppression of information for self-serving purposes is completely pointless in the information age and disrespectful of the good judgment of the Chicago area hashing community at large.  We want people to come to the hash of their choice (hopefully ours) because they’ve evaluated ALL the options available to them and are voting with their feet. If folks choose other hashes that’s cool also and just means we could be doing a better job of this. Freedom and democracy rock!

There are other people out there in the Chicago area hashing community who believe that access to information should be restricted to vehicles only they control or that hashes cannot coexist peacefully on the same date or that intelligent grown adults should not be allowed to choose for themselves what they want to see or do which is the EXACT OPPOSITE OF WHAT WE ARE ABOUT. The Chicago Hash House Harriers actively promotes all hashes we are aware of encourages you to support other Chicago area hashes also and judge for yourself, voting with your feet if necessary.

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