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> I wonder who runs the damn thing, and
>how they organize the meetings!! I suspect that at a different time each
>month the members go to some place of their own choosing and hold a
>meeting,
>at which other members may or may not be in attendance, at which time they
>each individually propose ideas that are accepted or rejected by the
>others
>(if present), after implimentation all proposals are promptly ignored.
You obviously have never spent any time around anarchists and know
nothing of our ways. If you have read about us at all, besides the
misleading common dictionary entry, you have clearly never read our
version, not even the internet FAQ. A word of advice: research first,
talk second, look smart afterwards.
Meetings are what we do best. We believe, by definition, that one
anarchist's opinion is worth as much as the next's. This has forced us to
refine consensus decision making to a fine art. We're really good at it.
The rest of you could learn a thing or two.
Allow me to illustrate from my personal life. I'm part of a group that
runs Bound Together Anarchist Collective Book Store, 1369 Haight St., SF
CA. We've been in business twenty five years this year. We're open seven
days a week fro 1:30AM to 7:30PM, 365 days a year. It's a store, like any
other, except that instead of a boss we have a meeting once a month. I'm
also part of the Book Fair committee, a sub set of the Book Store
collective. Once a year we rent a hall in Golden Gate Park and throw the
Annual San Francisco Anarchist Book Fair. Vendors come from all over the
place. Three or four thousand people show up to hear speakers, buy books,
periodicals, T-shirts, etc. and meet each other, some for the first time.
We feed them. We clean up afterward. We arrange all the logistics and
handle the money. We always come out ahead. We meet once a week for the
three or months leading up to it and a couple times during the rest of
the year. A decisions are consensus. Everybody does their part, well, and
on time. This year it's on April 14. Do come. It's big fun. Also there
are a lot of parties later.
The membership of the Book Store collective overlaps with the staff of AK
Press and Distribution and the staff of Maximum Rock and Roll magazine.
Both are long term going concerns owned and self managed by their
"employees." AK started in Edinburgh Scotland and is now literally a
multinational corporation.
If we can do this, you can do it to. It ain't rocket science. Any cook can
govern. Govern your own job. Govern your own life. You'll be a lot happier.
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