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In a message dated 1/24/00 11:41:54 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED],Internet writes:
> > I wonder who runs the damn thing, and
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> >how they organize the meetings!! I suspect that at a different time each
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> >month the members go to some place of their own choosing and hold a
> >meeting,
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> >at which other members may or may not be in attendance, at which time they
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> >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.
>
Thanks for the fine illustrations Nessie. I was just joking, of course.
Anarchists have to have an organizational structure in order to develop
policy and institute actions.
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