[g8-sheffield] Dissent Christians at aktivix

[Philippe Deux]

Hello, i am transcribing this brief exchange of notes... Christians find
Make Poverty History infuriatingly non-confrontational...

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> Hi Alessio,
> 
> Are you asking for all Christians and Muslims to quit working with 
> Dissent, or are you still OK with our presence?  Or do the same rules
>  apply to us as to everyone?  (Those being the PGA Hallmarks and the 
> principle of horizontal decision making).  I never did see Dissent as
>  having a specific political basis other than resistance to the evil 
> (i.e. neo-liberal) plans of George Bush and his mates.
> 
> If we aren't a working group, fine, but Dissent is not meant to be an
>  Anarchist group (I have had this pointed out as a mistake on the 
> DissentChristians aktivix listings, its mostly fixed).  Dissent is 
> instead a group for people with different views who want to take a 
> more direct approach to campaigning than, say, the Make Poverty 
> History campaign (which I find infuriatingly anti-confrontational) 
> and who obey the PGA Hallmarks.
> 
> It should also exist for those who are committed to ending the SWP 
> dominance of everything vaguely radical in the UK and generating a 
> none-hierarchical attitude within the British left.  That definitely 
> includes myself, and several members of Church of England clergy, and
>  lots more Christians besides.
> 
> Yours for peace and justice, Graham Martin
> 
> P.S. The DissentChristians group isn't linked to any specific 
> Anarcho-Christian group yet, though I'm trying to get a listing at 
> Jesus Radicals, www.jesusradicals.com, who seem pretty Anarcho to me.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> michael bakunin wrote:
> 
>> with all due respect for peoples belief but I think having a 
>> religious group (no matter how libertarian in interpretation) as a 
>> "working group" of dissent is just gonna kill any political basis 
>> dissent has/got left. That in my opinion goes for islamists, or 
>> other superstitutions
>> 
>> :-0)
>> 
>> Alessio


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