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<DIV>I would like to know who this person means by 'us' in his extremely patronising them and us tract that appeared on your website today. This mentality lives and breathes in the cultural industries quarter, (where you are now based )and has dogged most progressive movements in this country for years. Many from the seventies became labour party politicians and took with them the ingrained notion that the mission was to teach these uncouth hooligans to be more like 'us' we now see these policies in action. </DIV>
<DIV>Is this young man the blunket of the future</DIV>
<DIV>Jan</DIV>
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<DIV> 'What was most interesting to me about the counter-G8 actions over the <BR>last few<BR>> days was the varied assemblages of people who turned out to make <BR>their voices<BR><U>> heard.</U><STRONG><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #80c0ff"> <U>From filthy dirty autonomist radicals</U></FONT></STRONG>, families sporting Make <BR>Poverty<BR>> History sashes, the socialist choir, the newly sprung Independent <BR>Socialist<BR>><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #bfdfff"><U><STRONG> Youth Forum, and our amazing little anarchist punks who took it upon <BR>themselves<BR>> to start up a separatist sit in on the road at the Rice for Dinner <BR>event</STRONG>.<BR></U></FONT>> Though I declined to join the latter on their ill-fated (but <BR>worthwhile)<BR>> venture I do nevertheless think their show of rebellion was <BR>remarkable and is<BR>> an energy to be harnessed. It has been a while since such collective <BR>shows of<BR>> defiance against authority has
emerged in Sheffield against such <BR>young people.<BR>> I am in my early Twenties and I cannot remember there being such a <BR>politically<BR>> motivated mobilisation with which to put all my passion and rage into <BR>when I<BR>> was at school or college in the working class northern estates of <BR>Sheffield in<BR>> which I grew up (that s maybe why I sent those years beating myself <BR>up<BR>> instead). <STRONG><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #bfdfff"><U>Though I don t subscribe to the ACAB school of political <BR>philosophy<BR>> in any shape or form, I nevertheless felt that what <FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff80">these kids</FONT> were <BR>doing was<BR>> partially exciting- true, out there on the front line of the demo, so <BR>to speak,<BR>></U> </FONT></STRONG><STRONG><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #bfdfff"><U><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffbf">any distinct notions of world peace and justice might have escaped <BR>their heads<BR></FONT>> to
be replaced by a us and them mentality,</U> but just some of those <BR></FONT></STRONG><U><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #0080ff">kids </FONT><STRONG><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #0080ff">might<BR></FONT>> just have the potential some day to be fully equipped fighters for <BR>the global<BR></STRONG></U>> justice movement, and for local issues too. This doesn t necessarily <BR>imply a <BR>> mass mobilisation of working class people as it may have done <BR>before, but<BR>> merely a chance <U><STRONG><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #bfdfff">to join us</FONT></STRONG></U> all in a social space where they can share<BR>> experiences and ideas with long time campaigners (helping to locate <BR>those nodes<BR></DIV></DIV>