[LAF] LAF2

[justin]

"I think the whole group would greatly suffer with out
me..."

i think it's a great shame that what Steve says is true
here, yet he himself was the one who had to say it!
Anyone remember mutual support/solidarity, etc.?

(not sure if Steve was being self deprecatingly
ironic by saying this, i don't think he was, and i think what
he says is true, and yet, to repeat, no one else
said it!) 

i mean the point is that Steve is one of the few ppl
who's been a regualar over the past nth years, and also 
contributed to talks and the running of discussions...
and also has a good base in anarchist politics... 
- there is not really anyone else who fits all these
LAF credentials within LAF!...

i think having regulars is good, and also having a reasonable
base within anarchism is good, too... Outreach is important 
as well,
but not to the detriment of destroying the anarchist base
which is the point of the thing in the first place... I mean
you need a sturdy, sustainable base to outreach in the first place!

So, i think publicity should be first and foremost directed inwards
towards anarchists and anti-authoritarians... 
A question to ask is why has the LAF apparently shrunk over recent years?
(Well since the late 90's as far as i can tell - i seem to remember
hearing that some primitivists became regualars - did that put everyone else
off?! Maybe 1 or 2 peripherally involved individuals effectively
put ppl off around that time too?)...

(Maybe 
any general outward publicity is no bad thing - you'll only
get a few ppl here and there from the various hopefully
diverse sectors you're putting your publicity in - altho i
think the more diverse the advertising the better
- you don't want to rely on one or 2 sources...)  

Have not caught up with the other posts yet - so will go thru them...
But thought i should really respond to this post...

Justin

--- steve ash <steveash_2001 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Not very happy with current developments now I've had
> time to think about them. As one of the last real
> anarchists left in the LAF, I can only think of two
> other regular attendees, I'm not really happy at all
> with the present ideas now I think about it and I
> think the whole group would greatly suffer with out
> me, though I still have plans of my own. If the
> meetings were on the 2nd and 4th of each month or
> something and started at 2pm rather than 3pm I might
> be able to attend on at least a monthly basis. As it
> is the LAF is already isolated from the anarchist
> movement and I'd rather work on a project that brought
> an anarchist discussion group closer into the
> mainstream of the anarchist movement.

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