[matilda] Proposals for next Monday & Inslusivity

[worldwarfree at riseup.net]

gavin wrote
Following a (cordial!) discussion with some of the art collective
after the meeting tonight...


no it was not though gavin you was aiming to keep the peace others it was
just a blatant attack upon those involved in art 05 and the art collective
and i speak for myself as i would not desire to speak for others there are
no leaders for the free:

again another meeting i left feeling negative thinking what the fuck
allright the middle class are into there meetings like there acountability
and yes i can deal and likewise see the need however i have no desire or
need to involved in such a negative aspect.

all way through the meeting and this is just a feeling there was some
people aiming to confrontational me i come with open arms and love.

i made all the effort to keep the peace however if there are people who
are going to use the fact art 05 fucked up with the bar (if they did) and
did not here i offerd to cover any cost concerning the loss so that those
who have paid for the bear do not lose.

please note this offer is there because i feel the art o5 event was to
date the most positive event matilda has done goto
http://artsheffield.org/ click on the link venues mid way down there is
link to matilda - how important is this?

it means those who own matilda ie yorkshire forword are seeing the
positive that is going down their along with the rest of the ciq people
this only can aid us when the legal shit starts as when and if we goto the
courts our resons and arguments for using matilda gaine strenth

if we look at what is happing regards mappen street the plans to demolish
that venue we need to offer people like electic blanket a home they have a
gig on the 17th indeed im of there in the few days to have a chat with the
rnib who run mappin street to get contact info for other who use the space
tell them about matilda

matilda should not and never be about just haveing good times those good
times come with strugle idd call this the class struggle i'll leave you
with a part of what ben wrote and this takes us to inclusivity

ben wrote
Matilda is a right important place for me right now. I often wonder where
people, especially the younger members of the collective, have come from in
their journeys to Matilda so far. I have a suspicion that many of them, not
all, may come from quite liberal, middle class families. You see (and here I
write some personal stuff which doesn't belong in a list e-mail at all but I
feel the need to say it because I feel the need to wear it on my chest so to
speak) I have grown up in the Sheffield council estates. In S5, one of the
most 10% most highly deprived wards in the country statistically speaking.
That I have come to have a degree (not in politics I'm afraid, K) when 98%
of my fellow school colleagues didn't even go on to further education is one
of very lucky circumstance only (my brothers and sisters  set the precedent
by going to university, but before them neither my mum nor dad got the
opportunity too).

What I'm coming too here is not the degree, a piece of paper which I now
hardly think of at all; its rather that special opportunity to see the world
from so many different perspectives in such a short time, it's given me the
chance to come in to Matilda with some confidence (but still not great
confidence) and to come furnished with creative and open-minded ideas that
are a result of being exposed to so many inspiring people over the last
several years. For most working class people though, the story is not the
same. These people would not have the confidence to come and wave their arms
around in a silly fashion at meetings. They would not have the confidence to
cook for loads of people. They wouldn't have the confidence to be clowns.
They instead laugh at such things; the kids of Parsons Cross would ridicule
them; and who the hell could blame them?

indeed who could?

one love as allways
smoke the weed free the mind
rastaman 0742