[matilda] Social centres, funding and the PGA Hallmarks

[gavin at cyber-rights.net]

I think there's a profound misunderstanding here about what exactly 
the PGA Hallmarks are and what they embody.

>MATILDA is too large and diffuse a project to adopt one single set 

>of
>principles.

But there's something that holds up together, right? If we're too 
diffuse to work in at least one direction, we can't work together 
at all. The process is to discover what that direction is. Which is 
what Marcos means by 'walking ,we ask questions.'

However, he signed up to the PGA. Because it embodied those ideals 
of diversity and openness. Everything you're saying seems to me to 
SUPPORT the adoption of the PGA.

The PGA signees embody a diversity of opinions (FAR more diverse 
than we have here at MATILDA), working within some very basic 
guiding ideas, whic the PGA hallmarks outline (which is why they're 
mostly negatives - Think of it in terms of the 'one no, many 
yesses' - the hallmarks are the 'one no', and the unsaid part, the 
open diversity of alternatives to the things they object to, is the 
many yesses...)

But if we can't agree on the 'one no' we're not really going to get 
to the many yesses.





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