[matilda] Re: Comrade Temp - Accomodation !

[Amparo P Gutierrez]

I'd rather say it's about it all, legal questions, contributions and the 
other experiences from people, of course. It is about legal questions in 
the first place ; you say it yourself: "We have seen that the LTT has 
been given special privileges and power
 > because he lives (and works) there on a day-to-day basis, this can be
 > dealt with because it is one selfless individual that we all know well
 > who is 100% dedicated to the needs of the space."

Yes the LTT has been given special privileges, but not by me or you...
I don't know James, i'm not talking about him personally (who by this 
time will be looking for help somewhere else)

But, don't you envisage a time when it may be necessary to look for 
shelter??? Don't just place restrictions, because you don't know which 
may be our predicaments in the future...



cuthbert at riseup.net wrote:
>   Whether or not someone can stay at matilda is not about legal questions
> or if someone is going to contribute to matilda while they stay there. 
> The reason many people (myself included) do not agree that someone
> should be able to live* at matilda is because from other experiences
> people have learned that the people living in squatted social
> centres/cafe`s end up dominating and the needs of the space and the
> collective can  be compromised too much due to the needs of the
> individuals living there.
>   We have seen that the LTT has been given special privileges and power
> because he lives (and works) there on a day-to-day basis, this can be
> dealt with because it is one selfless individual that we all know well
> who is 100% dedicated to the needs of the space.  With someone else,
> someone we dont know very well, someone who sees matilda as a squat**
> and someone who may need other support/help it is easy to see how this
> estimated one month stay could turn into 2, 3 or 4.  If james has cut
> his ties to milton keynes to move to sheffield and has not been able to
> find somewhere to live after one month, at what point will the matilda
> collective kick him out?
>   Furthermore, if we allow james to stay that sets a precedent, other
> people in the group have had housing problems in the past and may have
> housing problems in the future.  Should we let them stay?
> 
>   However i am not sure if james was even asking for accomodation at
> matilda, i think he may have been asking if there are individuals
> involved in the matilda project if they could provide him with somewhere
> to live whil he looks for somewhere permanent.
> 
>   I personally think that the most important thing for us to do is to not
> promise anything that we arent going to deliver on.  I dont want things
> to end up like they have done the last couple of times james has come up
> where people have looked after him because they were the only people
> around.
> 
> from
> cuthbert
> 
> 
> 
> *When i say live i do not mean someone that crashes over night but someone
> who eats, sleeps and conducts their daily buissness from matilda.
> 
> **From what i gather matilda is not a squat as it is not classified as a
> squat and there is still a sitting tenant
> 
> 
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