[matilda] MATILDARRRR

[gavin at cyber-rights.net]

Good points.

I propose a big banner with a mole on it, dressed as a pirate, 
holding a black flag and going "Matildarrrrrrrrrrr, me hearties!"

er...I am joking. x


On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 18:24:07 -0700 fabian <fab at in-no.org> wrote:
>Its good to be hedonistic, C, but I have to correct you on the 
>point 
>about the discussion what Mailda is becoming. This question was 
>merely 
>remembered because of the party and it is actually as old as the 
>building has its new moles-occupants..
>and it is neccesary as well because action can not go without 
>reflection and self-defintion is a process of discourse as much as 

>it 
>is of deeds.
>If we want to collaborate freely we need to speak to each other 
>freely. 
>Neither of us can predict the future but we shall project a future 

>of 
>Matilda and the world in general together so we need to 
>communicate.
>Maybe we should call her MATILDAR...Massive Alternative Terrain 
>for 
>Love, Direct Action and Reflection...
>
>anyway DA will remain the main force as it always was and that is 
>true 
>for all sides of this little game, not the least the actual 
>owners...
>this is why it is important to go ahead and think about what we 
>gonna 
>tell the outside world about Matildar
>
>some thoughts about that I'd like to feed into this process are 
>about
>
>contradictions
>
>Apart from all general political questions I think we all agree 
>that on 
>a local agenda the politics of big players like YF and SHU with 
>buildings, city development and people are undemocratic, of no 
>benefit 
>for the community and solely serve themselves and other big 
>players, 
>which is examplified by  the way Matilda in specific and the whole 

>aera 
>is being dealed with. These politics are not only bad, they also 
>contradict their own statements and agendas...YF is fueled 
>financially 
>by the European Union and both YF and the EU have principles that 
>are 
>being violated by their actual politics. This contradiction is 
>what we 
>can exploid to some degree in our favor if we are acting 
>strategically 
>wise, but this contradiciton is by no means accidental. Liberal 
>democracies (LD) are constantly producing these contradictions on 
>all 
>levels, including very personal ones, us taking planes, using cars 

>or 
>benefitting in many aspects of our daily lifes from the 
>exploitation of 
>large parts of the world. LDs promise the taming of capitalism  
>but as 
>we can see they are not actually achieving it.
>Matilda will probably expose this contradiction in becoming a 
>place 
>that despite being perfectly democratic, community based and 
>pretty 
>much everythink liberal democracies promise and talk about, will 
>still 
>be crashed at some point by the pure force of the stronger, 
>richer, 
>more powerful....and the LD will lend its monopolised power, e.g. 
>courts, coppers, bayliffs to them and not to us.
>Our sole-tiny chance to keep the building running is that we are 
>exposing this contradiction and are confrontational towards the 
>big 
>players the hardest we can and thereby pretending to take the 
>promise 
>of LD seriously (even if many of us probably  don't). Part and 
>Parcel 
>of this is attitude: we see promises, we read their papers (merely 

>D, D 
>and some more people in the legal group have actually done 
>that!!!) but 
>we do not believe them an inch wide, unless they show us by 
>tolerance 
>and acceptance of what we as a community are doing to and in a 
>common 
>building...this is why we've been taking this building and not 
>asking 
>to get one, this is why we have banners hanging off the building 
>exposing the big players...and this is why our profound critique 
>about 
>the way global, national and local politics are run are integral 
>to 
>matildas identity.  We are ferals and we bite, as our australian 
>comrades would put it!
>MATILDARRRRR
>
>Love and Bite
>
>F.
>
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