[matilda] being clear that no-one speaks for everyone

[Alan Dawson]

Quoting Becky <noborders123 at onetel.com>:

> I've only just seen that the letter to Jan Wilson is on the website and to 
> me it reads as if it is an agreed statement from Matilda - which as far as 
> I'm aware it isn't.

I think it went through at a meeting ( not a monday one, but a post section 6
daily meeting. )  I wasn't at it though so cannot say for sure.

> In particular "We wish to apologize for borrowing the empty building and 
> using it for such unsavoury purposes as free and affordable arts and 
> activist space for the people of Sheffield and the UK" is a sentence that I 
> wouldn't want to be reproduced in media coverage of the eviction.
> Ironic or not I'd rather we didn't have an apology as our 'statement'.


I see its been changed to "I" and the words "personal statement" added above.

I hope this mitigates your sensitivities ;-)

>... It is part of the
> non-hierarchical structure that no one speaks for anyone but themselves'. 

surely though we can mandate spokespeople to represent our views.. Maybe we can
take this up later ;-)  I wish i had made some of the anarchic theory group
meetings now.

> 
> Did everyone get out last night?
> Does anyone want to post to the list the public info on what is happening in
> 
> the next 24 hours?
> 


yes please !

AED
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