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<DIV class=RTE>Any cool ideas emerge from the Rutland talk? Regretting that I didn't get to that now, am sure a lot of ideas were explored.</DIV>
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<DIV class=RTE>>So, yeah, France 1968, Genoa, Seattle, Prague, J18...They're all <BR> eruptions of the old mole. And I kind of think of the Sheffield G8 <BR> actions as an appearance of the old mole, too.</DIV>
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<DIV class=RTE>>Lots of people pick up on this image of the mole.</DIV>
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<DIV class=RTE>Yes. And the idea of organizing as a subterranean network of course also arises later in the writings of Giles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, most notably in 'Capitalism and Schizophrenia' where any point of the rhizome can be connected to anything other, and must be.</DIV>
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<DIV class=RTE>"Plants with roots or radicles may be rhizomatic... Even some animals are, in their pack form. Rats are rhizomes. Burrows are too, in all of their functions of shelter, supply, movement, evasion, and breakout." Deluze and Guttari (1980)</DIV>
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<DIV class=RTE>We have a good burrow on our hands. It has grown from bottom up, it has emerged because enough of us saw an event that we perceived as a threat, and we've created a strong network here. Matilda is the visable body of this underground movement, and she has served well already the purposes of shelter and of supply. We can keep it alive by ensuring it's a base for many further direct action movements and as a place where we can really bring our minds together to work out where to push up further shoots, or where to burrow and cause a surprise outburst of activist moles!</DIV>
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<DIV class=RTE>As far as collectives go, I don't know what's been said about this lately, but it seems clear to me that we need to thrash this out on the 18th July meeting. Of course a collective is not a territorialized area, we do not deal in territories, and is rather quite a supple arrangement, and hopefully there will be a lot of co-operation both within and between so-called collectives. I, myself, am looking foward to learning how to set up and operate an indy-media lab if the oppertunity arises, assisting in organizing practical workshops, and helping to cook some food now and then.</DIV>
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<DIV class=RTE>There was talk about merchandise in an earlier e-mail. Gosh, it's starting to sound like the Hard Rock Cafe ! But, seriously, when in Bristol a few weeks back, for the Venn music festival, I was quietly impressed by a lovely little shop on the main student routes into town which sold 'zines, home-made wallets, bags, T-shirts, and had some DIY music being sold down below in the basement. It would be really special, if, when the cafe and bookshop are open, even if it's just one night a week, to be selling some hand-made stuff like that. Where in Sheffield can you get good 'zines? I enjoy making T-shirts anyway, so if I can make a few and sell them to raise funds at Matilda, then that would be great.</DIV>
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<DIV class=RTE>I have been working on some images for Matilda, hope that you can upload them. I have the mole on there so that everyone is pleased. Have tried to keep to the punk / DIY ethos that was so strong and vibrant back when the g8 week. These are only mess-arounds really, they look a lot better in their original Flash-based format. I was thinking that Matilda should have it's own 'zine or newspaper which could be done in a similar graphical style and which would include contributions written by members of our assemblage and offer up to date info on the all the insurrection and direct action (and love?) going on in Sheffield. Yeah, definately the love as well. There is a lot of love out there.</DIV>
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<DIV class=RTE>I'd offer my services to keep that going. Certainly.</DIV>
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<DIV class=RTE>Anyway, I've gone on for far too long. I hope to see you all very soon so we can keep digging and burrowing- Hey, still on the mole theme, imagaine we are part of one of those games you see at seaside arcades, where the moles keep popping up and you have to hit them on the head with a big hammer. Now replace those hapless punters with the faces of those in power who keep trying to flatten us with their gigantic neoconservative sledgehammers. But they just can't because there are too many of us and we keep spreading our networks ever further and ever wider.</DIV>
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<DIV class=RTE>Or don't. And instead for anybody who is interested- I recommend a book by sci-fi author Stephen Baxter, titled 'Coalescent' which is an epic novelization of the tendancy for those who are repressed to organize themselves into hive or burrow like societies (the book is written in two different time lines, the first one is set in Rome where a dying empire saw a sisterhood retreat into the caverns, or catacombs, under the city, who are still there, unknown to the outside world in the modern era) Here is a delicately painted picture of a self-organizing community, but obviously not one that we are wanting to see, it's taking back our world, not hiding from it, that we are all about. Still, good read....</DIV>
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<DIV class=RTE>Ps. I included an image of the action which took place on the Friday where we all wore orange suits and went around town, which I messed with and thought the resultant image was quite scary and could be used for somethin.</DIV>
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