[Radical_childcare] minutes of last meeting

[tumbleweed_freed at riseup.net]

On a personal note I really like the 'London Radical Pro-kid Collective'
as a name, with or without 'London' in front, so RPC or LRPC

reckon this is my favourite. what do others reckon to 'pro-kid' or the name?
x

> (sorry for delay)
>
> minutes of meeting on tues 13th oct (una maggie gem kb emel nihir)
>
> 1. dont leave your friends behind zine: use thire questionnarire on
> mothers in the anarchist movement and adapt for us to use as our own
> 'questionnaire' or survey of childcarers, parents etc for the anarchist
> bookfair sat 24th oct. Emel to sort out most of this, but if others can
> help (eg. free photocopying access, or board and marker pen etc) then
> please contact her before the bookfair. We can use this info to help us
> support others/put in a zine/on our blog. We could put some sheets in the
> creche, but also maybe in the main space (for parents who werent able to
> bring their kids into thecreche also etc, and also for non-parents?
> Although we had a think about all the parents (prob mums) that were stuck
> at home with kids and werent even able to make the bookfair...)
> ACTION: emel, plus others if they can help
>
> 2.Bristol anarchist bookfair had a workshop on anarchist parenting and
> they wanted to start an anarchist parenting network in the uk.
> ACTION: gemma to contact and see what came out of that meeting
>
> 3.We then thought about what radical childcare means to us and wrote down
> some thoughts on what this group is about to us:
>
> - challenging separation between adults and children, parents and carers,
> and non-carers.
> - challenging isolation of parents
> -integration
> -to formulate strategies to enable paretns and carers to organise
> autonomously against the state/institutional/cultural oppression (these
> issues should be for the whole community not just parents)
> -not specifically about 'anarchism' or 'activism' (as they can be
> separatist and disclude alot of people)
> -discussed 'radical' and 'autonomous'
>
> 4.We then played a short name game where we wrote down a few words/phrases
> that we associtate with this group, so hopefully out of these we can
> create the 'ethos' or 'mission statement' of the group, and then
> hopefullly a perfect name will appear as a result...! These were the
> words:
>
> -activism/activist
> -anarchist/anarchism
> -anarchist radical
> -network
> -parents autonomy
> -kids autonomy
> -collective/co-operative
> -revolutionary
> -inclusion
> -activist kids
> -anarchist parents
> -support
> -childfriendly
> -pro-kid
> -radical pro-kid collective
> -support for ourselves and others (individuals and groups)
> -support ourselves
>
> We discussed how (just like the pro-feminist mens groups call themselves
> 'pro-fem', we could term ourselves as a 'pro-kid collective' (eg. not
> essentially made up of kids/a kids collective but we are pro-kid at our
> core).
>
> As far as I remember (and I dont have minutes for this part of the
> meeting) we didnt put the words above into a sentence/name. So I will do a
> quick one now so people get an idea of what I mean:
>
> 'We are a collective of child-friendly people organising for the support,
> inclusion and autonomy of parents and kids. We want to create a
> revolutionary network promoting pro-kid organising and activism, not just
> within anarchist/radical groups but also within our wider communities'
>
> We talked about the name 'London Radical Pro-Kid Collective' (LRPKC), or
> just 'Radical Pro-kid Collective' (RPC or RPKC).
>
> What do others in the group think about the 'ethos/mission statement'
> above? Does anyone else have important words/phrases to add? What do
> others in the group think about the term 'Pro-kid'?
>
> 5. Cant remember anything else from meeting right now, but will email if I
> do, I think this was most of it though.
>
> 6.Oh yeah, next meeting to doodle. please remeber with the doodle that if
> your circumstances change then please update the doodle by adding another
> line eg. 'Gem', then 'Gem update'
>
> 7.Bye for now!
>
> 8.x
> x
>
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