[Radical_childcare] minutes of last meeting

[butterflea at riseup.net]

Thanks for doing the minutes Gemma. i'll set up another doodle for the
next meeting. i can get us some free photocopying, but would need the
finished text by Thursday night/ Friday morning early. I could also do
on-line collaboration on the questionaire, but am really busy so would not
be able to meet up, can do phone though.
I really like the mission statement, and also think pro-kid is a good way
to describe us.
Also lcap are having a workshop on opposing the welfare reform bill at the
bookfair which is something we've spoken about doing something about. Its
on at 12.
Una
> 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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