[Boston-editorial] New Feature: CIPO-RFM

[Matthew Williams]

I think you took my comment the wrong way, Pete. (This goes back to 
e-mail being bad way to communicate, because the tone doesn't come 
across.) I wasn't saying we shouldn't have ties to the local anarchist 
scene and shouldn't be concerned about them. If I thought we were doing 
something to alienate them, I would be worried. May be all the local 
anarchists aren't posting to our site, but a lot of them pretty clearly 
do. They certainly seem to be one of the most vocal groups. I think 
they also have other ways of communicating they rely on (I think I've 
seen something about a local anarchist list-serve). Is that what 
concerns you? May be when we get up bulletin boards, they'll have more 
conversations on our site--I would like to see more of that sort of 
thing. I think the presentation you did at the anarchist summit is 
good--I'm not knocking your work. It's not like I said I though that 
featuring that article was inappropriate. Nor do I think the issue is 
unimportant. I'm actually very interested in supporting movements of 
indigenous people and peasants--they're the cutting edge of the global 
justice movement in many ways. I think it's good that there are folks 
in the US doing support work for them. My point (which I guess I should 
have made more clearly) simply was that there are communities we have 
much weaker ties with and I'd like to focus on building those ties--as 
we talked about last meeting. We should build on the base we already 
have (which includes the anarchist scene) and expand from there--I'm 
not saying we need to abandon them. It would foolish to try to cut our 
ties with our established base. But if we're going to put energy into 
outreach, it seems to me that we should put into it those areas where 
we are weakest. -- Matt

On Mar 19, 2005, at 3:59 PM, Pete Stidman wrote:

> I would not hesitate to say you are mistaken.  You are
> not in touch with the local anarchist scene if you
> think that they are all posting here.  They're not.
> And CIPO-RFM is a predominately latino/hispanic group.
>  Maybe you'd like to tell the thirteen mexican
> activists who are locked up in mexico they are not as
> important as "other communities"
>
> You worry about your worries and your goals for the
> site, I'll worry about mine.  No need to discount the
> hard work I did preparing a presentation and
> presenting it at the anarchist summit and flying our
> flag high there.  So far I can ID three or four posts
> from groups and individuals from that event that
> otherwise might not have thought about it.
>
> Statements like that on our open and transparent
> listserv are not going to help our rep with that
> community either, and some of them do read this, as we
> well know.  Also, I consider that community to be the
> closest thing to my community so your comment
> personally pisses me off.
>
> Positive contributions are much better recieved than
> negative comments.
>
> -Pete
>
>
> --- Matthew Williams <mw21 at mindspring.com> wrote:
>> Of all the activist communities in Boston, it's our
>> connections with
>> the anarchists that I'm least worried about--I think
>> that is probably
>> our strongest tie. I'm more interested in coverage
>> that will let us
>> branch out beyond that. -- Matt
>>
>> On Mar 16, 2005, at 7:01 PM, Pete Stidman wrote:
>>
>>> I almost didn't catch this.  it was in the
>> elsewhere
>>> section.  The Boston friends of CIPO-RFM is a
>> group
>>> that is brand new to Boston and much needed.  As
>> far
>>> as Solidarity goes this is a hot and under
>> reported
>>> issue.  I know it doesn't fit the code precisely
>> but I
>>> hope that centering items like this and the Food
>> not
>>> Bombs anniversary thing will help bring more of
>> the
>>> Boston Anarchist community to our site, improving
>> our
>>> coverage and community ties.
>>>
>>> -pete
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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