Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:27:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Steve <intexile-AT-bari.iww.org>
Subject: Re: [anarchism] Tree Spiking


On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Chuck0 wrote:

> Steve wrote:
> >
> > To criticize is easy; to organize takes effort.  'nuff said.
>
> I agree. I spent most of my day supporting a friend who is on Day 29 of her
> hunger strike. We've been sending out press releases and trying to get her some
> media attention. I've had to pick up some of the organizing slack because our
> local incompetent leftists jumped ship. I've seen no sign of the nonviolence
> crowd.
>
> I also did a bunch of web work today relating to several activist web projects.
> I did some organizing for the Fall IMF/World Bank protests. I mailed out copies
> of one of my magazines and tried to work on another.
>
> It's 2 am here. What did you do yesterday?

You mean Monday, right?  I worked for eight-hours, responded to e-mail
over a slow connection, went to a Curbside-Recyclers contract negotiating
meeting, shouted at the bosses for two hours, helped the recyclers prepare
for a direct action (which ultimately turned out to be unnecessary,
because the bosses gave in without even knowing about the action), helped
FW Steve Toff fax press releases about the Buyback Contract, which the
Buyback recyclers approved unanimously, helped FW Gene Parshall organize
our inventory of T-shirts (we sell an average of 3 per week now),
discussed and facilitated Bay Area branch restructuring, made phone calls,
answered mail, collected dues for the branch, updated websites, and backed
up our internet servers.

That's about a typical day for me.

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