kathryn in berkeley

[miller kathryn <http://www.yahoo.com/~pokeykat23>]

Howdy,
I got a message that the last message I sent was
returned but here you are responding to it.  Maybe it
was only returned from Noelle's box.
Anyway, things are going ok here. the weather is
great. Hey, you know the old place on Russell where
you were living is up for sale. It's been on the
market for a while now perhaps you could put a bid on
it.  Not too subtle of me huh? I just find it hard to
keep in touch with you both as much as I would like.
The conference went well but the aftermath was brutal.
It's amazing how authoritarian anarchists can be. My
study group wanted there to be an event where actual
anarchist could speak and discuss theory, but lots of
people complained that we didn't have anything on 
practice. I don't know why these folks don't just do
their own conference! The Bound Together folks once
again had a lot of non-anarchists speaking at their
event.  Things went quite well too.  We made back the
money we put up for the space we rented, plus a little
bit more, which we're putting away for next year. 
Hopefully the anarcho-cops don't try to derail our
efforts.  It seems that any time you do something
there is someone waiting to try to shoot you down. 
This group of self-appointed race police complained
that we didn't have anything on anti-racism, which was
true, but not for our lack of trying. Two people were
asked but had scheduling conflicts and couldn't make
it. We ended up giving them(the folks who complained)
a spot in the schedule that we at first thought to
leave open.  But they kept on complaining.  They came
to our regular study group meeting and spent an hour
berating us on our poor race relations.  It was
horrible.  It sort of makes one re-think doing any
political work.  Since anarchists are such a small
portion of the political world it sucks that we can't
get along better or at least give each other the
benefit of the doubt. Like, I didn't like who the
bookfair had to speak but instead of ragging on folks
personally I helped organize an alternate event.
OK, I guess I've rattled on enough here (and to all my
housemates too).  
Take care, kathryn