[Free-sklyarov-uk] Corrupt CD's - Time for another protest/leafleting session?

[Alistair Davidson]

At 11:57 AM 12/6/01 +0000, Jim Peters wrote:
>Edward Welbourne wrote:
> > > I vote for turning the CDR into a registered legal entity of some
> > > form, soliciting donations / memberships, and paying you a wage
> >
> > I must confess I'd tend towards sending the money FIRP's way and
> > remaining anarchic and disorganised.  It's easier to organise
> > protests that way ...
>
>Yes, anarchic and disorganized sounds by far the best.  Unfortunately,
>when the press are asking for comments, they're expecting you to say
>the same thing every time, i.e. to keep a consistent "line".
>Repeating the same thing over and over isn't for me -- and anyway I
>can't do it, it always comes out different each time.

I like anarchic too, but having some form of formal legal structure is 
important if we're to accept donations.

And I really feel that having a someone who deals with the press is 
important, journalists are a conservative bunch. Seeing how large the 
workload is from Julian's experience, it seems only fair to pay the 
official spokesperson a small wage.

>Is an anarchic approach incompatible with this kind of taking a stand,
>and holding a position for the benefit of the press ?

Not with the former, but almost certainly with the latter. We can be as 
anarchic as we like, but we need a solid point of interface with the press 
IMHO.

>So there are two things -- the chaotic approach, which I really
>support, in which each of us would be doing things for the campaign
>only if we felt the inspiration, and the organized approach, which
>involves doing logically appropriate things at logically appropriate
>times to maintain continuity and presence and things like that (which
>to me is like slow death).

I too favour the anarchic position (hail Eris!), but without some sort of 
media coverage we're up the creek. The approach so far is mostly there I 
think, just need tweaking to give it stability of some sort.


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