The Cowley Club needs your help!
Socialist | 11.12.2004 02:49
The Cowley club, Brighton needs your help! Noticed a sign on the door stating they had difficulties staying open due to lack of volunterrs, even though they had over 2800 members. According to my limited maths, each member only needs to help out once a year to ensure opening all year around.
This begs the question, if the autonomist 'movement' can't even run a bar/coffee shop/meeting space, how will you ever run schools, hospitals or the railways? Should I start stocking up on antibiotics and bandages now, in case the chemist is shut when I need them?
Seriously though, the fact that 2000+ of you can't keep a simple little shop open raises some serious issues. It makes you all look like a bunch of freeloading students that expect the rest of the world to feed you, yet are unwilling to contribute yourselves.
I would help and volunteer myself, because the Cowley Club does provide a valuable service to some of the people of Brighton, but I fear that I will not be ideologically pure enough for you. I know in the past, that other people going there have been made to feel really unwelcome just due to their choice of reading matter.
Bunch of amateurs.
Seriously though, the fact that 2000+ of you can't keep a simple little shop open raises some serious issues. It makes you all look like a bunch of freeloading students that expect the rest of the world to feed you, yet are unwilling to contribute yourselves.
I would help and volunteer myself, because the Cowley Club does provide a valuable service to some of the people of Brighton, but I fear that I will not be ideologically pure enough for you. I know in the past, that other people going there have been made to feel really unwelcome just due to their choice of reading matter.
Bunch of amateurs.
Socialist
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11.12.2004 08:10
Krop
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11.12.2004 14:24
migrant english project, and jumble sale and other fundraisers for various groups that have done more and continue to do more to confront capitalist tyranny and imperialism than 'socialist' has done.
For instance part of the reason the cafe was closed this week was that many of the clubs regular volunteers gave a lot of there time standing in solidarity with squatters who faced
an illegal eviction by scumbags from Drakes the Bailiffs, a national company who have worked with the Met police and carried out several brutal evictions of squatters and free spaces in Brighton over recent times. The Drakes scumbags were, thanks largely to Cowley Club membership solidarity, deterred from their assault and forced to retreat after a humiliating 3 hour stand off. Where was 'socialist' that day-even to fill in at the cafe that lost several hundred pounds due to not opening - probably too busy selling boring newspapers to shoppers on London Road and moaning about the anarchists to anyone who might listen.
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