Anarchists support our prisoners whether they're held "under dubious pretexts" or not.

very poor support from the leeds scene -maybe its more important to have a clear 'identity' than to show practical solidarity for imprisoned comrades - these fucking poseurs make me sick; by the way no show from so-called 'common placers', not even from their 'events collective' who had a responsibility to be there.

The turnout may not have been great, but I think everyone who WAS there had a really good time. Thanks to the CP for enabling Leeds ABC to put on the event in support of imprisoned comrades in Barcelona, to the DJ's who played, to the people who cooked the nice food, and to P for sitting on the door all night.

sorry to anyone who had the misfortune to read that earlier post.. woke up in an extremely bad and vile mood; didnt mean any of that although the turn out was disappointing .

While anarchists support prisoners held under whatever auspices, mentioning the dodgy circumstances under which the Feb4 prisoners are held might encourage others to support them too. Anarchists are a small group, and they need a lot of support, basically.

Doktor's got a point, though...

Til all are free...

Eileen - regardless of whether you meant to post it or not, at the time you clearly thought it fit to have a go at people at the Common Place who didn't come out for the Friday night benefit for the anarchist prisoners.

Do you know how fucking busy we all are just keeping that place open so events like this can happen? Staffing a whole range of events, having our weekly meetings and doing our other lives at the same time...burn out is looming for a lot of us.

I totally support the cause - but i can't personally be there at each and every event that goes on. People engage in solidarity everyday of their lives - but you can't always see it. Filling out endless bureaucratic forms to get the common place a licence, running the cafe, volunteering to schedule events, locking up the building and opening up, doing orders to make sure we have food, coffee, paper etc

Boring stuff, innit? But that is also solidarity.

You might also try advertising your event in more imaginative ways that Indymedia and the usual anarchist lists - then we might actually know that it is happening.

This growing divide between those who 'produce' the space and those who 'consume' it is ultimately unsustainable. It would be really nice, for example, if the group who come down every sunday for breakfast and spend about 4 hours chatting, drinking coffee and reading could volunteer to do a couple of hours in the cafe. Just a thought

Eileen, common placer, perhaps a good idea if you both shut up.