-- JohnGilbert - 08 Nov 2005

Transparency Leads to Trust
( privacy-phobia constricts communication )

The following e-mail is a reply from OCAP's Sam Kuhn in Belleville

Click to read about a brave anarchist Action by Sam Kuhn

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Original Message ----- From: Sam Kuhn To: AnarchistUniversityOn_ca@allstream.net Sent: Monday, July 25, 2005 3:39 PM Subject: RE: Fw: March 21st minutes

John:

Yeah, I coldn't agree more! Although, I wasn't really consciously doing what you said - just desperately getting the info out. I'm really, really happy right now 'cause T.O. backed off fro thier policy with regards to dieticians and special diets. Please come out to our August 6th event, ok?

Thanks for your support and that piece of insight!

Sam

>From: "J.Gilbert(1) Anarchist University Ontario.ca"
><anarchistuniversityon_ca@allstream.net>
>To: "Sam Kuhn- Tenant Action Group" <sam_d_Kuhn@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Fw: March 21st minutes
>Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:27:15 -0400
>
>Sam,
>your recent couple of e-mails are great. Several times in the past I have
>referred to your stuff when I'm ranting against senders of the 'Bcc' - the
>__privacy-phobic__ who omit recipients in their e-mails. Your e-mails with
>the thirty recipients displayed for the world to see can be an incentive and
>an inspiring bird's eye views of TAG's progress and snapshots of TAG's
>history. With the displayed recipients in the header we can all search back
>a year and forward a specific snapshot from our Inbox archive to anybody -
>
>to those who might be more active if they could see from the header and
>realize that there are a large number of people involved (size matters) -
>many others of like mind on the same quest to 'make a better world'.
>
>I believe that the timid 'low attention span' crowd and infiltrators love
>the asocial privacy-phobes who cripple the communication process
>when they use the blind recipient option for their bulk mailings.>
>
> ~ ~ ~ ~
>I am locked into the duty to drive Margo to the cottage (south of Milford
>beside 'Little Bluff' Conservation Area) for all weekends from about April
>to November. This cuts me off from Toronto meetings and demos for half of
>each year. Since I cannot attend recent meetings at AnarchistU, I can
>still assist from afar and took the liberty last week to insert my 2 cents'
>worth into the AnarchistU wiki website especially on the 'Recommended
>Links' page -
>http://www.anarchistu.org/twiki/view/Anarchistu/RecommendedLinks and await
>to see if there are those in the Collective who contrarily might wish to
>alter or delete parts of my two new topic title entries. They may also ask
>me to change some of my ten additional line entries because I'm not sure
>yet that all of the Collective members agree with the anti-civilization
>perspective which has an aggressive Oregon tone. Have a look at one of the
>ten new entries which is a about OCAP and mentions TAG.
>Have you thought of getting your webmaster to create a wiki page for TAG so
>that members can interact? This is a complicated question for me and I hope that
>I haven't gone a tiny bit too far with my new postings on AnarchistU's
>site, because it is likely to be October before I attend the monthly
>AnarchistU meeting and see if I have generated any tensions among the flacid.
>A few want to put real greenanarchy agendas far behind their own wedge issues.
>
>
>"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes
>you so SICK AT HEART, that you can't take part; and you've got to put your
>bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the
>apparatus and you've got to make it stop." ... Mario Savio
>
>"Come to the edge," He said.
>They said, "We are afraid."
>"Come to the edge," He said.
>They came. He pushed them...
>and they flew.
>... Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) French novelist, critic.
>
>...John