What other events are due to occur in July, that we should be careful not to double-book with? Are dates set for the national SDS convention yet? Everyone’s assistance and input about this would be really helpful.

Creating a distinction between good the bad and the ugly of the anarchists, is not productive for us and especially not for those who are much more threatened by this devision who do seek a more conflictual relationship with what restrains us.

I would hope that any gathering we undertake would be about developing relationships with each other, not reducing ourselves to a living press release.

As a newly liberated mind (thanks to Days of war, Nights of love and more recently Expect Resistance) I like a couple of ideas batted around in a previous thread of posts and to second what troubadour-to-door has stated above me.

The first being to have ‘regional’ convergences to make them easier to attend and local issues, would be easier to address as well as making it easier to make friends that one would stay in contact with. Maybe a ‘national’ convergence could alternate years with ‘regional ‘ ones.

I couldn’t say if it would be best to have a convergence this year or not.

Another issue I have been dwelling on is the unpermited parade (obnoxious takeover if you’re a local) in the host city. There may be other ways to include people in the movement of the (r)evolution of the mind then pissing them off. Ask for help with first aid seminars, herb gardening, etc. This way people are asked in and participate willingly , so they are able to see CWC and the likeminded are not wingnuts and trouble makers for the sake of just starting trouble, but that ‘we’ have an agenda to include, not exclude people.

A good group of people to want to include would be the migrant worker (I have tried commuinication on a small level and I am trying to get my wife to translate Fighting For Our Lives into Spanish). I see Mexicans taken advantage of and used as a commodity more than any other group of people around me. A good outreach to the youger laborers would make a solid support base. Politics and philosophy are usually the farthest thing from their minds (I know I talk to them the best I can). But with the right coordination the gansta bullshit a lot of these kids hold onto could be replaced with much more productive thought and actions, like helping others out instead of marking their turf and drug dealing as a way to sticking it to the man by sticking it to each other.

My post is now turning into ramblings.

Love is the best insurgency.

P.S. I am starting a poets workshop called Poetry as Insurgent Art in my area, if anyone around here is interested email me at sw5446@hotmail.com. I also would like to meet those already in action.

Having it in a RNC or DNC “city” could be a good or bad thing. If those people follow up and participate in those demonstrations, it might give them a more familiar network and awareness of the areas and yes give the whole thing more momentum. However, at the same time, it could make them stand out as marks if there is pre-emptive police action and infilitration.

Simultaneously with that, I also feel that perhaps the next convergence shouldn’t revolve around the DNC and RNC fiascos. fr them to be the complete or a cnter focus of 2008 convergence might feel a little of the same and a little less of something new.

I’d myself like at least one focus in a convergence of how one lives as a lifelong committed revolutionary and help people expand their imagination before hierichal society’s bogeymen of “you are getting older, you must lose your soul and conform” starts dragging people down and out.