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Non-violence group ousts anarchists
San Jose Mercury News ^ | 7-7-04 | By David L. Beck

Posted on 07/08/2004 10:22:01 AM PDT by EggsAckley

The Santa Cruz anarchists who rent basement space from the Resource Center for Nonviolence have been told to leave. The reason? A clash of philosophies, said Kyle Sirman, at the Anarchist Infoshop.

Incompatibility, said Bob Fitch, a Resource Center official. The anarchists have ``been unable to create a continuity of safe and welcoming atmosphere,'' said Fitch, who manages the property. But Sirman said Fitch told the group there was too much traffic and not enough personal hygiene.

Some of the complaints, Sirman quoted Fitch as saying, ``had to do with us smelling.'' The Resource Center sells books and bumper stickers, offers draft counseling and speakers, and sponsors such events as Friday evening peace vigils and house parties to raise money for rebuilding Palestinian homes. One of its founders is Scott Kennedy, mayor of Santa Cruz.

The anarchists, meanwhile, lend and sell books and anarchist magazines, pamphlets and fliers about upcoming events such as ``Feral Visions Against Civilization.'' Their tiny ``infoshop'' includes several rows of jars that Sirman called an herb library. ``It's not an eviction,'' said Fitch, who was annoyed that the Anarchist Infoshop had issued a news release about it.

``To make it into a big campaign is really inappropriate,'' he said. The anarchists see it differently, according to their news release: ``We feel that some form of public space like our infoshop is essential to developing a revolutionary community in Santa Cruz.''

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This is so funny I was tempted to list it as humor.
1 posted on 07/08/2004 10:22:03 AM PDT by EggsAckley
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To: The Other Harry; Carry_Okie; hedgetrimmer; martin_fierro

More of the same from the People's Republic of Granola.


2 posted on 07/08/2004 10:23:33 AM PDT by EggsAckley ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." Evita Rodham Clinton)
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To: My2Cents; NormsRevenge

*ping*


3 posted on 07/08/2004 10:26:20 AM PDT by EggsAckley ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." Evita Rodham Clinton)
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To: EggsAckley

He he he....anarchists guilty of poor planning?

LMAO!


4 posted on 07/08/2004 10:26:51 AM PDT by Badeye ("The day you stop learning, is the day you begin dying")
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To: EggsAckley; Scott from the Left Coast; sasquatch; hedgetrimmer; LisaAnne; Sir Francis Dashwood; ...

Allow me to append your list for Santa Cruz bizarro.


5 posted on 07/08/2004 10:27:28 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: Carry_Okie

Thank you. I don't know why I don't have a ping list for this stuff. I just have to rely on my memory, and THAT'S not so good anymore! LOL!


6 posted on 07/08/2004 10:30:07 AM PDT by EggsAckley ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." Evita Rodham Clinton)
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To: EggsAckley

I met an anarchist at the 2nd Amendment march during the MMM debacle. He smelled to high heaven and probably hadn't seen soap in a while. Come to find out they don't bathe in order to be offensive to others.

You'd think with the money their daddy's have that they could afford some body wash.


7 posted on 07/08/2004 10:31:33 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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To: EggsAckley

"plugz muh nose" Bump ... lol


8 posted on 07/08/2004 10:32:44 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi Mac ... Godspeed x40 ... Support Our Troops!!! ......Become a FR Monthly Donor ...)
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Funny, when I went to post this, it told me to do an "auto-excerpt", which I did. But it didn't really excerpt anything; it just posted the whole article. ???


9 posted on 07/08/2004 10:34:03 AM PDT by EggsAckley ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." Evita Rodham Clinton)
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To: EggsAckley
One of the most interesting weaknesses of almost all leftist groups is their intollerance of concepts and ideas from the side of truth and light but also from leftists of others stripes. The old-commies would splinter off into factions based on insignificant deatails and hammer away at one another. It appears the neocommunusts do, as well.

To the non-violence people and the anarchists, all brothers under the ANSWER banner, I say, "Why can't we all just get along?"

10 posted on 07/08/2004 10:36:50 AM PDT by Tacis (,)
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---``We feel that some form of public space like our infoshop is essential to developing a revolutionary community in Santa Cruz.''---

"Anarchists", "Revolutionary community": try leaches!


11 posted on 07/08/2004 10:38:20 AM PDT by claudiustg (Go Sharon! Go Bush!)
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Some of the complaints, Sirman quoted Fitch as saying, ``had to do with us smelling.''

Send them up to the Institute of Phenomonology.

I'll strap them down in my Lab and remove their olfactory organs.

Olfactory organ (Anat.), an organ for smelling. In vertebrates the olfactory organs are more or less complicated sacs, situated in the front part of the head and lined with epithelium innervated by the olfactory (or first cranial) nerves, and sensitive to odoriferous particles conveyed to it in the air or in water.

A dollar two ninety-eight per organ.

12 posted on 07/08/2004 10:38:40 AM PDT by Dr. Zoo (Two for Five Dollars)
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To: EggsAckley

I don't know why it is but anarchists always seem to lack organizational skills.


13 posted on 07/08/2004 10:41:41 AM PDT by avg_freeper (Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
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To: Dr. Zoo

Heheheh. How about a mark-down for quantity? We have sooooo many here.


14 posted on 07/08/2004 10:41:53 AM PDT by EggsAckley ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." Evita Rodham Clinton)
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To: EggsAckley
When I was living in Santa Cruz I had a girl friend who was born with no olfactory nerves.

She cooked the best apple pies. It amazed me that someone that could not smell anything could cook so well.

I saved money on deodorant...JK LOL.


15 posted on 07/08/2004 10:57:45 AM PDT by Dr. Zoo
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To: Dr. Zoo

LOL @ New World Odour!!!


16 posted on 07/08/2004 10:59:17 AM PDT by EggsAckley ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." Evita Rodham Clinton)
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To: EggsAckley

I guess the stomp out violence mentality didn't catch on.


17 posted on 07/08/2004 11:02:37 AM PDT by Destructor
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To: AppyPappy

If the nonviolence people wanted to be more inclusive they could have dealt with the situation thusly--

People who work with cadavers use the trick of dabbing the area with a little oil of wintergreen. It doesn't get rid of the odor, but it tricks your nose into thinking it doesn't smell so bad. Works for a couple of hours, I think, long enough for them to have their meeting and get out.


18 posted on 07/08/2004 11:18:48 AM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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This is so funny I was tempted to list it as humor.

Nothing funny about "organized" anarchists in CA. I've dealt professionally with their Santa Cruz brethren - they belong in an asylum.

19 posted on 07/08/2004 11:19:52 AM PDT by XHogPilot
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Yes, they ARE quite scary, but try to imagine an "anarchist" running an organization. Kind of an oxymoron.


20 posted on 07/08/2004 11:27:02 AM PDT by EggsAckley ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." Evita Rodham Clinton)
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