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to be the most rewarding & successful? Does your group network with other organizations? (click on a name to read more...) The Land Is Ours ... it's a multi-point strategy, we use every method. We use direct action and we're going to accelerate the direct action component of TLIO in the coming months. And information exchange, press releases, we can actually use the courts to a certain extent. Basically every tool we can get we will use. South Downs Earth First! ... it's not really the case of, does EF! work with RTS or with this group? 'Cause in reality it's all a large amorphous group of friends around the country who change hats and change identities depending on what particular's going at that time. Really, the names of the groups are almost irrelevant. SchNews ... Why quote Bakunin when you can quote an actual activist who's been there and done it? They're gonna be more inspired by hearing something from their peers, who come from a similar background. Reclaim the Streets - JB ... I think of Harry Cleaver's metaphor of the water, the idea that a network has knots in it. And that you need knots to hold the strings together. And the networks of social movements like RTS, more anarchist movements that are happening at the moment on a global scale, it doesn't have knots in it because it's all very fluid. And that water is better, because water freezes and then it thaws, and then it moves. I think it is much more like that, than strict networks. Reclaim the Streets - Dee ... it's not as if we're only agreeing to work together from different points of view. It's partly, that we have educated ourselves. There was a period around the time of the Liverpool Dockers issue when a lot of education took place, particularly of people who are coming more from the environmental or ecological side. We had it borne in upon us that it was absolutely crucial that every time you come up with an ecological problem you look at it and what's behind it? Capitalism. And social justice issues are linked to that. I think we do realize much more than we did that the issues are all linked.
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