[text copied from a recent email to the AYN list]
OK there are some people out there who want to keep AYN going or at least think its important to have a anarchist youth group. Personally Im a little annoyed with everyone saying how dead the AYN is and what a shit state of affairs it is blah blah blah.
I think its really good to have an anarchist youth goup for many reasons which I won't go into here but I can if anyone really wants to know. Basically all the same reasons the AYN was set up for a couple years ago are still relevant in my opinion.
I realise that it might not be a good idea to go on calling ourselves the AYN as people think AYNs dead and are bitter about this. If we continued as AYN it might be seen as flogging a dead horse so its prolly best to start a new group and make a fresh start.
So yeah... I propose that BAA host a meeting one day possibly in June soon after exams are over. A meeting and discussion lasting from lunchtime into early evening to decide about what we shud do as a group, what we should call ourselves, what lessons can be learnt from AYN, email/postal address etc. then a social later in the evening then people can crash in bristol (possibly at a squat) and everyone goes home next morning hopefully less upset about young anarchism in the UK than before.
Im not suggestin anything overambitious but I honestly think if we can just get a few people with the enthusiasm together then a cool youth group (obviously much smaller than AYN was) can form and fulfil at least some of the functions AYN provided such as providing a gateway into anarchist ideas and actions as well as branching off in new directions.
So please, who would be up for attending? What do people think of the idea?
Please keep feedback positive or at least constructive!!
xx
yeah baa's smallish at the moment but we're having a meeting soon so we can deffaintly get it organised.
if people just stopped mouning and decided whether they wanted to be in a youth group or not it would make it a lot easier.