[Shadow_Group] from FRAC member

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FNAC,
I would like to say congrats in getting your project
off the ground.  That is sometimes the hardest part. 
I would like to say though that as a federation you
should divide the outgoing and ingoing email lists
into two separate groupings.  The first should or
could be a friends of FNAC email lists that could
include news and views relevant to FNAC and what the
federation feels is important to get out to the
general public.  The second email list could be just
internal communications for FNAC.  Issues that really
only pertain to the federation, such as new membership
and the like.  
These are only some suggestions as I for one really
have high hopes for FNAC and its projects.  Its just
that I also for one don't have the time to read over
some of the stuff that really I think is internal
communications, such as spreading to California or
not.  
On the topic of keeping the federation within a
confined geographic area I am interested in what folks
think though.  I am a collective member of North Star
Anarchist Collective, part of the Federation of
Revolutionary Anarchist Collectives.  Our federation
was (and still is for the most part) just confined to
the Great Lakes region, but as time went on North
Star's joined FRAC and thus opened the door to include
the Midwest (although even this is all sticky as there
was a collective in Chicago, and is Chicago considered
Midwest or Great Lakes?).  There are real problems
with expanding because it becomes more of a burden on
the delegates to travel to the federation conferences.
 It would seem fine once in awhile but after a few
times a year, year after year it adds up for most
working class folks.  And yet to not expand can hurt
the revolutionary project because although mass
numbers are always the most important thing to try and
achieve, I believe that it can easily be understood to
be an important part of our work.  The full
revolutionary transformation of our repressive society
into a egalitarian, classless, and non-hiarchical
future society.  
Please send feedback as I have been very interested as
of lately about the internal workings of federations
and to try and develop new theory to put propel us in
a forward direction.  
Speaking in a personal capacity,
In strong solidarity
JJ,
North Star Anarchist Collective,
FRAC


--- lucas carter <brb4891 at hotmail.com<mailto:brb4891 at hotmail.com>> wrote:

> what happened to BAAC? ya know maybe those of us in
> FNAC should consider 
> extending california into our geography, if
> anarchists in cali want to join? 
> It seems like there is quite a vibrant anarchist
> scene there, and fnac 
> already has the infrastructure built for
> coordinating at that level.
> 
> thoughts?
> 
> lucas
> seattle-fnac
> 
> 

 



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