<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Rachel McConnell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rachel@xtreme.com" target="_blank">rachel@xtreme.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">As one of the founding members, I can say that I am not an anarchist and anarchy was never one of the goals of Noisebridge. The goal was only ever to be an awesome hackerspace. You can describe it as anarchistic if you feel it fits (anyone can describe it however they like) but do not think that means everyone, or the organization in general, will agree with the label. And NEVER believe Noisebridge will conform to your idea of what an anarchist organization should be or do just because you label it so.<br>
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-Rachel1.0</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Rachel said it best. :)<br><br>We attract a lot of anarchists or anarchist-interested, and also some libertarians and libertarian-interested, because they like the non-hierarchical structure and that we don't have big lists of rules, but mainly we attract a lot of hackers and technology folks of all political leanings, and everything people are blend in to make Noisebridge what it is. People like to throw around the word "anarchism" in Noisebridge either because they are self-described anarchists or they are saying it kind of jokingly because of how non-organized we are & that is what they think anarchy is [chaos], whether that's correct or not.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I am surprised you thought it was an anarchist organization, as in that is Noisebridge's goal! But maybe not too surprised.<br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr">
-Snailssnailssnailssnailssnailssnailssnails<br>............. _@y<br><a href="http://obamaischeckingyouremail.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">http://obamaischeckingyouremail.tumblr.com/</a><br></div>
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