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<p>/* '''ausmisterfrank - about me:''' */ </p> <table border='0' width='98%' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='4' style="background-color: white;"> <tr> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">Revision as of 09:40, June 19, 2013</td> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">Current revision</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 11:</strong></td> <td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 11:</strong></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchist_communism Anarcho-communist.]</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchist_communism Anarcho-communist.]</td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;">Born in the fifties and educated in the clearly not United Kingdom and Ulster - we heard news even as kids and I loved short wave on a beautiful old wooden-cased valve radio in our bedroom. (Learned what propaganda sounded like pretty quickly and listened to Radio Tirana as satire.) Precocious readers both, me and my little brother in school uniforms from about 4 years of age living with mum and dad in a semi-detached front and back garden house with a sports field behind it. Dad had an allotment too. School- Boys Grammar, quite good- when I wanted to be. A teenager with a Che poster on my bedroom wall - painted it my self in art class. A year in-between, with me working and being on the dole before uni. - BA. Literature, Essex - a very small 2200 student early-60s campus grouping of six fifteen storey tower-blocks for us and a central block with piazzas for them. Met lots of nice people in the park! and lived and took part in post-68 rearguard actions of rebellion and resistance. Student life and student politics a decade after Paris, wishing we'd been there. Hearing almost daily the shooting exercises of the second biggest garrison of british soldiers in England just across the river from our student accommodation in the towers. Knowing that the troops would be shooting for real in Northern Ireland. <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"> </span></td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">Born in the fifties and educated in the clearly not United Kingdom and Ulster - we heard news even as kids and I loved short wave on a beautiful old wooden-cased valve radio in our bedroom. (Learned what propaganda sounded like pretty quickly and listened to Radio Tirana as satire.) Precocious readers both, me and my little brother in school uniforms from about 4 years of age living with mum and dad in a semi-detached front and back garden house with a sports field behind it. Dad had an allotment too. School- Boys Grammar, quite good- when I wanted to be. A teenager with a Che poster on my bedroom wall - painted it my self in art class. A year in-between, with me working and being on the dole before uni. - BA. Literature, Essex - a very small 2200 student early-60s campus grouping of six fifteen storey tower-blocks for us and a central block with piazzas for them. Met lots of nice people in the park! and lived and took part in post-68 rearguard actions of rebellion and resistance. Student life and student politics a decade after Paris, wishing we'd been there. Hearing almost daily the shooting exercises of the second biggest garrison of british soldiers in England just across the river from our student accommodation in the towers. Knowing that the troops would be shooting for real in Northern Ireland. <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">For part of one year I lived off campus and had my first experience of living in a commune. see: [[Rodwell House 1977-1978]]. </span></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">I have been influenced by the Beatles, Pink Floyd “'''Soft Machine'''” and “'''Gong'''”, the counter-culture of the early- and mid-1970s,and also by the writings of [[Peter Kropotkin]] and of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Ward Colin Ward] (Anarchy in Action), [[Gerrard Winstanley]] and the [[Diggers]], the anarchist collectives in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Revolution Spanish revolution], New Musical Express, [[Undercurrents]] magazine, and by the late Stephen Housego, B.A., M.A..</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">I have been influenced by the Beatles, Pink Floyd “'''Soft Machine'''” and “'''Gong'''”, the counter-culture of the early- and mid-1970s,and also by the writings of [[Peter Kropotkin]] and of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Ward Colin Ward] (Anarchy in Action), [[Gerrard Winstanley]] and the [[Diggers]], the anarchist collectives in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Revolution Spanish revolution], New Musical Express, [[Undercurrents]] magazine, and by the late Stephen Housego, B.A., M.A..</td></tr> </table>

Ausmisterfrank http://wiki.ic.org/wiki/Community_networks 2013-06-19T03:30:36Z

<p>/* Italy */ new link </p> <table border='0' width='98%' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='4' style="background-color: white;"> <tr> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">Revision as of 03:30, June 19, 2013</td> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">Current revision</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 62:</strong></td> <td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 62:</strong></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">===Italy===</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">===Italy===</td></tr> <tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;">*[http://www.<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">mappaecovillaggi</span>.it/<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">level198.htm </span>RIVE - Italian Ecovillage Network]</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">*[http://www.<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">ecovillaggi</span>.it/ RIVE - Italian Ecovillage Network]</td></tr> <tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;">&#160;</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">==Regional/Local Community Networks==</td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;">==Regional/Local Community Networks==</td></tr> </table>

Ausmisterfrank http://wiki.ic.org/wiki/Rodwell_House_1977_-1978 2013-06-14T14:57:45Z

<p>first part of personal tale</p> <table border='0' width='98%' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='4' style="background-color: white;"> <tr> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">Revision as of 14:57, June 14, 2013</td> <td colspan='2' width='50%' align='center' style="background-color: white;">Current revision</td> </tr> <tr><td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 11:</strong></td> <td colspan="2" align="left"><strong>Line 11:</strong></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">I don't know whether we ever seriously said to people that we were a [[commune]], but certainly I felt at the time that we were at least a 1970s counter-cultural student version of one. It was my first experience of living in [[intentional communities]], and it was very different from the decade old student housing that I had experienced previously in my year on campus. For a start, we lived a good twenty five miles from the campus, well away from big towns on a B-Road in the next county. And it was a smaller mixed group of friends and acquaintances which had chosen to live together in this lovely historic red brick house in the suffolk countryside rather than the large group of over a dozen guys which had had a whole storey of one of the six modern tower blocks at the university park but which had been random in its make up of occupants.</td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; font-size: smaller;">'''<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">An </span>AGA saga.'''</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">We were six young men and two young women, nearly all of us undergraduates. Four of the guys were computer studies students, which dictated some of the character of the house, at least to what stuff was left lying around. (I have never lived with so many bits of computer hardware - and the hardware of the late nineteen seventies was fairly big.) Otherwise three others were humanities students, one of them a graduate doing a post-grad course, and there was a friend who wasn't a student. Most of us had made friends during the previous year living on campus where, even if the student flats were large and thrown together by chance, there had also been a sense of community. In that year, we had formed a campus student clique that called itself &quot;the anarcho-frivolists&quot;, inspired partly by the Gong band and their ideas of floating anarchy, partly by the Merry Pranksters.</span></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">&#160;</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">The house belonged to the family of one of the computer students, and the elder members of his family had had connections to many members of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomsbury_Group Bloomsbury Group]. It was wonderful to live in a house where many of them had been and there was some sort of guest book in the house where many Bloomsbury people had written things. Around the fireplace there was a beautiful mosaic done, I believe, by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Anrep Boris Anrep]. </span></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">In addition, there were a number of other smaller works by members of the Bloomsbury group, and a wonderful, old clockwork gramophone. It was definitely a good place to start my experience of living in groups. It was a real gift to have the chance to live in this amazing place and pick up the vibrations and see some of the things left by previous occupants.</span></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">&#160;</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Most of us moved in at the start of the autumn semester 1977 and I lived in a attic with sloping sides directly under the roof. It was more or less undecorated and unfurnished. It was cold, and there was a gap under the window where the wind blew in. I blocked it up and plastered it over, but the result was neither very professional, nor particularly beautiful. It bulged like a grey beer-gut. The wind no longer blew through it, but the room was still very cold. Indeed, it was only possible to sleep there in winter if you had your clothes on inside a sleeping bag inside the bed clothes. I think that the only heating in the house was the open fire in the sitting room and an AGA cooker in the kitchen. I decorated the plain white plaster in my room with moon, stars and flying saucers executed in lamp black using a lighted candle as my paint brush. When my friend's mother discovered my attic artistic experiment in a house full of &quot;real art&quot; she was not amused. My friend's father was rather more relaxed, although maybe he just did not show his irritation. On the other hand, I believe that he had grown up with some contact to the left-liberal, lively and sometimes scandalous folk of the later Bloomsburies. </span></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">&#160;</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Although I liked our &quot;landlady&quot;, she was, like Queen Victoria, &quot;not amused&quot; a number of times while we lived there. I don't think she entirely trusted us not to completely muck up the house or break things. And it is true that we were not always very caring towards this wonderful house. One night we nearly burnt it down when embers from the fire set the antique hearth rug alight - ruining what I imagine was a valuable heirloom. And we were not very good at cleaning, which meant that one weekend, when most of the others were away and my friend's parents came to visit, I spent quite a long time on my hands and knees with his father scrubbing the brick tiled kitchen floor which we had managed to turn black with the mud of the autumn and winter. However, it must really have been clear to her that a bunch of people in their late teens and early twenties were not going to be particularly house trained.</span></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">&#160;</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;">&#160;</td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2">&nbsp;</td><td>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; font-size: smaller;"><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">(</span>'''<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Not really an </span>AGA saga.'''<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">)</span></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td><td> </td><td style="background: #eee; font-size: smaller;"></td></tr> </table>

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