So yeah, it’d be quite a lively debate, quite a lively meeting Sunday. And it was absolutely essential. Gordon Mackintosh And then suddenly this completely different scene arrives that has the same sort of political spirit behind it. And so a collective forms that wants to use every floor of the club all night, and it’s like it was really threatening for a lot of people. And it was really challenging. Matt Hannan We had to battle a bit with the club, I’ll be honest. You know, they weren’t, they weren’t right, keen on this idea of these damn ravers coming into their club. And I did battle. I went into meetings and I argued and I battled, and I kind of went, “No, why not this?” But as I said at the time, I’d been a 1 in 12 member all my life, you know, since it started and I was a member putting forward an idea and that needed to be respected, and the amount of people we exposed to our politics through that shows that it needed to be done and it were great. Emma Marshall But yeah, those small groups working together, having the voice being listened to, but also having to listen to others. That leads to healthy debate. And I think that also keeps people very much grounded in their own values as well. So that debate was very important, and that it came from different sides. Gordon Mackintosh Somewhere like the 1 in 12 should be like, I envisaged it to be, where it’s all inclusive, brings in things, but has the critical debates. You know, engages with people in uncomfortable debates … So it becomes a bit more kind of therapy, kind of using psychiatry, or what’s going on? Why are these people thinking like this? So there’s a whole wealth of debates to be had, and continuing them debates, and developing them debates, and as I’ve learned more, I actually know that I’ve become more confused. Fine. I accept the confusion. Aki Nawaz
PART ONE: A PLACE OF RESISTANCE
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