What an amazing thing to find a space like that where that kind of dialogue can happen and it doesn’t end in complete, like, chaos and beef and everyone falling out. Joel White The club encouraged people to be politicised. We tried to politicise people without browbeating them or being like a 57 Variety’s, a Trotskyist type, browbeating them with papers and sort of political dogma. We encourage people to think for themselves and read and study and get involved in campaigns and be an activist by having a social conscience about society and the people around them. Gary Cavanagh It’s about allowing people to think that something’s possible. So it’s allowing people to think that you can put on a gig. It’s allowing people to think that you can organise a talk. You can have a library. You can set up a collective allotment where you can all grow food together. It doesn’t have to be a single, isolating experience, just doing something on your own. You can do something with other people. You don’t have to know all the skills in the first place. You can learn from people by cooking together in a cafe with somebody. Ellie Clements It was kind of just really empowering, you know, instead of like, expecting someone else to do it, yeah, this is punk. We can do it. We can put on a gig. We can do the PA. We can promote it. We can make the posters. It was really kind of powerful, you know. Bri Doom You walk into the 1 in 12 and you just see the graffiti and the stickers and the posters and the literature on the top floor, and you just get this sense of like, oh, I’m part of something much bigger going on here ... you can make it happen. You can make the gig in your way, bring your mates to watch you. And I felt just kind of like, wow, okay. People really give me the chance here and all this chat about youth empowerment or whatever, no one talked like that at the 1 in 12, but it actually happened. Joel White I never ever felt at any point that, you know, it was like some sort of indoctrination or that or you had to subscribe to every single part of sort of anarchist thought to be going to the club. Andy Bryant
PART ONE: A PLACE OF RESISTANCE
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