[sfbarentersfed] Announcing the "Friends of SFHAC" Membership

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Marcy,

  Just to be clear, SFHAC is not SFBARF. As far as I know, the groups have no formal connection. Reading between the lines, this is my educated guess as to what's happening:

  Seeing the rapid progress and activist energy of SFBARF, the more venerable and establishment-oriented SFHAC decided it better do some outreach of its own as far as involving ordinary residents, or risk being eclipsed by the newer group. Thus one of its staffers coming to the SFBARF list and posting about the initiative in hopes of recruiting some of those attracted to SFBARF to its own organization. The aim of my message was to use this window to get some dialogue going about SFHAC's own agenda, as well as to subtly point out that SFHAC is (probably) not as truly grassroots and member-empowering as SFBARF.

Love & Liberty,
                                 ((( starchild )))

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When Marshall McLuhan said "the medium is the message," I think he was onto something.

  While not every grassroots, activist group is pro-freedom, and not every top-down group where power is wielded exclusively by a small number of insiders is statist, I do think there is a correlation that goes beyond coincidence.

  Good to hear you're going to the hearing on the 21st. I agree that warm bodies showing up is important -- like groups of empowered activists, this is also a manifestation of the kind of decentralized people power which I believe is more likely than power-hoarding structures to be conducive to a freedom agenda. I'll try to make it myself.

  Also the SFBARF happy hour discussion tomorrow from 4-7pm at Pan Asian Cuisine, 191 Pine Street.

Love & Liberty,
                               ((( starchild )))