fit for raves in space

[barcoder]

The three-month long Christmas season is approaching its climax, and everyone is starting to go home. I'm going to be staying in the city for a few more days, trying to do two major papers about traffic intersections (don't ask). That's alright - I suppose it's a distraction from the Christmas bullshit. Though admittedly, its easy to get caught

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[the_watchmaker]

you have a residents association? and meetings? neat.

[barcoder]

the annex residents association seems to be a very powerful organisation, a sort of over-inflated bourgeois public sphere.

[frandroid]

Have you gone to one of their meetings? Now that they allow tenants in I'm thinking of going there to yell at some of these people or something.

(Hi, I'm François from Counter Culture, TVAC and some other stuff, you've seen me once at an OPIRG board meeting where I was pushing the Video Activism working group that I never followed up on because I'm too stupid not to take on 36 tasks in my life when I know I'll eventually drop them.)

[barcoder]

Hey François! I certainly know who you are. It is too bad about the video activist thing, but yeah - those things happen. I'm trying to get into an Activist Video Production class in my programme. Fingers crossed!

I actually noticed your username in the 'friend of' list of fastbodies the other day. I had a class with her last year and someone told me that she had an lj.

As for the "ARA", I've never gone to a meeting - I just read about the meeting in the Annex Gleaner. Have they only just recently started admitting lowly tenants? It would be intersting to go - we could yell "SHAME!" at people who get all NIMBY about social housing.

[frandroid]

"ARA" haha.

I friended fastbodies to have her in my reading list, but I don't think I've formally met her once (although you can't miss her on campus...). She's supervisor to someone I know though. She's been writing about her travels.

"ARA" hahaha, what an unfortunate acronym.

As for tenants, I don't know how recent it is, but I got their newsletter in my building (Shoppers Drugmart tower) and it did mention that it hadn't always been the case. They had written about how they had successfully fought against lots of buildings adding on extra floors, so they seem to not like the idea of dense urban housing. Too bad my only knowledge of urban planning amounts to reading the Toronto Star.