CWGer:

I am personally quite interested in the issues you raised. My question to you is, have you:

(a) contacted the organizers and asked them to put these issues on the agenda?
(b) attended the meeting and raised those issues?

If you have not done either, you might like to try contacting anarchist groups in your local town and raising these issues with them. You can't expect plans to magically materialise. From my own memory at least some of these have been brought up during informal discussion.

In case you are unfamiliar with how anarchists organize, I shall explain. Anarchists hold that no-one should make decisions on behalf of others. The idea of a small group making a decision on behalf of a large group is completely alien to anarchists. The gathering at Marama-iti consisted of a minority of Aotearoa anarchists. Do you see where I am going with this? If you want action, find a local group, talk to them and ask them about what action they are taking.

KT:

Watch out, you'll get me started ranting.

It's difficult for squares to take their political theory from filthy punk kids. It's hard to win people over when so many anarchists become so moralistic and puritanical their interaction with "moderate" activists is reduced to confrontational tactics so typical of the sectarian radical left. Telling people that they/their lifestyle/their politics are a pile of shit isn't a good way to win friends. It's hard to take the anti-racist/anti-sexist/class war rheotoric seriously when so many discussions are dominated by mostly male, mostly white, mostly young, mostly middle-class people.

You can talk all the crap about equality you want, but if your female comrades feel like discussions are male-dominated, you are male and you won't shut up, you're part of the problem, buddy. (By the way, this isn't a personal dig at anyone, but come on!) Be conscious about how you relate to other people, there's nothing uglier than hypocrisy in a revolutionary. If personal is political, pay attention to how your lifestyle affects your politics. I think if there is a big crossover between punk culture and anarchist culture, the decline of punk culture since the 1980s might just have something to do with the decline of anarchist culture, huh? Come on, kids, take anarchism out of its little ghetto and do a little outreach outside your comfort zone for once!