09/02/2015
IMPORTANT! PLEASE READ!
Due to a couple of incidents of people online feeling like they need to comment on the legitimacy of the AFN/UAFV I feel like it is my responsibility (as the admin) to clear a few things up.
Firstly, let's start with clearing up what the AFN/UAFV is right now.
The AFN/UAFV is a loose mix of people from various different groups who share the same goals and the same ideals. I, as the admin of both the page and the website, represent this group of people online and post on their behalf. Not everyone has the time to be admin, and because I volunteered I got the gig.
There is no clubhouse and there are no regular centralized meetings (as I said, loose and informal). We come from all over and identify with various anarchist philosophies (not AnCap, however). We attend rallies and demonstrations as well as other forms of political action, sometimes as representatives of the AFN/UAFV and sometimes as ourselves.
We call ourselves the AFN because that's what we started as, Australian Freedom Network. We call ourselves the UAFV because that's what we hope to establish, a United Anarchist Federation in Victoria. Slowly we've been building ties with different groups around the country (not just Vic), such as United Anarchist Federation, Insurrection News and such. Now we don't claim (and neither do they) to represent anyone who doesn't wish to be represented by us or stand with us. We've never made any claims about representing anyone who doesn't wish to be represented by us or stand with us.
We are small, but we're only new and we hope to grow.
Attacking another group because you consider them illegitimate is very counter productive to our collective cause, especially when you've never bothered to make any contact with that group.
That said, we extend our welcome to any and all who wish to stand with us, as our struggle is the common struggle and we all fight the same fight.
~J