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A few years ago we had Nazima Kadir do at talk on her study of the Amsterdam squatting scene. The shocking and depressing moment for me was near the end when she said the younger anarchists ostracised anarchists reaching their forties to the point where they had no choice but to leave the squats. The only thing that saved those older anarchists from ending up on the streets was the Amsterdam municipal authorities finding them somewhere for them to live.
Yet when I was younger I always had a lot of time for older people, and by extension older anarchists. It has always been a thoroughly fruitful experience to spend time with them. Due to the secrecy required to counter journalists, state intrusion and protecting those who committed seriously illegal acts, most of our history is transmitted orally and will never end up in the anarchist media or an academic paper.
Apologies for those who have previously read my mentioning this on Anarchyplanet IRC.