Welcome again to everybody! Make your self at home, Pull a seat up next to Uncle Ho Chi Minh. For the time-honoured tradition of our group, here is the weekly discussion thread.
How do you all combine organising with school and/or work? And is the organisation you're organising with sympathetic to you not always being available due to other responsibilities?
We have a meeting once a month in which we discuss upcoming actions. It's usually in the evenings on a weekday. Depending on the actions we plan we either do them during the weekends or during the evenings throughout the week. Individual planning of things can be done whenever you want.
But that's just our local group. For more party wide thing you usually get a call from someone asking you to come along to things. In Antwerp we often go to factory gates in the harbor at 5 am to talk to workers starting their shifts. I always do feel a bit of judgement whenever I decline to go (because I don't have the time to do that every week) but honestly that's their problem I guess. There are also things I don't like to do for them. I'm not that great at bothering people to become a member at our events. I don't like working with kids either, so I won't do that.
I want to do a lot of things for them but I also want to be able to set my own boundaries and it's up to them to decide whether or not they have a problem with that.