Hello,
I would just like to add that the rental situation for the basement went like this: there were 4 seperate offices with one common shared room connecting all of them. One was rented by the infoshop, one was rented by a welfare support group, another was rented by ME up until June 30th (I used this space as an art studio), and the fourth office was unrented (although the previous renter often made use of the common shared space and was rather hostile to both me and the infoshop collective members, referring to them as "dirty anarchists" to his clients)
I just wanted to point out that i never once made any complaints to the RCNV regarding the infoshop, a project that I was often involved in helping out. I also know that there was often a good deal of dialogue between the infoshop and the welfare support group, which i believe took care of any issues the two had with eachother (which were minimal at most, anyway).
The claim that the infoshop was deterring anyone else from renting the other units is simply not true. I simply would have not rented the art space had it not been for the infoshop. And to the best of my knowledge, the RCNV never once had anyone come down to check out the 4th remaining unit, so to claim that the infoshop was responsable for the lack of new renters is heavily lacking support.
Maybe someone from the infoshop collective wouldnt mind going over and speaking with the welfare support group and asking if they were those who placed complaints with the RCNV. I seriously doubt that even if they had, they were minimal at all, given the good relationship between the two. (The infoshop members were referred to me by the head of the welfare support group as "very polite, nice young people")
I am baffeled at the complaints the RCNV recieved in regards to the infoshop project. I'd ask Bob Fitch or other members of the RCNV to at least disclose the complaints and violations of the lease to the infoshop collective, if not to the public.
That is all.