Due to forecasted heavy rain. This action has been cancelled.
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The Boss at Ez-supply has been escalating fears of
immigrations and deportation. The anti-union campaign
Join NYMAA members as we attend and participate critically but respectfully at the ISO's North East Conference, where "panels" on anarchism are planned.
*The Odd Bones (Sometimes moody, sometimes pop, sometimes post-punk, always backed with a DIY ethic. A three piece feminist/queer rock n' roll band from Baltimore)
Join NYMAA members as we attend and participate critically but respectfully at the ISO's North East Conference, where "panels" on anarchism are planned.
A few of us would like to postpone the Queer WG group meeting that was originally planned for Wednesday. Brad, events commemorating his life and death, and the increased repression against the people of Oaxaca are just too much on peoples' minds right now.
A call from the Zapatistas, Oct 30th 2006: "...the EZLN calls out to the Other Campaign in Mexico and north of the Rio Grande, so that these November 1st mobilizations happen wherever possible, completely, partially, at intervals or symbolically... "
A call from the Zapatistas, Oct 30th 2006: "...the EZLN calls out to the Other Campaign in Mexico and north of the Rio Grande, so that these November 1st mobilizations happen wherever possible, completely, partially, at intervals or symbolically... "
A call from the Zapatistas, Oct 30th 2006: "...the EZLN calls out to the Other Campaign in Mexico and north of the Rio Grande, so that these November 1st mobilizations happen wherever possible, completely, partially, at intervals or symbolically... "
A call from the Zapatistas, Oct 30th 2006: "...the EZLN calls out to the Other Campaign in Mexico and north of the Rio Grande, so that these November 1st mobilizations happen wherever possible, completely, partially, at intervals or symbolically... "
TREA (Teens for Racial and Ethnic Awakening) and YELL! (The Young,
Eclectic Liberation Leaders) are high school student activist groups in
Queens. We met Brad last year at our school and, in tribute to him and
those who were killed last week, we are hosting a discussion/workshop on
Brad Will's work and the struggles of the people of Oaxaca.
There will be a memorial for Brad, as well as other events (we hope) such as concerts and a community dialogue, on the weekend of November 11th and 12th. The memorial itself will be on the 11th, at St. Mark's Church, between 1:00pm and 5:00pm.
What: This would be an outdoor celebration of Brad's life, and include a picnic, music, barbeque, and planting in the garden.
Other ideas include building an interesting structure to keep those protecting the garden throughout the winter warm and dry.
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Place, Culture, Politics and the Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work
Since the Zapatista uprising began on January 1, 1994, (the first day that NAFTA went into effect) the Mexican military and paramilitaries have waged a counter insurgency war against Zapatista and sympathizer communities. Eleven years after the uprising, human rights abuses are rampant.
But Mexico’s indigenous communities are developing new forms of resistance. Women are playing leading roles on all fronts in the struggle to build alternatives. Fair Trade Cooperatives allow women to play a central role in the control and development of local economies.
6:00 – 7:30 pm: WORKSHOP 7:30 pm: VIDEO SCREENING
Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15 No One Turned Away
Brecht Forum: 451 West Street, New York, NY 10014 - (212) 242-4201 an anarchist therapy
a documentary by Nick Cooper
watch the trailer
With difficulty walking, and half-blinded from torture by the Brazilian military dictatorship, 79 year-old Roberto Freire continues to develop somatherapy, completing his life's work. Incorporating the ideas of Wilhelm Reich, the politics of anarchism, and the culture of capoeira angola, Soma is used by therapists organized in anarchist collectives to fight the psychological effects of authoritarianism.
Nick Cooper travelled to Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Bahia, and São Paulo to find the exercises, principles, voices, and movement of
somatherapy.
More reading: Slingshot Article ! Soma book PDF
Nazis Vs. Zapatistas: The Struggle Against Cooptation Nick Cooper
taoism ------ diogenes the cynic ---- zapatista women ------ anti-fascism
Lao-Tsu, the author of the Tao Te Ching and Subcomandante Marcos, of the Zapatistas both talk about the power of water -- seemingly weaker, but ultimately stronger than the more familiar power of swords. To struggle against oppression in ways that don't create other oppressions, we will explore the anti-fascist non-hierarchical currents in history, philosophy, psychology, criticism, and organizing tactics.
Working with Indymedia, Food Not Bombs and other non-hierarchical groups, Nick Cooper became interested in horizontal structures for change, traveling to Brazil in 2003 and 2005 to study Soma Therapy, and to Chiapas, Mexico in 2004 to study Zapatismo. Also, wanting to study fascist and pre-fascist organizing directly, Nick has been attending conferences, meetings, presentations and fund-raisers of the far right, including: The Ku Klux Klan, Focus on the Family / Lovewonout, Republican Party of Texas, Lyndon LaRouche, The Minutemen, and Tom DeLay. The workshop examines philosophies, structures and psychology, comparing authoritarian models to those that are consensual, communitarian or autonomous. Informed by Zapatista principles, Wilhelm Reich's Mass Psychology of Fascism, and Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism, the workshop develops a skill set for identifying, challenging and defeating the authoritarian tool of cooptation.
The workshop provides an alternative to the history we have learned since childhood, of
conquerors, governments and great thinkers like Plato with "Philosopher King" pathologies. We will discuss the story of those who withdrew from hierarchies, those who questioned assumptions and those who struggled and died in resistance of the abuses of power. But even more importantly, we will discuss a history not solely populated by individual heroes, but also by ideas, psychologies and groups.
70 years ago, authoritarianism's traditions and psychologies culminated in a pure form in
Nazi Germany. Now, in the most powerful country in the world, it becomes essential to ask
what has been learned about the nature of power, and how to avoid its pitfalls in forming
an opposition to it.
Nick has conducted this workshop in Venezuela at the World Social Forum, in Washington DC at the National Conference of Organized Resistance, at Houston High Schools (Bellaire, Lamar, KIPP), in São Paulo Brazil with the Ativismo ABC Collective (read an interview), in Bryan TX at the Revolution, in Houston with The Politically Active Students Organization, and the Art Car Klub, in Fayetteville at the Five Squirrels, in New Orleans at the Iron Rail bookstore, and in NYC with the Icarus Project
download a flyer: color, b&w
email: nick--at--nickcooper.com (replace the --at-- with an @)
Don't Forget that you can help the LBC tonight by coming to their Anarchist Forum on the SDS at the Brecht Forum, 451 West Street, Manhattan (between Bank and Bethune streets). Along with several NYMAA members, Brian Flanagan will be
speaking. Here's the announcement:
(THINGS ARE REALLY SHAKING UP! A STRONG TURNOUT COULD MAKE A DIFFERENCE. THERE ARE RUMORS OF CAPUTO THINKING OF RESIGNING!- John C)
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The LBC is asking for help from those comrades who feel that the
Anarchist Forum is a program that is worth continuing. The tasks we need help with include selection of topics and speakers, contacting speakers and publicizing the forums. So this coming Monday Nov. 20 at 7:00pm in Room 202 of the Muste Building (339 Lafayette St.}there will be an LBC meeting to deal with problems and also to plan the next three after Peter’s Chaos Day on 12/12. Please come to get involved in the @ Forum project. If you can’t make it Monday but still would like to get involved,e-mail Bob at roberterler@erols.com .
