Come join us as we learn together the fundamentals of the Ya Basta ethos
and tradition. We also encourage all interested parties to attend the
general civil disobedience trainings organized by the March 19th Peace
Action Coalition, taking place throughout the day.
Saturday, March 17th, 2007
4pm to 6pm
Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square South
Manhattan
http://www.judson.org/
This is a collaborative training and workshop on the "tute bianche", or
"Ya Basta" style civil disobedience technique, brought to you by the
anti-war working group of the NY Metro Alliance of Anarchists, in
coordination with the March 19th Peace Action Coalition, although this
workshop is open to all regardless of political affiliation or persuasion.
PART ONE: Background and Legacy.
PART TWO: Individual Safety.
PART THREE: Group Method.
PART FOUR: Wrap up.
What is Ya Basta?
Ya Basta is shorthand for a particular form of civil disobedience derived
from the Italian "tute bianche", or white overalls movement. For more
information please see http://nycyabasta.mayfirst.org/.
To contact NYMAA anti-war working group, please see:
http://nymaa.org/anti-war
WE ARE people with ordinary hearts who cannot bear the grief of war. We
have watched this nightmare casually kill and maim in Iraq and
Afghanistan, seen it take thousands of lives in New Orleans, heard it
shoot fifty times in Queens. We have wept with the dead, we have pleaded
for the living, and we cry out now in a voice both ours and not our own:
Enough, Enough, Ya Basta!
WE WANT those who profit from a 500-year nightmare to wake up with us. We
want to walk together, fully awake--in a dream we have tasted around the
table and in the streets. We want those who once dreamed with us to wake
up again, to taste again. We want the technicians of violence to throw
their wrenches into the gears they have maintained. We want them to know,
and for once not ignore, the real cost of blood money. If they knew they
had murdered, if they knew they had killed, they would have to act.
WE WILL act; we will sound the alarm; we will wear orange. On March 19th,
facing five years of war, we will execute our first public maneuvers in
the face of the police. We will take the Charging Bull, as it were, by the
horns. We will march to and take the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
on Wall Street, where instead of stocks, they once sold people as slaves.
We will be absolutely nonviolent, because in our dream the dignity of even
a single person is as sacred as the dignity of all. As new worlds must
emerge from old wounds, so we will emerge, filled with hope, and sound the
alarm to awake, awake.
Only an army of dreamers can stop the nightmare of war!
ALL OUT! YA BASTA!
WHAT: Ya Basta Rings the Alarm on the New York Stock Exchange to End War
WHO: NYC Ya Basta
WHEN: Monday, March 19th, 2006 from 9:00 - 11:00 AM
WHERE: Along the Canyon of Heroes, Financial District
