WoGAN -- Worcester Global Action Network

Encuentro

Decriminalizing Resistance:
Building Community Security, Racial and Economic Justice

A Regional 1 & 1/2 day Encuentro*
In Worcester, Massachusetts
November 12-13th
Friday 7:00pm - Saturday 6:00pm
Clark University

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SCHDULE HERE!

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EVALUATION FROM ORGANIZING GROUP HERE
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Call/Convocatoria:

From Buenos Aires to Belgrade to New York City and Worcester resistance movements are being repressed, jailed, and labeled as "security threats." But what is "security"? What are the real threats to the safety and well being of our communities? How is "security" used by the State to undermine resistance movements?

This regional encuentro* hopes to provide a participatory space to discuss what communities are doing to build autonomy and alternate forms of security. This will also be an important time for activists and organizers to network with movements throughout the northeast and build support for resistance globally.

This call invites you or your organization to attend, in addition, if you are interested in taking part in planning or sponsoring, please contact us.

Cost: $5-10 sliding scale, no one turned away. Childcare will be provided.
Limited transportation reimbursements available: to apply, get more info or REGISTER below.

Conveners:
Worcester Global Action Network (WoGAN), Worcester, MA: http://www.WoGAN.org
Argentina Autonomista Project: http://www.Autonomista.org

Co-Sponsors/Endorsers:
Clark Peaceworks, Mass Direct Action (Southeast Mass), Massachusetts Global Action, HOPE Coalition (Worcester), Radical Cheerleaders Worcester, New England Committee to Defend Palestine (NECDP), Enough Is Enough! Project/Proyecto Ya Basta!, Center for Anti-Violence Education, Center for Democracy and the Constitution, Clark Womens Studies, International Studies Stream, IDCE.
Others pending, looking for co-sponsors!

International Guests:

Soledad Bordegaray, Movement of Unemployed Workers (MTD) La Matanza, Argentina
Neka Jara, Movement of Unemployed Workers (MTD) of Solano, Argentina
Claudia Acuna, Alerta Salta, Argentina. http://www.Alerta-Salta.org.ar
Andrej Grubacic, postYugoslavia, involved with Peoples Global Action and Planetary Alternatives Network
Clifton Arihwakehte from the Kanehsatake (a Mohawk community from near Montreal):
http://dominionpaper.ca/firstnations/
Krzysztof Krol, Anarchist Publishing Initiative of the Rozbrat Squat (the oldest anarchist social center in Poland) and a member of the Polish Anarchist Federation, Poznan, Poland

* An encuentro is a meeting, conference, or "encounter," a safe space where participants can share ideas and experiences. Following the uprising in Chiapas, Mexico on the eve of the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Zapatistas called for an international encuentro for companeros from all over the world to gather and discuss the significance of the grassroots rebellion and possibilities for creating a new and better world. Our call for an Encuentro on Decriminalizing Resistance lies within this tradition.

Download a flyer HERE!

Schedule is now available!

Click HERE for the encuentro schedule.

Registration:

Please Pre-Register to help us cover food and other costs. Housing space is also limmited, so to ensure a place to stay, please register by Nov. 5th. We will also send you more information about the encuentro once you register! No one will be turned away, but pre-registering would really help us out.

Online Registration Form Here.

You can also download the Registration Form fill it out and email it to: woganemail@yahoo.com
Or mail it to:

Fujichia
Box 854
1102 Pleasant St
Worcester, MA 01602