Encuentro

Decriminalizing Resistance:
Building Community Security, Racial and Economic Justice

Schedule

FRIDAY, NOV. 12TH, 2004

Friday Registration Friday Evening Panel/Discussion Friday Night Performances and Party
Opens 6:00pm 7:00-9:00pm 9:30pm-on
Please pre-register: HERE "Welcome to Worcester" / Introduction Panel Includes:
  • Sean Harris (Community Activist, Henry Lee Willis Center, Worcester)
  • Gordon Davis (Worcester Peace Works, Worcester)
  • Thomas Ponniah (author of Another World Is Possible, a co-founder of Worcester Global Action Network)
  • Neka Jara (Unemployed Workers Movement, Solano, Argentina)
  • Andrej Grubacic (postYugoslavia, involved with Peoples Global Action and Planetary Alternatives Network)
  • Claudia Acuna (La Vaca, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
  • Clifton Arihwakehte (Mohawk community of Kanehsatake)
Performers include:
  • Alixa & Naima (Climbing PoeTREE, Worcester/NYC)
  • AfroDZak (spoken word artist, Worcester)
  • Radical Cheerleaders Worcester
  • Justice Williams (activist/spoken word artist of New Bedford youth of color collective:www.freeingourselves.org)
  • Others...
Where: Johnson Auditorium, Sackler Science Center, Clark University Where: Johnson Auditorium, Sackler Science Center, Clark University Location TBA



SATURDAY, NOV. 13TH, 2004

Where: Jefferson Academic Building, Clark University

8:30-9:30am Breakfast and Registration
Block #1 (9:30-11:00am): Block #2 (11:15-12:45pm): Block #3 (3:00-4:30pm):
1. Autonomous Community Security (panel) 2. Autonomous Community Security (exchange) 3. Harm Free Zones (workshop)
4. Women, queer folx, and transgender people and security (panel & puppet show) 5. Youth and Cmty Safety (panel) 6. Youth Video Swap and discussion (exchange)
7.Indigenous Struggles (panel) 8.Immigrants Struggles / detentions, deportations, patriot act (panel) 9.Palestine/Iraq (panel)
10. Health and Security (panel) 11. Solidarity Economy (exchange) 12. Economic Security / economic democracy (workshop)
1:00-3:00pm Lunch & Discussion Corners (facilitated thematic talks)
4:45-6pm Ronda/Report Back/Closing




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