WoGAN News
POSTPONED: Resources Rights and Food Sovereignty: Linking Main South to the Global South
Speakers include: Luis Antonio Pasquetti, from the Brazilian Landless
Movement - MST
NEW INFO: Friday, Dec. 7th, 3:30-5:30pm
Clark University - Jefferson Building 218
950 Main Street
Worcester, MA 01610
Email us for more info: info [a t] wogan.org
Next General/Food Justice Meeting
Wednesday, Dec. 12th
6:00pm
Clark University Center (room will be posted), 950 Main St, Worcester, MA 01610
Food Justice Planning and more Download the Flyer
Email us for more info: info [a t] wogan.org
Argentina Video Workshop
Work Dignity and Social Change - a participatory video workshop with the film-maker.
Wednesday, October 3rd
5:30pm
Clark University, Jefferson Building Room 218
Download a flyer here
Lots more infoHERE
Food Justice
Free Food and a Panel Discussion
Download a flyer here.
Thursday, Sept. 6
7:00pm, Rosenblatt Conf. Room
1st Floor, Clark Univ. Center
Food: local from YouthGROW and Food Not Bombs
Speakers:
Email us for more info: info [a t] wogan.org
Lets build Worcester Free Radio
An introductory meeting facilitated by Paul from The Prometheus Radio Project
Download a flyer here.
Wednesday, July 25th
6:00pm
at the Stone Soup Community Resource Center (4 King St.)
Email us for more info: ussf [a t] wogan.org
Worcester Goes to US Social Forum
Another World is Possible - Another US is Necessary
Read about the Worcester delegation who went to the forum in Atlanta June 27-July 1, 2007
More info on the US Social Forum
Email us to get involved: ussf [a t] wogan.org
Mobilize for Immigrant Workers Day!
4-6pm, May 1st, 2007 at Worcester City Hall
Rally for the Rights of Immigrant Families
Email us for more info: info@wogan.org
Global Farmers Speaking Tour and Seed Sow Road Show Converge in Worcester
7pm, Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
Bioimperialism and Food Sovereignty Speaking Tour Event + Seed Sow Road Show
Jefferson Rm 222, Clark University
950 Main Street, Worcester, MA
Sponsored by Worcester Global Action Network
In collaboration with Food For Maines Future and Seed Sow Road Show
3:00pm at Stone Soup Community Center, 4 King Street, Worcester
Puppets, Music, Bike Ride in Main South, Soil Testing, Collective Farmwork at YouthGROW Urban Farm...
Solidarity with Oaxaca
Ya Basta! Urgent Call for Solidarity Action for Oaxaca
Thursday. November 2nd, 4pm at Boston Mexican Consulate: 20 Park Plaza
Carpool from Worcester: Cars will be leaving from the Main St entrance of Clark University at 2:30 PM on Thursday. If you need a ride email Laura: laura@wogan.org
More information
Background info
Building Community Power in Worcester: a 1 Day Mini Conference
Saturday, November 4th, 10am-3pm
At the Worcester Youth Center, 326 Chandler St
Get involved/Call for co-sponsors/More info here.
Work, Dignity, & Social Change: Speaker/Video from Argentina
Wednesday, October 18th, (2pm at Clark) (6pm at the YMCA)
MORE INFO
WoGAN DE-CRIMINALIZATION Summer Workshop Series
Schedule Now Available! Workshops include:
- Consensus Meeting/Facilitation
- Immigrants RIghts and the Sanctuary City Project
- Community Organizing
- Racism & Community Organizing
- Ending Violence, Building Sactuaries
- Ending Transphobia
- Free Software
WoGAN Supports Immigrants Rights Struggle in Worcester
WoGAN is working with a coalition of groups and individuals from around Worcester to help move forward with the struggle of Immigrant Rights. Help us carry forward the energy from the 2,500 person demonstration that took place May 1st at City Hall. Contact us to get involved: info(at)wogan.org, and see Worcester Indymedia for updated information.
Working for a Better Community
A 1-Day Event to Network and Discuss Unemployment & Dignified Work in Worcester
April 8th, 2006
10am-4pm
at the YMCA Central Branch (766 Main St)
***Event is free and open to all***
Download the Flyer Here
Full details here
Reparations Conference
Whose Debt? Whose Responsibility?
The Center for the Study of Human Rights at Worcester State College will host an International Symposium on reparations for past mass violations of human rights on December 9 and 10, 2005 in the Ghosh Science and Technology Center, Room 102.
Download the Flyer Here
Full details here
Fire the Boss tour
WoGAN is bringing speakers from Argentinas recuperated factory and unemployed movements to Worcester Nov. 9-10th!
Nov. 9th event at Clark University: Lurie Conference Room, time TBA
Introduction by Dennis Brutus, South African poet/activist, on International Solidarity.
Nov. 10th event at All Saints Episcopal Church: 7:30pm, All Saints Church, parking lot off of Pleasant Street near Irving St Directions Here
Download a flyer Here in English and Here in Spanish
Organized by: WoGAN, Women Together, and Stone Soup artist and activist collective and community resource center.
For more info, check out the Fire the Boss website, and send us an email if you want to get involved in the planning: info(at)wogan.org
Summer FreeSkool Calendar
Join us for any or all of these Skill Shares, discussions, and field trips that pull together themes of community autonomy, empowerment, and security. All Summer FreeSkool events are monetarily FREE and open to all people who are interested in attending. br>See the CALENDAR:HERE
Training: Thurs. April 28th
True Community Safety and Harm Free Zones
Tuessday, June 21
1:002:30pm
at the Pleasant Street Neighborhood Network Center
301 Pleasant Street, Worcester (next to the Pickle Barrel)
FACILITATED BY KAI LAMUMBA BARROW
Community Organizer, Critical Resistance, NYC
To RSVP/for MORE INFORMATION, clickHERE.
Hip-Hop/Political Folk Show!
*Who Said Folk and Hip-Hop dont JIVE?
See WoIndymedia article here about the WAG and the Show
which took place Tuesday, April 26th, 2005
8:00pm [outside] the Abbie Hoffman Performance Center
Worcester Artists Group (WAG)
38 Harlow Street, Worcester
To benefit the school of the community movement of
unemployed workers of La Matanza, Argentina
Email Us: info@wogan.orgto get involved in finding a new community owned, artist/activist space in Worcester!
Evening Workshop on Community Safety
*Thursday, April 28th, 2005
5:00pm, NEW ROOM: Jefferson 222, Clark Univ.
FACILITATED BY KAI LAMUMBA BARROW
Community Organizer, Critical Resistance, NYC
More info, email:info(at)wogan.org
WoGAN Social after above event
*Thursday, April 28th, 2005
7:00pm, NEW ROOM: Jefferson 222, Clark Univ.
Even if you cannot make the event, come an join us for a social gathering with some food, drinks, and good company!
Stop Seaboard Campaign
WoGAN is part of an international coalition called ALERTA SALTA, who is working in solidarity with the indigenous Ava Guarani and Kolla communities from Salta, Argentina.
Lots more infoHERE
Film & Discussion: The Fourth World War
Date: Friday, April 8, 2005
Time: 5:00 pm
Venue: Jefferson 218, Clark University
Co-Sponsored with Praxis
More info: HERE
Globalization, Privatization, and H20
SATURDAY, MARCH 26th
Clark University, Worcester
All events take place at the Student Center
Tentative Schedule HERE
Register on-line at www.massglobalaction.org
For MORE INFORMATION, email usHERE: localfoodsfarm@riseup.net.
Encuentro: Decriminalizing Resistance
WoGAN hosted a Regional Conference/Encuentro: "Decriminalizing Resistance: Building Community Security, Racial and Economic Justice": More info HERE, report available soon.
International Solidarity/Stop Seaboard Campaign
WoGAN has engaged in several international solidarity campaigns with struggles in Chiapas (Zapatistas), India, Palestine, South Africa, Brazil, and Honduras.
International Encuentro hosted by the Circle of Autonomous thought in Buenos Aires, Argentina, January 20-23, 2005: MORE INFO HERE.
We currently have an active campaign in solidarity with indigenous groups in Salta, Northern Argentina who are struggling for their land that is controlled by the Boston and Kansas-based Seaboard Corporation. Much more info on the Stop Seaboard Campaign can be found here.
Stop Police Brutality/Support Estevan Nembhard
WoGAN is part of a coalition that has come together for civil rights in Worcester and to support Estevan Nembhard and others face police brutality and those that speak out for racial justice. With inspiration from Critical Resistance, NYC, we are discussing the formation of a Worcester Harm Free Zone, which you can download a draft of here.
Hear a 1 minute clip of an interview by WTAG from the Feb. 20th demonstration in front of the Worcester Courthouse.
Get on the listserv, send a blank email to: antipolicebrutality-subscribe@lists.riseup.net
Worcester Indymedia's Website is now up!
Make your own media without corporate filters: Check it out here: http://worcester.indymedia.org/
International Encuentro - ENERO AUTONOMO
Hosted by the Circle of Autonomous thought in Buenos Aires, Argentina, January 20-23, 2005: MORE INFO HERE.
From the southern lands we call for your participation once again. To meet and together build new paths. We invite you to share days, to share life. Because politics cannot be reduced to words and demonstrations, to negotiations and concessions. Because life is constructed in the day-to-day, in work, in food, in everyday relationships. We do not have a preset goal for where to end up, we simply want to walk and construct our own paths, without tutors, without having others walk for us. With freedom and self-determination.
WoGAN Supports Striking WRTA Workers
Indymedia story here: http://worcester.buffaloimc.org/news/2004/07/72.php
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