Oct 31-Nov 2 New Haven: Festival Against FTAA + NE Consulta
NEXT STOP, MIAMI!
Autonomous Festival For Humanity and Against the FTAA Northeast FTAA Consulta
When: Oct 31 to Nov 2, 2003
Where: Yale, New Haven, CT
Why: Because we are everywhere. There is a new left on the rise, a left that seeks to change the world without taking power, a left that is almost invisible to the gaze of the corporate media and that has been pushed to the periphery of events such as the World Social Forum: the autonomous left. We seek to make the invisible visible. We are part of a network of solidarity around a caravan of representatives from autonomous social movements in Brazil and Argentina. We are here to build connections and solidarity between local and global movements for justice, and to learn from their examples. Come learn about the consequences of the neoliberal agenda (« the new colonialism »), the positive alternatives that have emerged to challenge corporate globalization (« the most inspiring popular movement since the Zapatistas »), and network, train, plan, and strategize for the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) Ministerial in Miami (Nov 17 to 21).
We can shut it down!
How: Food and housing will be provided. All housing will be with students and community members, and all food will be vegan/vegetarian. We are requesting a sliding scale $5 to $10 donation to cover food costs. Please send registration form (at very end) to nhautonomists
yahoo.com. Necessary logistics, like ride board, maps, etc, will be up soon on the website http:// www.gpjo.org/yale.htm.
Schedule:
Fri, Oct 31
Registration / Dinner
Show featuring political folk singer/songwriter David Rovics (http://www.davidrovics.com), blues musician Darren « Deicide » Kramer (http://www.everreviledrecords.com), and others
Sat, Nov 1
Breakfast
Workshops, presentations, discussions, and creative performances on:
- positive examples of autonomous movements (eg Brazil, Argentina, squatters)
- art and resistance
- introduction to neoliberalism and Globalization 101
- militarism and the prison industrial complex
- corporatization and privatization
- the labor movement
- the eco-globalization movement
- history of direct action
- anarchism and anti-capitalism
- how to start a collective
- solidarity demos
Lunch / Gender Caucus
Workshops continued
Update on what to expect in Miami and Miami action strategy
Dinner / People of Color Caucus
Show featuring Cipher of Afropunk fame (http://www.afropunk.com, http://www.cipheronline.com) and others
Sun, Nov 2
Breakfast
Trainings on:
- general affinity group and consensus
- medic
- legal
- direct action
- media
- communications
- Organizing 101
Lunch / Queer Caucus
Spokescouncil and strategy consulta for the FTAA meetings in Miami
Participants include:
- Autonomous Social Movements Caravan (http://www.autonomista.org) with Nelida Argentina Jara, Unemployed Workers Movement, Buenos Aires; Martin Krymkiewicz, popular assembly Colegiales, Buenos Aires; Carlos Acuna, worker-run Zanon Factory, Buenos Aires; Manoel Inacio do Nascimento, autonomous land-based agroecology movement, Ceara; and Giulius Czsari G. Apr'gio, ethnologist with Guarani Indians, Sao Paulo (http://www.cave.org.br)
- Argentina Autonomist Project
- Rainforest Action Network and Global Exchange Stop the FTAA Roadshow
- Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC)
- Planetary Alternatives Network (PAN)
- Immanuel Wallerstein, founder of World Systems Theory
- Sandro Mezzadra, editor of Italian autonomous magazine Derive Approdi
- Seth Tobocman, Artist of « World War III Illustrated »
- John Farris, Poet with Bullet Space
- and many more!
Registration form:
To register, please send the following information to
nhautonomistsyahoo.com.
First Name:
Last Name:
School and/or Organization, if applicable:
Email:
Phone:
Address:
Housing (choose one): 1. Crash Housing
2. Making Your Own Arrangements
Food (choose one): 1. I want food (sliding scale $5 to $10 donation)
2. I will take care of my own food
Food Preference (choose one): 1. Vegan
2.Vegetarian or not Vegan
Comments:
Contact nhautonomistsyahoo.com or 610-207-4627 for more information, if you have concerns, or if you would like to be involved in the planning of this. Our website: http:// www.gpjo.org/yale.htm
See you in November: in New Haven or Miami!