Upcoming Workshops: Networking, Preparing for Trump, Community Building
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Festival of Resistance
As part of a national day of resistance in the United States, a few of us have put together a programme for this Saturday.
Ready for Trump 2.0?
Join us on Saturday 18th January, online, free of charge.
1.30pm-4pm Pacific US
4.30pm-7pm Eastern US
9.30pm-midnight UK/GMT/UTC
(Sun 19th January) 5.30am-8am Perth, Australia
First 15 minutes: Welcome to Resistance with me (Heather)
Following hour: Workshop on Grounding and Connecting with William Aal
Next 15 minutes: Transition and 10-minute Break
Final hour: Workshop: Poetry as Protest and Resistance with Dr Paul Gardner and Dr. Sonja Kuzich (Australia)
Register here.
🦋 Workshop on Grounding and Connecting
What are we feeling?
Where will the effects be felt most? (locally, personally, professionally)
Our Response-ability
Re-sourcing ourselves
✊🏼 Workshop on Poetry as Protest and Resistance
Do you feel angry, anxious, powerless about the climate crisis, genocide, kleptocracy, the resurgence of the far right across the globe? In this one hour online workshop we invite you to create short poetic statements that speak to power. Together, we will devise metaphorical soundbites of resistance and protest. Learn to express your emotions in ways that expose injustice, inequality, hypocrisy that cause the reader to reflect on the state of the world at this critical moment. As a form of writing, poetry is sharp, succinct and powerful. Like Banksy’s iconic images, our aim is to create poetic messages that are instantly understood.
For example:
He laughs and dances
Dreams of money mountains
Pulls the president’s strings
As babies die of hypothermia.
At the conclusion of the workshop, we will discuss how to disseminate your poems in impactful ways.
Register here.
Professional Offers and Needs Share
Meet those contacts who know someone who knows someone...
***Mutual Aid*** more important than ever...
A Professional Offers and Needs Share based on the lovely Post Growth Institute's Offers and Needs Market.
One hour. Free of charge.
Wednesday 15 January
11am-noon Pacific US
2-3pm Eastern US
7-8pm UK/GMT/UTC
(Thurs 16 Jan: 6-7am Philippines)
Thursday 16 January
4-5am Pacific US
7-8am Eastern US
noon-1pm UK/GMT/UTC
8-9pm Philippines
Wednesday 22 January
8-9am Pacific US
11am-noon Eastern US
4-5pm UK/GMT/UTC
midnight-1am Philippines
Plus another date in January!
See the dates and register here.
Facilitated by me and either Chris Musei-Sequeira, PMP or Cat Jenkins ❤️
Remember the Revolution, Remember Omar Aziz
Saturday 16 February hold the date, online
As the future of Syria hangs in the balance, it’s important to remember the Syrian revolution and to remember Omar Aziz, the Syrian anarchist murdered by the Assad regime and one of the most influential organizers of the decentralized network of free towns and cities, involving hundreds of thousands of people holding out for over five years despite the onslaught of Assad’s brutal army and the Islamic fundamentalists of ISIL. Many participants in this uprising were killed, many fled, and many were able to survive inside Syria. As some of the exiles return, as prisoners are released, and as the dead are remembered, it’s vital for people all over the world to support them. Peter Gelderloos
More details to come but we will read aloud about the way that communities can organise outside of state structures: support one another and keep one another as safe as possible.
This is a chance to learn about other forms of organising, especially those that happen away from the West, despite the West. Drop me a note if you want to help organise this event.