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| October 10, 2007 We are taking it to the streets. Join the First Annual National Day of Panhandling for Reparations LISTEN to an explanation of the performance OCTOBER 10, 2007. People of all races across the United States will take an hour or two to sit in a range of locations in our communities: outside of businesses, libraries, museums, art galleries, or on busy street corners. We will wear signs reminding passersby of the history of slavery in the United States. We will collect reparations in the form of money from white Americans for the enslavement and free-labor of Africans and African Americans during the establishment and economic rise of this country. This money will be immediately paid out to black passersby. Both parties will be offered a receipt. We will do this to offer a convenient opportunity for American citizens to acknowledge, apologize and compensate the unpaid labor of African Americans, the travesty of slavery, and the rightful due of reparations. “This performance opens a powerful opportunity for dialogue between government and citizens. Wouldn’t it be remarkable if the United States decided to implement a reparations strategy before a single one of us had to take to the streets?” Why panhandling? African Americans have tried several means to recoup reparations for the enslavement of our relatives, with little progress. Panhandling shows the last resort of African Americans after our government has ignored or denied all previous requests for reparations. Panhandling is an immediate means of exacting reparations. We offer ordinary citizens the opportunity to pay the reparations our government has denied us, or to walk past our presence on the street and continue to ignore our collective history. What choice will you make? Social movements succeed when multiple channels are involved. This performance takes the conversation about reparations to the street, adding a grassroots element to the already present academic and legislative conversations. Citizens have both the chance to pay and accept reparations, showing our representatives that citizens do indeed want to make reparations payments and how easily it can be accomplished. In addition citizens are encouraged to send their receipts to the IRS as proof that reparations is a process supported by the general public. This work began in 2003 as a street performance by artist damali ayo: In living flag: panhandling for reparations watch the performance at http://damaliayo.com/pages/reparationsday.html or on youtube | |
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| Cross posted everywhere Hello everyone. My name is Andrea. I am a mother to a Deaf child, sister to someone who has Cerebral Palsy and is a FIERCE disability right activist, and I myself have ADHD. I am also a Student at Antioch University Seattle in a BA completion program with a class assignment that I would love for you to be a part of. My class is centered around how individuals can use their personal stories to create social change. For my project, I would like to gather stories of experiences of medical care from people in the disabilities community. I plan on creating a booklet or zine of related art, photography, and primarily your stories to then pass on to the University of Washington's department of disability studies ( http://depts.washington.edu/chdd/ ). It is my hope that by offering your experiences, future medical care providers will have a better understanding of their impact when working with future patients. Because of the often sensitive nature of these stories, anonymous contributions would be more than welcome. I have set up an account for those who would like to add their stories anonymously. Please see the community for more information. Please also let me know if you have any additional ideas for the direction of this project. This community is part of a six week project. It is my hope that well after the project itself is completed, the community will continue to be a place of support and sharing Image Description: Banner with text that reads "A story for change. What is your story?" With the image of the disabled parking logo in yellow on black pavement with the word "Change" writen underneath. Beside the symbol is an open book with the text over it that reads "A community project for positive medical care." ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) astoryforchangeFor more information, visit our community page. Andrea | |
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| Hello everyone. My name is Andrea. I am a mother to a Dead child, sister to someone who has Cerebral Palsy and is a FIERCE disability right activist, and I myself have ADHD. Because of my own disability and those of the ones I am closely connected to, I have experienced and witnessed how prejudice, ignorance, and well-intentioned but ill-informed medical care providers impact our wellness and equal access to healthcare.
I am a Student at Antioch University Seattle in a BA completion program with a class assignment that I would love for you to be a part of. My class is centered around how individuals can use their personal stories to create social change.
For my project, I would like to gather stories of experiences of medical care from people in the disabilities community. I plan on creating a booklet or zine of related art, photography, and primarily your stories to then pass on to the University of Washington's department of disability studies. It is my hope that by offering your experiences, future medical care providers will have a better understanding of their impact when working with future patients.
This is a class project. No profit will be made off of any contributions, in fact, I am spending a substantial amount of money to print and create this book as a donation to the UW disability studies department. I would be incredibly thankful for any donated stories, poems, or art related to healthcare and disability
Because of the often sensitive nature of these stories, anonymous contributions would be more than welcome. Please also let me know if you have any additional ideas about this project. Ideally, I would love this to be a community action that includes as many voices as possible. Also, feel free to sped this post widely to anyone else who may be interested.
Thank you for your interest and consideration.
Andrea
zandrea@gmail.com | |
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| Dear friends,
The conference begins in less than 20 days and we are receiving more
proposals from speakers from all over the world! Japan! Canada! UK!
Germany! Italy and much more!
But we need your help to make the conference happen smoothly! To feed
everyone, to provide free childcare and much, much more!
Update #1.
We need your help putting up flyers all over the world!
Please, please pleeeeease print out flyers and post them up all over
Olympia and Washington State for conference!
If you have access to a free photocopier or a low-cost copier in any sort of
way, please make hundreds (really) and hundreds of photocopies of the below
August 26th AWBC flyers and post them up in your area of the country or in
your area of the world! Don't just wait for this conference to happen! You
can make it happen!
Also, if you are coming to the Olympia meeting or the Portland Meeting (both
detailed below) make hundreds of flyers and bring them all with you to the
meeting so that we can hand them out to folks who show up for the August 10
meeting at Media Island and so we can post more up everywhere. Please post
flyers in your local area. Thanks a bunch,
Flyers found below
a pdf flyer is below
http://aworldbeyondcapitalism.org/awbcflyers/1new_2006flyerwithmap.pdf
a document version flyer is below
http://aworldbeyondcapitalism.org/awbcflyers/1new_2006flyerwithmap.doc
a single file webpage flyer is below
http://aworldbeyondcapitalism.org/awbcflyers/1new_2006flyerwithmap.mht
Flyers are also available in document version with two on one page.
http://www.aworldbeyondcapitalism.org/awbcflyers/2flyers.doc
and there are two flyers on a page in a pdf version below
http://www.aworldbeyondcapitalism.org/awbcflyers/2flyers.pdf
http://www.aworldbeyondcapitalism.org/awbcdocumentaries.html
Update #2.
Doantions still greatly needed! See our website!
Update #3.
If you are in the Portland Area, Please, please pleeeeease print out the
below "August 12th flyers" for our fundraiser and post them up all over
Portland for this event! This is our last and most important fundraiser for
the conference!
http://aworldbeyondcapitalism.org/awbcflyers/Aug_12_flyer.pdf
http://aworldbeyondcapitalism.org/awbcflyers/Aug_12_flyer.doc
Update #4.
Olympia, Washington: AWBC Volunteer
Time and Date: Thursday, August 10th, 2006 meeting is 6pm-8pm.
Location: Media Island, 816 Adams St. SE Olympia, WA 98501 and Media
island is located across from the Downtown Library. The Media island
phone number is (360) 352-8526 or you can call the AWBC at (503)
727-2622.
We will probably meet in the living room area, but if another group is
using that space we will meet on the wonderful info-porch area!
Update #5.
Please remember the 4 Calendar Listings (a,b,c,d,) for upcoming meetings,
events and the AWBC conference in Portland, Oregon. Thanks for all your
support on behalf of all conference volunteers and conference attendants.
Please suggest that your local activist group attend these events! Thanks!
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A. Title: Fun, Food and Volunteer Planning for the 2006 A World Beyond
Capitalism Conference!
Come and enjoy food, fun and the feeling of working for worldwide peace and
multiracial equality as a part of this wonderful volunteer meeting!
Time and Date: August, 11th, 2006, 7-9 PM, Location:
St. Francis Hall located at 1182 SE Pine Street. Handicapable access is
available on the 11th street entrance.
B. Mic Crenshaw of Suckapunch, Patrick Dodd, the Revolution Musician, and
Jeff Simmons to rock at the AWBC Fundraiser Party!
Bienvenidos!
Three of the best Musicians to ever Rock the Red and Black Cafe in the known
Universe will appear on stage Saturday to rock harder than ever before!
Patric Dodd is a multicultural activist musician with songs about ethic
equality and more! Everything you heard about them is true! Saturday, August
12, 2006. 8pm, at the Red and Black Cafe, 2138 SE Division Street. $5
admission with no one turned away for lack of funds.
Come and enjoy excellent music, dance, food, friends and the feeling of
working for worldwide peace and multiracial equality as a part of this
awesome event! This is a Fundraiser Party for the 2006 A World Beyond
Capitalism conference happening in August! $5 admission with no one turned
away for lack of funds. This fundraiser enables the conference to be free of
charge and offer free exhibition space and admission to people including you
and your activist group! For more info call (503) 727-2622 and leave a
message. Time and Date: Saturday August 12, 2006. 8pm All are welcome, We
greatly welcome people of all races, ethnic groups and LGBTQ and marginalized
groups as the AWBC strives to be a conference of unparalleled access and
outreach!Bienvenidos.
Anytime, 24 hours a day, at (503) 727-2622.
We greatly welcome people of all races, ethnic groups and marginalized
groups.
C. Title: Fun, Food and Volunteering Planning for the 2006 A World Beyond
Capitalism Conference!
Come and enjoy food, fun and the feeling of working for worldwide peace and
multiracial equality as a part of this wonderful volunteer meeting!
Time and Date: August, 25th, 2006, 7-9 PM, Location:
St. Francis Hall located at 1182 SE Pine Street. Handicapable access is
available on the 11 street entrance.
D. Title: The 2006 A World Beyond Capitalism Conference! The Second Annual
International Multiracial Alliance Building Peace Conference, August
26th-28th, 2006.
A World Beyond Capitalism Conference 2006! The Second Annual International
Multiracial Alliance Building Peace Conference, August 26th-28th, 2006.
speakers include activists from Asia, the Phillipines, Italy, Washington, and
all over the USA! Keynote: Lena Posner -Tent State [New Jersey]
http://www.tentstate.com - Helen Hill Bay City Arts [Nehalem, Oregon]
Felicity Artemis [Hawaii] Ignazio Albore' [Italy] - anticompetitivismo.it -
Aisha Stone
[California] - Zkamp [Washington] - La Comunidad De Rescate -The Rescue
Community [Worldwide] http://www.rescuecommunity.org - Imagine Seven
http://www.imagineseven.org - [nationwide] - Patrick Dodd, Revolution
Musician [Wilderville, Oregon] http://www.patrickdodd.com - Eiichiro Ochiai
[Japan/Canada] - Valeriano Clamonte [Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom]-
Zouaoui Mostari [Algeria] Algerian Volunteers For Peace And Cultural
Exchanges and many, many more! There will also be a special theatrical
reading by national award-winning playwright Helen Hill, author of 'The
Filmore Hotel,' 'Time out of Mind' and 'Perfection.' Podcast, blog and
email list updates available. The conference will take place at beautiful
Milo McIver Campgrounds in Estecada, Oregon. Proposals continuously accepted.
We greatly welcome participations and proposals from people of all races,
ethnic groups and LGBTQ and marginalized groups as the AWBC strives to be a
conference of unparalleled access and outreach! Upcoming public meetings:
August 11th and August 25th at St. Francis Hall located at 1182 SE Pine
Street, wheelchair-accessible. Bring vegan or vegetarian food donations on
Aug 25th. Local, work-from-home or out-of-state volunteers needed. Very
Important: AWBC volunteers seek to rent a house, farm or workloft from
8/25/2006 - 9/1/2006 for clerical volunteer work. Homeowners, farmers,
contact us. Call 24hrs - 503-727-2622. Nationwide Driving directions:
310-285-3222. All workshops, festivals, childcare, meals, camping and
unlimited exhibiting/tabling are completely free! The AWBC needs your
generous donations (tax-deductible receipts available) which enable the AWBC
can provide Braille and multilingual translations again this year! All are
welcome! Foon Ying. Usoe Oseyo. Bienvenidos. Ashquay.
www.aworldbeyondcapitalism.org or www.CommonUnityPeaceConference.org
Update #6.
Soildarity! Message from the Portland Alliance, a Progressive newspaper in
Portland, Oregon:
Please circulate this e-mail as broadly as possible:
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Two personal journeys weave together to create a larger cautionary tale we
all must heed. In 1945, a teen-age Robert Richter stook in Times Square
celebrating the U.S. victory over Japan that was brought about by the
dropping of two atomic bombs. He believed President Truman's assertion that
these bombs had saved millions of U.S. and Japanese lives. Half-way around
the world, 10-year-old Sakue Shimohira wandered the burning wreckage that was
Nagasaki after the bomb was dropped. She had hidden in a shelter at ground
zero when the bright flash and terrible thunder occurred. The story of
filmmaker and subject come together to explore the lies governments tell, the
true horror that rained down on a Japanese city 60 years ago, and the much
greater horrors the entire planet faces today as nuclear proliferation goes
unheeded.
The Last Atomic Bomb
A film by Robert Richter
Portland Premiere*
August 9, 2006
Clinton St. Theatre (SE Clinton St. & 26th Ave.)
7 pm and 9:10 p.m Screenings
$8-$15 sliding scale ‹ For advance tickets call 503-239-4991
Filmmaker Robert Richter will answer questions following each screening.
Copies of the DVD will be available.
Robert Richter is an award-winning filmmaker. A graduate of Reed College,
Richter worked for Oregon public television, the Oregon reporter for The New
York Times, and as a member of the Edward R. Murrow-Fred Friendly CBS Reports
team that was the recent subject of the film Good Night and Good Luck.
Richter has a long list of documentaries ranging in topics from the ravages
of globalization on the developing world, hunger in America, the influence of
money in politics, abortion, race and housing and other issues. Most were
produced before anyone else in the media considered these issues newsworthy.
For more information on Richter and his work, visit www.richtervideos.com.
Sponsored by Peace & Justice Works, Physicians for Social Responsibility and
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
A benefit for The Portland Alliance, Portland's oldest progressive newspaper.
*A screening will be taking place in Eugene on Aug. 10, sponsored by
Community Action Lane County (CALC). for more information contact CALC at
541-485-1755.
A screening will also be taking place in Ashland on Aug. 11, sponsored by
local activists. For more information call Linda Richards at lmrich@mind.net.
Update #7.
Special thanks to the Asian Reporter, the Portland Alliance, Z Magazine, Just
Out! and dozens of other News papers who published anouncements for our
fundraisers and events!
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Thank you all!
Activists! Join us!
Bienvenidos.
Activists! Join us!
¡Activistas Únanse!
Solidarity for a better world!
All are welcome in the AWBC/Bienvenidos.
Love for the people,
A World Beyond Capitalism Team
A World Beyond Capitalism 2006 Conference
The Annual International Multiracial Alliance Building Peace Conference
The Common Unity Peace Conference
Un Mundo Más Allá del Capitalismo
Una Conferencia Anual de Paz Para Crear Uniones Internacionales y
Multirraciales
Main Home Page: http://www.aworldbeyondcapitalism.org
or
Main Home Page: http://www.CommonUnityPeaceConference.org
Archives of Conference Updates:
http://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/3c-aworldbeyondcapitalism
Subscribe To 3c Email Updates List:
http://lists.riseup.net/www/subrequest/3c-aworldbeyondcapitalism
The AWBC radio station can be found here:
http://www.awbcradio.org
To subscribe to the rss feed for our podcast (online radio station) you
can
use this address:
http://slapcast.com/rss/aworldbeyondcapitalism/index.xml
A World Beyond Capitalism Unofficial Online Community is found by
clicking on either of the below two links. Everyone worldwide is welcome
to
join the community. It is a personal, non-commercial community
encouraging
discussion and international networking.
http://www.livejournal.com/community/00_no_war_1love
or simply go to: http://www.awbcradio.info
To see the AWBC Pre-conference Music Video Documentaries in either of three
version (10 minute version, 15 minute version or full 1 hour and 55 minute
version) please click below:
http://www.aworldbeyondcapitalism.org/awbcdocumentaries.html
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| Hi! I'm writing to let you know about a little anti-war performance I did with my family over Thanksgiving weekend. I heard about this lady on the radio doing it ( http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5021524) and we copied it. We took toy soldiers and put a label on them that says "bring me home from Iraq for the holidays" and we placed them all over stores -- in Best Buy and the supermarket - and then customers or employees find them on top of granola bars or iPods, etc. The idea is to confront consumers for a brief moment -- to ask them to think about Bush's approach (failure!) and what they're going to do about it. It also offers an encouragement to other activists, citizens of conscience, and military families, in that someone is doing something to bring soldiers home! So, it's extremely easy (and relatively cheap) to do! Look for toy soldiers at your local dollar, toy, or department store, glue them on to some paper, and write/print "Bring Me Home from Iraq for the Holidays," then walk around stores and leave them (in)conspicuously on shelves! We're psyched, we wanna get it in blogs and news media and work a snowball effect and have this protest-performance-action sweep the nation, and be the next Cindy Sheehan anti-war strategy. I've started a blog to keep track of where these are popping up. Please send in pictures of actions you've done (or seen): http://homefortheholidaysaction.blogspot.com/. in peace & solidarity, "Femme Egale" | |
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Excerpt from AWK at Indybay....: "On the morning of Saturday, October 29, the armed, racist, anti-immigrant vigilantes of the Minuteman Project held a rally on the steps of the state capitol in Sacramento. They were there to cap off their month-long failure of a patrol along the border and to gather signatures for the California Border Police initiative. The initiative would create 2,000-3,000 paid positions for Minutemen in kop's clothing to harass immigrant workers statewide.
"With too many vigilantes already sitting inside the capitol, the idea of even more gathering there didn't sit well with lots of people. From 10am onward, more than 600 folks gathered to protest, speak out against, disrupt and in general confront the Minutemen, the initiative, and politicians backing both of them. The actions also took a firm stand against borders and capitalism. See more photos and read more here or here or here." | |
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