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DESCRIPTION:A Documentary Screening - Soma: An Anarchist Therapy\n\nMonday, 8/14/2006,  
 7pm\nhttp://www.brownberets.info\n18 W Lake Ave\nWatsonville, CA 
 95076\nSuggested donation:  $5\nPresented by the Watsonville Brown Berets 
 and Santa Cruz Independent Media\nCenter\n\nFilm maker, Nick from Houston 
 Indymedia will be present to do a question and answer session and a 
 workshop.\n\nSOMA: an anarchist therapy\nWith difficulty walking, and 
 half-blinded from torture by the\nBrazilian military dictatorship, 79 
 year-old Roberto Freire continues to develop somatherapy, completing his 
 life's work. Incorporating the ideas of Wilhelm Reich, the politics of 
 anarchism, and the culture of capoeira angola, Soma is used by therapists 
 organized in anarchist collectives to fight the psychological effects of 
 authoritarianism. Nick Cooper travelled to Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Bahia, 
 and São\nPaulo to find the exercises, principles, voices, and movement of 
 somatherapy.\n\nmore info and trailer: somadocumentary.com\n\nworkshop: 
 Nazis Vs. Zapatistas: The Struggle Against Cooptation \n\nLao-Tsu, the 
 author of the Tao Te Ching and Subcomandante Marcos, of the Zapatistas both 
 talk about the power of water -- seemingly weaker, but ultimately stronger 
 than the more familiar power of swords. To struggle against oppression in 
 ways that don't create other oppressions, we will explore the anti-fascist 
 non-hierarchical currents in history, philosophy, psychology, criticism, 
 and organizing tactics.\n\nWorking with Indymedia, Food Not Bombs and other 
 non-hierarchical groups, Nick Cooper became interested in horizontal 
 structures for change, traveling to Brazil in 2003 and 2005 to study Soma 
 Therapy, and to Chiapas, Mexico in 2004 to study Zapatismo. Also, wanting 
 to study fascist and pre-fascist organizing directly, Nick has been 
 attending conferences, meetings, presentations and fund-raisers of the\nfar 
 right, including: The Ku Klux Klan, Focus on the Family /\nLovewonout, 
 Republican Party of Texas, Lyndon LaRouche, The Minutemen, and Tom DeLay. 
 The workshop examines philosophies, structures and psychology, comparing 
 authoritarian models to those that are consensual, communitarian or 
 autonomous. Informed by Zapatista\nprinciples, Wilhelm Reich's Mass 
 Psychology of Fascism, and Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism, the 
 workshop develops a skill set for identifying, challenging and defeating 
 the authoritarian tool of cooptation.\n\nmore info: 
 http://www.nickcooper.com/antipowerworkshop.htm\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/08/11/18296243.php
SUMMARY:Soma Therapy Film Screening in Watsonville
LOCATION:Watsonville Brown Beret Office, Behind Ritmo Latino\n18 W Lake 
 Ave\nWatsonville, CA 95076\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/08/11/18296243.php
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