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DESCRIPTION:greetings friends, comrades, companeros!\n\nIMPACT! is excited to announce 
 the next gathering of community activists and organizations of Sonoma 
 County, which shall take place on Sunday, December 7th at Noon. This 
 meeting will once again be held at 1251 Marian Way in Petaluma. Last 
 October 5th, 20 people from more than 10 local organizations met, heard 
 about the projects and history of the youth social movement in Petaluma, 
 and discussed all the various diverse projects being organized all across 
 our county, from efforts to create sustainable communities, to movements 
 for peace and immigrants' rights, to young feminist clubs, and local 
 artistic and cultural groups (among many others). Now it is time for 
 another gathering where we bring together all the elements in our local 
 activist community to discuss how to move forward and how we can work more 
 closely to collectively bring about social change. It is clear we are 
 living in a truly historic moment. But it is our responsibility to 
 capitalize on this moment and not wait for change to be handed down to us. 
 It is up to us to ensure that the change that our people long for becomes a 
 reality.  the only way to do this is to come together.\n\nThis is why we 
 are asking all of you to attend this next meeting on Dec. 7th. Whether 
 you're in high school and never been involved politically, or if you've 
 been in the struggle for decades, everybody who believes in locally 
 produced social justice should come out. spread the word and bring all yo 
 friends!\nSo far, the goals of this next meeting are:\n1.) to hear from 
 groups all around the county who are working on different and exciting 
 projects\n2.) to propose ideas for collaboration between all sonoma county 
 community/social/political organizations\n\nBut we would like to hear from 
 all of you who might like to participate. What would you like to see out of 
 a meeting like this? What ideas might you have for how all these different 
 groups can work together? What other items would you like to discuss with 
 your fellow activists? Whereas last meeting was heavily focused on our 
 group, IMPACT!, this next meeting will strive to be more participatory. but 
 in order to do that, we need you help and your ideas. Although our group is 
 facilitating this effort, it is by no means under our control. So please 
 offer any and all thoughts, criticisms, ideas you have so we can make this 
 a really successful event. We also are looking for 1 or 2 people who would 
 like to facilitate the meeting, so it is not dominated solely by 
 IMPACT!\n\nLastly, PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD! The more voices we hear at this 
 meeting, the stronger this network will become.\n\nIf you can, also please 
 RSVP.  We will most likely be cooking food for everyone and needing to 
 provide chairs, so we will need to have an accurate number of attendees. 
 thank you very much.\n\n\nIMPACT! is a radical organization of students and 
 young workers based in Petaluma. We currently have three programs: Food Not 
 Bombs (day labor organizing), CopWatch, and City of Refuge Campaign for 
 Immigrants' Rights. We believe in neighborhood/community organizing, youth 
 leadership development, solidarity, and direct action. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/11/19/18552178.php
SUMMARY:County-Wide Activist Gathering!
LOCATION:1251 Marian Way. Petaluma, CA. (the house of two comrades)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/11/19/18552178.php
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