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DESCRIPTION:Direct action gets the goods!\n\nRadical action is shifting the 
 conversations around how to make change to a wider audience. Whether it's 
 organizing hard hitting campaigns against powerful corporations, 
 establishing occupations in open resistance to capitalist power or building 
 a network to provide disaster relief, direct action is the strategy which 
 both resists state power and creates new institutions that undermine that 
 power.\n\nFrom Earth First! halting logging and wilderness destruction to 
 the Stop Huntin\ngton Animal Cruelty (SHAC) campaign effectively 
 bankrupting Huntington Life Sciences to Rising Tide North America and other 
 climate justice activists fighting oil, gas and coal tooth and nail, our 
 movements have proven that effective organizing and action can hurt 
 corporate profit and undermine the corporate state’s power. But it comes 
 at a cost as state repression hits back hard.\n\nOn Dec. 9th at 7pm at the 
 Holdout in Oakland, join our three amazing speakers Jake Conroy, Scott 
 Parkin and scott crow as they discuss their experiences in building 
 grassroots direct action movements fighting state and corporate power and 
 dealing with state repression.\n\nWHERE: The Holdout, 2313 San Pablo Ave, 
 Oakland CA\nWHEN: Sunday, Dec. 9th at 7pm\nDONATE: Free (as we’re gonna 
 be)\nCONTACT: Rising Tide 
 escobar.jack@gmail.com\nRSVP:http://www.facebook.com/events/122452297913022/\n\nscott 
 crow is an Austin-based anarchist community organizer, writer, and trainer 
 who began working on anti-apartheid, international political prisoner, and 
 animal rights issues in the mid-1980s. He is the co-founder and 
 co-organizer of several social justice groups and education projects 
 throughout Texas and the South including Common Ground Collective in New 
 Orleans with Malik Rahim), Radical Encuentro Camp, UPROAR (United People 
 Resisting Oppression and Racism), Dirty South Earth First!, and North Texas 
 Coalition for a Just Peace. He has trained and organized for Greenpeace, 
 Ruckus Society, Rainforest Action Network, ACORN, Forest Ethics, and Ralph 
 Nader, and many smaller grassroots groups. He is currently collaborating on 
 long-term sustainable democratic economic mutual aid projects within 
 Austin.\n\nJake Conroy, a long-time animal rights activist who was 
 sentenced to 4 years in prison for his involvement in one of the most 
 successful animal rights campaigns in history - Stop Huntingdon Animal 
 Cruelty (SHAC USA). Conroy has been involved in a wide range of activism 
 since 1995. After graduating from art school in 1996, Jake’s passion for 
 positive change led him to volunteer with and organize various campaigns on 
 local, regional, national and international levels. Dubbed the SHAC7, he 
 and his codefendants were tried as domestic terrorists for running a web 
 page, supporting controversial ideologies, and sharing ideas. Jake was 
 sentenced to 48 months, which he served in two prisons in southern 
 California.\n\nScott Parkin is a long time environmental and social justice 
 organizer based in San Francisco. He is currently a Senior Campaigner at 
 Rainforest Action Network, a core organizer with Rising Tide North America 
 and sits on the board of the Ruckus Society.While living in Texas, he 
 co-founded the Houston Global Awareness Collective (2001) and Dirty South 
 Earth First! (2003). Over the years, Parkin has participated in and/or 
 organized campaigns against George Bush’s war machine, ExxonMobil, 
 Maxxam, Halliburton, Citibank, Bank of America, Massey Energy and, most 
 recently, TransCanada. In 2005 Parkin was detained and then forcibly 
 removed from Australia after being deemed “a direct or indirect threat to 
 Australian national security” by a “competent Australian authority.” 
 \n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/11/22/18726221.php
SUMMARY:Grassroots Direct Action Movements with scott crow, Jake Conroy & Scott Parkin
LOCATION:The Holdout, 2313 San Pablo Ave, Oakland CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/11/22/18726221.php
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