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DESCRIPTION:How Do We Uproot the System and Build a Better World?  An Evening of Ideas 
 and Inspiration with contributors to the book Globalize Liberation: How to 
 Uproot the System and Better World  **A benefit to reprint and distribute 
 "Horizontalism: Popular Power in Argentina" to social movements in 
 Argentina and across Latin America.**  (more info at end)  Featuring:  
 Marina Sitrin, Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez, Patrick Reinsborough, Ramsey 
 Kanaan, Rachel Neumann, Chris Crass, Jennifer Whitney, and David Solnit  
 Tuesday, May 31st - 7 PM  AK Press  674-A 23rd. St, Oakland  b/t MLK and 
 San Pablo - near 19th St. BART and West Grand Exit of 80/980  All events at 
 AK Press are wheelchair accessible.  MARINA SITRIN is the editor of 
 "Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina," an oral account of 
 the recent autonomous social movements in Argentina.  Marina lived in 
 Argentina for parts of the last two years, working closely with Argentine 
 activists to create and distribute the book. Marina is a New York 
 City-based activist, writer, popular educator, lawyer and dreamer. She is a 
 cofounder of the Peoples' Law Collective and currently works with Woomera, 
 a no borders immigrants' rights group.  ELIZABETH "BETITA" MARTINEZ is an 
 inspiring and engaging organizer, activist, and thinker who has been key to 
 chicana/o, women of color and  multiracial stuggles. She was a Student 
 Nonviolent Coordinating Committee organizer during the civil rights 
 movement, a pioneer in the women's liberation movement, and has worked as a 
 community organizer in New Mexico and California.  She also cofounded and 
 works with the Institute for Multi-Racial Justice and is the author of "500 
 Years of Chicano History in Pictures," "Viva La Causa," and "De Colores 
 Means All Of Us."  PATRICK REINSBOROUGH is the cofounder of the SmartMeme 
 Training and Strategy Project, spent four years as the organizing director 
 of the Rainforest Action Network, and is a longtime grassroots organizer, 
 campaigner, and media  strategist who has worked on issues including forest 
 protection, police brutality, peace in Northern Ireland, indigenous rights, 
 and numerous local and  global environmental justice struggles.  RAMSEY 
 KANAAN was a working class community organizer in Scotland who help 
 initiate and organize the successful Poll Tax Rebellion (which was key in 
 toppling Margaret Thatcher), and is the founder and a collective member of 
 AK Press.  RACHEL NEUMANN is an activist who has worked in Palestine with 
 the International Solidarity Movement, the Rights & Liberties editor of 
 AlterNet, a writer, a mother and the editor of "Anti-Capitalism: A Field 
 Guide to the Global  Justice Movement."  CHRIS CRASS is an organizer with 
 Catalyst Project, a center for political education and movement building 
 that focuses on anti-racist strategies based in left/radical leadership 
 development, strengthening grassroots fighting  organizations, and 
 multiracial alliance building.  JENNIFER WHITNEY is an activist and writer 
 who has covered popular rebellions in Bolivia, Mexico, and Argentina, and 
 is the co-editor of "We Are Everywhere: the irresistible rise of global 
 anticapitalism." She is co founder of the Infernal Noise Brigade, and a 
 health care worker involved in the Black Cross Health Collective in 
 Portland, and  organizes clinics and  street medic teams for direct 
 actions.  DAVID SOLNIT is the editor of "Globalize Liberation: How to 
 Uproot the System and Build a Better World," both an organizing-inspiration 
 manual and an articulation of the new radicalism 
 (http://www.globalizeliberation.org). David is a puppeteer and co-founder 
 of Art and Revolution, and a longtime activist in the direct action, global 
 justice, anti-war, environmental justice, and community  struggles.  He is 
 currently organizing with the People Powered Strategy Project and the GI 
 resistance support group, Courage to Resist.  **The book,  "Horizontalism: 
 Popular Power in Argentina" was printed in Argentina at a re-occupied 
 worker controlled printshop and has been  used widely across Argentina and 
 Latin America for popular education about "horizontalidad," the hopeful new 
 radicalism that has emerged in Argentina and across the globe. It is an 
 oral account by on-the-ground activists and thinkers  involved in the 
 ongoing popular rebellion that toppled the goverment, forced the 
 non-payment of their IMF debt and has changed day-to-day life for millions 
 of Argentines. The English version will be published in English in the 
 coming year.   "Horizontalism in Argentina," an article drawn from the 
 book, can be read at:  
 http://www.leftturn.org/Articles/Viewer.aspx?id=447&type=w  \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/05/30/67663.php
SUMMARY:How Do We Uproot the System and Build a Better World?
LOCATION:AK Press  674-A 23rd. St, Oakland  btwn MLK and San Pablo - near 19th St. 
 BART and West Grand Exit of 80/980  All events at AK Press are wheelchair 
 accessible.  
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/05/30/67663.php
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