Building a Culture of Resistance; Conversation & Training

GRAND JURIES, INDICTMENTS, COINTELPRO, HOMELAND SECURITY!
WHAT DO WE NEED TO KNOW IN ORDER TO BUILD RESISTANCE?
THIS WAVE OF REPRESSION IMPACTS EVERYONE WHO IS WORKING IN A MOVEMENT FOR
SOCIAL CHANGE!!!
YOU ARE INVITED TO – Building a Culture of Resistance Conversation and
Training
May 20, 2006 (10 am to 4 pm) 522 Valencia – 3rd floor**
A critically needed, day long intensive conversation and training With
presentations on the Historical Context of Counterinsurgency and the
Current Situation by:
· José Lopez, former grand jury resister and current Director of
the Puerto Rican Cultural Center, Chicago
· Black Panther Grand Jury resisters
· Nadia Winstead animal liberation movement grand jury resister
· Hatem Bazian, Professor of Islamic Studies, UC Berkeley
· Rachel Herzing, Center for Political Education and Critical
Resistance
PLUS: Breakout Sessions on Security Culture and Know Your Rights/Grand
Juries; International and Anti-Imperialist perspectives; Cultural
performances / short film excerpts
PLEASE CIRCULATE TO ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUALS INTERESTED IN SERIOUS
ENGAGEMENT AROUND THESE ISSUES.
Hosted by The International Political Prisoner Solidarity Group whose
member organizations include: Al-Awda Palestinian Right to Return
Coalition, BAYAN-USA, California Anarchist Prisoner Solidarity, Critical
Resistance, Collision Course Video, GABRIELA Network, International League
of People's Struggle, Jericho Amnesty Movement, Korean Action Network for
Unification Malcolm X Grassroots Movement.
(We apologize but 522 Valencia is not an accessible space. An accessible
space was originally reserved for this event but at the last minute the
reservation was canceled by the other venue.)