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8/14 Screening of Soma: An Anarchist Therapy in Watsonville
Documentary screening:
Soma: An Anarchist Therapy
8/14/2006 - Monday
7pm
http://www.brownberets.info
18 W Lake Ave, Watsonville, CA 95076
the film maker, Nick from Houston Indymedia will be present to do a Q & A and a workshop
Soma: An Anarchist Therapy
8/14/2006 - Monday
7pm
http://www.brownberets.info
18 W Lake Ave, Watsonville, CA 95076
the film maker, Nick from Houston Indymedia will be present to do a Q & A and a workshop
SOMA: an anarchist therapy
With difficulty walking, and half-blinded from torture by the Brazilian 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 Paulo to find the exercises, principles, voices, and movement of somatherapy.
more info and trailer: http://somadocumentary.com
workshop: Nazis Vs. Zapatistas: The Struggle Against Cooptation
Lao-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.
Working 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 far right, including: The Ku Klux Klan, Focus on the Family / Lovewonout, 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 principles, 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.
more info: http://www.nickcooper.com/antipowerworkshop.htm
With difficulty walking, and half-blinded from torture by the Brazilian 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 Paulo to find the exercises, principles, voices, and movement of somatherapy.
more info and trailer: http://somadocumentary.com
workshop: Nazis Vs. Zapatistas: The Struggle Against Cooptation
Lao-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.
Working 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 far right, including: The Ku Klux Klan, Focus on the Family / Lovewonout, 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 principles, 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.
more info: http://www.nickcooper.com/antipowerworkshop.htm
For more information:
http://somadocumentary.com
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look either your evil or your just dumb but larouche is not far right or right for that matter, larouche is the one guy on that list that is attacking all those other guys, wlym.com study that.
While it's true that Lyndon LaRouche wouldn't usualy be categorized as far right, I throw him in with the other groups for displaying certain fascist tendencies. I relate this specifically to two things.
One is his tendency towards conspiracy theories. There is much interesting material about how the obsessions with conspiracy theories in pre-fascist Germany fed into Hitler's propaganda. The problem is not that LaRouchies think there are conspiracies going on (indeed there are), but that they find these theories essential for mobilizing, informing, and understanding. This leads to highly peripheral, personal, but enticing critiques of leaders and thinkers. To me, the most important way to criticize your governor is not to trace his familial connections to Nazis, it is to follow his words and actions. The most important way to criticize authors like Hannah Arendt or Noam Chomsky is not to focus on who they dated or what portrait is on their wall, but to focus on their words. They have written enough of them to do so.
The other tendency is his belief that art and culture can be evaluated objectively, and the better forms can be divined by educated and refined people like LaRocuhe followers. They can write off rock music as all being connected to Satanism, and find Bach and counterpoint to be logically better for people. This inherently authoritarian idea is incompatable with my support for the Zapatista principles of "one no and many yeses" and "a world in which many worlds fit." Whether I like your music or not, I am not going to tell you it is inferior to what is in my ipod.
Lastly, there is this fascinating parallel I have found between the way Lyndon LaRouche supporters talk about him "he has figured these things out better than anyone else on the planet" and the way that Revolutionary Communist Party members talk about their leader.
I would be glad to get into those further with you, as they are big topics, but I am not particularly inspired by your response here, so I will just write these brief comments.
One is his tendency towards conspiracy theories. There is much interesting material about how the obsessions with conspiracy theories in pre-fascist Germany fed into Hitler's propaganda. The problem is not that LaRouchies think there are conspiracies going on (indeed there are), but that they find these theories essential for mobilizing, informing, and understanding. This leads to highly peripheral, personal, but enticing critiques of leaders and thinkers. To me, the most important way to criticize your governor is not to trace his familial connections to Nazis, it is to follow his words and actions. The most important way to criticize authors like Hannah Arendt or Noam Chomsky is not to focus on who they dated or what portrait is on their wall, but to focus on their words. They have written enough of them to do so.
The other tendency is his belief that art and culture can be evaluated objectively, and the better forms can be divined by educated and refined people like LaRocuhe followers. They can write off rock music as all being connected to Satanism, and find Bach and counterpoint to be logically better for people. This inherently authoritarian idea is incompatable with my support for the Zapatista principles of "one no and many yeses" and "a world in which many worlds fit." Whether I like your music or not, I am not going to tell you it is inferior to what is in my ipod.
Lastly, there is this fascinating parallel I have found between the way Lyndon LaRouche supporters talk about him "he has figured these things out better than anyone else on the planet" and the way that Revolutionary Communist Party members talk about their leader.
I would be glad to get into those further with you, as they are big topics, but I am not particularly inspired by your response here, so I will just write these brief comments.
For more information:
http://nickcooper.com
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