FREEDOM  IN  OUR  CALENDARS  AND GEOGRAPHIES

ESCUELITA ZAPATISTA AND TAR SANDS RESISTANCE – REFLECTIONS FROM A SUMMER OF BUILDING AUTONOMY AND SOVEREIGNTY
Saturday, 12/21/13, 6p-8p @ Project Reach, 39 Eldridge between Canal & Hester in Chinatown
with La Unión, Native Resistance Network
All welcome, please invite all! $5-$35+ No one turned away for lack of funds
For childcare & interpretation, please email to info[at]nativeresistancenetwork.com

This summer, at the invitation of the autonomous zapatista caracoles lands in rebellion, a group of Sunset Parkers traveled to Chiapas, Mexico to join 1000+ students from around the world to participate in the zapatista’s first Escuelita Zapatista, La Libertad Según Los y Las Zapatistas (The Little Zapatista SchoolFreedom According to the Zapatistas). The escuelita was a profound experience and opportunity to learn about how the zapatistas have built, incorporated and imagined their autonomy into daily life and their Good Government. In this reflection, we will share our own journey, fotos, stories, art, short video clips, sound, as well as our experiences with the zapatistas to explore possibilities for autonomy in our own ‘calendars and geographies’ here.

Additionally, we will present on the resistance to tar sands development by indigenous and settler activists across Canada. This talk will focus on tar sands resistance and its expression of Indigenous sovereignty through land defense, blockading, and healing walks. Turtle, an NYC/NJ area activist and student, has spent the past two summers living in Alberta, participating in a growing anti-tar sands movement. This past summer, they travelled to the autonomous Unist’ot’en Action Camp in British Columbia ((http//unistotencamp.com/); to Fort McMurray, for grassroots healing walks (http//www.healingwalk.org/); and canoed down the Athabasca River to the small First Nations community of Fort Chipewyan. The latter which is a community heavily impacted by upstream tar sands mining. Turtle will share videos, photos, and memories of time spent and friendships made, learning about the various forms of resistance to tar sands development.

ESCUELITA ZAPATISTA Y TAR SANDS RESISTANCIAREFLEXIONES SOBRE CONSTRUIR AUTONOMIA Y SOBERANIA
Este verano, por invitación de los caracoles autónomos zapatistas, un grupo de vecinos de Sunset Park viajamos a Chiapas y participamos en la 1a Escuelita Zapatita, La Libertad según los y las zapatistas. Ven a compartir lo profundo de esta experiencia y a explorar con nosotr@s las posibilidades para crecer en autonomía en nuestros propios calendarios y geografías. Traemos fotos, videos, audios, historias y nuestras experiencias vividas. Trae las tuyas!

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Uptown location coming soon hopefully!
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NEW HORIZONS FOR THE OLD LEFT – WHAT THE ZAPATISTAS TEACH CHILDREN OF LEFTIES
Sunday, 12/29/13, 1p-4p @ The Commons
388 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn
Donations will be asked
For childcare & interpretation, please contactour.autonomies<at>gmail<dot>com or
(917) 525-3518

Join us, three children of Lefties, in reflecting about our time with the zapatistas this summer at the escuelita. In this workshop, we’ll explore perceptions that the Left and the non-Left have of one another and share strategiesas the non-Left, how do we navigate the Left? And to the Left, how do you not be irrelevant or alienating to others? We draw on a mix of being raised by Maoists and other Leftists, our experiences with the zapatistas, and our experiences organizing and studying. Be prepared to participate and donate funds as you will.

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Wednesday, 1/1/14, Time & Locations TBA
Co-sponsored by Bluestockings
¡Celebrate! 20 years of zapatista uprising. Movies, pictures, escuelita report-back, fun!

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Contact us (our.autonomies<at>gmail<dot>com, 917-525-3518) if you can’t make it and you want us to come to your neighborhood, church, state, crew, city, school–near or far–to share freedom in our calendars and geographies!

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