Current context/common visions: Building antiwar strategy in the Obama eraWe will engage participants in a dialogue on strategies for antimilitarist organizing in the U.S. At the beginning of the session, facilitators will lead activities in which participants will analyze the current landscape for antiwar organizing. This includes the complexities of living in the Obama era, the TEA party movement, and the relationship between the current economic collapse and U.S. militarism. Following this will be a discussion of current U.S. wars and occupations and the increasing trend towards privatization in the military. From there, participants will assess antiwar and antimilitarist organizing strategies that were used during the Bush era and those that are still used today, including G.I. resistance support, counter-recruitment, mass mobilization, and grassroots antiwar base-building. Through exercises and case studies, the larger group will engage questions about what worked well then, what continues to work well, and how we can update our strategies in response to current conditions. The goal of this session will be to get people engaged in a participatory dialogue about concrete steps that we can take to build effective organizing strategies and to plug more people into antimilitarist organizing.
Challenging Robotic Empire: how we can unplug the new machinery of military/police control through community resistance21st century popular movements, humanity, and the Earth's ecological fabric increasingly face a rapidly intensifying, terrifyingly real - but defeatable - matrix of emerging robotic weaponry, surveillance and control, as the corporate/military empire's new Industrial Revolution supercharges its war machine(s) and domestic control grid with robotics, biotech and nanotechnology - from the drone-bombed Pakistani villages to La Frontera and US neighborhoods. This workshop will engage participants in an interactive and strategic process to help popular movements pierce the illusion of "sanitized" war and sophisticated 21st century social control, while empowering people to effective resistance and alternatives: with presentation, interactive discussion, visuals, music, and action planning - including reports from organizing going on in Pittsburgh, DC, San Diego, Hood River, and Nevada - as we approach the bicentennial of the groundbreaking 1811 Luddite workers uprising.
Presenters: David Meieran, Nancy Lopez Mancias, Peter Lumsdaine, Joanne Sheehan, Jim Haber.
Contexto actual/visiones comunes: construyendo una estrategia contra la guerra en la era de ObamaWe will engage participants in a dialogue on strategies for antimilitarist organizing in the U.S. At the beginning of the session, facilitators will lead activities in which participants will analyze the current landscape for antiwar organizing. This includes the complexities of living in the Obama era, the TEA party movement, and the relationship between the current economic collapse and U.S. militarism. Following this will be a discussion of current U.S. wars and occupations and the increasing trend towards privatization in the military. From there, participants will assess antiwar and antimilitarist organizing strategies that were used during the Bush era and those that are still used today, including G.I. resistance support, counter-recruitment, mass mobilization, and grassroots antiwar base-building. Through exercises and case studies, the larger group will engage questions about what worked well then, what continues to work well, and how we can update our strategies in response to current conditions. The goal of this session will be to get people engaged in a participatory dialogue about concrete steps that we can take to build effective organizing strategies and to plug more people into antimilitarist organizing.
Retos al imperio robótico. Cómo podemos desenchufar la nueva maquinaria del control militar/policial a través de la resistencia comunitaria21st century popular movements, humanity, and the Earth's ecological fabric increasingly face a rapidly intensifying, terrifyingly real - but defeatable - matrix of emerging robotic weaponry, surveillance and control, as the corporate/military empire's new Industrial Revolution supercharges its war machine(s) and domestic control grid with robotics, biotech and nanotechnology - from the drone-bombed Pakistani villages to La Frontera and US neighborhoods. This workshop will engage participants in an interactive and strategic process to help popular movements pierce the illusion of "sanitized" war and sophisticated 21st century social control, while empowering people to effective resistance and alternatives: with presentation, interactive discussion, visuals, music, and action planning - including reports from organizing going on in Pittsburgh, DC, San Diego, Hood River, and Nevada - as we approach the bicentennial of the groundbreaking 1811 Luddite workers uprising.
Presenters: David Meieran, Nancy Lopez Mancias, Peter Lumsdaine, Joanne Sheehan, Jim Haber.