BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//69.73.141.125//NONSGML iCalcreator 2.2.6// VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Conference CONTACT:Phone: Email: DESCRIPTION:The theme for the 2010 anarchism and Christianity conference em erges out of the knowledge that without grasping the systems that shape ou r society — without understanding as well as we can how we got to where we are today — our ability to examine\, unmask and resist the oppressive forces we encounter and create new\, just life-ways will be crippled. To resist the powers of environmental destruction\, of empire\, of racism and a host of other social sins we must have more than just a passing underst anding of how these death-dealing problems came to be. We must be willing to get at the root in order to discern a better way forward and sow new se eds. Come and dig deep together. Geographical Scope: National DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100807 DTSTAMP:20100730T040518Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100806 GEO:0.000000;0.000000 LOCATION:1312 SE 35th Ave\, Portland\, Oregon\, United States SUMMARY:Jesus Radicals 2010 - In the Beginning: Anarchism\, Christianity an d the Roots of Resistance UID:20100730T000518EDT-umfBzUluvp@69.73.141.125 URL:http://www.jesusradicals.com/conference/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Conference CONTACT:Phone: Email: DESCRIPTION:REGISTER TODAY!\n\nJoin us for the 3rd biennial\n\nMoney for Ou r Movements: \n\nA Social Justice Fundraising Conference\n\n(the conferenc e formerly known as Raising Change: A Social Justice Fundraising Conferenc e)\n\nAugust 12-13\, 2010\n\nMills College\n\nOakland\, CA\n\nView highlig hts from GIFT\\'s 2008 conference:\n\n \n\n\nSmartPhone Users: Watch the v ideo here\n\n\nBe part of this national space to discuss\, learn\, and sha re how to resource our movements\, and where grassroots fundraising is par t of our political vision.\n\nJoin us for 40 workshops\, 25 facilitated di scussions\, 60 one-on-one fundraising clinics\, 2 keynotes and our popular debate! \n2010 Keynote Speakers:\n\nAi-jen Poo\, on Fundraising and Organ izing with Love: Ai-jen has been organizing immigrant women workers in New York since 1996. She served as the first staff and Lead Organizer for Dom estic Workers United\, which helped form the National Domestic Workers All iance. Ai-jen serves on the Board of Social Justice Leadership\, the Labor Advisory Board at Cornell ILR School\, and the editorial board of the New Labor Forum. \n\nCara Page on Staying Resilient in Tough Times: Lessons f rom our Movements\\' Histories: Cara coordinates the Kindred Southern Heal ing Justice Collective\, based in Atlanta. As a Black queer artist\, organ izer and healing arts practitioner living in the South\, she works for que er liberation\, reproductive justice\, environmental and economic justice. She\\'s on the national board of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence\ , is a co-trainer of the Southerners on New Ground (SONG) Organizing Schoo l\, and works in partnership with the Atlanta Transformative Justice Colla borative\, SINS INVALID\, Project South and the Young Women\\'s Empowermen t Project. She was the national director of the Committee on Women\, Popul ation and the Environment and she\\'s also an alumna of GIFT\\'s internshi p program.\n\nDebate on Insider vs. Outsider Strategies \n\nModerated by L ibero Della Piana\, Communist Party USA\n\nDebaters:\n\nKim Klein (Klein & Roth Consulting)\n\nMike Roque (Denver Office of Strategic Partnerships) \n\nRinku Sen (Applied Research Center & Colorlines Magazine)\n\nAbdi Solt ani (ACLU of Northern California)\n\nMoney for Our Movements (August 12-13 \, 2010 in Oakland\, CA ) is the next version of Raising Change: A Social Justice Fundraising Conference\, which GIFT (Grassroots Institute for Fund raising Training) presented in 2006 and 2008. The conference brings togeth er hundreds of fundraisers\, activists\, and organizers to share our colle ctive wisdom\, skills\, and talents and grapple with tough questions:\n\\' How can we raise the money we need to further social justice?\\'\n\\'How c an we take advantage of the political moment to push forward large-scale c hanges?\\'\n\\'How can we shift the conversation from institution-building to movement-building\, but still mobilize sufficient resources?\\'\n\nGiv en the economic crisis and the political moment\, the challenge of mobiliz ing sufficient resources to make change is again at the forefront. The tim e is right for us to come together to discuss the political implications o f funding. It is crucial that we discuss how to raise money in communities of color\, immigrant communities\, and low-income communities. It is for our survival that we learn and share how to integrate fundraising into org anizing and other program work. At the same time\, we are helping support the leadership of people of color and young people.\n\nQuestions? Contact T. Ayoka Turner\, Conference Coordinator\n\nconference@grassrootsfundraisi ng.org Geographical Scope: National DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100813 DTSTAMP:20100730T040518Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100812 GEO:0.000000;0.000000 LOCATION:Mills College\, Oakland\, California\, United States SUMMARY:Money for Our Movements: A Social Justice Fundraising Conference 20 10 UID:20100730T000518EDT-bZVL7VuRNd@69.73.141.125 URL:http://www.grassrootsfundraising.org/index.php?topic=conference END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Conference CONTACT:Phone: Email: DESCRIPTION:Mark your calendars now for the 2010 Convention\, which will ce lebrate VFP’s 25th anniversary and look ahead to the unfinished work of promoting peace and progressive politics in a time of global war and econo mic retrenchment. The meeting will be held from August 25-29 and\, fittin gly\, in Maine\, the birthplace of Veterans For Peace in 1985. Portland\ , Maine\, a vibrant\, beautiful coastal city located on a peninsula in Cas co Bay\, will be the host city for the Convention under the sponsorship o f VFP Chapters 1 and 3. The Convention Headquarters will be the Holiday I nn by the Bay Hotel and Convention Center. \n\nThe 25th Anniversary Conve ntion is a unique opportunity for progressive\, activist veterans from aro und the country to come together to understand the organization’s past\, to meet and enjoy its present\, and to help plan its future in these frau ght times. \n\nCome to Maine in August. Let the voices of veterans be heard in their collective strength. \n\n\n \n\nConvention Highlights \nPoetry event recognizing the editors and contributors to Winning Hearts and Minds\, and Demilitarized Zones\, collections of poems by Vietnam ve terans\, followed by open mike. \nOpening reflections by Jerry Genesio \, a principal founder of Veterans For Peace. \nOpening keynote by Chris H edges\, one of the country’s most prolific and provocative progressive w riters.\nA Public Meeting in Portland featuring the NAACP\, Native America n and labor organizations\, and representatives of Portland’s immigrant and marriage equality communities. Entertainment by Inanna\, a dynamic wom en’s drumming ensemble.\nFriday evening lobster bake on nearby Peak’s Island.\nBreakout sessions to bring the concerns and ideas of the membersh ip to the organization’s leaders and to set policy goals for 2010-2011.\ nBanquet featuring Noel Paul Stookey\, of the revered group\, Peter\, Paul and Mary \nMarch and rally around the city of Portland ending at Post Office Park Geographical Scope: National DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20100829 DTSTAMP:20100730T040518Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20100825 GEO:0.000000;0.000000 LOCATION:Bay Holiday Inn\, Portland\, Maine\, 04100\, United States SUMMARY:Veterans for Peace 25th Anniversary Convention UID:20100730T000518EDT-bjzL1PUwmJ@69.73.141.125 URL:http://www.vfpnationalconvention.org/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Convergence CONTACT:Phone: Email: DESCRIPTION:The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have a well- deserved\nreputation for being the loan sharks of global capitalism. Both\ ninstitutions are infamous for forcing poor countries in the global south\ nto ruin their own economies in order to further enrich Western\ncorporati ons. Nations who decline to borrow money at exorbitant interest\nrates and then beggar their populations to pay it back (or worse\, default\non thei r existing debt)\, are subjected to trade sanctions that have been\ndescri bed as “the economic equivalent of nuclear war.”\nThe neoliberal regim e represented by the IMF has generated intense\, and\nlargely successful\, resistance across the world. In Argentina a popular\nrevolt in response t o the 2001 economic collapse\, caused by strict\nadherence to neoliberal p olicies\, saw three governments toppled in a\nmonth. Piqueteros threw up b arricades of burning tires on the highways\,\n workers took over their fac tories\, and “Que se vayan todos!” became the\nrallying cry for an ent ire nation. After the passage of NAFTA in 1994\, the\nZapatistas establish ed their own autonomous territory in the Mexican state of Chiapas\n that s urvives to this day\, in spite of continuous government repression.\nIn No rth America and Europe massive protests greeted neoliberal elites at\never y summit\, including Seattle in 1999 when the World Trade Organization\nme eting was completely shut down. In Barcelona in 2001 the World Bank\ncance led a summit entirely for fear of protests.\n\nMore recently\, world leade rs have attempted to re-establish neoliberalism\nunder the guise of recove ring from the economic collapse that they\nthemselves caused. The IMF has been recapitalized with 1.1 trillion\ndollars from the G20 group of nation s. Employers everywhere are slashing\nwages\, as governments cut social se rvices correspondingly\, all justified\nby calls to “share the pain.” Resistance has intensified accordingly.\nWildcat strikes in Bangladesh hav e periodically crippled the garment\nindustry there\, as workers demand sa fety improvements and back wages.\nProtesters in Romania have held huge de monstrations against\ngovernment-imposed austerity measures. The entire co untry of Greece has\nbeen virtually ungovernable since the riots over the police murder of a\n15-year old in December 2008. Riots\, general strikes and insurrection are\ncommon occurrences. Farmers blockade the Bulgarian b order with their\ntractors and banners are dropped from the Acropolis. The announcement in\nApril that the Greek government would be instituting aus terity measures as\npart of an IMF/European Union bank bailout sent 200\,0 00 protesters into\nthe streets in Athens alone.\n\nHere in the US\, groun d zero for neoliberalism\, reaction to the financial\ncollapse has been co mparatively muted. Recent protests have not approached\nthe size and inten sity of those of the antiglobalization era. The IMF\nResistance Network ex ists to help change that. We are an East coast-based\nantiauthoritarian gr oup dedicated to organizing demonstrations against IMF\nand World Bank sum mit meetings in Washington\, DC. The next one is on\nOctober 9 – 11 of t his year.\n\nYou’re all invited. Details will follow shortly.\n\nSee you in the streets\,\nThe IMF Resistance Network Geographical Scope: Nationa l DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20101011 DTSTAMP:20100730T040518Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20101009 GEO:38.881800;-76.994500 LOCATION:Washington\, District Of Columbia\, 20003\, United States SUMMARY:Resist the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Annual Meetin gs UID:20100730T000518EDT-uNuX7usJVJ@69.73.141.125 URL:http://imfresistance.org/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Conference CONTACT:Phone: Email: DESCRIPTION:The 2010 national convention for Students for a Democratic Soci ety (SDS) will be taking place in Milwaukee\, Wisconsin on October 22-24.\ n\nCoast to coast\, SDS chapters and allies will arrive to build connectio ns\, campaigns\, and political clarity in these times of economic crisis\, environmental catastrophe\, racist\, anti-immigrant attacks\, and continu ing \nwars overseas. \n\nThrough workshops and plenaries\, SDS chapters wi ll share their many rich experiences\, including helping lead the national struggle for education rights\, organizing protests against the wars in I raq and Afghanistan\, coordinating mass action against Arizona\\'s SB1070\ , and boycotting Israel. \n\nRachel Matteson\, of Milwaukee SDS\, was one of the 16 arrested during UW-Milwaukee\\'s March 4th national day of actio n to defend education rights. She continues to help lead the education rig hts struggle\, and says: \\'Milwaukee is succeeding in building a strong a nd committed chapter. We look forward to extending this unity and to the o pportunity to learn from the many committed organizers in SDS\, to share o ur experiences and to inspire a new wave of SDS to take up the struggle fo r revolutionary change.\\' \n\nSDS is a radical\, multi-issue organization grounded in the principles of participatory democracy. With dozens of cha pters nation-wide\, we encourage newcomers to also attend. \n\nhttp://news ds.org/. \n\nFund Education\, Not Occupation! \n\n\n----- Logistics -----\ n\nFor questions\, please contact: students4democraticsociety@gmail.com \n \nHousing: We will provide free housing.\n\nFood: We are preparing to prov ide free meals (vegan friendly).\n\nCost: We have a limited amount of mone y available for reimbursements for low-income youth.\n\nIf you need other accommodations\, please contact us.\n\n\n----- Workshops -----\n\nWe are p lanning workshops on:\n\nEducation Rights\nClass/Classism\nFlier Design\nP resswork\nAnti-War\nRace/Ethnicity\nSex/Gender\nRecruitment\nETC. Geograp hical Scope: National DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20101024 DTSTAMP:20100730T040518Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20101022 GEO:0.000000;0.000000 LOCATION:University Of Wisconsin\, Milwaukee\, United States SUMMARY:2010 SDS National Convention UID:20100730T000518EDT-uouChoaenm@69.73.141.125 URL:http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=139456759403650 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR