Wednesday — Report-Back and Collective Coordinating Meeting to Articulate ‘Ways Forward’ — after the March Mobilization / Convergence / #FWS / Beyond
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Meeting to Articulate ‘Ways Forward’ — after the March Mobilization / Convergence /
#FWS / Beyond
CONTENTS:
0. About Wednesday
1. After the March, and Invited Guests
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0. About Wednesday
What: Report-Back and Ways Forward / Coordinating
Meeting
When: Wednesday, September 24th, 7:30 p.m.
Where: 16 Beaver Street, NY, NY
Who: Free and Open to all
Part One of tonight’s meeting will be a discussion round as a ‘report back’ from the
events of the march mobilization this weekend, and to articulate ‘ways forward’: What
sort of actions and processes do we want to see in the future?
Tonight’s meeting is designed as a coordination meeting to articulate connections
between
different housing activist initiatives in the city and to organize a specific
planning schedule for potential transversal direct action mobilization in the
coming weeks.
As Oscar Olivera stated powerfully in El Jardin del Paraiso this weekend, reclaiming
territory and envisioning all of the ways territories can be activated — as
generative spaces of autonomy and community and empowerment, and particularly to
overcome our fear and separation in the face of capitalism — is a beautiful
way to see how struggles for housing, climate justice, food sovereignty, and
community resilience practices converge. Tonight we hope to offer further
prefigurations and engage in a direct, practical conversation to articulate
ways forward in the domain of housing struggles in the city.
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1. ‘Food Sovereignty’ Component, and Invited Guests
As part of the discussion tonight — and as a way of embodying the transformation in
social
relations that will provide us with modes of continuing the activism from the
mobilization — we also will be joined by guests who will be speaking about
community and collective resilience through practices of ‘food sovereignty’.
Umang Kumar, a Cambridge-based activist will join us to present footage and
perspectives
from a food sovereignty tour of Venezuela, where dual-power ideas inform
the integration of housing projects, urban farms, and the university. He
will examine Venezuela’s attempts at food sovereignty from
the ideological point of view, not trying to present a story of
spectacular success but one of humble beginnings.
We hope to see guests from Spanish PAH, Picture the Homeless, and the New York City
Gardens coalition in attendance for the discussion.
Thanks and hope to see you.