Hello all, this month we’re hosting a series of action-oriented workshops to build skill sets and network before summer hits! come join us:
http://www.facebook.com/events/400802793292992/
National Political Prisoner Support with the Never Alone Tour
TONIGHT! Thursday, April 26th 2012
7-9pm Ben Linder Room
Event is free and open to the public!
The nationwide Never Alone tour will be crisscrossing the country in April 2012, featuring the usual suspects speaking about long-term anarchist prisoner support. Focusing specifically on the cases of Eric McDavid and Marie Mason, the tour will mark the spots where the events of these cases unfolded, using multimedia presentations to bring the facts of these cases to light.
As well as raising awareness and support for Eric and Marie, the tour will also feature strategizing about how to more effectively grow a culture of resistance that can breach the prison walls and sustain us and our friends for the long term, a security culture beyond 101 workshop (updated for 2012, now with extra tech!) and some awesome guest speakers. Truly, you won’t want to miss this.
Queer Resistance in the Age of Austerity: A Presentation by Tegan Eanelli and Fray Baroque; editors of “Queer Ultra Violence: Bash Back! Anthology”
TOMORROW! Friday, April 27th 2012
7-9pm, Survival Center, University of Oregon EMU
Free event! Potluck dinner provided!
As capitalism and the state are thrown into deeper and deeper crisis, queers and all others historically excluded from both formal economies and from the safety net of the nuclear family, will bear the brunt of the age of austerity. Reflecting critically on the past several years of radical queer action and imagination, the editors of Bash Back! Queer Ultraviolence will attempt to navigate queer space and potential in a world torn by crisis. Through this talk, Eanelli and Baroque will present a series of proposals for action and survival, taking as their starting point the position of queer autonomy and queer revolt against the State and Capital. This lecture will theorize queer gangs, self-defense networks, occupations, communes and a praxis of vengeance.
Love and Struggle Book Tour: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground and Beyond
Monday, April 30th 2012
7pm, Ben Linder room, University of Oregon EMU
Completely Free Event!
“A nice Jewish boy from suburban Boston—hell, an Eagle Scout!—David Gilbert arrived at Columbia University just in time for the explosive Sixties. From the early anti-Vietnam War protests to the founding of SDS, from the Columbia Strike to the tragedy of the Townhouse, Gilbert was on the scene: as organizer, theoretician, and above all, activist. He was among the first militants who went underground to build the clandestine resistance to war and racism known as “Weatherman.” And he was among the last to emerge, in captivity, after the disaster of the 1981 Brink’s robbery, an attempted expropriation that resulted in four deaths and long prison terms. In this extraordinary memoir, written from the maximum-security prison where he has lived for almost thirty years, Gilbert tells the intensely personal story of his own Long March from liberal to radical to revolutionary. “
Presented by Walidah Imarisha, a poet, activist, educator and independent journalist. Walidah has taught at Portland State University in the Black Studies Department. She is the bad half of the poetry duo Good Sista/Bad Sista. Her poetic, political and academic work centers around prisons, creating community based alternatives and institutions and the intersection of oppression.
Tuesday April 17th
5-7 pm, Workshop at Grower’s Market, 454 Willamette St. Eugene, OR (2nd Floor) by the train station (Look for a round table.)
8-11 pm, Riot-folk Concert at Lorax Manner, 1648 Alder St. Eugene, OR
Spring term has started and along with it we bring you…PRISON ABOLITION APRIL!
“Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo – obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other.” -Angela Davis
2 million people are currently being exploited in our racist, classist, and ultimately ineffective prison system. Join us to learn more through theater, discussion. documentaries, workshops and speakers all month! Brought to you by the Survival Center and the U of O Prison Justice Working Group
Thursday, April 12th: Cruel and Unusual Punishment Screening; Lawrence 177 @ 8 PM
Thursday, April 19th, COINTELPRO Screening Oregon Jericho; Willamette 110 @ 7 PM
Friday-Sunday April 20th-22nd: Alternatives To Violence Workshop
Thursday, April 26th, Sacramento Prisoner Support Tour with Jeff Luers; Ben Linder Room @ 7 PM
Friday, April 27th: Queer Ultra-Violence Book Tour; 7 PM potluck in the Survival Center
Monday, April 30th: “Love and Struggle” reading with Walidah Imarisha, 7 PM in the Ben Linder Room
Tuesday, May 1st: Strike! See you in the streets.
Come hear Charles Eisenstein, author of Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition. Discover his powerful, mind-opening account of history, social analysis, solutions and new possibilities for the future of money, economics and the quality of our lives and our future. Learn how we can all benefit in this vision and contribute to it. Explore a new economic world filled with:
* gifting, sharing, and generosity
* local money and resilient communities
* a commons that’s thriving and expanding
* negative interest that generates greater, truer wealth
* liberated human passion, caring, and contributions
* societies freed of concentrated, corrupted power
* economics that takes seriously all damage to nature and people
* lives transformed from alienation to vibrant interdependence
* and much, much more
Discover economics as if people and nature really mattered….enlightened economics that knows we are all connected…
MARCH 10 – AN EVENING WITH CHARLES EISENSTEIN
Saturday March 10 – 7-10pm
Columbia 150, U of O campus
There will also be an all day workshop on Sunday!
http://www.facebook.com/events/235895713164854/
Love and rage,
Survival Center
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore reads: WHY ARE FAGGOTS SO AFRAID OF FAGGOTS? Her NEW book!
Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the editor of four amazing anthologies about race, gender, sexuality, sex work, and feminism.
Mattilda’s activism has included work with ACT UP and GAY SHAME. Her newest anthology is entitled Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform. We want to give her a warm reception for a reading from this new book!
EMU, Ben Linder Room!
Hope to see all of your lovely faces there!
<3 Survival Center
The Survival Center, Multicultural Center and “As You Like It” present:
“Ethical Sluthood” a talk and Q&A with Janet Hardy
Willamette 100, Thursday January 26 at 7pm
Ethical Sluthood: Foundations of Nontraditional Lifestyles
This workshop will offer a place to discuss and explore lifestyles that go beyond the traditional monogamous model. Can you maintain supportive relationships in a world where the only sexua…l boundaries are the ones you set yourself? How do you feel secure when your partner has a date (with someone cuter than you)? What is jealousy, and can it be overcome? Come listen, talk, and learn about how to build the lifestyle you want. This class is open to all genders and orientations. This event is all ages and FREE!
Janet W. Hardy is a mass of seeming contradictions: mother and slut, dominatrix and homebody, intellectual and showtune queen.
The author or coauthor of ten groundbreaking books about relationships and sexuality, including The Ethical Slut (more than 100,000 copies sold to date in two editions), Janet has traveled the world as a speaker and teacher on topics ranging from ethical multipartner relationships to erotic spanking and beyond. She is the mother of two grown sons and the veteran of many relationships, kinky and vanilla, with men and women and people in between.
For more info about Janet Hardy http://www.janetwhardy.com/
Much Love,
SC
Thursday, January 19th the Survival Center will host a screening of the film Cultures of Resistance!
Facebook event:
http://www.facebook.com/events/271115586286088/
Trailer:
Film website:
http://films.culturesofresistance.org/
This is the first of many radical events we will be hosting this term, hope to see you all there!
Love and Solidarity,
The Survival Center
Luz Rivera Martinez, a long-time Mexican labor activist visited campus on Tuesday. She gave an amazing presentation, sharing her almost 20 years of community organizing. Check out a recording here…
Enjoy!
Last week, we had two great events that explored the existence of Political Prisoners in the United States. We left both events informed and enraged. Thank you so much Oregon Jericho and Civil Liberties Defense Center for sharing with us!
Below are some links to more information, including the presentation and powerpoint given by Adam Carpinelli and Jeff “Free” Luers. If you didn’t make it, I hope you take some time to check it out.
Resistance and Justice by Free
Solidarity!
