Brooklyn Base: A New Social Center

[Michael Premo]

A few of you have you have mentioned this project. Here is a brief article from the group involved with The Brooklyn Base: A New Social Center.

Please don't forward this. I will send a link to the final version of this once it's published on some blogs. I'm just on an email loop asking for support and to spread the word.

Begin:

Taking a superficial glance of the landscape in New York City, one immediately realizes thesheer lack of organizing social spaces in the city, and in the adjacent boroughs. While there are a few, in a city of this magnitude we would truly like to see a burgeoning amount of spaces with varied ideas and approaches thriving here. In response, a group of us local organizers have come together create a space to give long term tenacity to movements and struggles. After a few months of arduous work we are proud to announce the launch of a new project called The Base!

 

The Base will be a sociopolitical space in Bushwick, Brooklyn, committed to the dissemination of radical-left ideas and organizing. The mission of the space is to spread ideas and practices to the broader populace and provide a place where individuals can learn, grow, and organize outside of traditional activist and educational institutions. We will provide a foundation for fostering the ideas and theory of people who have either a preliminary background in political thought, or who have not grappled with political theory at any level. Furthermore, we will establish a framework where creative modes of sharing will be encouraged, with the goal of spreading these modes beyond the confines of the space itself. We intend to establish a sociopolitical model in New York City where participants can create projects that are expansive and creative. Lastly, this will be a place where people can grapple with, organize, and find solutions to issues that affect their living situation in a constructive environment.

 

We currently run some well received, established projects that will have a new home in thespace: biweekly boxing lessons by an amateur boxing instructor, a renters rights cooperative, a monthly goods sharing event which incorporates a local tradition, DIY skillshares, for example an urban foraging seminar, silk screening lessons, and construction lessons, free dinners. Other projects that will now have a dependable space: Spanish and English lessons, weekly film screenings for students, talks focusing on radical Brooklyn history, college student run political discussion group and radio show, a meeting space for several worker-organized groups, offset printing workshops and use.

Please help us fundraise for this endeavor: http://www. kickstarter.com/projects/ thebase/the-base

For more information, check out this interview: http://www.shareable.net/blog/free-radicals-sharing-as-political-organizing

Contact us here: www.facebook.com/brooklyn.base

@TheBaseBK

theb...@gmail.com

Michael Premo

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