October Offensive: Oct. 16-18: a weekend of movement building, parading, and partying

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an amazing array of awesome actions and adventures!  

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From: Cory Fischer-Hoffman <cor...@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:41 PM
Subject: October Offensive: Oct. 16-18: a weekend of movement building, parading, and partying

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***Reminder (tonight!):***
Monday, October 12
Down with Colonialism movie Screenings:
The Shoe Shop- 1652 Ridge Ave.
7pm


Friday, October 16:

Reform is not Enough!

voices from immigrant communities in Philadelphia
Calvary Church
48th & Baltimore Ave., West. Philly
7pm

Film Screening of videos produced by immigrant community members in philadelphia. Followed by discussion and information about local campaigns for immigrant and human rights in Philadelphia.

Cosponsoring Organizations:
New Sanctuary Movement
Media Moblizing Project
Prometheus Radio Project
Juntos: Casa de los Soles
Defenestrator
Radio Tlacuache

http://defenestrator.org/reforma_no_es_sufficiente

Saturday October 17th

Peoplehood Parade & Pageant
Times and Locations:
1pm: Paul Robeson House (50th & Walnut): parade departs for Clark Park (45th & Chester)
2:30pm: pageant at Clark Park

http://www.spiralq.org/peoplehood.html

The National Mining Table of El Salvador Speaks Out in Philadelphia
Presentation of “The Mysterious Death of Marcelo Rivera” with
filmmaker Jamie Moffett
Time: 4-6pm
Location: Tabernacle United Church
3700 Chestnut St.
Philadelphia, PA

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/event.php?eid=151465061770&ref=nf

DANCE PARTY:
Fancyhouse turns 100 years old
Time: 8pm-2am
Location: 4951 Catherine St.

come celebrate like its 1909!
drinks and dancing
cost: $5

Sunday, October 18

Another World Is Waiting: Games and Dialogue for Building the World We Need.
Time: 12:15-2:30pm
Location: Studio 34, 4522 Baltimore Ave.
Facilatators: Henry Harris, Foodower and Jade Walker, The Mill Creek Farm

Please come spend some time with us and members of your community and practice remembering that we need to change society.  In every aspect of
our work, wherever we have the opportunity, we need to incorporate a solid sense that we actually have to replace the destructive way we are living
with a constructive way to live. Economically, agriculturally, educationally, ecologically, we are living a lifestyle that is clearly unsafe and unethical.

What are we going to do about it?  How do we maintain the discipline to keep asking that question of ourselves, of the people around us, and to
take opportunities to collaborate with other people so we can get this party started already?

Come have a good time and help us develop this conversation and this sense that we all need to get where we're going together.  The sky's the limit.

Resisting the Economic Crisis! From The G20 Protests to Philly
Location: Calvary Church (48th and Baltimore Avenue)
Time: 7pm
On September 24th, the twenty richest countries in the world came toPittsburgh to "fix" the global economy, where they were greeted by massprotests against an economic system that benefits the wealthy.  Over 100people traveled to the G20 together in a "People's Caravan" that metwith grassroots community groups from across Pennsylvania, includingtrailer park residents resisting eviction and people fighting pollutionfrom coal mines.

The struggle for economic and social justice didn't start with thecaravan and it didn't end in Pittsburgh.  For years people have beenstruggling for change in the neighborhoods, schools and workplaces of Philadelphia.  Come to the Cavalry Church on October 18th and meetamazing groups fighting for economic justice right in our backyard!

Featuring:
The People's Caravan
Coalition to Save the Libraries
Media Mobilizing Project
Philly Student Union
Casino Free Philadelphia
Student Labor Action Project

Thursday, October 22

Corn as a Metaphor: Exploring the Politics and Spirituality of Corn and the Work We Do

Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Location: Studio 34, 4522 Baltimore Ave.
Facilatators: Chris Bolden-Newsome, Martin Luther King High School
Farm and Jade Walker, The Mill Creek Farm

This workshop will help build an analysis around systems of oppression that not only is relevant in our daily work but that challenges the
systems of oppression within our work. We call this space to offer corn as our metaphor for the good and evil in the food system. This workshop will
open the space for people to fill in the world historical timeline with their experience of corn and build on that in light of the following
historically connected themes:
• Spirituality/Myth
• Indigenous growing/preparation practices
• Colonization
• Corn Today
• NAFTA and its results
• Government subsidies
 -The dumping of high fructose corn syrup and other corn by-product infused commodity foods into prisons and public schools etc...

Our objective is that participants in this conversation to leave with the
ability to see their work in a historical context as a vehicle for social
change. The ideas handled in this conversation will help to grow an
engaged understanding of corn that will contribute to a Food Justice
praxis.

Questions about either workshop or to request childcare please contact:
Jade Walker: jw...@riseup.net, 215-939-2386

--
writer - "The End of Capitalism"
http://endofcapitalism.com
organizer - Philly Students for a Democratic Society
"Believe in yourself. Trust in one another."