Local Conditions and Global Movements:
Direct Action, Creativity and Strategy
Thursday 06 December, 2012
7pm, $5
Bluestockings
172 Allen Street
What are the conditions that allow local organizers to build off of protest in other cities and places? How do local histories, successes and patterns of communication affect our ability to incorporate new ideas? How can we create opportunities to be more open, creative and strategic in our movements? These questions will launch a conversation with Marina Sitrin, Ben Shepard and Lesley Wood.
Benjamin Shepard is the author and editor of six books including “Queer Politics and Political Performance: Play, Pleasure, and Social Movement,†“White Nights and Ascending Shadows: An Oral History of the San Francisco AIDS Epidemic,†“From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization.†Marina Sitrin is the author of “Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina†and “Occupying Language†in the Occupied Media Pamphlet Series. Lesley Wood is the author of “Direct Action, Deliberation and Diffusion: Collective Action After the WTO Protests in Seattle.â€
Benjamin Shepard is the author and editor of six books including “Queer Politics and Political Performance: Play, Pleasure, and Social Movement,†“White Nights and Ascending Shadows: An Oral History of the San Francisco AIDS Epidemic,†“From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization.†Marina Sitrin is the author of “Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina†and “Occupying Language†in the Occupied Media Pamphlet Series. Lesley Wood is the author of “Direct Action, Deliberation and Diffusion: Collective Action After the WTO Protests in Seattle.â€