Two events: next week on Monday, internationally acclaimed journalist, Raúl Zibechi, and then on the following Monday (11/15) the Majority Agenda Project hosts a post election forum with the local One Nation Working Together advocates. Both events take place at encuentro 5.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1. Join us for a conversation about indigenous social movements, the state
and social change, with an original thinker and activist, Raúl Zibechi.<br></span><br><div>Raúl Zibechi: Dispersing Power<br>Monday, November 8, 2010, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.<br>
encuentro 5 - 33 Harrison Ave, 5th floor, Boston, MA 02111</div><div><a rel="nofollow" href="http://encuentro5.org/home/node/164" target="_blank">http://encuentro5.org/home/node/164</a> flyer: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1042836/flyer-2010-11-08_zibechi.pdf" target="_blank">http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1042836/flyer-2010-11-08_zibechi.pdf</a></div>
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<b style="padding:0px;margin:0px">Monday, November 8, 2010, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. </b>Join Uruguayan activist-intellectual and journalist, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%BAl_Zibechi" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0, 90, 140);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Raúl Zibechi</a>, for a wide-ranging conversation about social movements and social change. The point of departure is his latest work, <em style="padding:0px;margin:0px"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.akpress.org/2010/items/dispersingpower" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0, 90, 140);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Dispersing Power: Social Movements as Anti-State Forces</a></em>.
It considers the largely indigenous social movements organizing in El
Alto, Bolivia that both brought Evo Morales to state power and continue
their challenges to the state. This event is co-sponsored with <a rel="nofollow" href="http://bostonbolivarianos.org/" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0, 90, 140);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Boston Bolivarianos</a>, the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.altecon.org/home/" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0, 90, 140);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Global Economic Alternatives Network</a>, Lucy Parsons Bookstore, the Boston May Day Committee, and the journal <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.sdonline.org/index4.html" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0, 90, 140);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Socialism and Democracy</a>.</p>
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Recent Articles by <a rel="nofollow" href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%BAl_Zibechi" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0, 90, 140);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Raúl Zibechi</a>:</p>
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"<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/sep/29/brazil-lula-dilma-rousseff" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0, 90, 140);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Dilma Rousseff and the magic of Lula</a>" in The Guardian, September 29, 2010</li>
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"<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/sep/11/chile-coup-anniversary-pinochet" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0, 90, 140);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Chile: the other 9/11 anniversary</a>" in The Guardian, September 11, 2010</li>
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"<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/aug/17/social-rift-latin-america" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0, 90, 140);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">New rifts in Latin America, but no confrontation</a>" in The Guardian, August 17, 2010</li>
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"<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.cipamericas.org/archives/2810" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0, 90, 140);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Bolivia and Ecuador: The State against the Indigenous People</a>" in Americas Program, July 19, 2010</li>
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"<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.fpif.org/articles/ie_taxing_wealth_for_the_common_good" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0, 90, 140);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Earthquake and Tsunami in Chile: The Militarization of Natural Disasters</a>" in Foreign Policy in Focus, March 26, 2010</li>
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"<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.grain.org/seedling/?id=671" style="padding:0px;margin:0px;color:rgb(0, 90, 140);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">Interview with Raul Zibechi</a>" in Seedling, January, 2010</li>
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<strong style="padding:0px;margin:0px">Comments on <em style="padding:0px;margin:0px">Dispersing Power</em></strong>:
"Zibechi goes to Bolivia to learn. Like us, he goes with questions,
questions that stretch far beyond the borders of Bolivia. How do we
change the world and create a different one? How do we get rid of
capitalism? How do we create a society based on dignity? What is the
role of the state and what are the possibilities of changing society
through anti-state movements?... the most important practical and
theoretical questions that have risen from the struggles in Latin
America and the world in the last fifteen years or so.... The book is
beautiful, exciting, stimulating.... Do read it and also give it your
friends."—John Holloway, from the Foreword</p>
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"Raúl Zibechi recounts in wonderful detail how dynamic and innovative
Bolivian social movements succeeded in transforming the country. Even
more inspiring than the practical exploits, though, are the theoretical
innovations of the movements, which Zibechi highlights, giving us new
understandings of community, political organization, institution, and a
series of other concepts vital to contemporary political thought."
Michael Hardt, co-author of<em style="padding:0px;margin:0px">Empire, Multitude, and Commonwealth</em>.</p>
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<img alt="" style="padding:4px;margin:0px 15px 0px 0px;border-width:0px" align="left" hspace="3">This,
Raúl Zibechi's first book translated into English, is an historical
analysis of social struggles in Bolivia and the forms of community power
instituted by that country's indigenous Aymara. Dispersing Power, like
the movements it describes, explores new ways of doing politics beyond
the state, gracefully mapping the "how" of revolution, offering valuable
lessons to activists and new theoretical frameworks for understanding
how social movements can and do operate independently of state-centered
models for social change.</p>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Raúl Zibechi</span> is one of Latin America's leading political theorists, an
international analyst for Brecha (Montevideo, Uruguay), professor at the
Multiversidad Franciscana de América Latina, and author of Genealogía
de la Revuelta and Autonomías y Emancipaciones: América Latina en
Movimiento.</p>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Ramor Ryan</span> is an Irish writer and translator based in Chiapas, Mexico. His book<em style="padding:0px;margin:0px">Clandestines: The Pirate Journals of an Irish Exile</em> was published by AK Press in 2006.</p>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Benjamin Dangl</span> is author of <em style="padding:0px;margin:0px">The Price of Fire</em> and <em style="padding:0px;margin:0px">Dancing with Dynamite</em>.</p>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">John Holloway</span> is author of <em style="padding:0px;margin:0px">Change the World Without Taking Power</em> and <em style="padding:0px;margin:0px">Crack Capitalism</em>.</p>
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2. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 31px; font-size: 26px; ">After the Elections: Where Do We Go from Here?</span></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 1.45em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 31px; "><a href="http://www.encuentro5.org/home/node/166"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">http://www.encuentro5.org/home/node/166</span></a></span></p>
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<p style="padding:0px;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-size:1.1em;line-height:1.45em;color:rgb(51, 51, 51)"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; font-size: 13px; "><strong style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Monday, November 15, 2010, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.</strong></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', helvetica, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; font-size: 13px; "> The “One Nation Working Together” rally brought together an unprecedented progressive coalition in Washington on October 2. Nationally, One Nation plans to continue its ambitious collaboration effort after the November election -- when such collaboration between labor, civil rights, environmental, social justice, housing, peace and youth groups will be more important than ever.</span></p>
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The speakers represent Massachusetts groups that collaborated on One Nation. The forum will assess the election results and their impact on our movements’ political environment, suggest ways that our movements can respond together in 2011 to the many challenges we face, and examine whether One Nation might play a role in our efforts to unite social movements here in Massachusetts.</p>
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