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<h1>encuentro5 Turns 5! Commemorative Dinner</h1>
<p><strong><span><em>Celebrating 5 solid years and 5 inspiring honorees!</em></span><em><span><img width="75" align="right" height="142" alt="" src="http://encuentro5.org/home/sites/default/files/Number_(5).svg_.hi%20copy.jpg"></span></em></strong></p>
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<strong>When:</strong> Wednesday, December 7, 2011, 7:00 pm<br><strong>Where: </strong><span>Encuentro 5 • 33 Harrison Ave, 5th Floor • Chinatown T • Boston</span>
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<p>As a dynamic movement-building space, encuentro 5 has balanced the day-to-day needs of grassroots organizations and community groups with the wide-ranging social change goals that their organizers embrace for 5 solid years of solidarity and inspiration.</p>
<p>For e5, challenging the militarism and corporate globalization that institutionalize the current moment of capitalism and white supremacy has meant offering a space for the spontaneous needs of local groups, housing over a dozen resident organizations, offering offices for new projects and small NGOs, archiving the efforts of social movements, providing cross-movement institutional memory, resourcing emerging projects with much needed research, materials and equipment, and ongoing daily efforts of networking and support.</p>
<p>Although it has meant a lot of intense work, it has also been greatly inspiring to connect with creative activists, engaging writers, soulful musicians and dedicated community members. Together, we have made e5 a platform for major demonstrations, thoughtful debates, heartwarming performances, and strategic conversations as a review of the e5 website reveals.</p>
<p>Always thriving on the insights and energy of countless groups and individuals, we chose five exemplary honorees who have contributed directly to e5's programming and/or inspired the work we do. To honor them and to launch the e5 <em>movement-builders sustainer program</em>, e5 is hosting its first annual, Commemorative Dinner, at 7pm Wednesday, December 7, 2012. <a href="http://encuentro5.org/home/node/234">Click here to RSVP</a>.</p>
<p>The five honorees are:</p>
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<strong>Sergio Reyes</strong>, a Chilean-born revolutionary. musician, and founder of the Boston May Day Committee and a founder of Latin@s for Social Change</td>
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<strong>Avi Chomsky</strong>, a scholar and activist whose work connects people across borders</td>
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<p><strong>Paul Shannon</strong>, a peace movement veteran active in United for Justice with Peace and a founder of the Majority Agenda Project who has been on staff at the American Friends Service Committee for over 30 years.</p>
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<strong>Robin Jacks</strong>, a long-time activist challenging low-wage work in the South and a founder of the #OccupyBoston effort</td>
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<strong>Dorotea Manuela</strong>, a founder of the Boston Rosa Parks Human Rights Day Committee, a member of the Downtown Workers Center collective, and an active defender of Puerto Rican sovereignty.</td>
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<p>On December 7th, join us to honor these 5 outstanding movement builders, to celebrate the extraordinary efforts of the e5 Residents and the expansive social justice community, and to make e5 a sustainable effort for 2012! <a href="http://encuentro5.org/home/node/234">Click here to RSVP</a>.</p>
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