Santa Cruz Anarchist Convergence

a four-day anarchist invasion

Workshops & Discussions

There will be three days of workshops, panels, and presentations from May 8th to 10th  to provide further opportunities to learn more and share our own experience and creativity.

Final List of Workshops/Panels/Speakers

Here is the final list of workshops, including days, times, locations, and presenters, representing the five workshop tracks:  Community-Inter-relatedness, Green Scare, Security Culture and the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act, DIY Infrastructure, Applied Anarchisms, and Resistance!

Printed programs with this info, plus workshop descriptions, stuff to help you get around Santa Cruz, and other handy info, will be available at SubRosa beginning Thursday, May 7.

Friday

Day	Time	Session Title	Presenter	Track	Location
Fri	10am	Free Skool for Kids	Panel	Free Skool	Bike Church
Fri	10am	Cuba’s Current Political Situation	Raquel	Other	Computer Kitchen
Fri	10am	Know Your Rights and Resist the Police State	Wes and Jason	Security	SubRosa Courtyard
Fri	12pm	Low-down on Grand Juries	Ben Rosenfeld	Security	Bike Church
Fri	12pm	destroying patriarchy from within		Inter-relatedness	Computer Kitchen
Fri	12pm	Self Defense workshop with GIRL ARMY	Daniel	resistance	Louden Nelson Park
Fri	2pm	Nonviolent Communication (NVC) And Anarchism: Potential and Pitfalls	Dan	Inter-relatedness	Computer Kitchen
Fri	2pm	Practical Organizing to Overthrow the US Government and Global Capitalism	David Solnit and Sampada Aranke	Resistance	SubRosa Courtyard
Fri	4pm	Responding to Intimate Violence:beyond rules	Leona	Inter-relatedness	Computer Kitchen
Fri	4pm	The Current Crisis and the Coming Insurrection	Panel	Resistance	SubRosa Courtyard
Sat	4pm	Blue Anarchy for Beginners	Anarchist Yacht Club	Other	Chavez Co-op

Saturday

Day	Time	Session Title	Presenter	Track	Location
Sat	10am	Resisting 2010: A presentation and discussion about the ongoing struggle against the Vancouver Winter Olympics	Marianne, Zac, and Janick	Resistance	Bike Church
Sat	10am	DIY Radio Broadcasting with Freak Radio Santa Cruz	Daniel	Infrastructure	Computer Kitchen
Sat	10am	Free Skool Mutual Support Networks	Panel	Free Skool	People Power!
Sat	12pm	Challenging the Popular Wisdom: Deconstructing Public Education	Soneile Hymn	Free Skool	People Power!
Sat	12pm	The Audacity of Hopelessness	Aragorn!	Anarchisms	Bike Church
Sat	12pm	Making Families Panel	Panel	Inter-relatedness	Computer Kitchen
Sat	12pm	Surviving Trauma	Ashley McNamara	Inter-relatedness	Ped-Ex
Sat	2pm	Can we Still Turn the World Upside Down? Lessons from 1649	Lewis “Lew” Finzel	Anarchisms	Computer Kitchen
Sat	2pm	Indigenous Resistance Workshop	Panel	Resistance	Louden Nelson Park
Sat	2pm	CONSENT and Intimate/Sexual Violence	CLIT Collective	Inter-relatedness	People Power!
Sat	2pm	Green Scare, Security Culture and the AETA Open Discussion	Panel	Security	Ped-Ex
Sat	4pm	Free Skools & Anarchism	Discussion	Free Skool	Computer Kitchen
Sat	4pm	Resistance Open Discussion	Panel	Resistance	Louden Nelson Park
Sat	4pm	Building an Autonomous Infrastructure: Strategy and Challenges	Ian	Infrastructure	Ped Ex
Sat	4pm	Anarchism and solidarity	Andrej Grubacic	Anarchisms	People Power!

Sunday

Day	Time	Session Title	Presenter	Track	Location
Sun	10am	Tree Climbing Training	Gambit	Resistance	TBA
Sun	10am	Starting and Running a FreeSkool	Panel	Free Skool	Ped-Ex
Sun	12pm	Anarchist Infrastructure and the Surveillance Society: Moving from Paranoia to Security	Elijah Saxon	Security	Computer Kitchen
Sun	12pm	Digital Security Culture	Flatline	Security	Computer Kitchen
Sun	12pm	Infoshop Panel	Panel	Infrastructure	Louden Nelson Park
Sun	12pm	The Oakland Rebellions	Billy No Good	Resistance	Ped Ex
Sun	2pm	Anarchism, Resistance, and Anarchy	Barry Pateman	Resistance	Bike Church
Sun	2pm	Digital Security Culture: Hands on	Flatline	Security	Computer Kitchen
Sun	2pm	Direct Action Training	Kim Marks	Resistance	Louden Nelson Park
Sun	2pm	Confronting Whiteness, Acknowledging Racism: Walking the Talk	Daniel	Inter-relatedness	Ped-Ex
Sun	4pm	Applied Anarchisms Open Discussion	Panel	Anarchisms	Bike Church
Sun	4pm	Presenting Tapatio: A framework for communications during mass actions	Flatline	Security	Computer Kitchen
Sun	4pm	Local Resistance: Modesto	Crudo	Resistance	PedEx

Workshop Tracks

Below are five distinct tracks meant to focus and encourage more depth in the workshops and panel discussions. These tracks in no way encompass all that is anarchism or everything we care about, but just the focus of this event’s workshops and discussion panels.

1. Community-Inter-relatedness: Ways we interact with each other as autonomous beings, free from the repressive hierarchies of the dominant culture. Examples could be, feminist and anti-racist praxis, open and direct communication, healing from sexual trauma, healthy coping with state violence.
2. Green Scare, Security Culture and the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. How governments and corporations are trying to divide and conquer movements that use a diversity of tactics to stop the atrocities currently being carried out against animals and other forms of life.  What we can do to fight this repression, while protecting and supporting each other.
3. DIY Infrastructure. How we define and meet our needs in our communities while fueling our autonomy and eliminating our dependency on repressive structures. Examples include free skools, infoshops, publishing projects, child care, radio and media, food sharing, communal living, and community conflict resolution. Do these anarchist foundations offer power in longevity and open-endedness, or do they merely perpetuate their own existence and offer opportunities to co-opt our efforts?
4. Applied Anarchisms. Exploring the theories and applications of the distinct and nuanced streams of anarchism that many of us drink from. Which focuses quench our individual thirsts for freedom? Can any “ism” define the complexity of our behaviors, beliefs, and goals? How are these theories valuable, and what are their limitations?
5. Resistance! How do we move beyond the walls of the comfortable anarcho-subculture and lead lives of resistance? How are we taking direct action, focusing resistance, using a diversity of tactics, and challenging the status quo?

Submissions for Workshops and Discussions has closed.

Thank you for sending so many awesome proposals for workshops. Our schedule is going to be jam-packed with inspiring and challenging hoo-haw. Stay tuned here for the full schedule.

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