WORKSHOP DAY IRENE WAREHOUSE (UPSTAIRS), 5 PITT ST EAST BRUNSWICK SATURDAY 21ST SEPTEMBER 2013 10am – 6 pm Contact: workshopdayseptember21@gmail OR 0416 296 215 Day of workshops/open discussions: All workshops will explore the nature of the topic and how it exists in Australia, together with ideas for resistance. 1. Is Facebook killing the movement? Introduction about why we are holding this day of workshops. Is the replacement of in person social spaces and resistance with Facebook networking and “liking” things on the internet leading to more social disconnection and fragmented resistance? Together with disillusionment with “activism”, due to tactics or oppressive relationships within resistance movements, we think it is hard to meet people and create relationships that can lead towards interconnected resistance struggles. 2. White supremacy in colonial Australia Discussion about white supremacy in Australia; through ongoing colonisation and dispossession to border control; racism and racist violence in the state, the police, the general population; structural racism and the international colonial economy… How can we form actual alliances of solidarity between people to confront white supremacy in Australia? 3. Prison abolition, the political nature of the prison system, the violence of the police and state A discussion about the violence of prisons and how the prison industrial complex perpetuates white supremacy and capitalism. The violent and racist nature of policing, how the police uphold violent white supremacy. The relationship between prisons and border control, prisons and race, prisons and gender, and how to struggle for the abolition of prisons and police. Within this discussion, we will also explore how communities can deal with gendered or racialised violence, violence between people and within social relationships rather than against the state. This will involve a discussion of community accountability processes and education. 4. Environmental discussion, social justice and colonisation Environmental destruction and its relationship to colonisation, capitalism, social justice and white supremacy. We will talk about the nature of resistance to environmental destruction in Australia and the problem of symbolic action, disillusionment with symbolic action and green capitalism, and what resistance to environmental destruction could look like. 5. De-brief/wrap-up and what could resistance in Australia look like now? Lunch by donation Childcare will be provided over the day. If interested in helping out, or wanting to organise care for your children, please contact 0434244568
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