Encuentros -- Communities of Resistance throughout the Americas
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Encuentros de las Americas/American Encounters Project is a research, education, and action project that supports popular education in North, South and indigenous America. At the center of the project are communities in resistance. Our goals are to strengthen the capacity of these communities to: challenge and defeat the neoliberal agenda; to create alternatives to capitalism; and to mobilize coordinated resistance to attacks on self-determination and autonomy. To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the Encuentros Archives.
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Home San Francisco Managua Venezuela		Current projects: Liberating literacy in action Tenderloin writing workshop with TREC First Thusday of the month at 220 Golden Gate Ave. YMCA 2nd floor Call for reservations. Bolivarian Translation Circle International cooperation to bring important texts from the movements in Venezuela to English speaking audiences. Nicaragua literacy study interviews with leading figures in the historic and cointemporaty literacy campaigns in Nicaragua. Freedom Voices Publishing works that speak to and from communities on the margins.		Books of interest from Freedom Voices Through the Wall: A Year in Havana by Margot Pepper September 11 and the U.S. War; Beyond the Curtain of Smoke Edited by Roger Burbach & Ben Clarke Voice of Fire Communiqués and Interviews from the Zapatista Natiional Liberation Army Edited by Ben Clarke & Clif Ross At the Bottom A Woman's Life in Central America by Luisa Gonzalez
To subscribe to our email list please send an email to subscribe-voices @freedomvoices.org Encuentros de las Americas/ American Encounters Project Berkeley Office CENSA 2288 Fulton St. #103 Berkeley, CA 94704 (510) 540-5006 ext 4 San Francisco Workshop Reservations (415) 558-8759 Manuscript submissions: Freedom Voices/TREC P.O Box 423115 San Francisco CA 94142 Email: info(A)americanencounters.org Please retype address with @ symbol to send us mail.		Encuentros de las Americas/American Encounters Project is a research, education, and action project that seeks to support popular literacy programs in use in North, South and indigenous Amercan communities of resistance. At the center of the project are communities in resistance.Our focus is the western hemisphere: North, South and indigenous America. Our goals are to strengthen the capacity of these communities to:challenge and defeat the neoliberal agenda; to create alternatives to capitalism and to mobilize coordinated resistance to attacks on self-determination and autonomy Public education at the center of the empire must be informed by the analysis and experience of persons on the periphery and in the margins: urban poor, revolutionaries, rural landless, visionaries, refugees, poets , campesinos, artists, captives storytellers and ... The project creates cross-cultural encuentros with writers whose work deals with the empowerment and liberation of peoples and individuals through literacy and literature. Study projects in or about the Unites States, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Mexico are underway. Outstanding writers from three generations of struggle for popular literacy and socially engaged public art are joining in correspondance, workshops, public dialogues, spoken word performances and textual exchanges. The encuentros and the published results are engaging educators, activists, artists, and the general public in exploring successes and setbacks in achieving popular literacy in the Americas. Quality public education, public libraries and even public space are increasingly threatened by a continent wide process of privatizing public and natural resources. By opening an encuentro between northern and southern artists in this context, individual and collective work of the artists are being strengthened and a space is being created in which the value of socially engaged public art is itself re-affirmed. Artistic representations and subversive memes in popular culture are critical elements in creating a movement capable of careful analysis of class, race, gender, sexuality and nationalist oppression that is also celebratory, joyous, inclusive and fully human. At the center of the project are communities in resistance. The focus is the western hemisphere—North, South and indigenous America. The goal is to strengthen the capacity of these communities to create alternatives to capitalism and to mobilize coordinated resistance to attacks on self-determination and autonomy, About us: The City Lights Foundation, the Freedom Voices Project of the Tenderloin Reflection and Education Center (TREC), and the Center for the Study of the Americas (CENSA) provide organizational and administrative support. Ben Clarke is the artistic director. Clifton Ross is a research associate conducting field work in Nicaragua and Venezuela.		To subscribe to our emaillist please send an email to subscribe-voices @freedomvoices.org Encuentros de las Americas/ American Encounters Project Berkeley Office CENSA 2288 Fulton St. #103 Berkeley, CA 94704 (510) 540-5006 ext 4 San Francisco Workshop Reservations (415) 558-8759 Manuscript submissions: Freedom Voices/TREC P.O Box 423115 San Francisco CA 94142 Email: info(A)americanencounters.org Please retype address with @ symbol to send us mail.