[SustainableTompkins] Liberation Ecology Workshop, Friday, 5/18

[pete meyers]

How come when we make decisions about what projects to work on and
support we find ourselves in the absurd position of having to choose
between social and ecological objectives?
  
How might we understand these two crucial elements of our lives and
cultures as being fundamentally connected?

What would these connections look like?

What kind of conversations, what kind of projects, what kind of
activism, might then be possible?

The Liberation Ecology workshop will facilitate a dialogue around
these questions and will focus on ways that both the environmental
movement and the social justice movement can grow through recognizing
the ways in which are fundamentally interrelated.
     
It is geared to incite strategic engagement with the challenges and
opportunities of making desirable social change in a complex and
rapidly changing world.

Friday May 18th 5-8 pm
at the Tompkins County Workers' Center
115 The Commons, Ithaca
(above Autumn Leaves Used Books)
 sliding scale $5-20

the majority of the proceeds will go to the Independent Farmworkers Center
(CITA) to publish a guide of farmworkers rights.

Bring a snack to share (we will have a snack break in the middle of the
workshop)

The workshop will be led by Rafter T. Sass who lives and works at the
Germantown Community Farm, a collectively-run community food security
project in its first year in the Hudson River Valley, NY

For more information, to save a spot or if you have a place you would like
to put up the flyer or hand out some quarter-cards email ashley:
sticksandstones at riseup.net

p.s. if you are planning to attend, please r.s.v.p to Ashley at 
sticksandstones at riseup.net so I can get a sense ofthe numbers (no-one 
will be turned away for lack of funds or failure to rsvp)


Pete Meyers 
TC Workers' Center
115 E. State Street
Ithaca, NY 14850 
607-269-0409 
www.TCWorkersCenter.org 

"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny."--Alexander Solzenhitsyn

"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."--Paulo Freire
 
"A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of achieving full victory. It underestimates the value of confrontation and dissolves the confidence born of a partial victory by which new efforts are powered."--Martin Luther King, Jr.


       
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