From a_indabronx at fastmail.fm Sat Sep 3 21:55:25 2016 From: a_indabronx at fastmail.fm (a_indabronx) Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2016 14:55:25 -0700 Subject: [OccupyCU] Better-Late-Than-Never Faction Fuses with Internationalist Group Message-ID: <1472939725.1498424.714953673.349B7B6E@webmail.messagingengine.com> Better-Late-Than-Never Faction Fuses with Internationalist Group http://www.internationalist.org/bltnfuseswithig1608.html On August 27, the Better-Late-Than-Never Faction of the International Communist League, expelled by the Spartacist League/U.S. last April, joined with the Internationalist Group, U.S. section of the League for the Fourth International in a common organization. The fusion came after three and a half months of joint work following extensive political discussions in May. A high point of the joint work was participation by the BLTN comrades in the Second National Conference of the Grupo Internacionalista in Mexico, and first-hand experience with the roiling teachers strike in which the GI has been heavily involved. The fusion has not only resulted in the establishment of a Los Angeles local of the IG, but together with the formation of the Nucleo Internazionalista d’Italia by the former leaders of the Italian section of the ICL, it marks a major step forward for the LFI internationally. More than four months after the BLTN Faction submitted its declaration, the SL/ICL has yet to answer it politically. But their silence will not shield these ex-Trotskyists from the expelled faction’s devastating challenge to their tattered credentials. The fusion confirms the validity of the LFI’s orientation looking to revolutionary regroupment on the solid programmatic ground of authentic Leninism and Trotskyism. From stuartnlevy at gmail.com Mon Sep 12 04:54:22 2016 From: stuartnlevy at gmail.com (Stuart Levy) Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2016 23:54:22 -0500 Subject: [OccupyCU] Events this week - two re #NoDAPL opposing Dakota Access oil pipeline (#NoDAPL) Message-ID: <7578850b-1754-0de3-38b3-b1fb28abb045@gmail.com> Upcoming events - including **two** related to the Dakota Access Oil Pipeline, on Mon 9/12 (6:30 Urbana), and on Fri 9/16 (5pm Champaign). The Friday 5pm Scott Park (Champaign) event is Native-led and organized, in solidarity with the Standing Rock water protectors in North Dakota, where thousands of Native people are assembled in peaceful opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline. Hope you can attend, and please let others know. Hope too: at 6:30pm Wednesday 9/14, please come watch Naomi Klein's film "This Changes Everything", on climate change and citizen action. Discussion to follow, including brief popup talks by several groups you can get involved with. Though not strictly anti-war events, they lie at the intersection of anticolonialism, the global geopolitics of energy, and the importance of popular resistance. Summary: Mon 9/12, 6:30pm, Urbana City Council Chambers, 400 S. Vine St, Urbana Urge Urbana City Council to *oppose **Dakota Access Pipeline (#NoDAPL)* Gather at City building at 6:30; Council meeting begins at 7. Organized by Robert Naiman. https://actionnetwork.org/events/nodapl-action-at-urbana-city-council-meeting?referrer=sierra-club Wed 9/14, 6:30pm-9pm, Channing-Murray Foundation, 1209 W. Oregon, Urbana "This Changes Everything" film & discussion, with popup talks by *groups you can get involved with* Film by Naomi Klein, on climate change and citizen action https://www.facebook.com/events/329641967375716/ Fri 9/16, noon-1pm, University YMCA (Friday Forum), 1001 S. Wright St., Champaign "Politics of Climate Change in Illinois", talk by Jen Walling, IL Environmental Council https://www.facebook.com/events/1047884435309318/ Fri 9/16, 5-7pm, Scott Park, Champaign (between 2nd & 3rd Sts, between Springfield and Healey) "In Solidarity with Standing Rock, the Earth, and all People, we will gather as Protectors in Peace at Scott Park in Champaign, IL" Vigil/rally solidarity with the Standing Rock water protectors, peacefully opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline. Organized by local Native people. Everyone is welcome. https://www.facebook.com/events/1787572761459012/ ================================================== ================================================== More details on the above --> Mon 9/12, 6:30pm, Urbana City Council Chambers, 400 S. Vine St, Urbana #NoDAPL -- Come urge the Urbana City Council to adopt a resolution saying that they oppose the Dakota Access Oil Pipeline, and calling on the Obama Administration to ask the Corps of Engineers to revoke its construction permit. This pipeline, running through the Dakotas, Iowa and into Illinois, would carry over a half million barrels per day of North Dakota Bakken crude oil - running through Native American lands, and putting major waterways at risk. More below, or sign up to say you're coming: https://actionnetwork.org/events/nodapl-action-at-urbana-city-council-meeting?referrer=sierra-club Wed 9/14, 6:30pm-9pm, Channing-Murray Foundation, 1209 W. Oregon, Urbana Free and open to the public - Refreshments will be served. Followed by discussion & avenues for action. https://www.facebook.com/events/329641967375716/ Inspired by Naomi Klein’s book, "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate," this film presents seven powerful portraits of communities on the front lines of the climate crisis, and Klein contends that "we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better." Please join us to call attention to the most important environmental issue of our time. A short trailer and more information about the film is here: http://thefilm.thischangeseverything.org/about Thanks to our cosponsors! Channing-Murray Foundation, Students for Environmental Concerns (SECS), Eco-Justice Collaborative, Faith In Place, Social Action Committee/Green UUs of the Unitarian-Universalist Church of Urbana-Champaign, IL Environmental Council, WATCH (We’re Against Toxic Chemicals), Just Foreign Policy, AWARE, C-U Friends Meeting, University YMCA, Wesley Methodist Church Green Team, Central IL Chapter of Jobs with Justice, Prairie Rivers Network, Champaign County Health Care Consumers. Fri 9/16, 5-7pm, Scott Park, Champaign (between 2nd & 3rd Sts, between Springfield and Healey) https://www.facebook.com/events/1787572761459012/ In Solidarity with Standing Rock, the Earth, and all People, we will gather as Protectors in Peace at Scott Park in Champaign, IL on Friday, September 16th from 5:00pm-7:00pm. This event is Native-organized. We ask our entire community to join us, but honor our request for this to be a Native-led and Indigenous-centered space. To that end, we’ll begin with a schedule of Indigenous speakers, followed by an open mic for all those joining us in solidarity. Community, please join us. In our tradition, all our children are our children. Everyone belongs here. OVERVIEW OF WHAT IS HAPPENING and OUR CALL TO ACTION: Thousands of Native Americans from over 100 tribes are campedon the banks of the Cannonball River in North Dakota near the Standing Rock Sioux (Dakota/Lakota) Reservation in a peaceful attempt to halt construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, a 1200 mile long pipeline running from the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota to southern Illinois. The protesters tell us that the pipeline is desecrating land sacred to the Standing Rock Sioux and putting critical water supplies at risk of contamination. Over Labor Day weekend, security guards for the pipeline’s owners used attack dogs and pepper spray against protesters in a manner reminiscent of civil rights protests in the 1960s. On September 8, the governor of North Dakota called in the National Guard to provide backup to local law enforcement against the protesters. Mainstream media coverage of these events has been extremely sparse to date, and most news is being transmitted via social media. This situation lends clarity to a remarkable array of issues we need to be able to think about, including caring for our beautiful planet Earth and all of the people and other creatures who share it. The events in North Dakota are an extraordinary example both of capitalist institutions aligned against pro-human, pro-environmental interests, and the 21st century model of how genocide is aimed at Indigenous peoples. This is not a time to stay silent or passive to determine what we do. Come and join the movement instead! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: