From susanroseparenti at gmail.com Thu Aug 10 15:10:56 2017 From: susanroseparenti at gmail.com (Susan Parenti) Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2017 10:10:56 -0500 Subject: [OccupyCU] Would you like to be part of a touring play this autumn? Spread the word! Message-ID: *LOOKING FOR ACTORS* FOR A PLAY ABOUT GLOBAL MIGRATION IN THE MIDWEST titled "Glo Heart / Displaced Lullaby" based on a book by Faranak Miraftab, *GLOBAL HEARTLAND:** Displaced Labor, Transnational Lives, and Local Placemaking. * *Who we are looking for:* We are looking for actors who have personal experience with the issues of the play (particularly the stories of the workers from Togo, Michoacán, and Detroit) and an interest in performance as a way to engage audiences with these issues. Acting experience is helpful but not required. *Plans and contact*: We are planning to take the play on tour to community spaces in Illinois and elsewhere in the midwest in October & November 2017. We would like to begin rehearsals before the end of August. The first performance is scheduled for September 22 at the University Y as part of Welcoming Week. We would like to hear from you whatever your level of interest: email enslin.mark at gmail.com phone 212-518-3018. *Who we are: * The play was written by Susan Parenti and Mark Enslin, composers and performers of experimental music and theater connected to desires for egalitarian, participatory social change. Co-founders of the School for Designing a Society. Faranak Miraftab approached us with the proposal for this project about three years ago, and the present script follows several stages of collaboration with other authors. The play is directed by Latrelle Bright, a freelance theatre maker focused on directing, solo performance and devising. When not making theatre, she uses theatre exercises and techniques to engage groups and communities in arts-based civic dialogue. *The book and the play:* The book follows the lives of workers from Togo, Mexico, and Detroit who were recruited by Cargill in waves over the last 30 years. In the play, we have three soliloquies by people from these places giving some account of their path from home to the plant at Beardstown. There are also satirical subplots -- a film crew making a propaganda movie about immigration; a pair of unemployed locals trying to figure out what's happening in their town; and a disastrous hole in the road giving rise to an industry trying to exploit the disaster. The stories include acknowledgment that Beardstown was a "sundown town" and how the history of racism in our area has affected these stories, and also how "immigrant" has become a political buzzword overshadowing people's actual lives. *Our main goals with the play:* • To present to immigrant and African American audiences a sense of witness and acknowledgment of collective experience and to convey a fundamental message of solidarity; • To show to 3rd, 4th, 5th generation European American audiences something of the hardship but also contribution to Beardstown, to Illinois, to the Midwest, and to the US made by recent migrant workers. • To offer, with humor and seriousness, an alternate framing of the current immigration debate. -- *Susan Parenti* *Educational Coordinator * *The School for Designing a Society *www.designingasociety.net *Like us on Facebook !* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From a_indabronx at fastmail.fm Tue Aug 15 04:24:47 2017 From: a_indabronx at fastmail.fm (a_indabronx) Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 21:24:47 -0700 Subject: [OccupyCU] IG Statement: Solidarity with Charlottesville Anti-Fascist Protesters! Honor Heather Heyer! Message-ID: <1502771087.524132.1073645520.4DBD24A2@webmail.messagingengine.com> Solidarity with Charlottesville Anti-Fascist Protesters! Honor Heather Heyer! Labor/Black/Immigrant Mobilization to Smash Fascist Terror Build Workers Defense Guards! http://www.internationalist.org/charlottesvilleigsolidaritystatement1708.html The racist terror bred in the bone of American capitalism struck again this weekend, in Charlottesville, Virginia. Local activist Heather Heyer was murdered and at least 35 people were treated for injuries, as Ohio Nazi James Alex Fields rammed his car into a crowd. Fields came there to join swarms of Klan, Nazi and other fascists at a “Unite the Right” rally built by fascist leader Richard Spencer. This is the latest in a series of deadly fascist and racist provocations and attacks that have escalated since Donald Trump’s election. It is urgently necessary to mobilize labor/black/immigrant power, in alliance with all those targeted by racist and fascist terror, to smash the fascist provocations. Portland, Oregon labor militants pointed the way with the June 4 Labor Against the Fascists mobilization, which brought out several hundred workers, including members of 14 unions, against the fascist/racist provocation there. But to do that, the power of labor must be unchained from its subjugation to the bosses’ politicians and parties, centrally the Democratic Party that paved the way for Trump. From a_indabronx at fastmail.fm Sat Aug 19 21:28:26 2017 From: a_indabronx at fastmail.fm (a_indabronx) Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2017 14:28:26 -0700 Subject: [OccupyCU] ILWU Local 10 Moves to Stop the Fascists in San Francisco Saturday August 26 Message-ID: <1503178106.780886.1078714728.313073AC@webmail.messagingengine.com> Important news: please share widely! Longshore Workers: Shut It Down! ILWU Local 10 Moves to Stop the Fascists in San Francisco http://www.internationalist.org/ilwulocal10movestostopfascists1708.html On August 17, International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10 voted an urgent motion for labor mobilization to “Stop the Fascists in San Francisco.” The dock workers, who have a long history of port shutdowns against racism, war and police terror, aim to prevent a repeat of last week’s murderous Nazi/white supremacist attack in Charlottesville, Virginia. Fascist groups have announced a weekend of potentially deadly provocations in the Bay Area on August 26-27. Some of those involved in the Charlottesville Nazi march are reportedly planning to attend. Pointing to the example of Portland, Oregon where members of 14 local unions mobilized against a racist/fascist provocation on June 4, ILWU Local 10 motion stated, that “the San Francisco Bay Area is a union stronghold and we will not allow labor-hating white supremacists to bring their lynch mob terror here.” By using the power of independent working-class action to stop the fascists, they can point the way for all labor and the oppressed at this critical moment. From susanroseparenti at gmail.com Fri Aug 25 22:51:17 2017 From: susanroseparenti at gmail.com (Susan Parenti) Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2017 17:51:17 -0500 Subject: [OccupyCU] Hiring help this weekend---from meadow Message-ID: Comrades,. I am seeking assistance in making a house I bought, become a a habitable home for two disabled women in our beloved Urbana. If you or someone you know, has some talent for tools, or craft in creating, or can just handle a hammer. I would like to hire you to come help. I am seeking to pay ten to fifteen dollars an hour for help in repairing siding this weekend (Saturday August 26- Sunday August 27). In addition if you have building supplies you no longer need, appliances you want to sell, or a love for landscaping and advice for the overwhelmed, I am looking for those in the long term. You can reach me here or by phone at 217-369-1316 In solidarity, Meadow p.s. My well loved and frequently lent truck has come to an end. As it was so often borrowed I doubt there are many others around- but seems like now I am on the asking end. Got a truck I can beg, borrow, or rent? -- *Susan Parenti* *Educational Coordinator * *The School for Designing a Society *www.designingasociety.net *Like us on Facebook !* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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