Sharing Strategies for Survival, Resistance and Empowerment in Oppressed Communities: from Belfast to Cape Town to New York and Beyond
May 1 & 2, 1999
In Memory of Northern Ireland's Attorney for Civil Rights Rosemary Nelson
(Note: Rosemary Nelson was to be a featured speaker at this event)
Riverside Church 490 Riverside Drive and 122nd St., New York City near Columbia University 1/9 trains @ 116th St.
Keynote Speaker - Fr. Michael Lapsley, SSM - Apartheid violence survivor & founder- Institute for Healing of Memories, Cape Town
We need your voice, your experience, your ideas
Participate in our workshops
Saturday May 1 Sunday May 2
9:30 am - 6:00 pm 1:00 pm - 7:00pm
*Spirituality as a Means of Resistance
*Education
*Steal the Media
*Money, Food & Environmental Justice
*Youth, Activism
*Legal Rights
*Policing Issues
*Health, Addiction, Wellness & Oppression *Ethnic
Identification,
Culture &
Nationalism
Plenary discussion for all participants at 5:00 pm Sunday
Sponsored by The Irish Famine/Genocide Committee, the Brehon Law Society and Riverside Church along with other concerned community groups.
We welcome literature about your organization for distribution at the forum. Let others get to know your work.
Admission is free - $5.00 donation suggested
bring a bag lunch
*** IF ANYONE CAN HELP WITH DONATIONS FOR THIS FORUM, PLANE FARE IS NEEDED FOR FATHER MICHAEL LAPSLEY TO COME OUT FROM SOUTH AFRICA TO PARTICIPATE. PLEASE HELP. EMAIL info at ifgc.org IF YOU CAN HELP OUT EVEN A LITTLE. THANK YOU***
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JUSTICE FOR ROSEMARY NELSON http://www.free-eire.org/nelson.html
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