NYC "festival of resistance"

[Doug Henwood]

>Seattle is just the beginning.
>
>This Saturday at Charas the Festival of Resistance continues....
>
>F E S T I V A L  O F  R E S I S T A N C E
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>Creating the World We Want
>
>Post-WTO Teach-in/ Celebration/ Fundraiser
>
>SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1999 Noon to Midnight
>at Charas /El Bohio Community Center - 605 East 9th Street between
>Avenues B & C
>
>With live music, paintings, food, beer, photos, piñatas, spoken word,
>reports, discussion, information tables.
>
>F E A T U R I N G
>
>WTO/SEATTLE TEACH-IN WITH
>Amy Goodman (WBAI), Abby Scher (Dollars & Sense Magazine), Doug
>Henwood (Left Business Observer) Errol Maitland (WBAI), and
>participants from the Seattle protests
>
>VIDEO SCREENINGS
>"Showdown In Seattle: 5 Days That Shook the WTO"----"Zapatistas"
>---"Woman Forward" --The --Footage from the Aguascalientes of La
>Realidad
>
>PARTY!
>Live Dance Music by Antibalas (African Funk/Punk)
>Performances by the Coatlicue Theater, Fly, Danza Mixteca, Jane
>LeCroy, Dance mix with DJ Chrome.
>
>Suggested Donation: $10.    More Info: 212. 561. 0302
>
>
>ZINE Bring 100 photocopies of a poem, collage, writing, etc on the theme
>of resistance or creating the world we want to be collated and given
>away during the event. Your submission should be one two-sided 8 1/2 x
>11 page.
>
>The entire event will be broadcast live to the neighborhood live by
>mobile pirate broadcasters 103.9.
>
>
>Schedule for Festival of Resistance 1999 (to be revised)
>
>12:00           Doors open
>1:00            Mexica dancers
>
>                 TEACH-IN
>1:30            Chiapas Presentations
>
>2:30            LUNCH
>
>3:00            Mexica Dancers
>
>3:30 to 4pm     DISCUSSION: On Prisons, SOA, Paulo Freire, Community
>Gardens, Pirate Radio, Reclaim The Streets
>
>4:00            Music - Cornell Womack
>
>4:15 to 4:45pm  DISCUSSION: Anti-sweatshops, CLC, Charas,
>Reproductive Rights, Tomkins Square Park
>
>4:45            Music - Bev Grant
>
>5:00 to 6pm           Anti-WTO Teach-In/ Report backs from the
>streets of Seattle with Amy Goodman, Errol Maitland, Abby Scher, Doug Henwood
>
>
>PARTY
>6:00            PINATA BREAKING
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>6:20            Performances by Fly, Jane LeCroy, and friends
>
>8:00            DINNER
>9:00            Live music with Antibalas
>11:00           DJ Chrome spins
>
>Video Screening Room Schedule
>
>12:00pm         A Place Called Chiapas
>1:30            Sixth Sun
>2:30            Chiapas Media Project
>3:00            BREAK (for Mexica dancers)
>3:30            Autonomy and a Song
>4:00            Resistance through Communication
>
>4:30            PREMIERE SCREENING: Showdown In Seattle: 5 Days That
>Shook the WTO
>
>5:00            Reproductive Rights video
>5:10            Center for Workers Rights video
>5:30            Something to Hide
>6:00            BREAK (for Pinata)
>6:30            Showdown In Seattle: 5 Days That Shook the WTO
>7:00            Chiapas Media Project
>
>7:30            Women Forward
>8:00            Zapatista (Big Noise Films)
>
>
>Event Organized by the New York City Chiapas Coalition.
>
>Co-sponsored by ABC No Rio,  Reclaim the Streets, Paper Tiger Television,
>Black Radical Congress (NY Metro Chapter), Monthly Review,  New York
>Free Media Alliance, Public Works, Seven Stories Press.
>
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