> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 21:30:57 -0700 (PDT)
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> Subject: ORGANIZING CONFERENCE Atlanta 25 Sep - Black Autonomy Network of
> Community Organizers FWD
>
> FWD
> ORGANIZING CONFERENCE: Atlanta, 25 Sep 99
>
> "Let's Organize the Hood!", the first in a series of regional training
> workshops designed to build a new grassroots movement in the black
> community, will be held here on Saturday, September 25, 1999. The
> workshop will run from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Study Hall of the Emmaus
> Hall, 1010 Crew Street, S.W.
>
> "The purpose of the conference is to train organizers in the black
> community. Solutions will not come from or be based on charismatic
> leadership but will be tied to leadership from the masses, the black
> poor and the black working class," said Damon McGee, co-founder of the
> Black Autonomy Network of Community Organizers (BANCO), which is
> sponsoring the conference.
>
> Current problems facing black communities, such as the mass
> imprisonment of black youth, police brutality, poverty and
> homelessness, drug addiction, gang-banging and homicide, are "symptoms
> of a community in deep crisis and a deteriorating nation," said Lorenzo
> Komboa Ervin, co-founder of BANCO.
>
> "For too long, black radical activists in the ivory towers on college
> campuses have been separated from poor and working class black
> communities, talking about our problems in isolation while our people
> suffer and die under hellish conditions each day," added Ervin, who is
> a former member of the Black Panther Party and the Student Nonviolent
> Coordinating Committee.
>
> The BANCO workshop is open to all black people, including students,
> youth, parents and activists, who are interested in community-based
> organizing and a different approach to the problems of black people
> than is being offered by most black groups, Ervin said.
>
> McGee, Ervin and other black community activists will speak on such
> topics as community organizing in the black power era, basic organizing
> theory and practice, and community-based political organizing in
> regional cities of the United States.
>
> The registration fee for the workshop is $5 for unemployed, $10 for
> other individuals, and $20 for organizations.
>
> For information, call or write Damon McGee, Atlanta BANCO Conference
> Committee, (770) 972-3241, 2763 Shoemaker Lane, Lithonia, GA 30085, or
> Lorenzo Komboa Ervin at (423) 622-7614, 2014 Citico Avenue,
> Chattanooga, TN 37404, e-mail: komboa2 at bellsouth.net
>
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