Eugene: Reclaim the Commons Organizing meeting
author: Justin
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The Eugene Global Justice Organizing Project, a collaborative project of Eugene PeaceWorks and the Committee in Solidarity with the Central American People (CISCAP), invite all interested persons to a discussion and planning meeting for Reclaim the Commons - Wednesday, May 26th 6pm at Cozmic Pizza
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The Eugene Global Justice Organizing Project, a collaborative project of Eugene PeaceWorks and the Committee in Solidarity with the Central American People (CISCAP), invite all interested persons to a discussion and planning meeting for Reclaim the Commons - a mobilization to create alternatives while opposing biotech industries and the global capitalist system that supports it.
Wednesday, May 26th 6pm at Cozmic Pizza
We will be discussing travel to San Francisco as well as possible local actions. (see below)
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Bring A Convergence to Your Neighborhood! Training, Education, Inspiration and Agitation
The Reclaim the Commons mobilization will oppose Bio2004, the biggest national gathering of corporate executives and lobbyists for the biotech industry. But we want to do more: we want to teach and demonstrate the alternatives: organic food, community gardens, urban transformation, a gift economy. We hope to build on the great work already being done in Mendocino County around Measure H, which would ban the growing of GMO crops.
We invite you to organize a Reclaim the Commons Convergence in your community: a gathering to tinform, enrage, inspire, and spread the skills and tools we need to make our visions real.
A Convergence could take place over a weekend, a day, or over several evenings. It could include information and training in:
Globalization and Biotech basics: Corporate globalization impoverishes our communities, steals our jobs and resources, and erodes our quality of life. The biotech industry is a blatant example of how corporate control is being extended to our food supply, our medicines, and even our DNA. A wndow of opportunity is still open to stop this threat to our health and environment. Learn the facts, the strategies and the talking points.
Direct Democratic Organizing and Decision Making: Our counter to a top-down system is direct democracy: organizing in small groups to make decisions by consensus, planning our actions and projects through spokescouncils, creating an atmosphere in which every person's gifts and perspectives are welcome. We can offer training in consensus basics, meeting facilitation, and advanced facilitation techniques.
Permaculture and Ecological Design: Small scale, sustainable systems in which people control their own resources and communities meet their own basic needs are part of our vision. Permaculture is a system of ecological design that can be applied to gardens, buildings, and communities. We can offer a daylong or half day workshop that will teach the basic principles and practices, and include a hands-on project. Is there a vacant lot in your home area begging to become a garden? Or an elder who needs help with a yard? Share skills, prepare for garden actions and plant giveaways, and leave a gift behind for the community.
Direct Action Organizing and Training Nonviolent direct action directly confronts oppressive power. Learn the theory, strategy, and organizing tools of this potent form of political action. Role plays and participatory learning help us prepare for street actions: how to stay calm in tense situations, how to de-escalate violence, how to choose and evaluate tactics. Mobile tactics, legal considerations, basic health and safety, self-protection, affinity group formation, support, jail solidarity, and aftercare.
Media The corporate media is not our friend, but sometimes we can use it to tell our story. Learn how to write a press release, how to talk to the media, and how NOT to talk to them.
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Statement of Unity The Commons are the universal heritage of people and all living things. They are everything needed to support healthy life on earth: air, water, food, shelter, health care, energy sources and our genes. They are what is needed to sustain culture: our multicultural heritages, education, information and the means to disseminate it, essential human services, public spaces, and political space. They are equally the land, its forests, the oceans, and all ecosystems. In sum, the Commons are everything that we inherit jointly and freely, and hold in trust for future generations.
We are currently witnessing a massive theft of the global Commons, which are being turned into commodities by those who seek profit for the few at great cost to the many. We oppose this wholeheartedly and choose to envision a better world for all life on this planet. We choose a world that is truly democratic, just, and sustainable; a world where every person's basic needs are met, where wealth is equitably distributed, where racial, economic and gender justice prevail, where indigenous cultures are cherished, and where restitution is made to the exploited. We work toward a society based on thriving, regional economies that are ecologically and economically sustainable, in which control of the Commons is returned to public stewardship.
for a calendar of events in San Francisco June 3-9 see:
 http://www.reclaimthecommons.net/calendar.php
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