Friends of Brad Will » nov12 http://friendsofbradwill.org Working for human rights in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:52:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Brad Will Garden Memorial Gathering and Celebration at Nueva Esperanza Community Garden Encampment! http://friendsofbradwill.org/2006/11/brad-will-garden-memorial-gathering-and-celebration-at-nueva-esperanza-community-garden-encampment/ http://friendsofbradwill.org/2006/11/brad-will-garden-memorial-gathering-and-celebration-at-nueva-esperanza-community-garden-encampment/#comments Wed, 08 Nov 2006 15:46:24 +0000 admin http://www.friendsofbradwill.org/2006/11/08/brad-will-garden-memorial-gathering-and-celebration-at-nueva-esperanza-community-garden-encampment/ This Sunday, November 12th, there will be an outdoor celebration of Brad’s life, and his work protecting community gardens. The weather should be sunny, and we will have a picnic and barbeque! Additionally, we shall be planting in the garden and may be building a ‘winterized’ structure to keep garden protectors warm and dry throughout the cold months.

What: Music around the fire, building lock-downs, sharing stories, sharing food, tree and bulb planting.

Bring: Musical instruments, food, beverages, wood, songs, fire spinning tools, and your rad spirits.

If you’d like to help or need housing or other info, contact Aresh: (917)-518-9987, (718) 585-2109, or aresh @ moregardens.org More info: www.moregardens.org

When: Sunday, November 12th, 2006, 11am – Sunset

Where: 110th Street, southeast corner of 5th Avenue
(northeast corner of Central Park)

2/3 or 6 train to 110th St.

If you’d like to help or need housing or other info, contact: Aresh 917-518-9987, 718-585-2109 aresh@moregardens.org

More info: goto: www.moregardens.org

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@ St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery
(131 E. 10th St on the corner of 2nd Ave in Manhattan’s East Village)

To learn more about the struggle that Brad Will was in Oaxaca to document, come to this day of engaging workshops + movies at night!

See you there!
Details below…

Oaxaca Encuentro Agenda:

2p Introduction

2:15p “The Common Enemy and the Machete”: Neoliberalism and Resistance in Oaxaca*
(w/ el pinche simón and friends)

4:15p Break

4:30p Horizontal Solidarity with Oaxaca*
(w/ zapagringo & friends)

6:30p Dinner Break

7:30p Building Indigenous Women’s Autonomy in Zapatista Communities
(special presentation from the Mexico Solidarity Network)

8:45p Break

9:00p Movies ’til Midnight!
(Films documenting Brad Will’s Memorial in Oaxaca; Successful popular
resistance to government attacks on the teacher’s encampment and an
autonomous university in Oaxaca City; Women taking over television and
radio stations in Oaxaca; and more!)

* If you are interested in going to Oaxaca, we strongly encourage you to
attend the first two workshops “The Common Enemy…” and “Horizontal
Solidarity…” and get in touch with us at zapagringo@gmail.com)

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A weekend of gatherings, memorials, concerts and conversations will take place over the weekend of November 11th and 12th, in New York City, to remember our dear friend and fallen comrade Brad Will. A memorial will take place in St. Mark’s Church on the Bowery from 1:00pm-5:00pm on Saturday the 11th. Other events are also being planned. See the calendar of events below for details on concerts and teachins that will be taking place over the weekend. By all means come to New York City to be a part of the gathering. If you need housing, please write to bradmemorialhousing@gmail.com. If you would like to participate in the planning, please sign up to the discussion list from this site, and send a message to the list server.

If you cannot come to St Mark’s on the Bowery, a live audio webstream will be available on http://liveradio.indymedia.org:8000/asc.mp3.m3u and a recording eventually posted to http://radio.indymedia.org. In addition, a memorial sound-box for people to share thoughts, voices, etc. can be found at http://radio.socialtechnology.net

On the calendar, thus far:

Fri, Nov 10th, 4:30pm, Die-In at the Mexican Consulate. ~~CANCELLED~~
Sat, Nov 11th, 1-5PM, Memorial Gathering, St Mark’s Church-on-the-Bowery, 131 E. 10th St.
Sat, Nov 11th, 8:00pm-2:00am, Memorial After-party and Open Mic at Time’s Up! space, 49 East Houston St. Hosted by musician friends of Brad Will.
Sun, Nov 12, Teach-in on Oaxaca and Solidarity Workshop.
Sun, Nov 12, 11am-sunset, Gathering and Celebration at Nueva Esperanza Encampment

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