Earth People Power: Unsettling white folk by honor ing our forebears and our futures.

When: 
Jul 19 2015 - 10:00am
Earth People Power: Unsettling white folk byhonoring our forebears and our futures. Sund ay July 19 from 10:00am-4:00pm   Who are your ancestors?  What do they mean t o you, for you, here and now?  If you haveEuropean roots, how do you remember them, the w ays your folk were once indigenous to their land,the ways they were colonized and eventually becam e settlers?   For many of us, theanswers to these questions start out blurry, awk ward, and irrelevant to the hyperkinetic world ofnetworked apocalypse.  But as we discover o urselves through and beyond the "end of the [Empire's] world", the long story beco mes our own story.   This workshopinvites us to ground our antiracist, anticolonia l solidarity in accountability to generational tim e.  We start with three assumptions: 1) to b e responsible to our decolonized descendents, we craft a meaningful relation between them and our a ncestors; 2) to be useful accomplices with radica l communities of color, those of primarily Europe an descent remember and invoke our own ancestral c ommitments as people of the earth against Empire;3) to discover liberating pathways our colonized minds can't believe, we turn to the wild, t o the more-than-human world and our bodies' a bility to listen.   This work willbe emotional, intellectual, spiritual, physica l.  A day is enough to crack open the shell ; it is barely enough.  We will invite each other to take risks, and also to hold each others ' struggles.  The workshop will have so me lecture and facilitated conversation, and alsotime alone with the forest, and speaking togethe r in small groups.  Please RSVP early as youwill be invited to do pre-work in gathering what you know about your European ancestors and readingwhat has been written about their journeys from t here to here.   brush is descendedmostly of farmers, ministers, clerks, and cops , whose ancestors were English, Welsh, Scottish , Irish, Low German, African, and South Asian.Socialized male, raised poor followed by an elit e education, brush brings to this work two decade s of passionate action and reflection in radical m ovements from ecodefense to militant unions, fromorganizing infrastructure to priestessing rituals , from third world squatter camps and fourth worl d rebel zones, to urban ecologies in the cities o f the North.   Cost $50 Disc ounted Cost for Friends of the Farm Monthly Donors : $35 Early Bird Special!: $10 off if you re gister by July 4th.   Some schola rships are available for those prohibited by cost.Please e-mail workshops@tryonfarm.org to make arr angements.

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