An exciting training project of political education and field work happening in NY this June. Off this people can organize similar sessions – especially for students coming back into town at the end of the summer. The week in NY will include lectures and evening programs that can be attended by anyone interested and daytime field work ( heading to an immigrant neighborhood one day, Harlem the next, down to Chelsea and to important exhibits like the Darwin Show at the Museum of Natural History.
The schedule and calendar events for June 2nd-June 11th can be found below.
June 2nd Friday
* Orientation and Overview- 10:00 A.M
* Why does the Bush Regime Need to be driven out? What if we do, what if we don’t?
* What does independent historic political action mean? How do we explain this to people?
@ CCNY (The City College of New York/138th Street & Convent Avenue)
* Screening of G.I resistance documentary ‘Sir No Sir’- Follow up discussion with military vets.
@Revolution Books, 9 West 19th St 212/691-3345
June 3rd Sat
* Discussion- Drawing Lessons from Nazi Germany- 10:00 A.M
* Fundraising Session
@ The LGBT Community Center (208 W. 13th Street)
* Outreach- Brooklyn First Saturday at the Brooklyn Museum. Thousands of New Yorkers gather here every first Saturday of the month for free art and events.
June 4th Sunday
* Session on Active Social Investigation ( Why is important we find out what people are thinking? What does this have to do with forging a resistance movement dedicated to Driving out the Bush Regime?- 10:00 A.M
* Outreach on 125th St. and door to door in surrounding Harlem area
* WCW Volunteers returning from New Orleans will give presentations
June 5th Monday
* How to Organize Your Campus – 10:00 A.M
@ CCNY (The City College of New York/138th Street & Convent Avenue)
* Visiting the Darwin Exhibit at the Museum of Natural History. Niles Eldredge, curator of the Darwin Show and signer of the Call has created an experience that allow you to discover the man and the revolutionary theory that changed the course of society and science
* The Battle over Evolution and the Importance of Critical Thought. Dr. David Kohn, editor of the Darwin Manuscripts @ John Jay College North Hall Room 1311-N, 445 W. 59 St. 6:30 P.M
* People can go to Outernational/ The International Noise Conspiracy show at CBGBs that night for fun and outreach
June 6th Tuesday
* October 5th- What do we need on this day. Brainstorming and envisioning session.
@ CCNY (The City College of New York/138th Street & Convent Avenue)- 10:00 A.M
* Outreach in Chelsea – Day of getting posters in stores.
* Event- Esther Kaplan, Author of ‘With God on Their Side”” speaks on the alarming rise of the Christian Right under the Bush Administration @ The Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew 263 West 86th Street & West End ave 6:30 P.M
June 7th – Wendsday
* The State of Campuses Today. The polarization on campuses and the question of apathy vs. political paralysis- 10:00 A.M
@ CCNY (The City College of New York/138th Street & Convent Avenue)
* Center for Constitutional Rights Training on Torture at Guantanamo
@ 666 Broadway 6th Floor (Broadway & Bleeker)
* Event- Ted Glick of Climate Crisis Coalition and speaker at the Bush Crimes Commission on Global Warming and the Bush Administration’s Destruction of the Environment @ the Metropolitan Community Church (446 West 36th Street) 6:30 P.M
June 8th – Thursday
* Outreach In Jackson Heights
* Event- Why the Democrats Won’t Stand and Fight: And Why YOU MUST w/ Sunsara Taylor, contributing writer to Revolution Newspaper, David Lindorff, contributing writer to Counter Punch and author of the The Case for Impeachment: Legal Arguments for Removing President George W. Bush from Office, more speakers TBA @ The Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew 263 West 86th Street/ West End Ave 6:30 P.M
June 9th Friday
*October 5th Plan Making Session 10:00 A.M
@ CCNY (The City College of New York/138th Street & Convent Avenue)
* Visual Campaign- Teams will be assigned campuses to visually decorate (Columbia, NYU, and City College of NY) and surrounding area
* Event w/ author Cristina Page of “How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America: Freedom, Politics, and the War on Sex” will discuss the Christian fundamentalist attack on contraception and sex education. Introduced by World Can’t Wait student organizer Leah Fishbein. @ The Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew 263 West 86th Street & West End ave 6:30 P.M
June 10th Saturday
* How to organize your High School- In small towns and in locked down Inner-city high schools) 10:00 A.M
@ 290 Henry Street New York, NY 212-673-5300 St. Augustine’s Church
* Outreach in East Village/ St. Marks
June 11th Sunday
* Today’s Reason Presentations
* Subway Agitation/ Presentations
* Farewell Party
Over the course of the training, youth need to research and write a ‘Today’s Reason to Drive out the Bush Regime’- the web feature on the World Can’t Wait website. People can volunteer to read their ‘Today’s Reason’ to the group at the end of the training project.
That afternoon teams will go out on to NYC subway lines and practice doing concise and compelling agitation to New York subway riders and straphangers.