Don't Leave Your Friends Behind
San Francisco book party
Fri, March
15th, 8 pm
How do we create new, non-hierarchical
structures of support and mutual aid and include all ages in the struggle for
social justice? Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind is a collection of
concrete tips, suggestions, and narratives on ways that non-parents can support
parents, children, and caregivers in their communities, social movements, and
collective processes. Let's build an all-ages, inclusive revolution that leaves
no one behind.
Join
co-editor Vikki Law and Bay Area contributors Diana Block, Encian
Pastel, Sasha Luci, Mariposa, Maxina Ventura and Tiny, Ingrid DeLeon and the Po'
Poets Project/Poetas POBRES Proyecto for a reading, performance, discussion and celebration of ways to support families
in social justice movements and communities. Let's build an all-ages, all-inclusive
revolution that leaves no one behind!
This is an event for all ages; bring your
children!!
Victoria Law is a mother, writer and photographer. She is the author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles Of Incarcerated Women, which won her the 2009 PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award. She is also a co-founder of Books Through Bars--NYC and a
long-time volunteer at ABC No Rio, a community arts center in the Lower
East Side. She parents a 12-year-old daughter who is unimpressed by any of this.
Diana Block has been an activist for forty years. She spent over a decade parenting her two
children while underground and on the run from the FBI, an experience she
chronicles in Arm the Spirit: A Woman's Journey Underground and Back.
The Bay Area Childcare Collective was formed in 2002 in response to the
very real need for childcare among social justice organizations. We hope
to play a part in building a movement that prioritizes the voices and
political agendas of women and mothers, especially women of color,
low-income women, and immigrant women.
Ingrid DeLeon is a poet, clothing designer, actress, Prensa POBRE reportera, mama of four
children, poverty and im/migrant scholar in residence at POOR Magazine and
author of El Viaje: The Journey of One
Immigrant Mother published by POOR Press.
Mariposa, a POOR Magazine indigenous scholar and
Indigenous Peoples Media Project Coordinator, has just recently relocated from
a reservation in the Southwest back to her birthplace of San Francisco. She is committed to standing as the
source of transformation for our peoples healing and being that source of love
even when people don’t even love themselves. She is a co-founder of the Eagle
and Condor Healing Project, which aims to support family reunification and
birth in Indigenous communities by providing healing spaces, performance art,
and one on one consulting with individuals and/or organizations.
Maxina Ventura is a longtime anarchist
activist who
chose not to send her kids to any school. They are great learners and pretty
wonderful people, helping most recently to set up the Occupy Berkeley
encampment in the SF Bay Area. Max is a singer grown on Bluegrass and Old-Time music, and trained in the
classical musical world. For many years, she has been exposing the folly of activist
movements trying to separate parents and kids.
Sasha Luci is an unschooling mom of three living in the Bay Area.
Tiny (aka Lisa Gray-Garcia) is a poverty scholar, revolutionary journalist, lecturer, Indigenous
Taino, Roma mama of Tiburcio, daughter of Dee,
and the co–founder of POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE/PoorNewsNetwork. She
founded Escuela de la gente/PeopleSkool- a multi-generational,
multi-lingual, poor and indigenous people-led skool for all peoples
outside the instition. She founded several cultural art, poetry and
theatre projects like the Po Poets Project, the welfareQUEENs, Theatre
of the POOR and she co-founded with Tony Robles, Hotel Voices and Born N
Raised In Frisco, to name a few. She is
also the author of Criminal of
Poverty:
Growing Up Homeless in America, published by City Lights, co-editor of A
Decolonizers Guide to A Humble Revolution published by POOR Press and currently in production on her second book- Poverty SkolaShip #101- A PeoplesTeXt- due to released in 2014
Po Poets Project/Poetas POBREs Proyecto de Prensa POBRE are Youth, Adults, Elders struggling to stay alive and thrive through race
and class oppression using our voices, our poetry, our stories, our art,
to create change for poor folks locally and globally.
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Don't Leave Your Friends Behind
East Bay book party
Sat, March 16th, 7pm
Solespace, 1714 Telegraph Ave, Oakland
http://solespaceoakland.com/
How do we create new, non-hierarchical
structures of support and mutual aid and include all ages in the struggle for
social justice? Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind is a collection of
concrete tips, suggestions, and narratives on ways that non-parents can support
parents, children, and caregivers in their communities, social movements, and
collective processes. Let's build an all-ages, inclusive revolution that leaves
no one behind.
Join
co-editor VictoriaLaw and Bay Area contributors Tomas Moniz, Lisa
Gray-Garcia (aka Tiny of POOR magazine), Jessica Hoffmann, Mari
Villaluna and Briana Cavanaugh for a reading, discussion and celebration
of ways to support families
in social justice movements and communities. Let's build an all-ages,
all-inclusive
revolution that leaves no one behind!
This is an event for all ages; bring your
children!!
Briana Cavanaugh has been a community
organizer for more than twenty years. Her
focus has been primarily on collaborative “human services” public policy with a
love of community and spiritual group facilitation. She’s been an activist single mom since 2002 and made
the surprisingly terrifying leap to homeschooling her tween in 2010, by his
request.
Tiny (aka Lisa Gray-Garcia) is a poverty scholar, revolutionary journalist, lecturer, Indigenous
Taino, Roma mama of Tiburcio, daughter of Dee, and the co–founder of POOR Magazine. She is
also the author of Criminal of Poverty:
Growing Up Homeless in America.
Jessica Hoffmann is a coeditor/copublisher of make/shift magazine and auntie of the
marvelous Ruby Joy Hoffmann.
Victoria Law (editor) is a mother, photographer, and writer.
She is the author of Resistance Behind
Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women, which won the 2009 PASS
(Prevention for a Safer Society) Award and earned her the 2011 Brooklyn College
Young Alumna Award. She parents a 12-year-old daughter who is unimpressed by any of this.
Tomas Moniz is the founder, editor, and a writer for
the award winning zine Rad Dad (anthologized as a book in 2011).
Looking for radical parenting community, he created Rad Dad to provide the space for parents (and in particular fathers)
to share, commiserate, plan, and support each other in challenging patriarchy
one diaper at a time. He is helping to raise three children and lives with a
menagerie of animals in Berkeley,
California.
Thank You: Montreal Anarchist Bookfair, Montreal Childcare Collective, and QPIRG ! < 3
