At the Youth Activism Gathering there is a place for you.
Influences
Influenced by punk, diy, radical cheerleaders, riot grrls, YOU, all participants past and present and future, sncc, clowns, civil rights, veterans against the war, trans histories, radical costuming, disability rights activists, hip-hop, country, rock, jazz, poetry, postering, native sovereignty struggles, free schools, code pink, theater, math, geography, socialization, our families, the streets, the governmental and corporate policies, outright, youth rights, act up, the underground, the upperground, no class!, earth first!, the desire for social change, environmental health, the desire for fun, art, diversity-in thought, expression, clothes, self, beliefs, etc. Liberation, thought-provoking discussions, sharing, caring, survival, survival, survival!
Sounds Like
**********Movies***********Cook/Bake-off**********DIY music and entertainment************Icebreakers and time to hang out and meet activist youth from around Maine***And Be your FabUloUs Selfffff***Art making****workshopssss***
Saturday, April 19 12-1 Name Games/Team Building with Simon Beckford 1-1:30 Lunch 2:30-4:00 Myths of Guantanamo and Other Prisons with Missy and Brianna 2:30-4:00 Local Foods with Jonah and Lots to Gardens 4:15-5:45 Consent with Emily Paine 6-7 Dinner 7 Bake Off 8 Open Mic followed by a Dance Party!
Sunday, April 20 8-9 Breakfast 9:30-11 Anti-Opression with Ryan Conrad and Leroy Walker 12-1:30 Lunch 1:30-3 A Panter is a Black Cat: The Legacy and Contemporary Work of the Black Panther Party Malik Rahim and Robert King 3:15-4:45 Safe Sex with Mimi Collective and Penny Sargent 3:15-4:45 Journalism with Hillary and Cecelia 5-6:30 Atlantica and Biotechnology with Ani St. Amand and Emily Ingraham 5-6:30 Organizing and Facilitating with Logan 6:30-7:30 Dinner 8 Punk Show: To The Barriades, Dylan Bredeau, The Lanterns, and The Scrapes
Monday, April 21 8-9 Breakfast 9:15-10:45 Gender Discussion with Ellis Perry 11-12 Environmentalism Discussion with Ryan Clarke 12-1 Lunch
Outright L/A is planning a gender-bender dance party on the 17th of April 2008 in Lewiston. More info to come when we get the ball rolling further a long...!
For student activists from Peace Action Maine youth organizer:
---------- From: "Stephanie Gharakhanian" .. Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:02:03 -0500 To: peaceactionme@peaceactionme.org Subject: Maine Student Activist Forum this March
***CALLING MAINE STUDENT ACTIVISTS***
This past winter, several peace and environmental activists in Maine decided to host a state-wide student forum that would focus on the link between peace and environmental issues. Today we cannot speak of war without speaking of global climate change. We cannot hope to seriously halt and reverse environmental destruction as long as the majority of our national budget remains directed at the Pentagon. Our wild dream is to find an effective way to work together so that we can influence state and national policies. By organizing a student forum, we're hoping to create a space in which local peace and environmental activists can gather, network and explore possibilities for greater collaboration. One specific goal of the forum would be to brainstorm and plan coordinated actions across the state around Earth Day 2008 that would highlight the interrelation between environmental and peace issues.
We have tentatively scheduled the forum for March 1, 2008 at the University of Maine at Augusta. Students from peace and environmental organizations from Maine's public and private colleges and high schools are invited. Besides personal transportation and food expenses, this forum has no forseeable participation fee.
Please contact us as soon as possible or by Friday, February 8th if you can attend. If you'd be interested in hosting a workshop let us know! Contact Info: Stephanie Gharakhanian, Co-Coordinator at Peace Action Maine, stephanie@peaceactionme.org, (207) 772-0680
Thank you for your support and ideas! We are looking forward to meeting everyone.
Many thanks to the Peace Action Maine Board of Dire
Here are the goals people stated at the discussion on common goals at the YAG:
Living off the land – sustainability
unity – network among youth activists
Everybody knows the contents of the constitution
Awareness of current events
“put the unity back in community”
food sustainability/ security
knowledge of home remedies
to live with like-minded people
peaceful messages and messages of resistance in all small surprising places
abolish nuclear weapons
abolish the BIA
cease the use of fossil fuels
step up system
education about being involved in the government
educational opportunities for all
abolish racism
Indian freedom
protecting wildlife and ocean life
learn why the bees are dying and what to do about it
health care for elders
end pesticide use
end GMO use
prevent cloning
to not go extinct
to not let other creatures go extinct
destroy Monsanto
destroy industrial civilization
connect Portland activists with those from midcoast, etc
publication of activism (newspaper)
liberate cell towers
more independent media
more independence for youth
we need our own shelter
stay in touch with other YAG participants
don’t let Peoples’ Free Space go under
support small businesses
renters’ rights, sticking up for people getting evicted
Brunswick naval air station- 2011 -> turn it back to the community to grow food / educate about sustainability
I made a photobucket for everyone to dump their pictures so we can all see them! So if you want the log in info, message me. If you just want to see pictures, the album name is YAG2007
