The Sterling College Environmental and Social Justice Club would like to invite you to a weekend of trainings on campus on Nonviolent Direct Action with the FANG Collective, based in Rhode Island. These trainings are for anyone wishing to learn more about the different ways to get organized in fighting against systems of oppression such as racism and a fossil-fuel based economy. Direct action and civil disobedience have a rich history in our county and these trainings seek to both share that history as well as empower our community with the practice and skills necessary to collectively make our voices heard.
Saturday, April 22, 2017
12:30-7pm
Intro to NVDA: This in-depth workshop offers an introduction to the history of Nonviolent Direct Action and arts organizing/affinity groups within movements. We will cover implementation as well as examples of intersectionality within our community/movements, affinity groups and their formation, consensus decision making, strategy, various tactics, jail support, security culture, and a discussion on self-care and community care.
Sunday, April 23, 2017
10-5pm
[Must attend NVDA training day before or have experience with NVDA]
Intro to Tactical NVDA
We will be building upon previous knowledge to delve deeper into tactical options and strategy within blockading for nonviolent direct actions. Equipment building and "hard" blockades, action formation and in-depth strategy, banner-making, and basic medic skills for actions will be included.
About the facilitators:
The FANG Collective has been resisting Spectra's fracked-gas pipeline expansions for three years. FANG was the first organization to carry out direct actions targeting Spectra's "AIM" project in 2014. Since then, their group continued to grow and now host the following NVDA centric campaigns: StopSpectra, TakeOnTextron, NoDAPLSolidarity, NoNewPowerplant, NoLNGinPVD, as well as provide trainings --- Intro to NVDA, Social Media in Action, Jail Support/Police Liaisoning, Security Culture, and Kingian Nonviolence.
FANG believes in empowering and supporting frontline communities to learn and develop the skills they identify as effective in their own campaigns. This has led to meaningful partnerships and collective resistance to fracked gas infrastructure along the East Coast.
Registration for the first training:
https://docs.google.com/a/sterlingcollege.edu/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdZ6p-OQHkwO1L4oZLVC4OOjBCca-[...]w=1
For those who use social media, here is the facebook event. Please rsvp here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1433225953395597/?notif_t=plan_user_associated¬if_id=1491964[...]139
- sliding-scale suggested donation of $10-$100 for each day for non-Sterling-students. Please contact esjc@sterlingcollege.edu with any questions.
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