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The Revolutionary Marxist Collective (RMC - http://www.phillyrmc.net) is hosting Nachie, co-founder and organizer of the Red & Anarchist Action Network, for a series of events.
The Civil War in Venezuela: Socialism to the Highest Bidder
LAVA (Lancaster AVenue Autonomous Zone)
4134 Lancaster Avenue, Philadelphia PA
Friday, April 14th, 6.00 - 8.00 PM
Cost: free, donations requested
RAAN organizer Nachie, who has just returned from a two month stay in Venezuela, will be discussing the implications of Hugo Chavez' "Bolivarian Revolution" to the developing revolutionary potential both within and outside of the country. This workshop will focus on areas of contradiction within the revolutionary process and the ecological, indigenous, social, ideological, and international issues that they reflect. Special attention will be paid to the current state of the international Venezuela "solidarity" movement and how/why anarchists and communists should be prepared to intervene in it.
There will also be an exclusive showing of Nuestro Petroleo y Otros Cuentos, (Our Oil and Other Tales) a blacklisted documentary on the real cost of petro-populism, which has only been recently subtitled in English for international distribution. Free copies of the latest issue of Venezuela's anarchist newspaper El Libertario will also be available, along with copies of the movie for distribution.
Parkour for Commies: An Introduction to Urban Freerunning
Location to be determined, check back soon or contact us
[potentially the art museum]
Saturday, April 15th, ~1pm
No cost
Members of the Red & Anarchist Action Network will be presenting a crash-course in the basics of Parkour, an art combining the philosophy and technique of military obstacle- coursing and the urban environment. The workshop will be presented with special attention given to the abilities of each individual and the proper methodology behind implementing a high-impact urban training regimen. We will also be incorporating into the physical training itself a discussion of the philosophy behind Parkour and its potential as a organizing tool for the serious preparation of direct action culture. RAAN has been investigating the potentialities of Parkour to the communist/anarchist movement for nearly a year and has already organized a series of workshops and affiliated PK clubs in Boston and Venezuela.
Defining the Red & Anarchist Action Network
The A-Space
4722 Baltimore Avenue, Philadelphia PA
Saturday, April 15th, 7.30 PM
Cost: free, donations requested
Since late 2002, the Red & Anarchist Action Network (RAAN) has been constructing an alternative model of revolutionary (dis)organization that has united anti-authoritarians from deep ecologists to anti-state Marxists in a horizontal network consisting entirely of autonomous affiliated action. In recent months RAAN has begun paying more attention to the need to perpetually rearticulate and discuss the organizational hypotheses being proposed, as we strongly feel them to be unique in our movement. We believe that the conditions we find ourselves in are more than ripe for the emergence of a completely grassroots revolutionary union based solely on mutual aid, respect, diversity of tactics, and a no-bullshit culture that prides praxis over ideology. There is the potential of a RAAN-affiliated presence organizing itself in Philly, and this is our chance to make this process as transparent, autonomous, and locally-relevant as possible. This workshop will be arranged as an informal discussion covering a series of interpretations of the network's experience, but also geared towards addressing people's individual concerns and interests, and proposing RAAN as a context for that discussion.
It is recommended, but of course not required, that those interested familiarize themselves with the general concept of RAAN by exploring the www.redanarchist.org website. Such familiarity would allow the workshop to focus more exclusively on the immediate potential for the RAANista model in this city.
Leninists of all stripes and other statists are strongly discouraged from attending this meeting, as their views will not be welcome.
Contact the organizers at: phillymarxists (at) gmail (dot) com
I'll most likely be there on the 15th.
