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    http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/200...1/18296228.php

    Documentary screening:
    Soma: An Anarchist Therapy
    8/14/2006 - Monday
    7pm
    http://www.brownberets.info

    SOMA: an anarchist therapy

    With difficulty walking, and half-blinded from torture by the Brazilian
    military dictatorship, 79 year-old Roberto Freire continues to develop
    somatherapy, completing his life's work. Incorporating the ideas of Wilhelm
    Reich, the politics of anarchism, and the culture of capoeira angola, Soma
    is used by therapists organized in anarchist collectives to fight the
    psychological effects of authoritarianism. Nick Cooper travelled to Rio de
    Janeiro, Salvador, Bahia, and Sao Paulo to find the exercises, principles,
    voices, and movement of somatherapy.
    more info and trailer: http://somadocumentary.com

    workshop: Nazis Vs. Zapatistas: The Struggle Against Cooptation

    Lao-Tsu, the author of the Tao Te Ching and Subcomandante Marcos, of the
    Zapatistas both talk about the power of water -- seemingly weaker, but
    ultimately stronger than the more familiar power of swords. To struggle
    against oppression in ways that don't create other oppressions, we will
    explore the anti-fascist non-hierarchical currents in history, philosophy,
    psychology, criticism, and organizing tactics.

    Working with Indymedia, Food Not Bombs and other non-hierarchical groups,
    Nick Cooper became interested in horizontal structures for change, traveling
    to Brazil in 2003 and 2005 to study Soma Therapy, and to Chiapas, Mexico in
    2004 to study Zapatismo. Also, wanting to study fascist and pre-fascist
    organizing directly, Nick has been attending conferences, meetings,
    presentations and fund-raisers of the far right, including: The Ku Klux
    Klan, Focus on the Family / Lovewonout, Republican Party of Texas, Lyndon
    LaRouche, The Minutemen, and Tom DeLay. The workshop examines philosophies,
    structures and psychology, comparing authoritarian models to those that are
    consensual, communitarian or autonomous. Informed by Zapatista principles,
    Wilhelm Reich's Mass Psychology of Fascism, and Hannah Arendt's Origins of
    Totalitarianism, the workshop develops a skill set for identifying,
    challenging and defeating the authoritarian tool of cooptation.
    more info: http://www.nickcooper.com/antipowerworkshop.htm
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    Lao-Tsu, the author of the Tao Te Ching
    So far, Lao Zi's existence is still unproved.
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    Moved
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    I put this in theory because I thought we'd talk more about SOMA not the documentary.
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    is this named after the drug in brave new world?
    <span style=\'color:red\'><u>THERE IS NO GOD</u>
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    Originally posted by Ian@Sep 14 2006, 06:34 AM
    is this named after the drug in brave new world?
    Haha. Yeah, that&#39;s weird. Maybe. They&#39;re pretty dissimilar though.

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