[AktiviX-discuss] Would you be interested in a Movement Support Gathering (autumn 2012)?

[GBC Legal]

Hi,
We're sending this to you because your group provides vital support for 
social movements in Britain.

Would you be interested in participating in a Movement Support Gathering 
later this year?
Please get back to us about how you'd like to get involved, what you 
would be interested in bringing to the gathering and how you think such 
an event might help build our support networks throughout the U.K. Our 
contact details are below.

With protests spreading up and down the country, we felt it would be 
helpful for groups who support this growing student, workers, & 
environmental protest movement to meet during a national event, build 
connections, and share workshops. So we're putting out feelers to see if 
there's interest in having a Movement Support Gathering later this year. 
The idea is to have it in central England (not in London) and perhaps 
focused around a large action that we could then support the day after 
the gathering. For example, the weekend before the Conservative Party 
Conference <http://www.conservatives.com/get_involved/conference.aspx> 
in Birmingham (8 to 11 October 2012).

At the bottom of this email is a example of what a schedule for this 
gathering might look like.

Solidarity & Autonomy,
Green and Black Cross Legal Support

/_The format could be:_/

_DAY 1_
During the day there could be workshops provided by all groups involved, 
such as:

1) a series of workshops & trainings (Know your rights, facilitation 
training, legal issues & squatting, organiser training, self defence, 
legal observer training, tech tools for activists, building a website, 
activist medics, conflict resolution, etc)

2) trainer trainings (for example, how to train legal observers, etc.)

3) space for groups/networks to meet (For example GBC needs to do a 
short business meeting amongst the various GBC regional groups who would 
be there)

4) an afternoon plenary session for open space discussion/skill share ? 
possibly use Seeds for Change or other facilitators. How is it we build 
a support network for the protest movements? How do we share information 
about what is already available (between ourselves and also the wider 
movements)?

_DAY 2_
Presumably the following day would be an Action Day and many of us could 
participate or support the locally organised action

-- 
Green and Black Cross Legal Support

07946 541511
www.greenandblackcross.org

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