<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
</head>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">
Hi,<br>
We’re sending this to you because your group provides vital support
for social movements in Britain.
<p>Would you be interested in participating in a Movement Support
Gathering later this year? <br>
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.</p>
<p>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 <a
href="http://www.conservatives.com/get_involved/conference.aspx">Conservative
Party Conference</a> in Birmingham (8 to 11 October 2012).<br>
</p>
<p>At the bottom of this email is a example of what a schedule for
this gathering might look like.</p>
<p>Solidarity & Autonomy,<br>
Green and Black Cross Legal Support<br>
</p>
<p><i><u>The format could be:</u></i></p>
<p><u><span class="caps">DAY</span> 1</u><br>
During the day there could be workshops provided by all groups
involved, such as:</p>
<p>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)<br>
<br>
2) trainer trainings (for example, how to train legal observers,
etc.)<br>
<br>
3) space for groups/networks to meet (For example <span
class="caps">GBC</span> needs to do a short business meeting
amongst the various <span class="caps">GBC</span> regional groups
who would be there)<br>
<br>
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)?</p>
<p><u><span class="caps">DAY</span> 2</u> <br>
Presumably the following day would be an Action Day and many of us
could participate or support the locally organised action</p>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Green and Black Cross Legal Support
07946 541511
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.greenandblackcross.org">www.greenandblackcross.org</a>
This email is sent in confidence and for the addressee(s) only. Please do not disclose the contents without permission. If you have received this email in error, please let me know, then delete the email and do not make use of it in any way. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.</pre>
</body>
</html>