NEMA Gathering Oct 29-31 in Cleveland Ohio
http://www.clevelandfoodnotbombs.org/nema
nemacleveland@excite.com


This Halloween, NEMA Cleveland is inviting you to a weekend of workshops
and mutual aid in lovely Cleveland. NEMA is a new anticapitalist,
antiuthoritarian network in the Northeast (established this year and
still in formulation). The Cleveland, OH conference will be the
third(ish) meeting of NEMA participants, a time for new people to
contribute to defining NEMA and for the network to further test its
functionality as a tool for groups to grow together in the general area.

At NEMA Cleveland (oct. 29-31), in addition to reportbacks and updates
from NEMA working-groups, folks organizing the conf. are hoping to provide
somewhat of a focused theme for discussions and workshops -- the theme is
Community Organizing and Confronting White Cliquishness/Dominance in the
Anarchist Movement -- though of course there will be variety and the
schedule is still open. We are hoping that through shared discussions of
the experiences of groups using different strategies for community
organizing in the Northeast, and through some focused conversations about
race in and outside of anarchist communities, we can use NEMA as a tool to
help groups and people in the network be of benefit to each other.

We are still working out a schedule of workshops, with tentative plans
listed on the NEMA Cleveland website (
http://www.clevelandfoodnotbombs.org/nema/ )

Also, the weekend will be fun. Cleveland is a stimulating playground for
the chakras; there are three nights of haunted bikerides through stretches
of abandoned industrial Cleveland; a party at the spooky bike co-op
warehouse on the river; a show at the new Cleveland venue & infoshop: the
Tower; maybe a dodgeball game at the bunker?...

So send us your comments, your registrations, and your bodies and friends
bodies. Bring your bike, your enthusiasm, and your worst nightmare!

-NEMA Cleveland Organizers