The 11th Annual National Conference on Organized Resistance (NCOR) will be held March 7-9, 2008 in Washington, DC!

Mar 4, 2008

The National Conference of Organized Resistance is an annual event that brings together people from all backgrounds for a weekend of learning and discussing local and international social justice issues through workshops, panel discussions, and skillshares. NCOR is held on the main campus of American University in northwest Washington, DC.

About NCOR

The 11th Annual NCOR will be held March 7-9, 2008.

NCOR is an annual event that brings together activists from a variety of issues, struggles, ideologies and backgrounds for a weekend of learning and reflecting on the state of progressive movements occurring locally, nationally and worldwide. Through diverse workshops, panel discussions, skillshares, tabling, and the creation of an open and safe space, NCOR seeks to promote organized action amongst participants against the injustices and inequalities that we confront in our daily lives and in the world. NCOR is held on the main campus of American University in northwest Washington, DC.

NCOR Mission Statement

Throughout the past year, resistance has thrived in our workplaces, in our neighborhoods, and in our relationships. Oppressed communities organized cooperatively to subvert the systems that only serve the needs of a privileged few.

In both South Central LA and Washington DC, community resistance movements stood between developers' bulldozers and our public lands. Students organized for youth liberation, community power, and their own education. The struggle for dignity in the workplace took many forms, with organized resistance spreading in New York warehouses and Florida fields. Miners on both sides of the border suffered the tragic consequences of an un- organized workplace. The racist legal system exposed itself this year: we couldn't save Sean Bell, but we saved Kenneth Foster, and thousands marched through the streetsof Jena, LA, to save six youths there. Homophobic courts punished queer self-defense against violent bigots in New Jersey, and transfolk in Philadelphia led marches against the brutal murder of Erika Keels. US resistance movements joined forces in Atlanta at the first ever US Social Forum, and a pro-democracy movement in Burma against the military junta caught the attention of the world.

In workshops and presentations communities in struggle will share their stories and organize toward revolution in our lifetime. NCOR in its eleventh year will reflect the global in the local, because the oppressions we face in Washington DC are, on a small scale, the same as those we face everywhere. Come to DC March 7-9th with a new world in your heart.

NCOR and American University

The NCOR Club is the American University student organization that organizes NCOR with partial funding from the AU Club Council and is under the Student Activities department. As a student conference organized by a student club, we are required to function in accordance with Student Activities guidelines in regards to workshop space scheduling, food providers, tablers (no more tabling in the hallways...), financial protocols and various safety regulations. In return for working with the administration and following their guidelines, we have been able to have this conference at AU for 10 years. NCOR is only sustainable if we follow the rules that AU asks of us. They have helped accommodate many of our needs over the last several years, and we work to do the same for them.