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Coming this spring....
Nov 21, 2008
The City From Below
March 27th-29th, 2009
Baltimore
The city has emerged in recent years as an indispensable concept for many of the struggles for social justice we are all engaged in - it's a place where theory meets practice, where the neighborhood organizes against global capitalism, where unequal divisions based on race and class can be mapped out block by block and contested, where the micropolitics of gender and sexual orientation are subject to metropolitan rearticulation, where every corner is a potential site of resistance and every vacant lot a commons to be reclaimed, and, most importantly, a place where all our diverse struggles and strategies have a chance of coming together into something greater. In cities everywhere, new social movements are coming into being, hidden histories and herstories are being uncovered, and unanticipated futures are being imagined and built - but so much of this knowledge remains, so to speak, at street-level. We need a space to gather and share our stories, our ideas and analysis, a space to come together and rethink the city from below.
To that end, a group of activists and organizers, including Red Emma's, the Indypendent Reader, campbaltimore, and the Campaign for a Better Baltimore are calling for a conference called The City From Below, to take place in Baltimore during the weekend of March 27th-29th, 2009.
We'll be hosting this conference at 2640. Find out more and read the full call for participation on the City From Below website. And keep an eye there or here on the Red Emma's site for details of our upcoming City From Below film series, to be held at Red Emma's over the coming months. We're depending on some community support to pull this off - if you can raise money to help us pay for participant travel costs, if you're willing to host an out-of-town participant in your home, or if there's some other way you can help, please drop us a line at cityfrombelow -at- redemmas.org.
More info coming soon....