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Oct 24-26th Ruckus Trainings in Pittsburgh
by .... Friday, Sep. 19, 2003 at 12:51 PM
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Information on the awesome and amazing upcoming ruckus trainings!

Forward far and wide---
The Ruckus Society (http://ruckus.org/) is coming to town! After months of trying the Thomas Merton Center has succeeded in arranging for a 2 day activist training camp here in Pittsburgh. These are some of the best trainers in the country with countless years of experience. From the 1999 WTO meetings to the upcoming FTAA actions in Miami, Ruckus has been there to give people the tools to organize effective actions and campaigns. This is an amazing opportunity to build the local skill base and a heck of an opportunity for anyone interested in learning more advanced techniques.

Micro-Ruckus Training Camp
October 25-26 Actions speak louder than words

The Ruckus Society is an organization that provides training and resources in order to support human rights and environmental organizers in the use of non-violent direct action techniques. It is dedicated to fostering leadership of those most affected by the injustice and oppression we struggle against, and aims to prioritize the voices and visions of youth, women, people of color, indigenous people and immigrants, poor and working class folks, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people, and other historically marginalized communities.

Saturday, October 25th at CMU Women�s Center
(Margaret Morrison Plaza) 61C bus line

9:30am to 10am Light Breakfast
10am to Noon Slide Show and
Theatre of the Oppressed
Noon to 1pm Lunch
1pm to 5pm Anti-Oppression Training
5pm to 6pm Break
6pm to 9pm Non-Violent Direct Action

Sunday, October 26th at Project 1877
(4805 Penn Ave in Garfield) 86B bus line

9:30am to 10am Light Breakfast
10am to 2pm Advanced Communications
2pm to 3pm Lunch
3pm to 7pm Direct Action Training Strategies

Brought to you by the Pittsburgh Campaign to Stop the Free Trade Area of The Americas - a project of the Thomas Merton Center working to contribute to the hemispheric campaign to prevent passage of the FTAA, to increase awareness of the alternatives to corporate globalization, and to unite thevarious social forces being affected by neo-liberalism and take action locally to reverse the process, making the connections between the FTAA and the local manifestations of neo-liberal policies such as cuts in transit, efforts to privatize the garbage service, corporatization of education, and more.

Please Register ahead of time!
The 2-day camp is $10 and space is limited!
To register or request more info:
(412) 361-3022
pittsburgh_ftaa@hotmail.com

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