Join FRRACS and The FANG Collective for a training on Nonviolent Direct Action.
Intro to NVDA & Affinity Group Building: This brief workshop offers an introduction to the history of Nonviolent Direct Action and its implementation as well as examples of intersectionality within our community/movements, affinity groups and their formation, consensus decision making, strategy, various tactics, and a discussion on self-care and community care.
When:
Location: The Democracy Center - 45 Mt Auburn St, Cambridge, MA 02138 (Nelson Mandela Room)
Time: 6:30PM - 9:30PM
Parking Info: Metered parking
Public Transit: Closest T stop is Harvard Square on the Red Line
Accessibility Info: The Democracy Center is partially wheelchair accessible, no accessible bathroom on site. The Mandela, Parks, and Chavez rooms are accessible, but the Library is not. Wheelchair users are welcome to use the accessible restroom at Daedalus while we plan our improvements for bathroom accessibility. To reach that bathroom, exit the ramp and turn left on Bow St, at the next building (Daedalus) use their accessible entrance and their restroom will be on the right. More information at:
democracycenter.org/accessibility. Contact
info@democracycenter.org or 617 492 8855 as needed.
About the facilitators:
Founded in 2013, The FANG Collective seeks to escalate resistance to the fracked gas industry while supporting other movements for justice. FANG was the first organization to carry out direct actions targeting Spectra's "AIM" project in 2014. Since then, their group continued to grow and now host the NVDA centric campaigns: Shut Down ICE, NoNewPowerplant. NoLNGinPVD (which they recently won!), as well as provide trainings --- Intro to NVDA, Social Media in Action, Jail Support/Police Liaisoning, Security Culture, and Kingian Nonviolence.
FANG believes in empowering and supporting frontline communities to learn and develop the skills they identify as effective in their own campaigns. This has led to meaningful partnerships and collective resistance to fracked gas infrastructure along the East Coast.
About FRRACS (Fore River Residents Against the Compressor Station):
A community group based on the South Shore in MA, organizing resistance to Enbridge's pipeline and compressor station proposals, as part of their Atlantic Bridge and Access Northeast projects.