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Festival del Pueblo
C/o Barricada
PO Box 73
Boston MA 02133
festivaldelpueblo@hotmail.com
www.festivaldelpueblo.org
This Text Contains 14 Sections
These are:
1-Statement from Festival del Pueblo General Assembly:
After New York…
Updates
2-Demonstrations and Direct Actions
3-Radical Bookfair
4-Revolutionary Music Festival
5- Free School
6-Revolutionary Cultural Gathering
7-Community Carnival of Resistance
8-Revolutionary Sports Tournament
9-Fundraising
10-Housing Registration and Adopt-an-Activist
11-Registration
12-Food
13-Organizing Structure
14-Endorsers
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1* STATEMENT FROM THE FESTIVAL DEL PUEBLO GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
After New York: Take the Struggle Back to the
Communities and
Workplaces!
In May: Converge on Boston to Help Us Bring Together
Communities in
Struggle and Retake the Offensive!
The thousands that took to the streets of New York
city last week,
despite
the police harassment, the media vilification, and the
assortment of
scare
tactics, clearly demonstrated that resistance in North
America did not
die
in the post-September 11th period, but had in fact
only entered into a
tactical retreat. While it is true that the New York
police greatly
contained the possibilities for direct action and this
was at times
disempowering, the mere fact that over 10,000 people
took to the
streets is
in itself heartening. However, it is time to retake
the offensive!
This
time, we act on our own schedule, and we choose the
venue!
Boston is preparing to hold what could very well be
one the largest
anarchist, radical, and anti-capitalist gathering in
recent memory, at
the
Festival del Pueblo, May 1st to May 5th.
FESTIVAL DEL PUEBLO
BOSTON MAY 1-5, 2002
A Five Day Celebration of Resistance, Community, and
Freedom!
While confronting the global ruling elites when they
meet is important
and
has symbolic value, the substance of the
anti-capitalist struggle lies
in
the work we do every day in our communities and
workplaces. This is
the
work that builds the power from below and eats away at
the power of the
state and corporations to dominate our lives. This is
how we build
revolutionary dual power.
However, local activists are often alienated from the
communities in
which
they live and with whom they should really be trying
to build bonds.
The
events organized in the Festival del Pueblo will
hopefully serve to
build
these bonds, both in the streets as well as in the
recreational events.
The Festival del Pueblo is an attempt to bring
different communities
in
struggle, from Boston and beyond, closer together by
taking the fight
to our
common exploiters, and by focusing on issues of
relevance in our day to
day
lives.
In Boston, these issues are police brutality, rising
unemployment and
casualization, immigrant’s rights, the
prison-industrial complex, and
above
all, housing. The goal of this event is to combine
the
community-building
opportunities of locally based community-rooted
efforts, with the
flavor and
possibilities of large militant protests. Festival
del Pueblo will
also
mark the starting point of a concerted campaign to
organize around the
issue
of affordable housing in the city of Boston. However,
in order to
accomplish all this, we need the presence of as many
anti-capitalists
as
possible in the city.
Given the fact that many people were discouraged from
going to New
York
City due to a lack of clear communication as to the
advancement of the
organizing and as to what exactly was to take place,
we are making it a
priority of the outreach group to focus not only on
spreading the word
about
this event among the communities of Boston (a job that
has already
begun
with wheat pasting, contacting local organizations,
and door to door
fliering), but to keep fellow activists in other
cities well posted as
to
how the organizing is advancing; that is the purpose
of this update.
If you have any questions, or would like to become
actively involved
in
organizing an event, please do not hesitate to contact
either the
General
Assembly or the relevant Working group. The Festival
del Pueblo is a
decentralized and horizontally organized event that
will only become
better
and richer with the active participation of as many as
possible.
Keep Up the Fight!
See You All in May!
Festival del Pueblo General Assembly
Outreach Working Group
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2* Demonstrations and Direct Actions
Every year in our respective cities across
North America we have
small, primarily activist oriented, Mayday
celebrations. Invariably,
these
events do not have the impact we would hope, and they
fail to involve
the
working class communities that the first of May is all
about.
Furthermore,
in our isolation, we often become easy targets for
police repression.
Therefore, this year we urge revolutionaries of
all
anti-authoritarian stripes to converge on Boston for a
massive show of
working class solidarity and strength in a
demonstration side by side
with
the impoverished and oppressed communities of the
city, be they
immigrants
(legal or otherwise), unemployed, working poor, or any
other sector of
the
community victimized by capitalism. Together with
these communities, we
intend to take the battle to our oppressors.
MARCHES:
MAY 1ST, REVOLUTIONARY MAYDAY MARCH
FOR A REVOLUTIONARY ALTERNATIVE, FOR A CLASSLESS,
STATELESS SOCIETY
MAY 5TH, CONVERGE AGAINST CAPITALISM, A UNITING OF
STRUGGLES
A march through the city of Boston to denounce all
that is wrong with
capitalism; from high rents, to dead end jobs,
harassment of
immigrants,
racism, sexism, and all forms of oppression.
DIRECT ACTIONS:
Throughout the week, we would like to encourage
participants to
organize and
carry out direct actions of all forms. From
banner-drops, to housing
occupations, to lock-downs and everything in between.
These direct
actions
will culminate in the CAC march on the 5th.
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3* Radical Bookfair
The 4th New England Anarchist Bookfair and Free School
will be held in
Boston on May 1st at Northeastern University,
directly following the
revolutionary May Day march. As of today, confirmed
tables are…
Insurgence Records (Toronto)
Barricada Collective (Boston)
Lucy Parsons Center (Boston)
Tute Nere Collective (DC)
NorthEastern Federation of Anarcho-Communists (NEFAC)
Northeastern Anarchist
Ruptures (Quebec)
Clamor Magazine
Anarchist Communitarian Network
Institute for Social Ecology (Vermont)
Institute for Anarchist Studies (New York)
Anti-Racist Action Columbus (Ohio)
Industrial Workers of the World
Anarchist Black Cross Federation
Rich Mackin (Boston)
In Hope (Salem, MA)
AK Press
Brian Mackenzie Center (DC)
And More…
Tables are still available and cost $10-20 for a
half-table, and $20-40
for
a full table (sliding scale). The deadline to
register for a table is
April
1st. To sign up for a table, or if you have any
questions, please
contact
fdpbookfair@hotmail.com or complete the registration
form at
www.festivaldelpueblo.org
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4* Revolutionary Music Festival
The Festival del Pueblo will include at least four
concerts, from May
1st
through May 4th. The goal of these concerts is to
bring together a
diversity of groups in a setting of social
interaction. With that in
mind
we have chosen to prioritize non-punk/hardcore bands.
Despite this,
such
bands are the most prevalent and as such are very well
represented in
the
band line up. Because of this, other than unconfirmed
bands with whom
we
are already in contact, no more bands other than
hip-hop, jazz, folk,
and
other non-punk genres will be accepted.
The line up now stands as follows….
*Ricanstruction (NYC) - Puerto Rican Liberation Rock
*Aeropajitas (Lima, Peru)- Anarcho-communist punk rock
‘n’ roll
*Millions of Dead Cops (NYC)- Classic 80’s Punk Rock
*David Rovics (Boston)- Folk
*Brandeis Improvisation Collective (Boston)- Free
Improvised Music
under the
Conduction of Tom Hall
*Human Racist (West Virginia) - A four piece crusty
punk band from West
Virginia
*Anomie Mind (NYC)
*Hopeless Dregs of Humanity (New Jersey) - punk rock
n’ roll
*Give Us Barabbas (New Jersey) -Blasphemous punk
*Melee (Boston) – Thrash
*Radical Bluegrass Troupe (Boston)
*Disaster Strikes (Boston) – Punk-hardcore
*Makhnovshchina (Boston/Ukraine) - Raging political
crusty metal.
*Guardia Negra (Boston) - Internationalist
Anarcho-Communist Oi!
*Erik Peterson (Philadelphia) - Songs of mischief sung
over mandolin,
acoustic anar
chy for drinkers and dancers alike. Been
described as
"gypsy-hobo-pirate-punk.”
*Robert Blake (Philadelphia) - Folk
*1905 (D.C.) - Punk
*Turn Around Norman (West Virginia) - Hardcore
*Suiciety (Connecticut) - Crusty political punk from
CT.
*Creation is Crucifixion (Pittsburgh)
*Czolgosz (Boston) - Absurdo-Punk
*Jeunesse Apatride (Montreal) - Revolutionary redskin
Oi! from
Montreal.
*Homage to Catalonia (DC) - Folk-punk
*The Umoja Unit (NY) - Free Jazz and Poetry featuring
Ras Moshe,
Jackson
Krall, Matt
Heyner and Matt Lavelle.
*No Good Heroes (Kentucky) - Streetpunk
*Clifton Joseph (Toronto) - Hip-hop/Reggae
*Beaten Down Witness (New Hampshire) - Emo
*Drop Dead (Rhode Island) - Powerviolence
*Fallen Short (Boston) - Crust
*Dance Emma Dance (Boston) - Peace punk ala crass
*Go For Broke (Boston) – Ska
*Hiretsukan (Brooklyn)-Hardcore
*XRAY (Boston) - Experimental electronic
*Toxic Narcotic (Boston) - Punk
*Diallo (Connecticut) - Hardcore punk
*Virulent Strain (NYC) – Squatter Punk core
*Violent Society (Philadelphia) – Street Punk
*Molotov Cocktail (NYC) – Punkrock n’roll
*Cranked Up Really High (Philadelphia) - Oi!
*The Profits (Boston) - Punk
*Return of the Essence (Boston) - Hip-hop
*Slipstream Time Travel (NYC) - Free Jazz featuring
Tor Snyder, Ras
Moshe,
James
Duncan, and Marc Edwards.
*Satellite Probe-Voyager Interstellar Mission (NYC) -
Free Jazz duet
with
Marc
Edwards and Paul Flaherty.
Witch Hunt (Pennsylvania) - Feminist Anarcha-punk
rock.
*Virginia Black Lung (Philadelphia) – Anarcho
Punk-hardcore
*Rambo (Philadelphia) – Political fun youth crew!
And Many Other Unconfirmed, but likely, acts…
We do not as of yet know the price of tickets for the
concerts, as it
will
depend on the price of the venues we are looking into
as well as
covering of
travel expenses for all the artists.
See the Festival del Pueblo webpage at
www.festivaldelpueblo.org for
regular
updates of the lineup, as well as the final schedule
once it is made
available.
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5* Free School
The Free School will be held on May 1st in
conjunction with
the
radical Bookfair. Currently, confirmed workshops and
speakers include…
Confirmed Speakers:
-Cindy Milstein (Institute for Social Ecology)
-Professor Jon Bekken (Editor Industrial Worker)
-Professor Noel Ignatiev (Editor Race Traitor)
Confirmed Workshops:
-Sabate Anarchist Collective (NEFAC-Boston):
Revolutionary Anarchist
Organizing
-Anarchist Black Cross Federation Members: Political
Prisoners and
Prisoners of War
-Jacksonville ABCF-TDC: Tactical Defense Caucus, Self
Defense for
Activists
and Anarchists
-Columbus ARA: DIY Women’s Health
-Columbus ARA: Anti-Authoritarian Parenting
-Dave: Black and Green
-CRAYON (Chicago): Youth Liberation
-Barricada Collective (NEFAC-Boston): The Necessity
of Revolutionary
Anti-Fascism
and many more.
-Sabate Anarchist Collective (NEFAC-Boston):
Anarchism and the
Struggle
Against Patriarchy
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6* Revolutionary Cultural Gathering
The revolutionary cultural gathering will
take place on
Thursday,
May 2nd. It will feature movie screenings, art
exhibitions, spoken
word
acts, and homebrew tastings.
Drawing Resistance
(www.drawingresistance.org) will be
exhibiting
the work of 31 radical artists during this event.
There will also be
performances by Rich Mackin and others. Furthermore,
the cultural
gathering
will also feature anarchist propaganda posters from
across the world.
Homebrew of all varieties will be available
from the many who
have
already volunteered to share their brewing skills
during the cultural
gathering.
If you are interested in participating in the
cultural
gathering,
contact fdpculture@hotmail.com
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7* Community Carnival of Resistance
The Community Carnival of Resistance will be
held on
Saturday, May
4th in conjunction with the Wake Up the Earth
Festival, organized every
year
in the neighborhood of Jamaica Plains, and which last
year drew over
five
thousand people.
Games such as Dunk the Landlord, Pin the Tail
on the Pig,
Destroy
the Prison, Bash the Fash, and others will be featured
for the
amusement of
all along fire eaters and a sea of red and black
balloons.
It is still not too late to organize a
carnival attraction
(such as
cheerleading, or street theater). If you are
interested, contact
festivaldelpueblo@hotmail.com
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8* Revolutionary Sports Tournament
The Revolutionary Sports Tournament will
feature soccer,
basketball, and ultimate Frisbee competitions, to be
held on Friday,
May
3rd. It will be a chance for outdoor socialization
and fun while
feasting
at the people’s picnic.
There are over 12 confirmed teams from
Montreal, Amherst,
Boston,
DC, Baltimore, Chicago, and Columbus that will be
participating in the
soccer tournament.
It is still early enough to register your
team. If you are
interested, go to www.festivaldelpueblo.org to find
out the rules and
regulations for the competition and register by
filling out the online
registration form.
As of today, no teams have registered for the
basketball or
ultimate Frisbee competitions.
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9* Fundraising
As with any such event, the economic costs incurred
will be high.
Venues
need to be rented, outreach materials printed (we
intend to do
intensive
fliering and pasting in many communities), housing
needs to be
provided, as
well as many other assorted costs that tend to arise.
For this reason, we strongly urge people to
collaborate
economically
with the Festival del Pueblo. Please send checks or
money orders to our
mailing address (leave pay to field blank please).
Send cash at your
own
risk.
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10* Housing
Housing will be available to all those who
request it.
However,
in order to ensure that there is not a housing
shortage, we request
that
people register for housing as early as possible. To
register for
Housing
simply fill in the registration form at
www.festivaldelpueblo.org and
state
simply that you need to be housed, giving all the
relevant information.
We are also organizing an “Adopt an Activist” program
similar to the
one
carried out by CASA in Quebec for the Summit of the
Americas. So, if
you
live in the Boston area and would like to help us with
this, please
contact
festivaldelpueblo@hotmail.com and let us know.
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11* Participant Registration
We strongly recommend using the online registration at
www.festivaldelpueblo.org
However, if for some reason this is easier for you,
feel free to
complete
this form and send it to festivaldelpueblo@hotmail.com
Individual Name:
Group Name (Or Team Name):
Telephone:
Email:
Address:
City:
State:
Zip:
Country:
We are interested in making the Festival del Pueblo as
inclusive and
broad
based as possible, and therefore are seeking
contributions and
participation
from anyone interested. If you are interested in
conducting, or
participating in, any of the following, please check
the appropriate
space...
Soccer Tournament:
Give Presentation:
Musical Performance:
Bookfair Table:
Homebrew festival:
Debates:
Legal Support:
Art Exhibition:
Film Screening:
Theater:
*Under no circumstances will party front groups or
electoral politics
be
accepted*
If you are planning on participating in any of the
following-giving a
presentation, art exhibition, film screening, or
theater- please use
the
following space to tell us more about your
contribution. Please ensure
that
your project is in some way related to revolutionary
issues. We reserve
the
right to reject proposals which do not meet this (very
broad) criteria.
Description of Activity:
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12* Food
As a demonstration of mutual aid, the food working
group is asking
those
coming to bring with you some sort of food staple.
Whatever you are
capable
to bring in your travels. We are asking specifically
for canned
vegetables,
rice, hamburger buns and frozen veggie burgers (no
bagels please, we
will
have more than enough). All food brought will be used
to feed people
throughout the festival. Also, if possible, we ask you
to bring your
own
bowl and utensils. This will help limit waste and make
the festival as
ecologically friendly as possible. So come with what
you can and prove
that
we don't need to be fed, we can feed each other!
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13* Organizing Structure
The Festival del Pueblo is organized through
open General
assemblies
held every two weeks. These general assemblies are
open to all who
agree
with the points of unity which are available at
www.festivaldelpueblo.org.
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14* Endorsers
Sofia Perovskaya Collective (NEFAC Supporter, Boston)
Tute Nere (NEFAC Supporter, D.C.)
Barricada Collective (NEFAC Supporter, Boston)
Sabate Anarchist Collective (NEFAC Member, Boston)
RASH MTL (NEFAC Supporter, Montreal)
Lucy Parsons Center (Boston)
Green Mountain Anarchist Collective (Vermont)
Ever Reviled Records (New Jersey)
Freyheyt (NEFAC Supporter, Toronto)
Insurgence Records (Toronto)
Valley Anarchist Organization (Amherst)
CRAYON (Chicago)
Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed
C.A.L. Press
Turning The Tide (Los Angeles)
Progressive Student Alliance (Northeastern University
- Boston)
St. Lawrence University Anti-Capitalist Collective
(NY)
Radical Student Alliance (Boston University - Boston);
Black Touta (Toronto)
Infoshop.org
Black Heart Anarchist Collective (Ohio)
Anti-Racist Action McGill (Montreal)
Anti-Racist Action Columbus (Columbus)
East Coast Anti-Racist Action (Canada)
Prince Edward Island ARA (Canada)
Fredericton ARA (Canada)
Moncton ARA (Canada)
Saint John ARA (Canada)
Halifax ARA (Canada)
Anti-Racist Action Chicago (Chicago)
Boston I.W.W. (Boston)
Tension Collective (New Orleans)
Words Are Not Enough (DC)
Anarchist Black Cross Federation
ABCF Jacksonville (Florida)
ABCF Los Angeles
Cleveland ABCF
Northeast ABCF
Empress Street Gang (Prince Edward Island)
Clamor Magazine
Washington, DC Anti-Capitalist Convergence
Raptivism Records (NYC)
Anarchy Archives
Brian Mackenzie Center (DC)
G-7 Welcoming Committee (Winnipeg)
Catchphraze Records (Phoenix)
AK Press
AWOL Magazine (Philadelphia)
RASH New York
CLAC (Montreal)
Just Seeds (Chicago)
Desiderata Collective (New Jersey)
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