Anyone else going to NCOR?

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Anyone else here going to NCOR (National Confrence on Organized Riesistance)?

It’s this weekend, Feb 3-5, in washington DC, at american university. There are going to be tons of awesome workshops, ant similar things. Also, there will be a protest at the whitehouse on saturday.

I’l be there, and I know there are at least a few similar minded individuals here.

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What does NCOR resist against?

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It is a bunch of workshops on how to resist. Creative ways to protest, direct action, teach, live.

It’s pretty much a big anarchist convention.

http://www.organizedresistance.org/

I guess there won’t be many unicyclists there.

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I don’t think you are using the word “anarchist” correctly. Anarchists and organized anything don’t really get along.

What will the protest at the white house be about?

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Yeah, I know it sounds like an oxymoron, but it really is pretty much a big anarchist convention.

Answers.com defines:

an·ar·chism (ăn’ər-kĭz’əm)
n.

  1. The theory or doctrine that all forms of government are oppressive and undesirable and should be abolished.
  2. Active resistance and terrorism against the state, as used by some anarchists.
  3. Rejection of all forms of coercive control and authority: “He was inclined to anarchism; he hated system and organization and uniformity” (Bertrand Russell).

We will be using mostly the first two deffinitions, and even a little bit of the third. The key words for deffinition three are “controll” and “authority” of which there will be very little, or none of at the confrence.

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So what does NCOR have in mind rather than government? It sounds dangerous to think of knocking down a foundation, without something else in it’s place. Tell me more about how it works. I am highly interested in hearing of alternatives to our current “democratic” systems.

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First off, NCOR is not a person, or an organization. So “NCOR” doesn’t have anything in mind.

NCOR is a confrence where people go to learn more about organizing and diffrent ways to resist.

Resist what? Resist society, resist the american government, resist racism, resist sexism, resist bigotry, resist conformity, resist generification.

Since I just got back from the event, I’ll be speaking in past tense from here on in:

There were about 2000 people that attended. Most were anarchists, probably a few socialists and marxists, and a few other political ideologies as well. No one was required to be any thing to attend.

NCOR was two days of workshops. This was my schedule of the one’s I went to:

Saturday, Feb. 4

9:00 - 10:00
Morning Yoga - MGC 200

10:00 - 11:30
Visual Artists as Agents of Social Change

11:40 - 1:10
Organizing in Rural Communities

1:20 - 2:50
Creative Media Organizing Part 2: Street Theater as a Media Tool

3:00 - 4:30
Permaculture, Anarchy and (anti)-Civilization

4:40 - 6:10
Beyond Anti-Capitalism: Strategies and Tools for Building a Solidarity Economy Summary

Sunday, Feb. 5

9:00 - 10:00
Positive Stretch: Moving With The Breath - MGC 200

10:00 - 11:30
Radical Sustainability for Autonomous Communities

11:40 - 1:10
Practicing Direct Action

1:20 - 2:50
Combating Genericana: A Perspective from the Midwest

3:00 - 4:30
Hidden Disabilities

4:40 - 6:10
Peak Oil Activism: Radical Sustainability, Earth Liberation, and Community Solutions for the Oil Endgame.

Goto the website I listed earlier to learn more.

I’m going to make a new topic about your question though.