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From: Dont Rhine <dontr@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 08:41:03 -0700
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Subject: Convergence this Saturday, August 5

HOPE TO SEE YOU THIS SATURDAY!!!!! HISTORY IS OURS TO MAKE.

PLEASE COPY AND CIRCULATE

COME TO THE GRAND OPENING OF THE COMMUNITY CONVERGENCE

Saturday, August 5th
11am to Dusk
1919 7th St., 1 blocks E. of MacArthur Park/Alvarado (MacArthur /Westlake
Metro stop)

Join together for a day of Art, Celebration, Music, and Food as we build a
community of resistance to the Democratice Convention. The Convergence will
be open every day and eve from August 5th to August 17. Celebrating is part
of getting ready...... Featuring:

ART GALLERY OF RESISTANCE: Bring your own Art to the Gallery of Resistance.
We have four stories of
beautiful wall space waiting for your photos, drawings, paintings, prints.
Thousands of people will be passing through this center over the next few
weeks.  Think about a building full of art that dedicated to end every kind
of oppression and make a better world.  Realize that this is a gallery in
the
trenches and it will be your responsibility to hang and take down.

PIECES OF RESISTANCE: Writers, Graffitti Artists & Muralists.  We have the
vinyl and the beginnings of a stash of spraycans.  Spend the day turning
the vinyl into street murals that will be taken out to the protests. Noon
to 5:00 P.M.

SOUNDS: Dejays - come and share your music.  We will be spinning all day.
There will be a mic for mc's, poets and wordsmiths.  Bring your dance,
street theater, and drumming.

DANCE/MOVEMENT:Movement skills for creating and doing movement in the
street for those with and without dance experience: Sat Aug 5th, 1:30 -
3:00pm and every afternoon til Aug 13.

GIANT PUPPETS & ART MAKING: Orientation/Workshop at 2pm and 7pm.

DRUM, RYTHMN, WORDS: Learn to make drums, practice rythmns, chants and
marching. OTHER WORKSHOPS: Also workshops on nonviolent direct action (7pm)
legal/know your right/jail solidarity (2pm), and more.

GENERAL PRE-DNC RALLY/MEET: 11am: Report from protests at the Republican
Convention in Philly, Updates from D2KLA Network, Independant Media Center
and Rise Up Direct Action Network LA and info about what is planned for the
DNC , how to get involved, followed by massive leafletting around the city.

ARTS IN ACTION: 5PM- get involved in creating a pageant - a large scale
participatory theater in the streets of LA during the DNC and independant
arts projects. We are forming a cluster of affinity groups that will create
a pageant each mornings procession with Rise Up DAN LA and others, and for
the Monday afternoon  March and Rally.  We will bring art, theater, dance
and music into the streets and transform LA into a festival of resistance.
The next meeting is on Tuesday Aug 8, 7pm at the Convergence. Please join
us.

SUNDAY AUG 6 SPECIAL EVENTS @ THE CONVERGENCE

ROBBIE CANAL & THE ART OF STREETPOSTERING: 3PM
Learn how to make and get up streetposters from one of the most infamous
and high visibility agit-prop artist alive. His images of Bill Gates, Daryl
Gates, Giuliani, and men without lips have been up across the US. Bring
your images to share.

ROSS ALTMAN: MAKING SONGS FOR CHANGE: 7PM
Enjoy, listen and learn from music and words of LA's renouned
singer/songwriter, founder of Songs for Change and a teacher of
songwriting.

NEEDS: bright colors of latex/water based housepaint, full sheets of
plywood, 2 by 4 lumber, brown paper bags, plastic containers with lids,
backpack frames, big shelves, spraypaint, sheets and big pieces of fabric,
bamboo poles, old bikes (to donate), bike parts, and bike locks.
Tax-deductable donations to RiseUp/DAN-LA P.O. box 26374 LA, CA 90026

COMMUNITY CONVERGENCE
Workshops, culture, teach-ins and events to get informed, involved,
prepared, and fired up for the Democratic Convention: nonviolent direct
action, street theater, know your rights, dance, anti-oppression,
music/drumming, art, giant puppets, and more
Sat. August 5 to Thurs Aug 17, Day and Evening
1919 7th St., 1 blocks E. of MacArthur Park/Alvarado (MacArthur /Westlake
Metro stop)

ARTS IN ACTION: (323)666-7993
D2KLA NETWORK: (323) 860-6554 www.d2kla.org
INDEPENDENT MEDIA CENTER (310) 458-6566 www.indymedia.org
RISE UP! DAN LA: www.d2kla.org/dan (323) 993-7212






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