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11 May 2005
Volume 2, Issue 7
Free Voices
eZine of the People
Shout the Truth....
Consenting Sensuality
By Lee Hunter
Portland, OR
I began thinking about consent after joining a women and trans collective
that provides support for survivors of sexual assault, where consent
kept coming up in discussion. It was decided that consent is a tool
that we all need to talk about, in the attempt to teach each other
skills to avoid sexual assault in our lives and the lives of those
we love. Since I started doing the workshops I've had the chance
to talk to a lot of people and share a lot of skills. This article
is a combination of my experiences from facilitating workshops and
my experiences from my own relationships. Through this process,
I came to the realization that consent is important, not only in
our sexual interactions, but in all of our social interactions.
Continue Reading
"Before We Can Claim Our Future, We
Have to Confront Our Past:" On History and Self-Defense
By Paul Street
Driving around in my car with Chicago's WBBM News Radio (780 AM)
recently, I got to hear two guttural syllables from the mouth of
Fidel Castro. The full word and the Spanish language he was speaking
were unintelligible. "That was Fidel Castro speaking to a throng
in Havana, Cuba yesterday," the robotic corporate newscaster
reported. "Castro was speaking to commemorate May 1st, which
has traditionally been observed as a worker's day in other nations."
This entire news item took about 15 seconds, in curious contrast
to Fidel's notorious taste for giving 3-hour speeches. Continue
Reading
But We Don't Have Leaders: Leadership Development
and Anti-Authoritarian Organizing
By Chris Crass
San Francisco, CA
Leadership and leadership development can play important roles in
moving forward with our commitment to equality in organizations,
movements and society. Leadership development, as defined by organizer
Dara Silverman, is working with others to build skills, analysis
and confidence. Anti-authoritarian organizing, as it relates to
this essay, is building the capacity of people and their organizations
to challenge illegitimate authority – which includes capitalism,
white supremacy, patriarchy, heterosexism and the state. Anti-authoritarian
organizing, like other forms of radical organizing, uses principles
of solidarity, cooperation and participatory democracy to build
movements for social change. Anti-authoritarian organizing over
the past century has helped to advance a politics that challenges
the idea that the ends justify the means. The emphasis on empowerment,
democratic participation and transparent decision making are based
in the strategy that our organizing prefigures the society we’re
working to build. Anti-authoritarians generally argue that revolution
is a process made through day-to-day struggle rather then one historic
moment. Continue Reading
Community Media Sites Cracked Across the
Globe
Colorado Independent Media Center
Denver, CO
At approximately 8:20 am MST April, 28th, volunteers with the Colorado
Independent Media Center (CO-IMC) reported that their on-line news
server had been cracked. Five years worth of community-developed
news stories, videos, and pictures were destroyed, and the open-source
news site was replaced with text from an organization calling themselves
"g00ns.com". Within hours, a dozen other affiliates of
the global Independent Media Center collective fell victim to the
same form of attack. Continue Reading,
Last Word....
Radical Queer Writing Needed for First Free
Voices Print Publication
By Brandon Batzloff
Editor, Free Voices
We are preparing to launch a print version of Free Voices called
Free Voices, pZine of the People. What better way to initiate this
publication than distributing radical queer writing during Pride
festivals throughout North America? Here is your chance. Send essays,
news items, fiction, or film and book reviews (a review of Larry
Kramer's new book would be great) on any subject relating to the
radical aspects of being queer. Continue Reading
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