Earth People Power: Unsettling white folk by honor ing our forebears and our futures.

Earth People Power:

Unsettling white folk byhonoring our forebears and our futures.

Sund
ay July 19 from 10:00am-4:00pm

Who are your ancestors?  What do they mean t
o you, for you, here and now?  If you haveEuropean roots, how do you remember them, the w
ays your folk were once indigenous to their land,the ways they were colonized and eventually becam
e settlers?

For many of us, theanswers to these questions start out blurry, awk
ward, and irrelevant to the hyperkinetic world ofnetworked apocalypse.  But as we discover o
urselves through and beyond the "end of the
[Empire's] world", the long story beco
mes our own story.

This workshopinvites us to ground our antiracist, anticolonia
l solidarity in accountability to generational tim
e.  We start with three assumptions: 1) to b
e responsible to our decolonized descendents, we
craft a meaningful relation between them and our a
ncestors; 2) to be useful accomplices with radica
l communities of color, those of primarily Europe
an descent remember and invoke our own ancestral c
ommitments as people of the earth against Empire;3) to discover liberating pathways our colonized
minds can't believe, we turn to the wild, t
o the more-than-human world and our bodies' a
bility to listen.

This work willbe emotional, intellectual, spiritual, physica
l.  A day is enough to crack open the shell
; it is barely enough.  We will invite each
other to take risks, and also to hold each others
' struggles.  The workshop will have so
me lecture and facilitated conversation, and alsotime alone with the forest, and speaking togethe
r in small groups.  Please RSVP early as youwill be invited to do pre-work in gathering what
you know about your European ancestors and readingwhat has been written about their journeys from t
here to here.

brush is descendedmostly of farmers, ministers, clerks, and cops
, whose ancestors were English, Welsh, Scottish
, Irish, Low German, African, and South Asian.Socialized male, raised poor followed by an elit
e education, brush brings to this work two decade
s of passionate action and reflection in radical m
ovements from ecodefense to militant unions, fromorganizing infrastructure to priestessing rituals
, from third world squatter camps and fourth worl
d rebel zones, to urban ecologies in the cities o
f the North.

Cost $50

Disc
ounted Cost for Friends of the Farm Monthly Donors
: $35

Early Bird Special!: $10 off if you re
gister by July 4th.

Some schola
rships are available for those prohibited by cost.Please e-mail workshops@tryonfarm.org to make arr
angements.