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</span></u></b><font size="3"><u style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color:red;">OB Working Groups doing VISIONING with Linda Stout January
14<sup>th</sup></span></u></font></div>
<p class="yiv1163592589MsoNormal"><br></p><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center; color: rgb(67, 128, 89);" class="yiv1163592589MsoNormal"><font size="3">Saturday, January 14<sup>th </sup></font> </p><span style="color: rgb(67, 128, 89);">
</span><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center; color: rgb(67, 128, 89);" class="yiv1163592589MsoNormal"><font size="3">11:45 AM - 3 PM <font size="2"><br></font></font></p><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: center; color: rgb(67, 128, 89);" class="yiv1163592589MsoNormal"><font size="3"><font size="2">(Sorry, latecomers cannot enter by request of facilitator)</font><br></font></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" class="yiv1163592589MsoNormal"><font style="color: rgb(67, 128, 89);" size="3"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston
(Arlington T Stop)</span></font><b><u><sup><span style="color:red;"></span></sup></u></b></p>
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<p style="color: rgb(255, 127, 0);" class="yiv1163592589MsoNormal"><b><br></b></p><p style="color: rgb(255, 127, 0); font-weight: bold; text-align: center; font-style: italic;" class="yiv1163592589MsoNormal">Come to a
workshop to breathe, reflect and envision together <br></p><p style="color: rgb(255, 127, 0); font-weight: bold; text-align: center; font-style: italic;" class="yiv1163592589MsoNormal">where we
want to be and how to get there</p><p style="color: rgb(255, 127, 0); font-weight: bold; text-align: center; font-style: italic;" class="yiv1163592589MsoNormal"> (or “how to be the change we want to see”
as someone once said.)</p><p style="color: rgb(255, 127, 0); font-weight: bold; text-align: center; font-style: italic;" class="yiv1163592589MsoNormal"><br></p>
<p style="color: rgb(64, 0, 127); font-weight: bold;" class="yiv1163592589MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 5pt;"> </span></p><span style="color: rgb(64, 0, 127); font-weight: bold;">
</span><p style="color: rgb(64, 0, 127); font-weight: bold;" class="yiv1163592589MsoNormal">Together, we will create a space where people can listen to
one another and share ideas for “another world which is
possible” The Anti-Oppression, Women’s Caucus and Nonviolence
Working groups (and more) are sponsoring a visioning workshop
for OB with Linda Stout on Saturday the 14th of January from
11:45am-3pm.</p><p class="yiv1163592589MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="yiv1163592589MsoNormal"> <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">COME A FEW MINUTES EARLY
BECAUSE THE WORKSHOP WILL BEGIN AT 12:00. ONCE THE PROCESS IS
UNDERWAY, THERE WON’T BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR LATE COMERS. </span></p>
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<p style="color: rgb(127, 0, 127);" class="yiv1163592589MsoNormal">The initial energy which brought OB into
being generated a living community at Dewey Square with many
alternative, creative institutions, a solidarity statement with
OWS on the sources of inequality and violence in the culture,
actions, proposals, working groups and support for grassroots
and community organizations. Since the end of the encampment,
actions, proposals, working groups and community-building
activities have continued to be generated. With a lot of energy
devoted to keeping all these activities going, there hasn’t been
much time or a format to pause, assess where we want to go, and
name the positive vision(s) of the world we want to create. This workshop will give
people a chance to envision together what is possible in the
long term and short-term, talk about how to get there and
notice what we are already doing which is building our
communities and our movements.</p>
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<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 191);" class="yiv1163592589MsoNormal">Linda will also stay
from 3:15-4:45 for a “train the trainers’ session to share
ideas about strategy, movement-building, etc. For people coming to this, try to
download the visioning guide from. <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.powerupnetworks.org./occupy-the-present-change-the-future.html">http://www.powerupnetworks.org./occupy-the-present-change-the-future.html</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;" class="yiv1163592589MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; color: red;"><big><b>Please let us
know if you plan to attendeither/both. <br></b></big></span></p><p style="text-align: center;" class="yiv1163592589MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;color:red;"><big><b>RSVP to
Cathy Hoffman <"catherinebhoffman"@gmail.com></b></big></span></p>
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<p class="yiv1163592589MsoNormal"><span style="color:red;"></span><span style="font-size:4.0pt;"></span> Linda Stout who is a
long time activist, having founded one of the first
multi-racial, poor people’s organizations in North Carolina, has
been building “PowerUp” networks for social change and doing
visioning work. She has been asked by several Occupies to do
some visioning work with them. For more information about Linda
and the visioning idea, you can go to <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.powerupnetworks.org/">www.powerupnetworks.org</a></p>
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