BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20191103T010000 RDATE:20200308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:America/Chicago CST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T010000 RDATE:20210314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:America/Chicago CST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20211107T010000 RDATE:20220313T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:America/Chicago CST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20221106T010000 RDATE:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:America/Chicago CST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 RDATE:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:America/Chicago CST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241103T010000 RDATE:20250309T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:America/Chicago CST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T010000 RDATE:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:America/Chicago CST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261101T010000 RDATE:20270314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:America/Chicago CST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20271107T010000 RDATE:20280312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:America/Chicago CST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20281105T010000 RDATE:20290311T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:America/Chicago CST END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20291104T010000 RDATE:20300310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:America/Chicago CST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20190327T180000 RDATE:20191103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:America/Chicago CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T030000 RDATE:20201101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:America/Chicago CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210314T030000 RDATE:20211107T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:America/Chicago CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20220313T030000 RDATE:20221106T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:America/Chicago CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 RDATE:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:America/Chicago CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 RDATE:20241103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:America/Chicago CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 RDATE:20251102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:America/Chicago CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 RDATE:20261101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:America/Chicago CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20270314T030000 RDATE:20271107T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:America/Chicago CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20280312T030000 RDATE:20281105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:America/Chicago CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20290311T030000 RDATE:20291104T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:America/Chicago CDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:88a022d42ad77d8c3c184c66dbda5de0 CATEGORIES:Human Rights & Justice, Special Events, Social Actions, Lectures and Speakers, DPJC Organizational Events CREATED:20200306T125554 SUMMARY:Shut It Down: Stories from a Fierce, Loving Resistance LOCATION:Greenland Hills United Methodist Church URL;VALUE=URI:https://dpjc.org/dpjc-in-the-news/previous-events/2020/shut-it-down-with-li sa-fithian/eventdetail/907/-/shut-it-down-stories-from-a-fierce-loving-resi stance?tmpl=component DESCRIPTION:This event has been postponed due to the current situation with Coronavirus (COVID-19) \n\n\n\nShut It Down: Stories from a Fierce, Loving Resistance\ n\n This event has been postponed due to the current situation with Coronav irus (COVID-19)\nRenowned organizer and nonviolent direct-action trainer, L isa Fithian, will talk about her decades of experience and her book, "SHUT IT DOWN: Stories from a Fierce, Loving Resistance"... A VETERAN ACTIVIST'S GUIDE TO DIRECT ACTION AND STRATEGIC DISOBEDIENCE AS THE MOST RADICAL AND R APID MEANS TO SOCIAL CHANGE!\n*Lisa will also be offering NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION TRAINING on SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 28, at the MLK Library in Dal las. SAVE THE DATE and stay tuned here for more info!\nFor decades, Lisa Fi thian’s work as an advocate for civil disobedience and nonviolent direct ac tion has put her on the frontlines of change. Described by Mother Jones as “the nation’s best-known protest consultant,” Fithian has supported countle ss movements including the Battle of Seattle in 1999, rebuilding and defend ing communities following Hurricane Katrina, Occupy Wall Street, and the up risings at Standing Rock and in Ferguson. For anyone who wants to become mo re active in resistance or is just feeling overwhelmed or hopeless, Shut It Down offers strategies and actions you can take right now to promote justi ce and incite change in your own community.\nIn Shut It Down Fithian shares historic, behind-the-scenes stories from some of the most important people -powered movements of the past several decades. She shows how movements tha t embrace direct action have always been, and continue to be, the most radi cal and rapid means for transforming the ills of our society. Shut It Down is filled with instructions and inspiration for how movements can evolve as the struggle for social justice continues in the Trump era and beyond.\nWh ile recognizing that electoral politics, legislation, and policy are all im portant pathways to change, Shut It Down argues that civil disobedience is not just one of the only actions that remains when all else fails, but a sp iritual pursuit that protects our deepest selves and allows us to reclaim o ur humanity. Change can come, but only if we’re open to creatively, lovingl y, and strategically standing up, sometimes at great risk to ourselves, to protect what we love.\nBIO\nLisa Fithian is an anti-racist organizer who ha s worked for justice since the 1970s. Using creative, strategic nonviolent direct action and civil disobedience, she has won many battles and trained tens of thousands of activists while participating in a range of movements and mobilizations, including Occupy Wall Street, anti-WTO and corporate glo balization protests all over the world, the climate justice movement, and m ore. Lisa enjoys walking, playing with children, gardening, cooking great f ood, being in the wild, and raising up new generations to be agents of chan ge. She is grateful to play her part in manifesting a world rooted in respe ct, justice, and liberation.\nEvent details and updates:\nhttps://www.faceb ook.com/events/209291656848269/\n \n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
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Shut It Down: Stories from a Fier ce, Loving Resistance
Renowned organizer and nonviolent direct-ac tion trainer, Lisa Fithian, will talk about her decades of experience and h er book, "SHUT IT DOWN: Stories from a Fierce, Loving Resistance"... A VETE RAN ACTIVIST'S GUIDE TO DIRECT ACTION AND STRATEGIC DISOBEDIENCE AS THE MOS T RADICAL AND RAPID MEANS TO SOCIAL CHANGE!
*Lisa will also be offeri ng NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION TRAINING on SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 28, at th e MLK Library in Dallas. SAVE THE DATE and stay tuned here for more info! p>
For decades, Lisa Fithian’s work as an advocate for civil disobedience and nonviolent direct action has put her on the frontlines of change. Desc ribed by Mother Jones as “the nation’s best-known protest consultant,” Fith ian has supported countless movements including the Battle of Seattle in 19 99, rebuilding and defending communities following Hurricane Katrina, Occup y Wall Street, and the uprisings at Standing Rock and in Ferguson. For anyo ne who wants to become more active in resistance or is just feeling overwhe lmed or hopeless, Shut It Down offers strategies and actions you can take r ight now to promote justice and incite change in your own community.
In Shut It Down Fithian shares historic, behind-the-scenes stories from som e of the most important people-powered movements of the past several decade s. She shows how movements that embrace direct action have always been, and continue to be, the most radical and rapid means for transforming the ills of our society. Shut It Down is filled with instructions and inspiration f or how movements can evolve as the struggle for social justice continues in the Trump era and beyond.
While recognizing that electoral politics, legislation, and policy are all important pathways to change, Shut It Down argues that civil disobedience is not just one of the only actions that re mains when all else fails, but a spiritual pursuit that protects our deepes t selves and allows us to reclaim our humanity. Change can come, but only i f we’re open to creatively, lovingly, and strategically standing up, someti mes at great risk to ourselves, to protect what we love.
BIO
Lis
a Fithian is an anti-racist organizer who has worked for justice since the
1970s. Using creative, strategic nonviolent direct action and civil disobed
ience, she has won many battles and trained tens of thousands of activists
while participating in a range of movements and mobilizations, including Oc
cupy Wall Street, anti-WTO and corporate globalization protests all over th
e world, the climate justice movement, and more. Lisa enjoys walking, playi
ng with children, gardening, cooking great food, being in the wild, and rai
sing up new generations to be agents of change. She is grateful to play her
part in manifesting a world rooted in respect, justice, and liberation.
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