Nazis Vs. Zapatistas: Struggle And Co-optation A Workshop

Nazis Vs. Zapatistas: Struggle And Co-optation A Workshop
nickcooper.com/antipowerworkshop.htm

Two day: February 17th AND 19th 7:30pm - 10:30pm
OR
One day: February 21st 4:00 - 10:00 pm (with dinner break)
At Sedition Books, suggested donation $5 - $10 no one turned away for
lack of funds

***These workshops are conditional on having at least 8 participants.
Please RSVP for either the two day workshop (2/17 & 2/19) or the one day (2/21)
to: nickcooper@indymedia.org***

Throughout civilization, oppression has inspired a rich history of creative resistance. Over time, though, resistance can harden and create new oppressions; systems of power can co-opt the methods and symbols of those who resist. Lao Tsu, in the Tao Te Ching, and Subcomandante Marcos of the Zapatistas both discover methods of recognizing and avoiding this pitfall, arriving at the metaphor of the power of water. Like water, oppressed peoples can take innumerable blows, only to later wash over their oppressors without weapons or bloodshed.

Seeking to compare authoritarian philosophies, structures and psychologies to those that are yielding, consensual, communitarian, or autonomous, Nick Cooper has studied The Ku Klux Klan, Focus on the Family, Lyndon LaRouche, The Minutemen, Tom DeLay, Indymedia, Food Not Bombs, Roberto Freire, Wilhelm Reich, and Hannah Arendt. Nick 's presentation examines oppression and the struggles of those who have searched for non-oppressive ways to escape it.

Nick has conducted this workshop with groups as far flung as Venezuela and Brazil, groups all over the USA and with many groups here in Houston.