It's happening again! Our Temporary Autonomous Zone was so successful, and we received such positive feed back on it, we're talking about having another one this spring — or even doing it regularly. We'd spend more time getting more confirmed skillsharers, but art and music would still be central. Want to get involved in planning or find out when the next event will happen? E-mail and we'll make sure to keep you informed. Thanks to everyone who came! We'll have pictures up soon — but to start with.
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About Youth PAWR
What is Youth PAWR? Youth Philadelphia Area War Resistance (Youth PAWR) is a coalition of progressive high school and college student organizations in the Philadelphia area.
Want more information? Read a full description and see our points of unity, or contact us at or . We also manage two e-mail lists:
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T.A.Z. is a love poem scrawled on the sterilized and unconscious wall of a hospital. It is a 4 a.m. Shakespeare reading with your cellmates in Miami. It is a Palestinian youth tearing down a part of the Wall with his bare hands. Our T.A.Z. will be a peaceful place without rules or regulations, without teachers and students, without bosses and employees. We will manifest our vision of how the world could be a better place, and how human interactions could be based on love and solidarity rather than exploitation and greed.
Our generation continues to be betrayed by this government's drive to make our country an empire. The policy of pre-emptive war and occupation stands in contradiction to and undermines the advancement of young people's rights and the fulfillment of our needs. The billions going to fund the U.S. occupation of Iraq — an occupation which continues to kill innocents every day — would be better used making reparations to that country and funding the future of American youth. In place of decent jobs and schools, young people have been given military recruiters, who get students' information without their permission. Low-income youth and youth of color have been extensively targeted by military recruiters just as they have been consistently denied access to higher education. The temporary autonomous zone will give students the opportunity to express themselves and learn from each other rather than being told what to think.
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Have a skill to share?
If you or your organization has something to contribute to the do-it-yourself education event, please and we'll add you to the list! |
Everyone is invited — just show up and join in! Bring skills to share, instruments, puppets, banners, zines, paint, back rubs, pets, your younger siblings, poetry, your friends — or just your curiosity. Leave your money, because it's all free!
The temporary autonomous zone will be a nonviolent safe space for all — please check your stereotypes, police batons, tear gas and prejudices at the gates!
The T.A.Z. is being held in solidarity with the . For more information, e-mail or call .
If you'd like to help spread the word, we have two sample e-mails here and here. You can also help us out by putting up flyers announcing the event (pdf format): simple, one page or illustrated, two pages