This will be a powerful community gathering, Voices of Resistance, bringing together people from many social movements to share our stories about how we are surviving economically and building fulfilling lives while working for peace and justice. It is hosted by The Resistance Studies Initiative, UMass Amherst; the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee, and the New England fall gathering of war tax resisters. 

The weekend will highlight our collective power over many years of activism. It will include a number of discussions with student and community organizers about local and national struggles, as well as workshops on how to practice tax resistance as a form of civil disobedience. 

Fulfilling​ ​Lives​ ​While  Fighting​ ​For​ ​Our​ ​Lives: Friday Night Panel Discussion with Camila,​ ​La​ ​Malcriada ​ ​​Award-Winning​ ​Community​ ​Organizer,  Rojas​ ​Oliva Direct​ ​Action​ ​Coordinating​ ​Committee,  Nathalie​ ​Amazan Prison​ ​Abolition​ ​Collective​ ​(PAC) and  Erica​ ​Leigh National​ ​War​ ​Tax​ ​Resistance  Coordinating​ ​Committee 

Saturday, 11/4/17 at Noon: Keynote speaker:
Loretta Ross, author of Reproductive Justice (2017) and speaker on human rights and racisim.  She will speak on White Supremacy in the Age of Trump and how she has maintained her activism.  

Saturday, 11/4/17 Workshops: 

10am
Student Debt, facilitated by Ruth Benn, NWTRCC coordinator
War by the #s, Lindsay Koshgarian, National Priorities Project research director
Militarization of the Police, Steve Theberge, War Resisters League
Climate Change, State Violence and Divestment from War, Jason Rawn, Maine WTR Resource Center Discernment Committee and an organizer of the Maine Peace Walk, Black Lives Matter TBA and Code Pink TBA 

1:30pm
Witnessing at the Wall, Anne Barron, San Diego Peace Resource Center
War Tax Resistance 101, Alan Clemence, Maine war tax resister
War Tax Resistance 102, Ruth Benn, NWTRCC coordinator 

For more information and to register, visit:

1) www.tinyurl.com/AmherstGathering

2) www.tinyurl.com/ResistFbEvent

3) Brochure

4) Friday night panel flyer

5) Entire event flyer

Or RSVP to Emilie Hamilton
emilie.hamilton@aol.com
(413) 362-5885