T R A C T I O N
“If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be
part of your revolution.”
~ Emma Goldman
What's Traction? A social
network of left-leaning 20- and 30-somethings who are spicing up progressive
activism by throwing fun, issue-based events that inform, inspire and connect
us with other savvy Gen X & Yers.
Get
in the loop: Join our tractivist email list .
Past Traction events . . .
Monday,
October 10 in
"Stay the Course" vs. "Out Now"
an
The goal of this Public
Issue Forum is to educate citizens in NC’s 4th Congressional District
about the alternatives for withdrawal of
Discussing this
critical and nationally divisive issue will be:
·
· Sarah
Shields, UNC Professor of History, Islamic Civilization
· Ray
McGovern, former CIA analyst, spanning from JFK to GHW Bush, now
co-director of the
· Bruce Jentleson, former Director of the Terry Sanford
Institute, Chair of Department of Public Policy Studies, Duke
Tractivists
note:
This is a great
opportunity to influence an elected official – someone who actually has
the power to bring the troops home!
Monday 10 October 2005
7:30-9:30pm
Directions
here.
Submit your
Questions: Questions for the panel will be accepted via the web before
the forum and also during the forum.
Send your question or
comment (keep it short!!) to Jack
Sanders and include your name, precinct/township and
town.
Sponsored by: The Democratic Party of
Tractivists:
if you want to meet for dinner at 6pm in
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Thursday, October
6 in Durham:
ReelPolitik: a
sociopolitical experience
[film + drinks +
action-focused talk + you = change]
By popular demand, Traction’s movie series brings back
the incredible
documentary
Narrated by Martin Sheen
.
Thursday
6 October 2005
8pm
social time; movie starts at 8:30pm
Blayloc Cafe in
$5
suggested donation
-->> Please email us to RSVP
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Traction
hits the road:
Sept 24 anti-war demonstration in DC
Progressives from all
over are converging in DC on September 24 for a massive anti-war
demonstration!
Traction
will be there in force: a bus full of Tractivists
will leave early Saturday morning, returning late that night.
Save gas and have fun – sign up
for the road trip!
This is an important
time in the movement to stop the war in
Don’t miss
this chance to make history.
To
make sure we save a seat for you, write to Sept24
Learn more about the
demonstration here
and stay informed on
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Sept 18: Tractivist Potluck
Think there aren’t any young
progressives in
1-4 pm at Alex’s place in
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Sept 16: Capturing Free
Speech: Traction photo exhibit opening
Exhibit of Political Guerrilla Art at
Culture Crawl – see http:www.getTraction.org/cathARTic.htm
Baldwin Lofts,
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With less than two weeks to
go:
Events that we like
(but aren’t ourselves organizing):
Sep 16: "SEND THE YOUTH TO DC, NOT
Help support the NC Peace & Justice Coalition’s Truth in Recruitment Action Camp and the 9/24 DC Mobilization
8pm at The
Sept 15-17:
Sept 15:
1:30pm Welcome Rally, NCSU
Brickyard (near D.H. Library)
5pm Rally at
8pm (doors at 7:30) Cindy Sheehan
Speaks! at the
Sept 17:
Build momentum for the Sept 24 march in
DC, and for folks who cannot make the trip to DC, this is a way to be counted.
12 noon Gather
at
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ReelPolitik: a sociopolitical experience
[film + drinks + action-focused
talk + you = change]
Traction’s movie series heads to
presenting the incredible documentary
Narrated by Martin Sheen
.
Wednesday
14 September 2005
7:45pm
social time; movie starts at 8:30pm
King's in
$5
suggested donation + supplies for Katrina (diapers, tampons, pads).
-->> Please email us to RSVP <<--
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Countdown to DC:
We're counting down the
weeks with multiple war/peace-related events including movies, parties, guerrilla
art-making, media actions, potlucks, a photo exhibit and more. Details below and here,
as they develop: http://www.getTraction.org/sept24.htm
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9/4 Potluck for Peace
WestPoint on the Eno
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8/27 Hootenanny!
Randall’s fired
up about the DC trip, and he’s invited all
fellow Tractivists to his hootenanny on Saturday
night 8/27!
Here’s a snip
from his neighborly invite:
Mars
is looming low, autumn is almost here, so it's time for a hootenanny!
C'mon
out to my lil' ol log cabin
this Saturday nite for an old fashioned hoedown.
There'll be skinny dippin', a jug band and Stan Brakhage films projected onto the barn. The Chapel
Hill-based hip hop duo The Living Dead will be performing at 10 p.m. Traction,
the Durham-based activist group, will be setting up guerrilla art work stations
to drum up energy and make signage for the Sept. 24 anti-war march in D.C.
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Friday, Aug 19th marked the return of
Art Therapy
At Culture Crawl,
don’t just see art. MAKE
art!
The time
has come to speak out against the Lies and Propaganda and let 25,000 of your closest
friends know just how you feel about this war and the lying sons of bitches who dragged us into it.
The Founders of this Nation
gave us the right to free political speech for a reason, and at least part of that
reason was to sound the alarm if we felt our country, or its democracy was in
danger. Speaking out is not just
your right, it's your duty as a citizen.
Starting at 7pm, in the grass next to Joe
& Jo’s, join Traction and express yourself
by making political guerrilla art.
All you need is cardboard, paint and something to say. (We’ve got the cardboard and paint
covered.)
Art
Therapy.
That’s right, let it all out.
Read more about Culture Crawl here and check out our
friends The Transom, Durham3, and
ABCDDurham.
Inspired
by freewayblogger.com, July Culture Crawlers made more than 25 signs, like
these:
A photo exhibit and possibly
a calendar called Capturing Free Speech.