Pix-&-Vidz of Int. School for Bottom-up Organising

Dateline: Housemans Bookshop, Kings Cross, London, UK, 17:00-18:30, Sat 13 Jun 09 – The International School for Bottom-up Organising stages an uplifting, engaging and inspiring book launch for it’s excellent debut publication: “The Bottom Will Rise and Create a New World”, featuring Latin American Polyphonic Singing, a Live Excerpt from the book, why we need A Maloka in Every Community, and Freedom Singing to finish off with. In a nutshell – Best. Book. Launch. EVER!!!

A1. Opening Circle – Latin American Polyphonic Singing, conducted by Javier Sanchez

B1. Book cover (and TLP Logo – great minds think alike! ;-)

B2. Mhari-Anne Lowrie reads from “The Bottom Will Rise and Create a New World”, to slides from CAIS Maloka

B3. “The Bottom Will Rise and Create a New World”, as read by Mhari-Anne Lowrie

B4. Javier Sanchez nails the point of having A Maloka in Every Community

B5. Slides help illustrate the points made by Javier Sanchez

B6. Top Tech Usage – MacBook, DVD Player & Projector

B7. Closing Circle – Freedom singing, conducted by Mhari-Anne Lowrie

Vidz at YouTube

• ISBO Book Launch – 1. Intro
» youtube.com/watch?v=umgQ7hRAi3w

• ISBO Book Launch – 2. Reading
» youtube.com/watch?v=agdTuqUqNgw

• ISBO Book Launch – 3. Maloka
» youtube.com/watch?v=oGNNywlL_Ro

• ISBO Book Launch – 4. New Heroes
» youtube.com/watch?v=uLSUE0YSP4g

• ISBO Book Launch – 5. Finale
» youtube.com/watch?v=M5f2cjO3QX0


If I’d known this event was going to be quite so uplifting, engaging and inspiring, I’d have brought my 7.1 Mpx super zoom camera; as it was, I made do with my 5 Mpx camera phone, and sharing raw pix-&-vidz afterwards with comrade media workers Ingrid Guyon (IG) and William Hudson (WH), for which many thanks, you two.

The International School for Bottom-up Organizing (ISBO) launch their first book, sharing their work in training Revolutionary Organizers, creating and supporting radical grassroots projects across the Americas, and building powerful relationships of solidarity. From a rural Social Action Research Centre and Palenques in Colombia, to the poor Black community of the Lower Ninth Ward in post-Katrina New Orleans, ISBO is organizing and seeking out radical folk passionate and deeply committed to creating a new world from the Bottom Up!

A founding statement by the ISBO puts it thus: “Ours is an international struggle that must be led by the poorest and darkest, especially women. We all need the same freedom and equality; we all have the same oppressors, worldwide. Our movement will work toward an internationalist, egalitarian world. We foresee a world in which the genius and creativity of humanity is unleashed, in which all humans share and share alike, whether in starvation or in plenty: in which we are free to love and truly take care of one another.”
Source: housmans.com/events.php

Rather than write reams through the perspective of my own distorting lenticular mind, I commend you to view the videos – the very next best thing to actually being there. Oh, and I recommend getting hold of the book too:

The Bottom Will Rise and Create a New World – An introduction to the International School for Bottom-up Organizing, February, 2009

From Housmans Bookstore, who hosted this marvellous book launch (ta very much):
• 5 Caledonian Road, London, N1 9DX
» Tel: 020 7837 4473 
» shop@housmans.com">shop [at] housmans.com
» housmans.com

From the ISBO online:
• peoplesorganizing.org/order.html
» NB: “Ordering information for other countries [outside the USA]: please write to bottomuporganizer [at] gmail.com.”

Read the book online / Download the PDF
» What We Believe – peoplesorganizing.org/survivors.html 
» Click here to download the Book PDF file – but you’ll miss the wonderful photos published in the hardcopy book
» Click here to download the Book Insert PDF file – for what’s happening in the five countries in which the ISBO is already active
...and if you do so, you’re invited to donate:
» peoplesorganizing.org/donate.html

Whatever Next?
Plans are afoot for London ISBO organiser Javier Sanchez to speak at the Radical Anthropology Group’s AGM on Tue 07 Jul 09, and at a London ISBO Meeting at the same venue a week later on Tue 14 Jul 09 (Bastille Day – yay!)
• St. Martin's Community Centre, 43 Carol St., London NW1 0HT (2 mins walk from Camden Town tube)

Up the Revolution,

Tim Dalinian Jones


Footnotes

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