FREEDOM FESTIVAL in CHICAGO

Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 01:28:42 -0500
From: edmar <[email protected]>
Subject: FREEDOM FESTIVAL in CHICAGO

Hi all..

This is a not-so-early-warning announcement of a super
grass roots
Do-It-Together no budget radical summer camp thing we
are
organising for June in Chicago called FREEDOM
FESTIVAL… We need some
advice and inspiration. It is a follow up to and is
related to another
festival I work on called Version.
http://www.versionfest.org
We want to rev up and rejuvenate a wandering and
depressed movement.

Ok.. So:


Freedom Festivals are gatherings of artists, thinkers,
activists,
citizens
and friends who wish to celebrate and strengthen,
through performance
and
art, music , discussions and theater, the spirit and
intent of the
founding
documents of this state and other free and democratic
societies –
freedom
of expression, pursuit of happiness, freedom from
persecution, and
other
various civil liberties.

FREEDOM FESTIVAL is an open attempt to use our
remaining rights,
understand
how to keep them, and reclaim the ones we have lost.

FREEDOM FESTIVAL is a gathering of cultural, social,
and artistic
communities seeking to expand our networks, challenge
the dominant
assumptions, strengthen our activities, and work
towards defending our
rights to work outside, beside, or without the
privatized life.

Creative responses, satiric guerrilla theater,
infowarfare, music,
workshops, video screenings, performances, debates,
talks, and fashion
coalesce into one evening to help kick off a Summer of
Reaction and
Resistance to Un-american Activities

FREEDOM FESTIVAL is a look at Free Speech, Open
Cultures,
Do-It-Together
media, and tools of expression. It