NCOR Call for Workshop Proposals
The National Conference on Organized Resistance is an annual event that brings together people from all backgrounds for a weekend of learning and discussing local and international social justice issues through workshops, panel discussions, and skillshares. This year in particular at NCOR, we are focusing on how the problems facing Washington DC and the resistance to those problems reflect struggles on both the national and the international level. We are also seeking workshops that span both the geography and subject matter of a variety of experiences.
This year’s NCOR will be held from March 7- 9, in 2008 at American University in Washington, D.C. As we move into our eleventh year, we are curating the most diverse and successful NCOR in its notable history.
NCOR attendees this year will make this vision a reality as much as the people who curate it: as volunteers, as workshop leaders, as discussion participants, you determine its successful outcome. We hope you will join us to make NCOR 2008 an inclusive and diverse forum for global resistance.
NCOR provides an open forum for discussion among people engaged in social movements everywhere. Workshops are scheduled in blocks of approximately 1 ½ hours. We encourage active hands-on participation and allocation of ample time and space for questions and answers and discussion.
Our goal this year is to create a matrix of workshops that form organically into their own tracks. We will be inviting back the Institute for Anarchist Studies because of the standing-room-only success that was last year’s Radical Theory track.
How Do I Submit My Proposal?
To propose a workshop for NCOR 2008, a one to two page description of your workshop is needed by November 22, 2007. Please submit your name, the organization you represent (if applicable), full contact information, a reference (professional or personal), and a short biography of yourself and/or your organization. If you have presented at NCOR in the past two years, your reference from that time is still valid.
Submitters this year will tag their submissions with subject themes that are pertinent to their workshop. We are providing below a starting point for the potential tags, but we encourage submitters to add pertinent keywords as tags so that we may better sort them.
Anti-Imperialism/Anti-War
Animal Rights
Anti-Racism
Autonomous Communities
Anarchism
Queer DC
Gentrification
Bikes
Sustainability/Environment
Labor
Student/Youth
Media/Arts
Skillshares
Diversity of Tactics
Social Movements
Indigenous
Latin America
Food
Immigration/Borders
Health
Case Studies
Theory/Strategy
Men’s Issues
Sexuality
Resistance Culture
Issues
Gender Issues
Womens Issues
Reproductive Rights
Sex Work
Palestine
Please send in your proposals via email to ncorproposals@riseup.net making sure to include the word “Proposal” in the subject line.
If electronic submission is not possible, please use the mailing address listed below. You will be notified of the status of your workshop by early December. Should your proposal be accepted, please confirm your acceptance promptly, so that travel and housing accommodations can be made for you.
National Conference on Organized Resistance
7611 Maple Avenue
Apt. 503
Takoma Park, Maryland 20912