People of Color Space/Frente X at Encuentro

Encuentro Fronterizo: Espacio para Personas de Color en Tucson, AZ el 8 de octubre

Para información en español sobre el Espacio para Personas de Color del Encuentro Fronterizo y el nuevo colectivo, Frente X, liderando su creación – horario, logística, declaración de principios, registración para participantes, avisos para viajar para personas de todos estatus migratorios, aplicación para presentar un taller en el Espacio en Tucson, y más – por favor visite http://soaw.org/border/espacio_frentex o mandenos un correo electronic a FrenteX@protonmail.com

Border Encuentro: People of Color Space in Tucson, Arizona on October 8

We are excited to anounce the creation of a People of Color (POC) Space at the Encuentro! We believe that the Encuentro provides a unique opportunity for those most directly impacted by state sanctioned violence in the U.S., Latin America, and beyond to learn from one another, and begin building networks of inter-racial, transnational solidarity among each other.

For more information on the POC Space and Frente X, the new collective leading its creation, please visit http://soaw.org/border/frentex or email us at FrenteX@protonmail.com

The moral necessity to make the Encuentro/Convergence accessible to our undocumented family led us to create the POC Space in Tucson, AZ, where people are not forced to traverse a Border Patrol checkpoint in order to arrive. A workshop and/or space to discuss solidarity for white allies is being organized in Nogales, stay tuned for more details.

• POC Space/Frente X Living Statement – A new collective of POC organizers, Frente X for International Liberation, or “Frente X”, has taken the lead in creating the POC Space. Frente X seeks to build upon the history of the SOA Watch movement by creating a Space at the Encuentro where Latinx, Black, Arab, South Asian, API, and other POC, can plant the seeds for an anti-imperialist network in which POC in the U.S. build solidarity with not just Latin Americans, but with each other. Gender justice is a founding principle of Frente X, and the leadership and inclusion of youth, womyn, gay, queer, trans & gender non-conforming POC in the Space/collective is of utmost importance. Click here to read the “living” statement of the principles, demands, and goals of Frente X, which will be finalized at or after the Encuentro.
• POC Space Schedule of Events – Participants in the POC Space are encouraged to attend the Encuentro’s opening event, the vigil/rally outside of the Eloy Detention Center on 10/7. A full day of POC Space programming will then take place in Tucson on Saturday 10/8. Please see the recommended schedule for the Encuentro for POC Space participants, and visit the POC Space webpage for updates, schedule, workshops, and other information for the POC Space.
• POC Space Registration – In order to be able to best finalize our preparations for the POC Space and keep in contact with those attending, considering attending, or simply interested in the POC Space/Frente X‘s work and/or donating to it, please fill out this form, which includes table registration for POC Space. We are also looking for POC interpreters, healers, peace-makers, and others familiar with restorative justice and/or conflict resolution. Please email FrenteX@protonmail.com if you are interested in supporting in this way.
• POC Space Workshop Applications (9/23 deadline) – We are accepting applications for workshops for the Saturday 10/8 POC Space program. The application deadline is this Friday, September 23 at 11:59 PM Pacific Time, but will continue accepting applications on a rolling basis. Either way, please submit an application ASAP. Existing workshops include: Trans women in immigration detention and the borderlands; U.S. governement surveillance of Black Muslim immigrant population; Social movements in Mexico (by Ayotzinapa school student). We are asking workshop applicants to address inter-racial, transnational solidarity, gender justice and/or that they be open to collaborating with other groups/individuals. Please fill out this form if you are interested in conducting a workshop.
• Travel Advisory & Know Your Rights in Arizona – Important information to help you prepare and know risks in traveling to Tucson and/or Nogales AZ, and/or Nogales MX: (English) (Spanish)
• Rideshare – If you are looking for rides, or can offer rides to the Encuentro, please visit this Facebook Community page.

For updates and more information on the POC Space or Frente X visit our page in English and Spanish. For more information on the overall Border Encuentro, visit http://soaw.org/border

And please forward this email to your friends, comrades, family members, and colleagues that may be interested in this ongoing initiative, whether or not they are able to atend this year’s POC Space at the Border Encuentro!

En Solidaridad,

SOA Watch POC Space/Frente X, FrenteX@protonmail.com

Confronting anti-immigrant racists in Milwaukee July 19. [Photo: Occupy Riverwest]