Does the vacuous debauchery of typical spring break fare bring you down? Wanna learn to raise hell and create a more just and sustainable future with a couple hundred other committed young people? If it's a yes & yes, alright. If it's a no & no, you're missin the boat, friend. If it's no, but YES, we might still figure somethin' out...

'Spank the Bank!' Action Camp will be a week-long intensive skill-share in the strategies and tactics of nonviolent direct action for student organizers and activists engaged in campus and youth organizing for fundamental social change. This year's theme is SPANK THE BANK! focusing on the campaign to confront the world's most destructive financial institution-- Citigroup. This campaign is an effort to unite different social movements to attack the corporate globalization problem at its roots - the banks! Regardless of what issue you are working on Citi is involved. Whether its forest destruction, predatory lending, militarism, fighting the prison industrial complex, genetic engineering or the corporate take over of our political process Citigroup is involved. Comprised of Citibank, investment house Salomon Smith Barney and Traveler’s Insurance Citi is a global slum lord, loan shark and ecoterrorist. The Wall St. bully who will make a buck of anything.

Unless of course all of us get together and STOP them!

Workshops will include: The History & Philosophy of Nonviolence, Building Unity: Confronting Imperialism and Oppression, Nonviolent Direct Action Planning, Campus Organizing 101, Campaign Strategy, Direct Action Climbing, Blockades, Political Theater, FTAA--Who Benefits From Trade Agreements?, How to Organize a Movement to Kick Wall St's Ass and Build an Ecologically Sane, Just and Democratic Society, etc.

We will also have inspiring and visionary panels & speakers, considerable campfire conspiring, and a last night graduation party that will make you wistful when you're rocking your chair in front of the fire in the old folks home. We ask only a sliding-scale donation from $75 bucks - $1million dollars (dare to dream) but no one's ever turned away for lack of funds. The world-famous roving Ruckus kitchen will dish out yummy vegetarian meals and juicy nuggets of wisdom. Bring your vision of a global economy based on social equality and ecological sanity and join in the fun!

For more information contact:
Beka Economopoulos, Rainforest Action Network - ph)
Han Shan, The Ruckus Society - ph)

Apply online now at www.ruckus.org or www.ran.org. Please fill the application out as completely as possible. This is not an elitist application process to find the best, brightest, or most experienced activists. Application responses help us bring a diverse pool of people together, with a diversity of politics and backgrounds. We hope to create a camp environment that promotes a rich and new experience on many levels for all attending. Absolute application deadline is Feb 15.


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