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Empower 24-Hour Vigil
From the Facebook event page:
“Dear HSU communities,
This gathering has been envisioned and initiated by an unofficial group of about twenty or so folks who have come together around many different ideas. The most prominent is to make this experiment in holding public space. There appears to be a global movement of many different manifestations with a common thread of publicly coming together to communicate our understandings and create a world that works for everyone. We are seeking to examine the paradigms which shape our society and then engage the process of choosing to keep, revise, or replace them based upon what best serves us individually and collectively.
On Thursday May 1st, beginning at noon, we will be holding space in the Art Quad for any positive intention. We have been calling the event a protest against institutional disempowerment as well as a vigil for student action. More essentially, it is an experiment to cultivate our collective capabilities to comfortably and skillfully gather publicly. We welcome participation in a wide variety of ways: teaching or attending spontaneous or planned workshops and discussion forums, making offerings of intention or ceremony from unique or shared perspectives, meditating, dancing, making art, watching late-night film screenings, or anything else you are moved to do. We ask for peaceful, non-violent, respectful forms of expression.
We would like to acknowledge one major concern that we have that has arisen as a criticism of our intention to gather on public lands, that we may not have a right to do so because the area in which we plan to gather (the Art Quad) is Wiyot land. How do we as a group, school and culture reconcile the issue of being on Wiyot land? We are expecting much discussion on this issue at this event and invite anyone wishing to contribute to this discussion to be present.
We also want to recognize that we may have offended some for scheduling this event on International Worker’s Day. While Empower HSU does not solely hold this focus, we welcome any person(s) to represent and make this event as much about this topic as they so choose. We have intentionally made our venue open so that people may represent this as well as any other issues. This year, May 1st also coincides with coordinated statewide actions between many UC’s and CSU’s, with which we express mutual support.
We have made efforts to reach out to as many people as possible in the planning of this event, but have been limited by our incredibly busy schedules. We apologize to any individual or group that would have liked to be contacted earlier but wasn’t. Please consider this gathering to be a humble experiment by the efforts of a small group to contribute to a global paradigm shift. We are in a constant state of learning; any future experiments will be even better!
With humility and gratitude,
Empower HSU”
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