A-Infos (en) Aotearoa-New-Zeland, Wellington, Conference on Anarchist Organising 2009 UPDATE

The Wildcat Anarchist Collective will be hosting a conference on anarchist organisation in 
Wellington in April. We are planning a two-day event with the first day focusing on the 
essentials of anarchist principles and practice: Anarchist principles and their 
consequences for organising; how collectives work and why anarchists work collectively; 
meetings, facilitation and communication; mutual aid and organising within and against 
capitalism. On the second day we will continue discussions and do some more practical 
stuff. We are looking at a venue in Newtown on the weekend of the 18th/19th of April.
draft agenda - April 18th and 19th Newtown Community Centre Wellington ---- Hi everyone,
Here’s a draft agenda for the conference to give you some idea as to what we are planning.

At this point it’s all subject to change. Sessions will include presentations, discussion 
and odd bits of history and thought. Note that as this is an ad hoc gathering of 
individuals, it is a time for education, inspiration and sharing ideas, and is not a place 
to make decisions.

Session one, Saturday Morning:

Anarchist ideas and their consequences for organising

• Anarchist ideas from Aotearoa
• Recent ideas in anarchism –¬ from primitivism to insurrectionism
• Operating in a colonial country and its implications for organisation
• Working under patriarchy and its impacts for organising
• Organising methods – anarcho-communism, the platform, anarcho-syndicalism: what are they 
and are they useful? – panel discussion

Session two, Saturday after lunch:

(a) How collectives work

• ‘The end is the means’, working in the way you’d like to live
• Cliques, ‘community’ models, informal organisation and how this mimics establishment 
methodologies
• Accountability
• Diversity

(b)Decision making

• Facilitation
• Conflict resolution
• Consensus

Session Three, Saturday afternoon; Community organisation

Workplace unions, community unions, federations, campaign groups and getting anarchist 
ideas out there in all sorts of ways!

Sunday

On Sunday we will have a variety of workshops and practical activities including tree 
planting, a look at repression of activists in the US and elsewhere, community gardening, 
non-violence and who knows what? We’ll finish up Sunday evening with a general discussion 
of what was good and bad and where we are going and a banquet.

General info

We are arranging childcare. If you are bringing kids, please let us know as soon as 
possible (and if you can help with childcare, please let us know as well).

Registration is $20 low or unwaged, $30 waged. Lunch both days and dinner on Sunday 
included. Contact us at wellywildcats (at) gmail.com
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