A-Infos (en) US, Seattle, WA. Common Action General Assembly September 2009 Report

 From Saturday, September 19th to Sunday, September 20th members of the anarchist 
organization Common Action met in Seattle, WA for our fifth general assembly. Common 
Action members from Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia were in attendance. There was an 
incredible amount for us to talk about, vote on and brainstorm together! We also had 
several skill shares and open working group meetings. ---- In upcoming months our members 
will be facilitating workshops at the Seattle Anarchist Bookfair and the ecoNvergence in 
Portland, OR. Our publication Intersections has just enjoyed another recently printed 
issue, with the next issue coming out in December. At general assembly we agreed to 
sponsor the Northwest tour for John Duda’s new book Wanted: Men to Fill the Jails of 
Spokane! January 2010.

Common Action branches have been very active over the past six months, engaging in local 
struggles and developing our own projects.

• The Seattle branch has been busy with numerous projects, but focused heavily on hosting 
several public events this summer. In July along with Casa Latina Workers Defense 
Committee and Seattle Solidarity Network, members’ hosted Vancouver based No One Is 
Illegal for a two-part event on migrant justice movements.

• The Kitsap branch has been focusing on issues of local public transportation, and they 
are preparing to hold an interest meeting.

• The Olympia branch launched their free clinic campaign with success, gaining local media 
attention and involvement from the community. Olympia branch members have also begun 
working on a foreclosure resistance campaign.

We spent a good portion of the weekend focusing on internal education. Through clarifying 
activities we continued working on our conceptions of transformative justice, and began 
our introduction into the ideas of collective liberation. This included group 
conversations and exercises to engage all of our collective experiences in the process.
Throughout the weekend we continued to discuss and question our strategy and tactics as an 
anarchist organization in the northwest. How best can we connect with other organizations 
and struggles regionally and nationally? How can we be most relevant? By the end of the 
two days our strengthening theoretically and tactical unity was clear. As times goes on 
Common Action continues to develop in line with our collective principles and communal 
struggles.

Contact us at nwcommonaction@gmail.com or join the Common Action Announcements listserv: 
http://groups.google.com/group/nwcommonactionannouncement for the occasional e-mail about 
sponsored events, publications, reports, and other fun stuff.
Related Link: http://www.nwcommonaction.org
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