Northeast Regional Convergence

Resist the Conference of New England Governors and Eastern Premiers

July 29-31, 2012

Burlington, Vermont

• Vermont social and environmental groups are working together to build collaborative movements for health care, migrant justice, town & tribal forests, education and economic justice.
• New England residents are organizing to defend our communities from major new infrastructure projects, including the transport of Tar Sands oil through New England, a private mega-highway across the north of Maine, and the Northern Pass transmission lines cutting through New Hampshire.
• Across Quebec, indigenous Innu communities and environmental groups are resisting Premier Charest’s proposed Plan Nord, a 25 year $80 billion dollar industrial development scheme for mega dams, logging and mines in northern Quebec.
• Students in Quebec and Occupy activists are struggling against debt, state violence and repression of dissent while environmentalists throughout Canada  are resisting Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s attack on nature and democracy.
• We act in solidarity with all the beautiful rebels and revolutionaries across the world fighting for self-determination, sustainability and direct democracy!

We invite you all to join us in beautiful Burlington, July 29th through 31st for three days of action to disrupt the Governors’ conference while cultivating a regional movement  for people and the planet. Fight for a world based on participation, equity, transparency and a restoration of the Commons.

• We will kick off our days of action with a large rally outside the Conference and a march through downtown Burlington.
• Groups are invited and encouraged to plan autonomous actions throughout the city during the three days of the conference and we will do our best to provide the support you need. (Information, media, medic and legal support)  
• We are organizing a convergence space to welcome groups and individuals to Burlington, coordinate housing, food and actions, build relationships and organize discussions or presentations about ongoing regional struggles.

1. Confront the Conference of the New England Governors and Eastern Premiers and demonstrate the power of the people.
2. Create a regional dialogue that encourages connections between environmental, social and economic struggles.
3. Resist stagnation and political ritualism by learning from modes of activism being employed in regional struggles.
4. Strengthen networks, ties and affinities which build our capacity for a prolonged culture of resistance.