encuentro5 Turns 5! Commemorative Dinner

Wednesday, Dec. 7th, 7pm: Celebrating 5 solid years and 5 inspiring honorees!

As a  dynamic movement-building space, encuentro 5 has balanced the day-to-day needs of grassroots organizations and community groups with the wide-ranging social change goals that their organizers embrace for 5 solid years of solidarity and inspiration.

For e5, challenging the militarism and corporate globalization that institutionalize the current moment of capitalism and white supremacy has meant offering a space for the spontaneous needs of local groups, housing over a dozen resident organizations, offering offices for new projects and small NGOs, archiving the efforts of social movements, providing cross-movement institutional memory, resourcing emerging projects with much needed research, materials and equipment, and ongoing daily efforts of networking and support.

Although it has meant a lot of intense work, it has also been greatly inspiring to connect with creative activists, engaging writers, soulful musicians and dedicated community members. Together, we have made e5 a platform for major demonstrations, thoughtful debates, heartwarming performances, and strategic conversations as a review of the e5 website reveals.

Always thriving on the insights and energy of countless groups and individuals, we chose five exemplary honorees who have contributed directly to e5's programming and/or inspired the work we do. To honor them and to launch the e5 movement-builders sustainer program, e5 is hosting its first annual, Commemorative Dinner, at 7pm Wednesday, December 7, 2011. Click here to RSVP.

The five honorees are:

	Sergio Reyes, a Chilean-born revolutionary. musician, and founder of the Boston May Day Committee and a founder of Latin@s for Social Change
	Avi Chomsky, a scholar and activist whose work connects people across borders
	Paul Shannon, a peace movement veteran active in United for Justice with Peace and a founder of the Majority Agenda Project who has been on staff at the American Friends Service Committee for over 30 years.
	Robin Jacks, a long-time activist challenging low-wage work in the South and a founder of the #OccupyBoston effort
	Dorotea Manuela, a founder of the Boston Rosa Parks Human Rights Day Committee, a member of the Downtown Workers Center collective, and an active defender of Puerto Rican sovereignty.

On December 7th, join us to honor these 5 outstanding movement builders, to celebrate the extraordinary efforts of the e5 Residents and the expansive social justice community, and to make e5 a sustainable effort for 2012! Click here to RSVP.