PEACE Out Loud and the Ira X Project present “The Tyranny of Dinner”, an online workshop, discussion, training, and dinner salon on “Land, Water, & People”.

Many folks are reeling after the 2024 election. Even those of us who understand that we have never been safe under the current state apparatus are feeling overwhelmed by the depth of harm that an outright fascist regime is and will have on those we love, including ourselves.

What will we do? How will we respond?

As Dr. Angela Davis says, it will not just be one thing that needs to be done. To fight tyranny in this time will take many strategies, across a broad swath of identities and areas, in order to create systems of care and safety. And not that that, systems of dignity and justice. And even more than that, systems of care and freedom.

As audre lorde said, we cannot dismantle the masters house with the masters tools.

So let us listen to the lorde, and to other Black feminist revolutionary ancestors and elders and contemporaries who have continued to create systems of care regardless of who is in the White House.

It is, after all, the White House.

Let us listen to the Ohlone ancestors and elders and contemporaries here on Lisjan territory on Turtle Island and learn how to come correct. To paraphrase indigenous leader and thinker Robin Wall Kimmerer, let us see our earth and all organisms as systems of care.

Let us listen to our Zapatista ancestors and elders and contemporaries who showed us and continue to show us that another world is possible, and she is being born every day out of both our imaginations for what is possible and also from our willingness to be disciplined in our practice of liberation.

Liberation is a practice.

Almost none of us will be here in a hundred years.

But all of us can collectively organize to shift the tide of care so that in our lifetimes we will be more alive, more free, and more cared for.

Please join PEACE Out Loud and The Ira X Project as we open our membership community,

“The Tyranny of Dinner”

which is an online and in person membership community to help folks combat tyranny (and still eat every day).

“The Tyranny of Dinner” information sessions and workshop series begins with a community workshop and dinner entitled “Land, Water, & People”, the first in our 8 months of workshops, intended to introduce our wider POL and Ira X communities to the work that we have done and plan to do over the next four years. It is also our celebration of Trans Day of Remembrance, asking folks to remember us now, rather than after we are gone. To remember a society where trans folks are beloved and included and normal, as WE ARE NOW in PEACE Out Loud communities.

It’s also an in-person dinner in Berkeley, and in your home town, hosted by us or by you.

It’s also a membership where folks in community help to support the work we do with their own contributions of funds, workshops, care, learning, and whatever else we can contribute.

Membership includes:

-Vetted participants
-Monthly workshop with Ira X and friends
-Monthly dinner salon access
-Monthly instructions on how to host your own online or in person dinners
-Monthly recipes for food and drinks
-Monthly meditations and practices to help you build against tyranny
-A business incubator for decolonizing entrepreneurs
-Parenting workshops
-Other events, both in person and online, provided by the PEACE Out Loud community and our co-conspirators
-Summer camps and Summer training camps
-Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter in person events
-Fall, Winter, and Spring online workshops and events
-Dance and Music workshops and events (online and in person)
-Farm Days
-Farm visits
-Growing food workshops (in person and online)
-Making food workshops (in person and online)
-Sewing and clothing workshops (in person and online)
-Gender-affirming clothing swaps
-Sober sip and paints
-California sober events
-Cuddle parties
-Play parties (adults only)
-And a myriad of other activities and skills building workshops, mixing the research and practice in a praxis of decolonization and working to undermine and dismantle tyranny inside us and in our communities

How it works:

First, join us for a monthly online workshop on a specific topic in one or more of the areas where PEACE Out Loud works to decolonize ourselves and our communities. Join us for learning and practice and conversation.

Then, if you’re in town, come to dinner. Talk about the tyranny of dinner and eat with other folks. Be prepared to covid test before you are welcomed into the event. (Limited spots available)

You can also create an in-person or online dinner salon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salon_(France)) that you host for 1-8 or more folks and talk about the Tyranny of Dinner and the ways that you are working to move out from under tyranny.

We ask all folks who are in person to covid test before or at the event, and have as much air flow as possible in your circumstances.

Options:

1. Register for November 21st online workshop here (if they register for this they should also be able to register for dinner)
2. Register for November 21st in person Berkeley dinner waiting list
3. Register to host an online dinner on or after November 21st on “The Tyranny of Dinner” and/or “Land, Water, & People”
4. Register for a membership to “The Tyranny of Dinner” (sliding scale, some scholarships available)
5. Sign up for our mailing list to be notified of future dinners and other open events

Where you at?: On Land, Water, People, & Money (copy)

By PEACE Out Loud

Where you at?: On Land, Water, People, & Money (copy)

The Tyranny of Dinner: How to fight tyranny and still eat every day.