All US Social Forum Workshops
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An interactive discussion/presentation/workshop on using transparent, open and mass communication to connect people and build social justice/social change movements. The goal is to create the most power possible for people over their own lives. La Voz de Todos, El Ruido de Nadie: Comunicación Democrática para Constuir Movimientos |
Jun 25 2010 - 1:00pm | WSU Old Main: 1305 | |
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Three methods through which progressive social workers can stretch the limitations of organizational practice and advance human rights Usando un Marco de Derechos Humanos Económicos para Mover el Trabajo Social Más Allá del Status Quo |
Jun 25 2010 - 1:00pm | UAW-Chrysler Building: 2 | |
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This workshop will show activists how to tell their own stories to mainstream audiences by using widely familiar American political language. The focus in Detroit will be crafting language to translate our common vision into a message mainstream Americans can get. |
Jun 25 2010 - 1:00pm | Woodward Academy: 1469 | |
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Hands-on workshop to give organizers and teachers skills and confidence to write your story for print and/or web publication. Facilitator committed to post-conference support. Compartiendo Tu Sabiduria: Escritura para Organizadores y Maestros |
Jun 25 2010 - 1:00pm | WSU Student Center: 283 | |
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Networks are a powerful means to increase the capacity, impact and efficiency of social change organizations. This highly interactive workshop will empower participants to find alignment across a broad range of strategies and develop a culture of inclusive practice that heals the divisions that often undermine collaboration. |
Jun 25 2010 - 1:00pm | Westin Book Cadillac Hotel: WB2 | |
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Explore alternatives to “cap-and-trade” and ways to build a progressive, grassroots movement for just and effective climate solutions. |
Jun 25 2010 - 1:00pm | Woodward Academy: 1437 | |
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A workshop geared towards organizations and individuals looking to pass Living Wage provisions in their organizing area. Topics will include building a coalition, framing a message, passing legislation, and most importantly, enforcement mechanisms. |
Jun 25 2010 - 1:00pm | WSU Manoogian: 289 | |
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This two-part workshop goes in-depth toward planning a new worker co-op project or a conversion of an existing business into a worker co-op. |
Jun 25 2010 - 1:00pm | Cobo Hall: D3-22 | |
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Mapping the real food movement: art and dialogue to identify, amplify and leverage resources to build strengthened national alliance and action for real food. Con los Pies sobre la Tierra: Plasmando una Alianza en la Búsqueda de Alimentos Reales |
Jun 25 2010 - 1:00pm | Cobo Hall: D2-12 | |
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This workshop will address the impacts of the "war on drugs" on Black and Latino communities and its role in maintaining the status quo of economic, political and social marginalization. We will discuss the role of attitudes about punishment in maintaining the drug prohibition regime and how to shift the paradigm from punishment to effective alternatives based in evidence, compassion, racial justice and human rights. We will discuss current shifts in public attitudes towards the current system as evidenced by recent legislative and policy changes. Participants will examine the relative merits of alternative drug control schemes along with their rationale and implications. We will discuss the short and long term goals of drug policy reform and develop various strategies to build the movement for ending the "war on drugs". |
Jun 25 2010 - 1:00pm | Cobo Hall: DO-01B | |
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Around the country, women of color and feminist youth are organizing, advocating and achieving wins around reproductive justice. We’re working at the intersections of gender, race, class, health, education, immigration, media justice, environmental justice, and LGBT liberation in order to connect with, empower and mobilize our communities. In this workshop, we will explore the added value of the reproductive justice framework in our work for social justice. We will explore the potential to be found in collaborative, multi-pronged movement strategy. We will center our bodies/experiences in this work using art, storytelling, and multimedia tools. Reproductive justice is integral to and holds liberatory power for all of our movements. Join the Third Wave Foundation, the Reproductive Justice Network, and grant partners from around the country as we journey together from our personal and communal experiences to the movement for reproductive justice! Justicia Reproductiva 101: Visión Creativa, Estrategias Innovadoras, y Redes Poderosas |
Jun 25 2010 - 1:00pm | Cobo Hall: DO-6B | |
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Shaped by movements of the last century this multigenerational workshop engages activists reflecting on experiences in developing life sustaining community and ideas for revolutionary change. Reclamando el Lugar, Restorando y Sosteniendo Comunidades Vivientes |
Jun 25 2010 - 1:00pm | Cobo Hall: W2-63 | |
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This workshop aims to assist participants with dismantling the “school-to-prison pipeline” and eliminating the use of punitive school discipline to push young people out of school and into prisons and jails. |
Jun 25 2010 - 1:00pm | Wayne County Community College: MPR | |
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Showcasing domestic and international models, we explore how legal advocacy can effectively support movements. Lawyers and organizers share their vision and practice of movement lawyering. Abogando en el Movimeinto: Como la Abogacía Legal Puede y Debe Conectar con la Organización de Base |
Jun 25 2010 - 1:00pm | WSU Old Main: 1133 | |
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This workshop is designed as a leadership-training opportunity for artists, cultural workers, union staff, organizers, activists, and rank-and-filers. Explore thinking outside the box and organizing challenges creatively from a different point of view. ZING, BOOM, POWW!!!: Libro de Juegos Creativo de Organización: conceptos, estrategias y acción |
Jun 25 2010 - 1:00pm | Cobo Hall: D2-11 | |
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Grease car drivers, off grid survivors, natural healers, and spiritual warriors challenging pollution and prisons by “bossin’ up” in favor of people and the planet. Fuera de la red y desenchufad@s: Elecciones de vida sustentables y resistencia renovable |
Jun 25 2010 - 1:00pm | Cobo Hall: D3-24 | |
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Explore the biblical origins of sabbath economics and current social practices aimed at creating a more sustainable and just society. |
Jun 25 2010 - 1:00pm | Christ Church | |
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Members of Landslide and a staff attorney from Regional Housing Legal Services present the experience at Landslide as a case study on how a small radical collective was able to navigate the complex boondoggle of city bureaucracy and urban development organizations, to transform a blighted area into a community based urban farm and model for urban sustainable living. |
Jun 25 2010 - 1:00pm | WSU Manoogian: 150 | |
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Graphics are a crucial part of any campaign. We’ll intruduce an array of hands-on strategies for collaborative image design and production |
Jun 25 2010 - 1:00pm | Wayne County Community College: 124 | |
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A range of media makers and activists from facilitate this discussion on accountability the potential and the pitfalls of media justice work. Los medios de comunicación de base y los movimientos por la justicia |
Jun 25 2010 - 1:00pm | WSU Student Center: 277 |