To the Left: building a movement for social justice: intersections and alliances across race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability… Track US Social Forum Workshops
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To the Left: building a movement for social justice: intersections and alliances across race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability… Media Justice, Communications, & Culture |
Strategies to end the drug war, create mega-coalitions to reform drug laws |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: D2-13 |
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To the Left: building a movement for social justice: intersections and alliances across race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability… Media Justice, Communications, & Culture |
We sponsor weekly discussions featuring social change films; a web site; listserv; & monthly potluck; all for about $26/mo. Find out how. |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: D2-11 |
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Democracy and Governance To the Left: building a movement for social justice: intersections and alliances across race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability… |
Building power for Another World and Another US means building needed anti-oppression skills. This is an essential part of building strong and effective organizations and coalitions. This 2 hour workshop will assist individuals begin to define how to be effective allies against oppression while taking care of our own physical, emotional and spiritual health. |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | UAW Building: Lincoln |
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To the Left: building a movement for social justice: intersections and alliances across race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability… Strategies for Building Power & Ensuring Community Needs (housing, education, jobs, clean air…) |
Participants share stories of oppression in service delivery (welfare, health, education) and develop alternative stories based on the right to dignity and control. Protecting Against Human Rights Violations in the Human Services |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: O2-36 |
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Capitalism in Crisis: tearing down poverty, building economic alternatives & a solidarity economy To the Left: building a movement for social justice: intersections and alliances across race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability… |
Panel will initiate discussion on state budget crisis and how popular fightbacks can rebuild public space. Socialist Activists Rebuilding Public Space Through Fighting the State Budget Crisis |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: O2-39 |
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Capitalism in Crisis: tearing down poverty, building economic alternatives & a solidarity economy To the Left: building a movement for social justice: intersections and alliances across race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability… |
Will you join us in the middle of a whirlwind? In cooperation with other organizers and activists, we will present during this two-hour workshop, on the importance of research to movement building as we seek a return radical community organizing—toward making a revolution possible! Join in the Whirlwind: A Cooperative Panel on Research and Movement Building |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: O2-42 |
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To the Left: building a movement for social justice: intersections and alliances across race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability… Transformative Justice, Healing, and Organizing |
In an oppressive world, many of us experience intense, painful and extreme states. Unfortunately, the currently established system of dealing with these painful states sometimes makes these difficult times worse. We will explore questions such as how does the psychiatric system a-politicize suffering? How is the psychiatric system used as a means of social control? How do we challenge or attempt to hold this system accountable? And how do we find safer and more just means of coping with our extreme states? |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: Riverview Ballroom (W1-52) |
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To the Left: building a movement for social justice: intersections and alliances across race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability… Media Justice, Communications, & Culture |
This workshop will explore literature that allows us to analyze, understand and critique the world we live in and to imagine a world of the future. Other Worlds Are Possible: Visionary Fiction, Organizing and Immaging the Future |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: O2-44 |
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Could sex work be de-criminalized, transformed and a means through which women are actually empowered or does sex work only serve to further subjugate and exploit women? |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | WSU Student Center: VIP Room-Lower Level |
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To the Left: building a movement for social justice: intersections and alliances across race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability… Transformative Justice, Healing, and Organizing |
Discuss, strategize and build a network dedicated to mobilizing for federal equality for LGBTQI people and ensuring solidarity with movements fighting for social justice overall. |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: M3-31 |
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Are there meaningful parallels between the Arab and African-American experiences? How can our groups collaborate in progressive movement building, both globally and locally, and what are the struggles we face in common? What are the points of contention within this coalition? Come with creative energy to formulate strategies for coalition-building with organizers who have been developing brown and black relationships. |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | TWW: 2 |
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Capitalism in Crisis: tearing down poverty, building economic alternatives & a solidarity economy To the Left: building a movement for social justice: intersections and alliances across race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability… |
Learn the real story of what happened to ACORN with veteran activists, and what lessons there are for the left. |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | WSU Cohn: 224 |
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To the Left: building a movement for social justice: intersections and alliances across race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability… Transformative Justice, Healing, and Organizing |
Home Alive's holistic approach to self-defense includes building confidence, setting and respecting healthy boundaries, and leverage-based physical self-defense skills. Our workshops feature a wide range of activities. |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | UAW Building: 1032 |
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To the Left: building a movement for social justice: intersections and alliances across race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability… Strategies for Building Power & Ensuring Community Needs (housing, education, jobs, clean air…) |
Do you protest in DC? Discuss how national events/mobilizations impact local organizing in DC and how we can work in solidarity to strengthen movements. Washington, DC's Not Just a Protest Playground: Organizing in the Belly of the Beast |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Woodward Academy: Computer Room |
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To the Left: building a movement for social justice: intersections and alliances across race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability… Detroit and the Rust Belt |
This panel of activists will reflect on their experiences. Includes Mark Solomon, Melba Boyd, Ahmed Rahman, Ron Scott and Ron Roesti with Angela Dillard chairing. |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | WSU Manoogian: 112 |
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Democracy and Governance To the Left: building a movement for social justice: intersections and alliances across race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability… |
This workshop on the special role of organizing in the South sets the stage for analysis, dialogue and action in the battle for democracy. Toward A Third Reconstruction: Southern Organizing in the Battle for Democracy |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | WSU Manoogian: 150 |
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To the Left: building a movement for social justice: intersections and alliances across race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability… Strategies for Building Power & Ensuring Community Needs (housing, education, jobs, clean air…) |
Learn how to start a Raging Grannies group to protest for peace, social justice and the environment and get the medias attention with parody songs and grandmotherly costumes. This will be fun! |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | WSU Old Main: 1115 |
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To the Left: building a movement for social justice: intersections and alliances across race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability… Strategies for Building Power & Ensuring Community Needs (housing, education, jobs, clean air…) |
The Invisible People seeks to bring to light the missing history and knowledge of African-Americans and other minorities in a current predominately European centered curriculum. We seek to understand and investigate, and implement ways to change the current the current education curriculum to be more expansive in the knowledge of African-Americans and other minorities that is shared with children in the classroom so it may be conducive to the betterment of African-American youth and other minority youth as well. |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: W2-63 |
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To the Left: building a movement for social justice: intersections and alliances across race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability… Strategies for Building Power & Ensuring Community Needs (housing, education, jobs, clean air…) |
Join Planned Parenthood Affiliates of Michigan to learn about the history of the reproductive justice movement- progress made and progress taken away. Learn how barriers to bodily autonomy affect all women, particularly low income and young women, and how we are fighting back. Take action with us during this workshop to promote prevention and stand up for CHOICE! Organizing for Choice in Michigan: Fighting Back the Chipping Away of Our Reproductive Rights |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: W2-66 |
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To the Left: building a movement for social justice: intersections and alliances across race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability… Strategies for Building Power & Ensuring Community Needs (housing, education, jobs, clean air…) |
API is a regional conference dedicated to bridging the gap between radical theory and practice. The “theory-action-reflection” model will be discussed/practiced as an activist tool. We're All Folk: Applied Collaborative Learning in Conference Organizing and Activism |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: D3-23 |