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 |
Artists and activists open their toolkits and discuss the possibilities and challenges of using live musical spectacle as a protest tactic. Tactical Spectacle! Radical Street Bands and Solidarity Organizing |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: W1-51 |
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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 |
This interactive session, a collaboration of eight organizations, is a deep dive; an exploration of a more intersectional and comprehensive analysis of body politics and how it shapes our political analysis and work at the core. Body Politics: Toward a Radical Redefinition of Freedom/Movement/Beauty |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: M2-29 |
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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…) |
Anarchists affiliated with Anarkismo and the Class Struggle Anarchist Conference will discuss the workplace and neighborhood organizing we are doing in cities across the country. Class Struggle Anarchism in the 21st Century: Re-Centering on People’s Movements |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Woodward Academy: 1435 |
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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…) |
12% of foundation dollars go to social justice. We help you (1) make a stronger funding pitch; (2) convince more foundations to start funding advocacy & organizing. Funding the Revolution: Strategies for Expanding Foundation Funding for Advocacy & Organizing |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | WSU Old Main: 1111 |
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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…) |
Poverty from a new prespective, examine human rights of economic justice |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: DO-03C |
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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…) |
Organizations aross the US working in Asian communities will share their challenges and successes, and put forth ideas on how to strengthen community-based organizing. |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: DO-03B |
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We will discuss the critical questions and challenges facing organizers of A Movement Re-Imagining Change (ARC), a Chicago-based formation building a movement of multi-issue solidarity. A Movement Re-Imagining Change: Lessons, Insights, and Challenges from Chicago |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: D2-14 |
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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 |
Capoeira: learn how the art itself and aspects of the art can be leveraged to build coalitions and effect change at a grass roots level on many fronts. Capoeira: A 500 year Old Grass Roots Organizational Platform |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: DO-4B |
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Because our values center around equality, justice, dignity, and peace, Unitarian Universalists work for social justice through grassroots organizing, community awareness-raising, and direct action. Our workshop will be about our history of social justice efforts through our liberal religious lens and the local and national social justice campaigns we are working on today. Standing on the Side of Love: 1st Unitarian Universalist Church of Detroit’s Faith in Action |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: M2-30 |
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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…) |
To engage well-meaning non-homeless people in efforts to end poverty and homelessness, we have tried several approaches--some successful and others not. We will describe our methods, their purposes, their success, and their failures. With other participants, we hope to build a collective framework for action to move people "from service to solidarity." From Service to Solidarity: Some Methods that Work and Some that Don't |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | WSU Old Main: 1305 |
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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…) |
A highly interactive session that supports us going outside our comfort zones and engaging with each other to create a welcoming community. Building Welcoming Community Spaces Across Identities and Based on Shared Values |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: D0-01B |
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Displacement, Migration and Immigration To the Left: building a movement for social justice: intersections and alliances across race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability… |
This workshop will focus on issues facing immigrant drivers related to the taking and impoundment of their vehicles by local law enforcement for driving without a license. Impounding vehicles of unlicensed immigrant drivers for 30 days (as in California) causes great social and economic hardship. In fact the towing and impound scheme of local governments is driven by the Government’s need to generate revenue but at a great cost to immigrant drivers who reside in the United States without documents and can not obtain drivers licenses issued by the state where they reside. These families who use their vehicles to take their children to school, doctor's appointments and to go to work are being targeted by local law enforcement who often work on a quota system. This workshop will also focus on organizing campaigns and fight back strategies to empower local communities to stop this law enforcement practice. |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Wayne County Community College: 131 |
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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…) |
Reproductive Justice 101 is the standard training for the Reproductive Justice Movement designed for first-time RJ activists and those seeking information about SisterSong. |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: DO-03A |
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To the Left: building a movement for social justice: intersections and alliances across race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability… Organizing a Labor Movement for the 21st Century: crisis and opportunities |
We'll explore the history and organizing methods of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, paying particular attention to the Campaign for Fair Food, including recent efforts to hold some of the leading supermarket chains in the U.S. accountable for the sweatshop wages and working conditions in their tomato supply chains. |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: W2-68 |
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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…) |
Experienced organizers from "older" and "younger" generations, will discuss strategies for organizing around issues, such as peace and economic justice. We will discuss strategies for effective organizing, using examples such as the cross-country walk of "Granny D", rallies, educational activities, boycotts and civil disobedience. Emphasis on cross-generational organizing. |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: D3-17 |
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To the Left: building a movement for social justice: intersections and alliances across race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability… Organizing a Labor Movement for the 21st Century: crisis and opportunities |
Millions of American youth are engaging in behaviors that put them at risk for unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV.Young people of color are at greater risk of HIV and STI infection, even with identical risk behaviors; and young women of color are more than twice as likely to experience pregnancy as young white women. Further, prejudice, discrimination, and harassment are still serious concerns for young people of color and GLBTQ young people. By the end of this session, participants will be able to 1) identify the connection between health disparities and social justice, 2) identify key stakeholders in non-traditional partners needed to reduce sexual health disparities among youth of color, 3) identify potential strategies to address these issues. Youth of Color – Understanding Disparities of Sexual Health Outcomes |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: W2-67 |
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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 |
The workshop will include a panel of racial, socio-economic, and LGBT social justice activist discussing the importance of and strategies surrounding building alliances and organizing across movements for LGBT Equality and a stronger, more inclusive social justice movement. Integrating LGBT Equality into Social, Racial & Socio-Economic Justice Movements |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: M3-31 |
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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…) |
CALLING EVERYONE RESISTING CUTS TO HUMAN SERVICES! How do we use fights against cuts to build a movement to make another world possible? They Say Cut Back... We say Fight Back: Responding to economic crisis through movement-building |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: O3-46 |
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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 |
Peer support is at the heart of The Icarus Project. Come and experience it with your peers at the USSF! |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: D2-08 |
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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…) |
This workshop follows the Beyond 35 Years California gathering and builds at the national level by identifying challenges and opportunities to organize in the Vietnamese community. Participants will leave the session with: * Some history of anti-communism in immigrant communities * An understanding of how these dynamics play out * Strategies for how to deal with these challenges Beyond 35 Years: Challenges and Opportunities in Organizing in the Vietnamese Community |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Wayne County Community College: 336 |