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… Transformative Justice, Healing, and Organizing |
We will create a space for cultivating self-compassion and developing strategies for self-care, so that the work we do is sustainable. The workshop will include meditation, sharing our stories, self-compassion practices, and tools for self-care.We are inspired by Buddhist practice and teachings, but we warmly welcome activists of any spiritual path, or no spiritual path. Caring for Ourselves and the World: Practices for Self-Compassion and Self-Care |
Jun 25 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: D2-09 |
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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…) |
Organizers from around the country will dialogue about their reform struggles and what we need to do to lay the groundwork for a more radical movement. Developing Radical & Revolutionary Approaches to Reform Struggles |
Jun 25 2010 - 10:00am | WSU Cohn: 220 |
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To the Right: internationally and domestically To the Left: building a movement for social justice: intersections and alliances across race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability… |
National Alliance for Racial Justice and Human Rights will host a roundtable to discuss and strategize around a call by human rights activists to implement a federal action plan on racial justice as obligated under the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. |
Jun 25 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: O2-44 |
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We will explore ways LGBTQI individuals and communities can organize with other marginalized communities in order to create a progressive multi-issue LGBTQI movement that supports liberation for all. |
Jun 25 2010 - 10:00am | WSU Prentis: 15 |
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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 |
Experience P.E.A.C.E. (Promoting Ethnic And Cultural Equality) DAY, an event that has reached college campuses across Michigan since 2007. |
Jun 25 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: W2-62 |
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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 |
A gathering space for childcare collectives to discuss the work and the dream of intergenerational movement building – from the nuts & bolts to the bigger questions. |
Jun 25 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: D2-12 |
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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… |
Join us in a discussion about why it is only socialism that can solve the ills of capitalist society and bring about a different world. Why Capitalism is Organized Crime & Socialism is the Alternative |
Jun 25 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: DO-03B |
| To the Left: building a movement for social justice: intersections and alliances across race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability… |
Islamophobia affects movements that focus on Muslims, such as Palestine solidarity, immigrant and racial justice, gender justice, and anti-war movements. Organizing and Alienating - Stories and Solutions to Islamophobia within the Progressive Movement |
Jun 25 2010 - 10:00am | Westin Book Cadillac Hotel: WB4 |
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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 |
Build a more inclusive social justice movement through organizing in marginalized communities that are traditionally excluded or ignored. Organizing in the Shadows: Overcoming barriers to base building in marginalized communities |
Jun 25 2010 - 10:00am | WSU Student Center: 786 |
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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…) |
Efforts implemented in Chicago by a local coalition to integrate the provisions of the UN International Convention to Eliminate all forms of Racial Discrimination into local and regional municipal structures. |
Jun 25 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: D3-23 |
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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 this workshop, we intend to connect you—activists, trainers, social change agents, organizers and social commentators—to one another and to the tools and techniques that support you in doing your life’s work in balance, so that you avoid burnout and make it on the long road to justice. |
Jun 25 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: DO-02A |
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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… |
Meet to discuss how to challenge on a national and international basis the viciously racist anti-immigrant law recently enacted in Arizona. Labor, community,youth and immigrant rights activists from Arizona and around the country will examine the people's history that defeated Jim Crow segregation, legal apartheid in South Africa and the current boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement against Israel. The workshop will focus on forming a strategy to pushback the right-wing agenda of racism, militarism, repression and exploitation. |
Jun 25 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… Transformative Justice, Healing, and Organizing |
This strongly participatory and reflective workshop will look at the relationship of the USSF and social forum processes with the struggles of the subaltern. Come and join us! |
Jun 25 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… International Solidarity and Responsibility: building a unified response to global crises |
In a time of deep crises, the grassroots internationalist response is to converge movements that build on the inter-relationship of the Economy, Ecology & Empire. The task to to develop a shared frame, vision, and set of demands for common action. |
Jun 25 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… Endless War: militarization, criminalization and human rights |
Overturn the Unconstitutional and Inhumane Ban on Revolution newspaper at Pelican Bay Prison. Discuss how to reverse this dangerous precedent for prisoners and broader society. |
Jun 25 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: O2-42 |
| To the Left: building a movement for social justice: intersections and alliances across race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability… |
This workshop will focus on the role of the Atlanta Fighting Foreclosure Coalition in building an anti-foreclosure movement in Atlanta. Movement Building and the Atlanta Fighting Foreclosure Coalition |
Jun 25 2010 - 10:00am | WSU Old Main: 1133 |
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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…) |
We will discuss how to grow a grassroots movement and make our advocacy count based on a community empowerment model. Community Empowerment -Grassroots Advocacy - How to make Human Rights A Reality |
Jun 25 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: O2-41 |
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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…) |
Redefining the American Dream: An Invitation is a discuss about the historical roots of urban segregation, its importance, and a proposal to build a youth-led alliance to address federal policy and build healthy communities. Redefining the American Dream: Invitation to build a Youth-led Urban Progressive Alliance |
Jun 25 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: D3-25 |
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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 workshop explores the influences of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King's ideas about transformation and the radical revolution in values on practices of organizing. From Martin and Malcolm: The Radical Revolution of Values in Transformative Organizing |
Jun 25 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: O2-40 |
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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 |
Hip hop theater & brainstorming how to keep our movement strong, sustainable and inspired by being fun, creative & innovative. Hip Hop Culture in the Third Space: Building Mind Power Collective |
Jun 25 2010 - 1:00pm | WSU Old Main: 1115 |