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 |
fearless meditation is the only universal, nonsectarian meditation taught in a social justice context designed for agents for social change. R U fearless? |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: DO-6B |
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Share histories in order to form alliances that will encourage people to attend the International Women’s Conference in Montreal, Canada in August 2010 |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: O3-45 |
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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 examine the disturbing trend of students of color nationwide being suspended and expelled from schools at a much higher rate than their other classmates. We will also examine solutions. |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Wayne County Community College: MP |
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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 Right to the City & National People’s Action present on taking direct action to realize a new vision for public housing in the U.S. We Call These Projects Home: Taking Action to Realize a New Vision for Public Housing |
Jun 23 2010 - 1:00pm | Cobo Hall: DO-01B |
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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…) |
Update/strategy session to support the RNC 8, facing October conspiracy trial for political organizing, and all targets of state repression. |
Jun 23 2010 - 1:00pm | WSU Old Main: 1129 |
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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…) |
Film Screening & Strategy Session around Trans Communities and Detention: Join members of Transforming Justice, a national alliance focused on the causes and harms faced by trans people in detention facilities of various kinds (prisons, jails, juvenile justice, immigration, hospitals) at a session where we will screen the short film and strategy session Transforming Justice: Film Screening & Strategy Session around Trans Communities and Detention |
Jun 23 2010 - 1:00pm | Cobo Hall: DO-5B |
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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…) |
Members of Astraea’s Movement Building Program host a People’s Movement Assembly to discuss resolutions submitted by LGBT organizations working for racial and economic justice. |
Jun 23 2010 - 1:00pm | 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… Strategies for Building Power & Ensuring Community Needs (housing, education, jobs, clean air…) |
We will be facilitating an interactive timeline developed by the Western States Center in Portland, Oregon. This timeline identifies various policies and practices -- from slavery to anti-miscegenation legislation to birth control testing to immigration laws -- that have had a compounding impact of reproductive oppression on marginalized communities. |
Jun 23 2010 - 1:00pm | Wayne County Community College: 349 |
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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… |
Challenge grantmakers to strengthen communities and support Philanthropy at Its Best in this session for all those working with or among foundations |
Jun 23 2010 - 1:00pm | Cobo Hall: O2-38 |
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Climate Justice: sustainability, resources and land To the Left: building a movement for social justice: intersections and alliances across race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability… |
Las comunidades de color son las que mas intensamente serán afectadas por la múltiples crisis ecológicas. Este taller examinará, 1. ¿Cuáles son las múltiples crisis ecológicas? 2. ¿Cómo nos afectarán? 3. ¿Qué podemos hacer para responder de manera adecuada? y 4. ¿Cómo se relaciona esto con otros temas en nuestras comunidades? |
Jun 23 2010 - 1:00pm | 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… |
Beyond "Silly Games": Popular Education as a Methodology for Leadership Development, Grassroots Organizing and Movement Building |
Jun 23 2010 - 1:00pm | 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… International Solidarity and Responsibility: building a unified response to global crises |
Explore how philanthropy can strengthen base-building organizations and the “social justice ecosystem” to achieve progressive political victories in the future. Historic Moment for Funding Social Justice Organizing in the 21st Century |
Jun 23 2010 - 1:00pm | Cobo Hall: W2-61 |
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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 |
This workshop will explore the relationship between confronting Zionism and dismantling other intersecting forms of oppression as well as the meaning and practice of solidarity and joint struggle. Everyone is welcome to participate in the workshop and the discussion and exercises are intended to support Jewish anti-Zionist and White anti-racist activists in clarifying our role and work as part of Palestine solidarity and liberation and anti-war movements and implications for anti-racist and anti-imperialist organizing. In addition, the workshop will prepare us with tools to challenge the accusation that any criticism of Israel or Zionism is “anti-Semitic”. The session will offer exercises, discussions and multi-media tools towards confronting our own struggles around Jewish identity, family and community relationships and Zionism. In doing so, we lay the foundation for a movement that seeks to transform histories of European colonialism, Christian supremacy, the Nazi holocaust and other histories of anti-Jewish and anti-Arab persecution, and US imperialism towards a future in which security and self-determination is based on solidarity rather than the oppression, exploitation and domination of others. |
Jun 23 2010 - 1:00pm | Cobo Hall: D3-27 |
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This interactive workshop will address the historical tensions between feminist and transgender communities, examine our common obstacles and brainstorm strategies for creating gender justice within our communities and movements. |
Jun 23 2010 - 1:00pm | WSU Student Center: South Lounge 2nd floor |
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Climate Justice: sustainability, resources and land To the Left: building a movement for social justice: intersections and alliances across race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability… |
A popular education workshop investigating our ancestors, the history of the food justice movement, colonization and the personal/collective work that will liberate us. By Any Greens Necessary: Food as a Tool of Colonization and Joining the Resistance |
Jun 23 2010 - 1:00pm | Woodward Academy: 1469 |
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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 Greater New Orleans Organizers Roundtable share strategies and successes in creating a city-/region-wide coalition of organizations who share information and support each other’s work. |
Jun 23 2010 - 1:00pm | Cobo Hall: W2-63 |
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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… |
This interactive workshop will explore ways that students who lack resources and institutional support can work together to create change in their universities. Building student organizers out of nothing: how students without privilege can change shit too |
Jun 23 2010 - 1:00pm | Wayne County Community College: 342 |
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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… |
Strategies for bringing reproductive justice into community based activism on the new political terrain defined by economic crisis and Obama’s election. |
Jun 23 2010 - 1:00pm | 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… Endless War: militarization, criminalization and human rights |
The We Are Not Your Soldiers Tour brings anti-war activists and veterans into classrooms, bringing reality and resistance to youth. We Are Not Your Soldiers - Bringing Reality and Resistance into Classrooms with Anti-War Veterans |
Jun 23 2010 - 1:00pm | Cobo Hall: D3-22 |
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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 economic crisis has not been met effectively by a powerful social justice movement. How can the various movements involved develop such a strategy? Activists and scholars from poor peoples movements, labor / poor labor, worker-owned companies, Right to the City and others will be on this panel. |
Jun 23 2010 - 1:00pm | UAW Building: 1032 |