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 |
In this workshop, you will hear about how several different radical, culturally based, young adult grassroots membership organizations in urban communities of color in the East Bay (California) do their work inside and outside of non-profit agencies. |
Jun 23 2010 - 1:00pm | 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…) |
Ever wish there was an easy way to find share social justice curriculum? Come hear about a new project with thousands of resources. BuildTheWheel.org: Sharing Political Education Workshops, Trainings and Resources |
Jun 23 2010 - 3:30pm | Wayne County Community College: MPR |
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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 “how-to guide” for building a movement to combat language barriers in your community. The End of "English-Only": Breaking Down Language Barriers In Your Community |
Jun 23 2010 - 3:30pm | WSU Cohn: 222 |
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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… |
Anti-abortion violence, harassment and ever more legal restrictions? We need an uncompromising movement of people standing up for women! |
Jun 23 2010 - 3:30pm | TWW: 2 |
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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 |
What if the spiritual Left has major ideas that are the key to enabling the whole of the Left to be much more effective in creating a caring society? What's exciting about the spiritual Left? Come and find out! |
Jun 23 2010 - 3:30pm | WSU Student Center: 261 |
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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 will be an introduction to the 50 year political organizing career of Ella Baker through a spoken word monologue performed by a diverse group of 7 Ella's Daughters. We will then discuss Baker's tradition as a model for grassroots radical democratic organizing that focuses on the most oppressed sectors of our communities and values their strength and wisdom, with special focus on women. We will offer highlights of the work Ella's Daughters (ED) are doing in various struggles and contexts. Finally, we will involve participants in actually stitiching together patches of a social justice quilt which a group of ED artists have been working on for three years and which links multiple struggles. We will discuss how others can tap into Baker’s tradition and how it relates to the work of radical feminists of color from Audre Lorde to Chandra Mohanty. Ella's Daughters: Women Organizing in the Radical Democratic Tradition of Ella Baker |
Jun 23 2010 - 3:30pm | Wayne County Community College: 131 |
| To the Left: building a movement for social justice: intersections and alliances across race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability… |
Come and explore, discuss, and learn with the members of Shift NYC, a NYC based collective of gentrifiers doing anti-gentrification work in their communities. Shift NYC will be talking about solidarity, gentrification, self-interest and accountability and about the challenges of organizing folks of class privilege in community and land struggles. |
Jun 23 2010 - 3:30pm | WSU Old Main: 1129 |
| To the Left: building a movement for social justice: intersections and alliances across race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability… |
Learn what civil rights issues American Muslims, overcome misperceptions of Islam, and learn why non-Muslim allies are vital to protecting religious freedom for all people. Defending Civil Rights of American Muslims: Issues, Strategies, and the Need for Allies |
Jun 23 2010 - 3:30pm | Woodward Academy: 1475 |
| To the Left: building a movement for social justice: intersections and alliances across race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability… |
The purpose of this workshop is to have a highly inclusive and engaged discussion of, for and about student coalition and solidarity movements for social and environmental justice. Students from the Social and Environmental Justice Club, Washington State University Vancouver will share a new model for student movement building called the NW Student Coalition (nwstudentcoaltion.net). By the end of the workshop and this years USSF, we hope to bridge more gaps between campuses in the U.S. with heightened student involvement in networking and solidarity. |
Jun 23 2010 - 3:30pm | TWW: 1 |
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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 session will explore strategies for constructing a new economic model built on equity, solidarity, diversity and self-management. The Economic Crisis & a Strategy for a Participatory Economy |
Jun 23 2010 - 3:30pm | WSU Old Main: 1111 |
| To the Left: building a movement for social justice: intersections and alliances across race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability… |
Join the Arab Youth Org AYO to talk about anti-Arab racism in high schools. Share what’s up in your city. What do we have in common? How do we come together to fight it? |
Jun 23 2010 - 3:30pm | Woodward Academy: 1473 |
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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… |
Includes discussion and analysis of the political landscape in Arizona, the problem with reform politics, and our movement building strategy in Arizona. |
Jun 23 2010 - 3:30pm | UAW Building: Escort |
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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…) |
On Modism: Discrimination by Transport Mode. Historical trends and statistics, group discussion with emphasis on bicycle usage. |
Jun 23 2010 - 3:30pm | WSU Student Center: 277 |
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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 will explore stories of personal consciousness raising experiences and discuss how to create similar experiences for middle class young adults. Consciousness Raising Strategies for Middle Class Young Adults |
Jun 23 2010 - 3:30pm | UAW Building: Navigator |
| To the Left: building a movement for social justice: intersections and alliances across race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability… |
This youth led bilingual workshop will explore how immigrant students can demand educational equity and respect, regardless of their native language. 這個青年領導的雙語研習班將探討移民學生，不論母語是甚麼，都能獲得公平的教育及受到尊重。 Youth Build Immigrant Power! Fighting Language Oppression in Urban Public Schools |
Jun 23 2010 - 3:30pm | 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 |
Social Networking for Social Justice: Hands-on workshop examining best practices for social justice advocacy groups’ use of social networking to mobilize citizen activism. |
Jun 23 2010 - 3:30pm | WSU Cohn: 224 |
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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… |
Two HWC students and a moderator will present on leasons and perspectives on organizing on campuses and connecting with the world outside of academi to change the world. |
Jun 23 2010 - 3:30pm | 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…) |
This workshop will share successful community-based foreclosure prevention programs and initiatives from across the country that engage residents in immediate action using participatory processes based in values of community control and self-organizing. Educating participants about new federal tenant and loan modification foreclosure protections, the workshop will highlight how tenant rights can help protect homeowners from foreclosure--showing the new opportunities of the housing crisis to unite tenants and low-income homeowners to fight the foreclosures that disproportionately affect poor people / people of color. |
Jun 23 2010 - 3:30pm | 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… Endless War: militarization, criminalization and human rights |
A national mapping of Muslim, Arab, South Asian organizations and a skills training in building membership based organizing in MASA communities. Building Mass Membership Based Muslim, Arab, South Asian Community Organizing in the U.S. |
Jun 23 2010 - 3:30pm | Cobo Hall: DO-02A |
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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 |
An opportunity for Reproductive Justice activists and organizations in the Rust Belt Region to caucus and discuss building a network for strategic support and mobilization. |
Jun 23 2010 - 3:30pm | Cobo Hall: DO-01A |