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… Strategies for Building Power & Ensuring Community Needs (housing, education, jobs, clean air…) |
Mothering in the Hood is a workshop that will combine new cutting edge educational models with grassroots spiritual and intelligent strategies that give single mothers the tools to raise good kids in inner city neighborhoods. |
Jun 24 2010 - 3:30pm | Cobo Hall: O2-40 |
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A skills-based workshop on how you can provide legal support for political actions. |
Jun 24 2010 - 3:30pm | 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… Strategies for Building Power & Ensuring Community Needs (housing, education, jobs, clean air…) |
Is socialism on the agenda today? This panel presentation and group discussion geared to participants who are concerned with combining radical ideas with practical politics from working-class and socialist perspectives. From Reform to Revolution: Working-class politics in the age of Obama |
Jun 24 2010 - 3:30pm | WSU Student Center: Ballroom |
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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 long-time left activists Bill Fletcher, Lian Hurst Mann, Chokwe Lumumba and others to discuss the role of the Left in building today’s movements. Presente! Left Movement Veterans Discuss the Path to Power and the Role of the Left in the US. |
Jun 24 2010 - 3:30pm | 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… International Solidarity and Responsibility: building a unified response to global crises |
Bushra Khaliq, general secretary of the Women Workers Help Line, will outline how Pakistani women challenge multiple oppressions through collective action. Theme and Tracks Check which day your event fits most appropriately: Thur, June 24th - U.S. And International Social Movements Responses to Global Crisis Check the track(s) that best describe your workshop. (Only pick 2): To the Left: building a movement for social justice: intersections & alliances across race, class, gender, sexuality, age, ability… International Solidarity and Responsibility: building a unified response to global crises |
Jun 24 2010 - 3:30pm | WSU Student Center: 283 |
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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 the power of art, culture, creative practice and media making to strengthen social justice organizing and movement building. |
Jun 24 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… Transformative Justice, Healing, and Organizing |
What are the different ways that Africans across the Diaspora are organizing in the U.S.? How can we -- African Americans, Caribbean immigrants, and African immigrants -- come together and overcome class, regional and cultural barriers to build a new Pan African praxis? How can Pan African organizing link in south-south cooperation and all-of-us cooperation to make another world possible? Black Organizing Across the Diaspora: African Americans, Caribbean-Americans, and U.S. Africans |
Jun 24 2010 - 3:30pm | Wayne County Community College: 133 |
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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 |
Dialogue with grassroots feminist organizers from the US, Indonesia, South Africa and Honduras about strategies for building powerful local-to-global women’s movements that prioritize gender-justice agendas. Cross-border Dialogue: Building Women's Movements Across All Boundaries |
Jun 24 2010 - 3:30pm | Woodward Academy: 1437 |
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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…) |
Interactive, multi-media presentation by Lisa Fithian offering insights from 35 years of organizing focused on building blocks of change, collective liberation and winning strategic campaigns. |
Jun 24 2010 - 3:30pm | 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… International Solidarity and Responsibility: building a unified response to global crises |
Explore the role of peacemaker delegations to Israel/Palestine in US solidarity work. Explore your notions of ethno-religious privilege and learn to mobilize your community. |
Jun 24 2010 - 3:30pm | WSU Manoogian: 112 |
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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 panel will bring together multiple generations of activists who have engaged in radical grassroots organizing in order to discuss how they have attempted to employ larger theoretical frameworks. Panelists will address questions such as, how does theory influence the type of organizing they do and the tactics they use? What are the advantages and limitations of working within a theoretical framework when doing community organizing? |
Jun 24 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… Media Justice, Communications, & Culture |
Please join this participatory workshop to discuss and practice effective nonviolent social change blogging. |
Jun 24 2010 - 3:30pm | Woodward Academy: 1475 |
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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… |
Feminist economists & activists discuss solidarity economy practices and institutions as providing transformative, feminist solutions to capitalism’s crises Women, Feminism, Economic Crisis, and the Solidarity Economy |
Jun 24 2010 - 3:30pm | Woodward Academy: 1449 |
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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 workshop will explore a vision beyond capitalism and what it will take for us to make this vision a reality— and the right’s worst nightmares come true. Glenn Beck's Nightmare: What it Will take to Build a Movement for 21st Century Socialism |
Jun 24 2010 - 3:30pm | Cobo Hall: W2-63 |
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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… |
This panel will present stories of impact and resistance from various regions throughout the United States, coupled with an international panelist who will speak on the parallels and connections between the experiences in the US and the need for a united movement to advance climate justice. Race, Gender, and Climate Justice:Women of Color Speak Out & Act UP |
Jun 24 2010 - 3:30pm | 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…) |
K-12 to university public educ.is under attack. The form of the attack and the movements which have arisen to fight it will be discussed. Fighting to Defend Public Education in America: Kindergarten through University |
Jun 25 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: W2-63 |
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Why do so many activism efforts fail? We'll use 'integral theory' to practice communication that reaches and respects everyone. The Truth Is Not Enough: How to create social change that sticks |
Jun 25 2010 - 10:00am | TWW: 5 |
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Reimagining Society Pt. 1 explores Vision for Race, Class, Gender/ Sexuality, Politics, International Relations, and Ecology. Facilitated by Meaghan Linick-Loughley and Uruj Sheikh. |
Jun 25 2010 - 10:00am | Wayne County Community College: 125 |
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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 case of Efrén Paredes Jr. arrested at age 15 and sentenced to die in prison, along with 2,500 other youth in the U.S. |
Jun 25 2010 - 10:00am | UAW-Chrysler Building: 2 |
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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 |
Translate your personal experience of race, class, gender, ability, etc into art form! Led by the cast of The NALO Movement, the workshop will culminate with each participant creating and presenting a short performance piece designed to share their personal experience and motivate the audience to activism. This workshop is targeted to non-artists, but artists are welcome to join us too! From the Page to the Stage: Using Performance to Tell Our Stories |
Jun 25 2010 - 10:00am | Woodward Academy: 1449 |