Strategies for Building Power & Ensuring Community Needs (housing, education, jobs, clean air…) Track US Social Forum Workshops

"State of Economic Emergency," Fighting for a Moratorum to Stop Foreclosures, Evictions and Utility Shut-offs.

Fighting for a Moratorium on Foreclosures, Evictions and Utility Shut-offs

Calling all creative organizers, artists, cultural workers, and interested supporters and change agents to a facilitated conversation, networking, collaborating, coalition building, and sharing of best practices.

Creative Think Tank

This workshop shares the experiences of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement in building a People's Assembly in Jackson, Mississippi.

Building a Participatory Democracy: The Jackson, Mississippi People's Assembly and the Black Struggle for Self-Determination

U.S. police agencies have powerful new tools to spy on and disrupt movements for change. Learn what they are doing, who they are targetting (yes, it is you) and how we can fight it.

Tools to fight the Surveillance State

Want to know what components to focus on to develop agents of reform? Want to develop your own blueprint for your work in your community? Urban School Awakening will be presenting a workshop focused on just this. This workshop focuses on how urban schools/communities need to focus on implementing curriculas/practices and pedagogy which develop and strengthen the higher-level thinking skills necessary for low-income students to become their own agents of social reform; schools will also collaborate with community organizations so as to train their students in social mobilization tactics.

Urban School Awakening

Radical political thought is often hard to communicate to wide audiences for the very simple reason that it is viewed as, well, “radical.” But if we seek to expand our politics beyond our already-established milieus, we must find a way to transcend this seeming barrier.

Popularizing Radical Politics: How We Convey Our Ideas and Ideals

We are identifying Solidarity Economy in our communities and using this information to create alternatives to capitalism. People have the power to reclaim their economies.

Local Solidarity Economy Organizing, Mapping and Networking

The Invisible People seeks to bring to light the missing history and knowledge of African-Americans and other minorities in a current predominately European centered curriculum. We seek to understand and investigate, and implement ways to change the current the current education curriculum to be more expansive in the knowledge of African-Americans and other minorities that is shared with children in the classroom so it may be conducive to the betterment of African-American youth and other minority youth as well.

M.I.E (Missing in Education)

Faith communities are digging up their lawns to start community gardens, running gardening camps and training programs, hosting farmers markets and CSAs and working to get healthy food growing in and for impoverished communities from Utica to Uganda. You and participants from the Heaven on Earth Agrarian Road Trip will share stories and the spiritual grounding to make another food economy possible. This workshop will spark new ideas and actions you can take home with you to realize in your own community. Ample time for discussion.

Faith Communities in the Local Food Movement: Sustainable and Just!