Strategies for Building Power & Ensuring Community Needs (housing, education, jobs, clean air…) Track US Social Forum Workshops
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Democracy and Governance Strategies for Building Power & Ensuring Community Needs (housing, education, jobs, clean air…) |
Safe water is essential for health and life. The non-living corporate “person” has no right to harm the bodies of natural persons. Participants will discuss how to reframe the issue from regulations that permit corporate harm to people and communities asserting their rights. We, the People have a fundamental, inalienable right to be free of involuntary pollution of our bodies by disease-causing toxics. Steps for communities to take to assert this democratic right will be presented such as adopting a Precautionary Principle Ordinance as the City of San Francisco or a Chemical Trespass Ordinance to prohibit corporate bodily trespass, establish strict liability and burden of proof standards for chemical trespass, and subordinate corporations to the people, as communities in PA and VA have done working with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund. |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: O2-35 |
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Climate Justice: sustainability, resources and land Strategies for Building Power & Ensuring Community Needs (housing, education, jobs, clean air…) |
Learn how solutions such as eating locally and putting filters on diesel vehicles, reducing emissions by over 85%, can reduce pollution in your community. Diesel Pollution and its Connection to the Food Justice Movement |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: W2-65 |
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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…) |
Reproductive Justice 101 is the standard training for the Reproductive Justice Movement designed for first-time RJ activists and those seeking information about SisterSong. |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: DO-03A |
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Strategies for Building Power & Ensuring Community Needs (housing, education, jobs, clean air…) Transformative Justice, Healing, and Organizing |
The workshop will give a clear overview of the systemic abuses, human rights violations, and conditions of confinement faced by people living in Michigan's prisons. We will present tools on how we work to help people with their individual needs and then how we translate the problems identified through this advocacy into systemic reforms, public education campaigns, and work to shift the public discourse toward less reliance on prisons and retribution. |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: D3-20 |
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Climate Justice: sustainability, resources and land Strategies for Building Power & Ensuring Community Needs (housing, education, jobs, clean air…) |
Featuring Toxic Soil Busters & Green Guerrillas Youth Media Tech Collective: success stories of youth media-makers & movement building retreats |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: D2-09 |
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Capitalism in Crisis: tearing down poverty, building economic alternatives & a solidarity economy Strategies for Building Power & Ensuring Community Needs (housing, education, jobs, clean air…) |
A divers group of students who have had heir free speech taken away from them for being political. |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: W2-64 |
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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…) |
Experienced organizers from "older" and "younger" generations, will discuss strategies for organizing around issues, such as peace and economic justice. We will discuss strategies for effective organizing, using examples such as the cross-country walk of "Granny D", rallies, educational activities, boycotts and civil disobedience. Emphasis on cross-generational organizing. |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: D3-17 |
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Climate Justice: sustainability, resources and land Strategies for Building Power & Ensuring Community Needs (housing, education, jobs, clean air…) |
Transit Riders for Public Transportation. Organizing for transit justice at the intersection of civil right, environmental justice, mass transportation and climate justice. Mass Transportation for the Masses: Organizing for Climate Justice |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: W2-70 |
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Indigenous Sovereignty Strategies for Building Power & Ensuring Community Needs (housing, education, jobs, clean air…) |
IYEP is a collaborative project focused on working with Native youth as they struggle with issues ranging from historical trauma to diabetes. Indigenous Youth Empowerment Program: A collaborative project to strengthen our urban Native youth |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: D3-26 |
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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…) |
CALLING EVERYONE RESISTING CUTS TO HUMAN SERVICES! How do we use fights against cuts to build a movement to make another world possible? They Say Cut Back... We say Fight Back: Responding to economic crisis through movement-building |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: O3-46 |
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Want to meet other Asian/Pacific Islander American youth involved in community organizations or movements from other parts of the country? This workshop is an opportunity for APIA youth to share ideas, experiences, tips on organizing in schools/communities, and more! Youth from the Detroit Asian Youth Project will be some of the facilitators for the workshop. It's Our Moment: Asian/Pacific Islander American Youth Unite!! |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: DO-5A |
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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 follows the Beyond 35 Years California gathering and builds at the national level by identifying challenges and opportunities to organize in the Vietnamese community. Participants will leave the session with: * Some history of anti-communism in immigrant communities * An understanding of how these dynamics play out * Strategies for how to deal with these challenges Beyond 35 Years: Challenges and Opportunities in Organizing in the Vietnamese Community |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Wayne County Community College: 336 |
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Learn about childcare models that are helping to build strong working class women of color led organizations and mass-based multigenerational movements. Childcare & the Left : Growing strong multi-generational organizations |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Wayne County Community College: 340 |
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Restoring democracy begins at the community local. Learn how one community fought back against corporate domination, and how to employ these unifying techniques in your community. |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: O2-37 |
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A festival of short films created by people with disabilities to enlighten and empower other with and without disabilities. |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: W2-69 |
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NCQE-Our Youth, Our Communities, Our schools will feature youth and parent leaders across the country unitied for a more just and equitable education system! Parents, Youth and Educators Unite for a Better Educational System! |
Jun 23 2010 - 10:00am | Cobo Hall: DO-03D |
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Democracy and Governance Strategies for Building Power & Ensuring Community Needs (housing, education, jobs, clean air…) |
Focuses on building democracy for poor people/people of color through service on local government commissions. |
Jun 23 2010 - 1:00pm | WSU Prentis: 10 |
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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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Capitalism in Crisis: tearing down poverty, building economic alternatives & a solidarity economy Strategies for Building Power & Ensuring Community Needs (housing, education, jobs, clean air…) |
The workshop will give information on wage theft and share creative local and national strategies to fight this crisis. |
Jun 23 2010 - 1:00pm | WSU Old Main: 1305 |
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Strategies for Building Power & Ensuring Community Needs (housing, education, jobs, clean air…) Transformative Justice, Healing, and Organizing |
We tap indigenous wisdom: storytelling, light/shadow, medicine wheel, and perception to reshape education and serve children holistically. Identity and Imagination: Transforming Education through Indigenous Teachings |
Jun 23 2010 - 1:00pm | Cobo Hall: D3-16 |