Strategies for Building Power & Ensuring Community Needs (housing, education, jobs, clean air…) Track US Social Forum Workshops
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Strategies for Building Power & Ensuring Community Needs (housing, education, jobs, clean air…) Detroit and the Rust Belt |
This four hour workshop will give Water Warriors from many areas an opportunity to share their struggles to obtain access to clean, affordable water and to discuss their vision and strategies for advancing those struggles. |
Jun 23 2010 - 1:00pm | Cobo Hall: W2-62 |
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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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Strategies for Building Power & Ensuring Community Needs (housing, education, jobs, clean air…) Organizing a Labor Movement for the 21st Century: crisis and opportunities |
This workshop will focus on strategies ROC is employing to transform the restaurant industry. The Restaurant Economy: Restaurant Industry as a Model for Divide and Conquer Service Capitalism |
Jun 23 2010 - 3:30pm | UAW Building: Lincoln |
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Strategies for Building Power & Ensuring Community Needs (housing, education, jobs, clean air…) Transformative Justice, Healing, and Organizing |
In this workshop/plenary we will brainstorm the needs of a national network of transformative justice organizations confronting sexual assault. Movement Building to End Sexual Assault through Transformative Justice |
Jun 23 2010 - 3:30pm | Cobo Hall: W2-65 |
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Strategies for Building Power & Ensuring Community Needs (housing, education, jobs, clean air…) Detroit and the Rust Belt |
Information about children in Michigan’s foster care system, how to become a foster and adoptive parent in MI, and art and film models that individuals and organizations can utilize to help children in care be empowered and work towards permanency. |
Jun 23 2010 - 3:30pm | WSU Student Center: VIP Room-Lower Level |
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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 |
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CUAPB will share their model of constituent-led organizing, in which survivors of police brutality and family members of victims create powerful programs to challenge police brutality and bring it to an end. Stop Police Brutality! Using Constituent-Led Organizing to Challenge Police Misconduct |
Jun 23 2010 - 3:30pm | Cobo Hall: M2-30 |
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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…) |
This 2-hour workshop examines the crisis of high maternal mortality in the USA, its causes and effects on vulnerable women, and identifies actions to reduce the danger. Not What You'd Expect: Pregnant Moms' Deadly Risk in the USA |
Jun 23 2010 - 3:30pm | Woodward Academy: Computer Room |
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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…) |
Strategize with Brooklyn College/CUNY to scale up the grassroots economy—student run coops, aquaponics, gardens, new courses and programs Universities as Engines of Democratic Sustainable Development |
Jun 23 2010 - 3:30pm | Wayne County Community College: 342 |
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How health equity can transcend issue silos and how community organizing can play a role in promoting healthy communities Using Community Organizing to Achieve Health Equity in Communities |
Jun 23 2010 - 3:30pm | WSU Old Main: O134 |
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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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Strategies for Building Power & Ensuring Community Needs (housing, education, jobs, clean air…) Transformative Justice, Healing, and Organizing |
Self Care Tools for Activists to sustain our personal energy, counteract stress and avoid burnout. Learn tools to start each meeting that will encourage insight, cooperation, focus, and conflict resolution. An interactive workshop-Feel Better NOW! Community Self Care-Protocols for Sustaining Personal Energy |
Jun 23 2010 - 3:30pm | Cobo Hall: D3-25 |
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Ending Poverty, Not Welfare: In the coming year, Congress will reauthorize TANF, the 1996 legislation that created welfare "reform." Hear directly from women with experience in the welfare system about how their organizing campaign to make ending poverty the goal of welfare "reform" and to achieve economic justice for low-income families and communities. |
Jun 23 2010 - 3:30pm | WSU Student Center: 16 |
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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 |
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Strategies for Building Power & Ensuring Community Needs (housing, education, jobs, clean air…) Transformative Justice, Healing, and Organizing |
The Healing Trauma and Community Reconciliation workshop is about restoring healthy human relationships and building social cohesion. The workshop will provide basic information about what trauma is, its process, and its impact on both the inner self (thoughts, feelings, beliefs, values), the outer self (behavior and relationships), and social justice. The workshop will focus on how to facilitate healing approaches through storytelling, music and video reflections, and other techniques that promote emotional wellness. The workshop will impact the larger concentric circle of participants; empowering them through cross-cultural healing practices that build safety, protective resiliency factors, and positive individual and community outcomes. |
Jun 23 2010 - 3:30pm | Wayne County Community College: 334 |
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Democracy and Governance Strategies for Building Power & Ensuring Community Needs (housing, education, jobs, clean air…) |
The NY Stimulus Alliance is using the federal stimulus package as a hook to fight for a recovery that lifts up all communities, especially low-income & communities of color. Groups doing this and related work will share experiences, consider organizing opportunities & build relationships. |
Jun 23 2010 - 3:30pm | WSU Old Main: 1119 |
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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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Climate Justice: sustainability, resources and land Strategies for Building Power & Ensuring Community Needs (housing, education, jobs, clean air…) |
Hunters Point Family and Earth Activist Training share our experiences of collaboration and explore how environmental groups and community-based organizations can work together effectively. Greening the Emerald City: Bringing Together Environmental and Community-based Organizing |
Jun 23 2010 - 3:30pm | Wayne County Community College: 336 |
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Strategies for Building Power & Ensuring Community Needs (housing, education, jobs, clean air…) Media Justice, Communications, & Culture |
Adultism has been defined as a predisposition towards adults, which manifests itself as bias against children, youth, and all young people who aren't addressed, viewed or respected as adults. We believe that since all people working with youth are committed to being allies in some capacity, it is important for us to have an understanding of the nuances of this form of oppression. |
Jun 23 2010 - 3:30pm | Woodward Academy: C-1 |