All US Social Forum Workshops

The Student/Farmworker Alliance is a national network of students and youth organizing alongside farmworkers to end sweatshops and modern-day slavery in the fields. In alliance with the farmworker-led Coalition of Immokalee Workers, we've been at the forefront of winning some of the biggest victories against corporate greed our generation has seen, and we're just getting started.

Harvesting Solidarity: Farmworkers, Student/Youth allies, and the Fight for Fair Food

Want to challenge single-issue movement building? Join us in developing tools and analysis around the way the Disability Rights Movement perpetuates racism.

Beyond the ‘R’ word: an exploration of racism and white supremacy within the Disability Rights community and how we can address it

This workshop will explore issues within our global food systems and our role as students in the movement to change our food system. This workshop will be highly hands-on and participants will leave with not just knowledge but with the tangible skills we need to act on a global scale.

Campaigns, coalition building, and organizing to change our campus food systems

Power sharing deals in Africa, implications for democracy. Strengthening human rights based solidarity in shaping alternatives to elitist deals.

Power Sharing Deals in Africa: Implications for Democracy - The Case of Zimbabwe and Kenya

Harm Reduction principles and practice seek to reduce violence and harm experienced by individuals and communities by understanding the multiple causes including trauma and systematic oppression. We will introduce a Transformative Justice (TJ) framework, including principles and practices as an effective approach to responding to and seeking justice in individual and community cases of violence or harm in such a way that challenge oppressive systems and do not reinforce state violence and repression. Through this workshop we seek to develop models for harm reduction programs to integrate violence prevention, response and services to address trauma and to train anti-violence organizations in harm reduction practice.

Harm Reduction and Transformative Justice: Responding to and Creating Alternatives to Violence in Our Communities

Viewing and discussion of a film about feminist economics and how through these new economic structures, we can instill values of caring and solidarity into the economy that shatter the heirarchical polarities within our current economic models.

Healing the Tin Man (How to Put the Heart Back Into the Economy in 8 Easy Steps)

The living standards of Senior Citizens are under attack in this system. We must get a plan and fight for our future. Some of us are still raising children after we have retired and some of us are forced to become homeless and some of us are without are put away in nursing homes to die. Our future is up to us. We must began to join the fight for a better world.

Economic and Political Problems of Senior Citizens Today

Grrl, Where's my Queer Young Womyn and Sexual Health Manual? So, basically, we are these Queer creatures. So many intersections: young, sexual, immigrant, womyn, two-spirited, bilingual, growing, learning, exploring and the list goes on. We are trying to be healthy. But no one really gave us pointers on living as young Queer womyn and our sexual health. Come share about what you have learned through life and what you wish you have known! Then use your expertise to brainstorm solutions and create a zine or film to help educate your sisters and community! That's what's up!

Young Queer/LGBTQ Women and Sexual Health - We're our own experts!

Using poetry as a medium for struggle against oppression and displacement by providing models and people's experiential participation.

Indigenous Verses Against Oppression - Poetry Workshop