[Street] Feb 18 and March 10: Occupying to Organizing Popular Power - Workshops!
trenchesfullofpoets at riseup.net
trenchesfullofpoets at riseup.net
Fri Feb 10 22:01:42 EST 2012
Hey all,
I'm involved in a group that's putting on a series of trainings. We
hope these can really help us in the occupy movement to build the
capacity of our communities to struggle against the 1% this springtime
and beyond! More details forthcoming, please mark your calendars.
Email me for a flier!
-Jake Carman
(of Occupy Boston Labor Outreach)
**please forward widely!*
Feb 18 and March 10: Occupying to Organizing Popular Power - Workshops!
>From Occupying to Organizing Popular Power
A series of Workshops, presented by long-time community organizers from a
wide background, to give activists the skills we need to build a truly
popular movement!
Saturday, February 18, and Saturday, March 10
2pm-5pm (both Saturdays)
At the Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston St # 2 Boston, MA
02116-3678 (In Copley Square, near the Copley Green Line T stop).
Join our conversation about expanding participation in our movements. How
do we move toward organizing with millions not just online but in our
neighborhoods? Discuss ways we can work together to engage more people
through organizing practices that are unfortunately uncommon in most
activist scenes. Hear local organizing examples that have expanded
participation beyond tactic-focused activism. Find out about ways Occupy
activists have learned to move beyond Facebook activism to face to face
relationship building based on solidarity through common struggles.
Discuss
with grassroots organizers organizing the 99% toward our demands. Learn
about effective collaborations between the Occupy Movement and organizing
projects and the development of organizing practices that support
grassroots leadership of those most impacted by economic, racial and
social injustice. Share examples from base building efforts from the
Occupy Movement and from collaborations with grassroots organizing
efforts. Hear about Occupy Boston’s efforts to organize on the
neighborhood level.
Organizing trainings provided Occupy Boston activists with a participatory
strategy and a campaign development process that built organizing capacity
and turned activists into local organizers. For many of the Occupy
activists it was their first time organizing more broadly than focusing on
event or action mobilizations. Share success stories about your grassroots
organizing that have reached beyond activist circles.
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