Palestine Track Workshops at the US Social Forum
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Workshops in red are major workshops, or organized by USPCN or major allies.
PALESTINE PROGRAM AT US SOCIAL FORUM 2010 |
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WEDNESDAY JUNE 23 2010 |
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| Building Arab and Black Solidarity | WESPAC Foundation | TWW: 2 | 10:00am – 12:00pm | Are there meaningful parallels between the Arab and African-American experiences? How can our groups collaborate in progressive movement building, both globally and locally, and what are the struggles we face in common? What are the points of contention within this coalition? Come with creative energy to formulate strategies for coalition-building with organizers who have been developing brown and black relationships. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/building-arab-and-black-solidarity |
| Jewish Working Class & Labor Opposition to Zionism | International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network-Labor | WSU Student Center: 16 | 1:00pm – 3:00pm | As historic victims of state-sponsored discrimination and violence, Jews have long stood with the oppressed, including the labor, civil rights and anti-apartheid movements. Zionism betrays this history. Historically, the Zionist movement countered and undermined the Jewish working class struggle in Eastern Europe as part of a broader class struggle. Zionists collaborated with the Nazis in rounding up working class Jews in Eastern Europe in exchange for transport of Zionist leaders and support for the building of the State of Israel. The Zionist movement also undermined the boycott of the Nazis organized by the Jewish working class. Anti-Zionist Jewish labor activists challenge the collusion of US labor with the State of Israel as part of the continuity of this struggle and against the betrayal of Zionism of the Palestinian and Jewish working class, historically and currently. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/jewish-working-class-labor-opposition-zionism |
| Unlearning Zionism: Unlearning Racism | International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network; United Against Racism | Cobo Hall: W1-51 | 1:00pm – 5:30pm | This workshop will explore the relationship between confronting Zionism and dismantling other intersecting forms of oppression as well as the meaning and practice of solidarity and joint struggle. Everyone is welcome to participate in the workshop and the discussion and exercises are intended to support Jewish anti-Zionist and White anti-racist activists in clarifying our role and work as part of Palestine solidarity and liberation and anti-war movements and implications for anti-racist and anti-imperialist organizing. In addition, the workshop will prepare us with tools to challenge the accusation that any criticism of Israel or Zionism is “anti-Semitic”. The session will offer exercises, discussions and multi-media tools towards confronting our own struggles around Jewish identity, family and community relationships and Zionism. In doing so, we lay the foundation for a movement that seeks to transform histories of European colonialism, Christian supremacy, the Nazi holocaust and other histories of anti-Jewish and anti-Arab persecution, and US imperialism towards a future in which security and self-determination is based on solidarity rather than the oppression, exploitation and domination of others. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/unlearning-zionism-unlearning-racism |
| The Olive Tree Circus goes to Palestine | Olive Tree Circus | Cobo Hall: D2-11 | 3:30pm – 5:30pm | Mixing both traditional and contemporary circus skills, using original music, doing theater, puppetry and clowning, the Olive Tree Circus presents a storytelling process that challenges and inspires its audiences to ask questions about the Palestinian/Israeli conflict and discover new ways of thinking about it. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/olive-tree-circus-goes-palestine |
| Israeli Apartheid Week-National (USA) Coordination and Strategy Workshop | Israeli Apartheid Week (USA) | Woodward Academy: 1443 | 3:30pm – 5:30pm | This workshop will bring together local and national organizers of Israeli Apartheid Week in the US, as well as anyone interested in hosting and organizing IAW in their region. The workshop will be a strategy and coordination session to educate on Israeli Apartheid Week, further discuss national strategies, and develop tactics and outlines for IAW work in the coming years. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/israeli-apartheid-week-nationa-usa-coordination-and-strategy-workshop |
| Building Bridges- Implementing Youth Cultural Arts Programming in Underserved Communities | Arab American National Museum (AANM) | Woodward Academy: 1472 | 3:30pm – 5:30pm | presentation and discussion on how to implement cultural arts programming for underserved youth in ethnic and immigrant enclaves located in cities such as Detroit. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/building-bridges-implementing-youth-cultural-arts-programming-underserved-communities |
| Building Mass Membership Based Muslim, Arab, South Asian Community Organizing in the U.S. | DRUM- Desis Rising Up & Moving | Cobo Hall: DO-02A | 3:30pm – 5:30pm | A national mapping of Muslim, Arab, South Asian organizations and a skills training in building membership based organizing in MASA communities. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/building-mass-membership-based-muslim-arab-south-asian-community-organizing-us |
| Journalism for a cause: a media workshop with The Electronic Intifada | The Electronic Intifada | WSU Old Main: 1107 | 3:30pm – 5:30pm | Drawing from recent experience of The Electronic Intifada, this workshop will address how social justice activists can use journalism and media to build a campaign. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/journalism-cause-media-workshop-electronic-intifada |
| Palestine: Accountability, Solidarity and Cross Movement Building | American Friends Service Committee | WSU Prentis: 10 | 3:30pm – 5:30pm | The AFSC workshop will provide details critical to demanding accountability from our congressional representatives and that hearings take place on Capitol Hill. We will discuss the true meaning of solidarity and explore practical ways in which we can connect with the growing worldwide movement for peace and justice. | |
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| Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Campaign: Transforming Relationships, Building Power, and Reversing a History of Injustice | Domestic Workers United in New York | Cobo Hall: D3-19 | 10:00am – 12:00pm | Sharing lessons learned from the historic campaign led by domestic workers to secure recognition and rights. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/domestic-workers-bill-rights-campaign-transforming-relationships-building-power-and-reversing-his |
| From Racial Profiling to Workers’ Rights: Advancing Human Rights at Home | Human Rights at Home Campaign | Cobo Hall: D2-10 | 10:00am – 12:00pm | The Human Rights at Home Campaign’s workshop will discuss concrete ways to advocate for increased monitoring and strengthened enforcement of human rights obligations that will thereby improve employment and underemployment rates, eradicate profiling and strengthen worker rights in Michigan! | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/racial-profiling-workers-rights-advancing-human-rights-home |
| Body Politics: Toward a Radical Redefinition of Freedom/Movement/Beauty | The Praxis Project; Highlander Center; Brown Boi Collective; VOTE-NOLA; Critical Resistance | Cobo Hall: M2-29 | 10:00am – 12:00pm | This interactive session, a collaboration of eight organizations, is a deep dive; an exploration of a more intersectional and comprehensive analysis of body politics and how it shapes our political analysis and work at the core. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/body-politics-toward-radical-redefinition-freedommovementbeauty |
| Confluence: Eco-Justice Movement Building | Green Guerrillas Youth Media Tech Collective | Cobo Hall: D2-09 | 10:00am – 12:00pm | Featuring Toxic Soil Busters & Green Guerrillas Youth Media Tech Collective: success stories of youth media-makers & movement building retreats | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/confluence-eco-justice-movement-building |
| Defending Civil Rights of American Muslims: Issues, Strategies, and the Need for Allies | CAIR-MI | Woodward Academy: 1475 | 3:30pm – 5:30pm | Learn what civil rights issues American Muslims, overcome misperceptions of Islam, and learn why non-Muslim allies are vital to protecting religious freedom for all people. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/defending-civil-rights-american-muslims-issues-strategies-and-need-allies |
| Ella’s Daughters: Women Organizing in the Radical Democratic Tradition of Ella Baker | Ella’s Daughters | Wayne County Community College: 131 | 3:30pm – 5:30pm | 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. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/ellas-daughters-women-organizing-radical-democratic-tradition-ella-baker |
THURSDAY JUNE 24 2010 |
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| Culture Jamming & Action Planning For BDS: Rerouting Deceptive Narratives About Israel & Supporting BDS To End Israeli Apartheid!! | Birthright Unplugged | WSU Prentis: 10 | 10:00am – 12:00pm | Learn to deshelve Israeli goods, remake public graphics, do roving projections & stealth actions at pro-Israel events & plan your actions! | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/culture-jamming-action-planning-bds-rerouting-deceptive-narratives-about-israel-supporting-bds-en |
| Organizing and Alienating – -Stories and Solutions to Islamophobia within the Progressive Movement | Left Turn; CAIR-MI (Council of American Islamic Relations); DRUM (Desis Rising Up and Moving); Harim | Westin Book Cadillac Hotel: WB4 | 10:00am – 12:00pm | Islamophobia affects movements that focus on Muslims, such as Palestine solidarity, immigrant and racial justice, gender justice, and anti-war movements. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/organizing-and-alienating-stories-and-solutions-islamophobia-within-progressive-movement |
| Understanding Israeli Apartheid. | The Itisapartheid.org Collective | WSU Student Center: 16 | 10:00am – 12:00pm | Understanding Israeli Apartheid. Have you ever wondered what people mean by Israeli Apartheid? How it is similar and different from South African Apartheid? In this workshop we will look at the historical context of Israeli Apartheid in order to understand the reasons why apartheid works in Israel, with refugees, and in the occupied territories. We will see a PowerPoint presentation on apartheid in the West Bank. The presentation will be followed by discussion. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/understanding-israeli-apartheid |
| International solidarity in Palestine, the work of the International Solidarity Movement | International Solidarity Movement-Chicago chapter | Cobo Hall: DO-5B | 10:00am – 12:00pm | This workshop will be a demonstration of ISM Palestine’s work and an engaged discussion of how to further solidarity with Palestine in our home communities. Our goal is to prepare volunteers to travel to Palestine as volunteers with ISM and do do solidarity at home. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/international-solidarity-palestine-work-international-solidarity-movement |
| Gaza – History and Current Status | Friends of Sabeel – NA Ann Arbor/Detroit Chapters | WSU Old Main: O134 | 10:00am – 12:00pm | History, current status, and actions that can be taken to bring justice to Palestine in general and Gaza in particular. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/gaza-history-and-current-status-and |
| Palestine is Turtle Island: Indigenous Organizing to End Occupation | Seventh Native American Generation (SNAG) | Wayne County Community College: 342 | 10:00am – 12:00pm | Native delegates from a recent delegation to Palestine will share the relationships between Indigenous struggle in the U.S/Turtle Island and in Palestine. This workshop uses multimedia to interactively explore history, oppression and resistance. We will also share how delegation partners have been using media/culture/art to do joint education and organizing with Palestinian youth refugees. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/palestine-turtle-island-indigenous-organizing-end-occupation |
| The Many Names and Faces of Enslavement: Policing and Containment in Georgia, the US South, and Israel | Movement to End Israeli Apartheid-Georgia | UAW Building: Escort | 10:00am – 12:00pm | We will historicize the impact of the police in GA, how the Israeli police control the Palestinian pop + how these practices are connected thru our divestment target GILEE—GA Int’l Law Enforcement Exchange | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/many-names-and-faces-enslavement-policing-and-containment-georgia-us-south-and-israel |
| Israel’s crimes against Gaza and the Role of the U.S | RCP Publications | Wayne County Community College: 337 | 10:00am – 12:00pm | Over a year ago Israel launched a horrific massacre of Gaza, which continues today in the form of an illegal, inhumane siege. What is the actual situation in Gaza and Palestine? What is the nature of the U.S. – Israel relationship? And what is the responsibility of people in the United States to oppose Israel’s ongoing crimes against the Palestinian people, and the role of the U.S. government? | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/israels-crimes-against-gaza-and-role-us |
| Growing a Large Scale Palestinian Non-Violent Civil Disobedience Movement in Hebron | Youth Against Settlements | WSU Old Main: O174 | 10:00am – 12:00pm | Webinar with members of Youth Against Settlements, who have been organizing in Hebron for years and have just begun regular weekly protests. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/growing-large-scale-palestinian-non-violent-civil-disobedience-movement-hebron |
| BDS 101: Responding to the Palestinian Civil Society Call for Boycott, Divestment, & Sanctions | Interfaith Peace-Builders | Woodward Academy: 1469 | 10:00am – 12:00pm | Introduction to the 2005 Palestinian Civil Society Call for Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS). Learn more about how apply BDS in the North American context and how it could democratize our economy | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/bds-101-responding-palestinian-civil-society-call-boycott-divestment-sanctions |
| We wrote in “Arab” on the Census, wa ba’adeyn? Now what? | Arab Resource and Organizing Center | Cobo Hall: W2-63 | 10:00am – 12:00pm | Arab organizations across the country took part in the 2010 Census to make sure our communities were counted racially as Arab. But, we knew then and we still know that the census sure isn’t going to liberate our communities. What were the useful parts of this work? What’s next? And were we able to use it as a stepping-stone for more radical social change? | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/we-wrote-%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%C5%93arab%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%C2%9D-census-wa-ba%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%E2%84%A2adeyn-now-what |
| Women & Global Justice | Center for Changes/ATC | Cobo Hall: D3-20 | 10:00am – 12:00pm | Val Moghadam and Nadine Naber, scholar-activists with roots in the Middle East, will discuss the need for transnational ties between women. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/women-global-justice |
| How We Came To the Road Less Taken: A Jewish Journey Towards Activism | Jewish Voice for Peace-Detroit | WSU Old Main: 1119 | 10:00am – 12:00pm | This workshop will feature firsthand personal histories by Jews who have come to understand the immense injustices committed by Israel upon the Palestinian people. Small group discussions developing skills will follow. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/how-we-came-road-less-taken-jewish-journey-towards-activism |
| COINTELPRO then and now | Freedom Archives; Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, US Human Rights Network | Cobo Hall: DO-01A | 1:00pm – 5:30pm | COINTELPRO 101 – government repression against liberation movements, police repression, racism, mass incarceration and political prisoners. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/cointelpro-then-and-now |
| Food Sovereignty: A Building Block for People’s Sovereignty | Grassroots International | Woodward Academy: 1443 | 1:00pm – 3:00pm | Speakers from Palestine, Haiti, Detroit and Mississippi show how only Food Sovereignty ensures food security for urban and rural communities in different places | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/food-sovereignty-building-block-people%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%E2%84%A2s-sovereignty |
| Think Globally, Act Locally Against Israeli Occupation, Share & Learn Brass Tacks for BDS (Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions) Campaigns in Your Area | Jewish Voice for Peace | WSU Student Center: 277 | 1:00pm – 3:00pm | The goal of this workshop is to expand the BDS (Boycot, Divestment & Sanctions) movement to end the Israeli Occupation with a focus on a national divestment campaign being led by Jewish Voice for Peace. Participants will leave the workshop with the practical skills, resources and enthusiasm to launch BDS activities in their regions or join already existing efforts. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/think-globally-act-locally-against-israeli-occupation-%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%E2%80%9C-share-learn-brass-tacks-bds-boycott-div |
| The Reality of Racial, Religious and Ethnic Profiling | Palestine Working Group | Cobo Hall: M2-29 | 1:00pm – 5:30pm | The purpose of this workshop is to discuss how Racial, Religious and Ethnic Profiling effects the civil liberties of different minorities across the United States. We hope to show the participants how to make an impact when it comes to civil liberties and profiling. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/reality-racial-religious-and-ethnic-profiling |
| BDS: Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions OR Building Directed Solidarity across our Movements? | Bay Area Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid (BACEIA) | Woodward Academy: 1476 | 1:00pm – 3:00pm | Want to integrate Palestine solidarity into your other movements & organizing? Want to use boycott/divestment/sanction to do it? Come learn & strategize together! | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/bds-boycott-divestment-sanctions-or-building-directed-solidarity-across-our-movements |
| Challenging Para-statal Organizations: The Case Against the Jewish National Fund | Int’l Campaign against the Jewish National Fund | Woodward Academy: 1436 | 1:00pm – 3:00pm | The workshop seeks to educate attendees about the true histories, purposes, plans and funding of para-statal organizations like the Jewish National Fund that support and play a role in the governance of Israel and occupation of Palestine. In addition, it will challenge the concept of Jewish nationality that these organizations are based on. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/challenging-para-statal-organizations-case-against-jewish-national-fund |
| Defending Palestinian Rights Among Faith-Based and Labor Communities | Palestine Cultural Office Palestine Cultural Office, Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee | Cobo Hall: O2-43 | 1:00pm – 5:30pm | Achieving new information and skills to succeed with defending Palestinian rights among Faith-Based and Labor Communities. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/defending-palestinian-rights-among-faith-based-and-labor-communities |
| Israeli Apartheid, International Solidarity and Water Justice | Middle East Children’s Alliance | WSU Old Main: 1137 | 1:00pm – 3:00pm | Learn more about the Palestinian struggle for water justice, opportunities to concretely support their efforts, and discuss divestment and boycott from Israel as tools to to combat Israeli apartheid. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/israeli-apartheid-international-solidarity-and-water-justice |
| Deconstructing media coverage on Palestine: The nuts and bolts of the cover-up | If Americans Knew | Woodward Academy: 1439 | 1:00pm – 3:00pm | Palestine may be today’s most covered up issue. We will provide the evidence, discuss the situation, expose the cause and propose solutions. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/deconstructing-media-coverage-palestine-nuts-and-bolts-cover |
| Labor Solidarity in Action: Report from the IWW Union Delegation to Palestine | SUSTAIN Philly | WSU Old Main: 1137 | 3:30pm – 5:30pm | Report from recent labor delegation to Palestine, and a strategy session on building a boycott movement in the U.S. Labor mov’t. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/labor-solidarity-action-report-iww-union-delegation-palestine |
| Health and Human Rights in Israel/Palestine: a report from the ground | American Jews for a Just Peace | WSU Old Main: O174 | 3:30pm – 5:30pm | Examination of health and human rights issues in Israel/Palestine by exploring realities on the ground, highlighting voices of activists and members of civil society organizations. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/health-and-human-rights-israelpalestine-report-ground |
| The Hydropolitics of Palestine/Israel, a slide show | Aiken Peace | UAW Building: 1032 | 3:30pm – 5:30pm | A slide show using water as a dramatic mirror of power relationships in Palestine/Israel, while exploring connections with the global water crisis and suggested responses. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/hydropolitics-palestineisrael-slide-show |
| The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement: Inspiring Social Justice Activism | Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel | UAW Building: Lincoln | 3:30pm – 5:30pm | Through presentation, discussion, and group work, participants will explore tools and creative tactics of the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israeli Apartheid. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/palestinian-boycott-divestment-and-sanctions-bds-movement-inspiring-social-justice-activism |
| Palestinian Solidarity: Past, Present, Future | Peace Education Center | Cobo Hall: O2-42 | 3:30pm – 5:30pm | Discussion of how people in the US can more effectively organize their efforts in support of Palestinians in the occupied territories. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/palestinian-solidarity-past-present-future |
| Removing the Muzzle: Social Media, Activism, and Palestine/Israel | Jewish Voice for Peace | TWW: 1 | 3:30pm – 5:30pm | Panel discussion on the intersecting uses of social media and activism for human rights in Palestine and Israel. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/removing-muzzle-social-media-activism-and-palestineisrael |
| Lessons from the Global Campaign to End South African Apartheid | The Palestine Freedom Project | WSU Old Main: O171 | 3:30pm – 5:30pm | Explores structure, methods of the South African Anti-Apartheid movement, deriving lessons for similar movements in Palestine and elsewhere. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/lessons-global-campaign-end-south-african-apartheid |
| Divestment from Israel Bonds: Strategies for State-Level Campaigns | Minnesota Break the Bonds Campaign | Woodward Academy: 1439 | 3:30pm – 5:30pm | Strategies for organizing multiple state-level campaigns to divest from Israel Bonds in solidarity with the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/divestment-israel-bonds-strategies-state-level-campaigns |
| Peacebuilder delegations to Israel Palestine | Interfaith Peace-Builders | WSU Manoogian: 112 | 3:30pm – 5:30pm | Explore the role of peacemaker delegations to Israel/Palestine in US solidarity work. Explore your notions of ethno-religious privilege and learn to mobilize your community. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/peacebuilder-delegations-israel-palestine |
| Forced Displacement and the Right to Return From Palestine to the US | Middle East Children’s Alliance | Woodward Academy: 1443 | 3:30pm – 5:30pm | Discussing how indigenous and other marginalized communities in the US and Palestine can work together and learn from each other to attain their rights to return to their homelands. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/forced-displacement-and-right-return-palestine-us |
| Palestine: Deconstructing Enemy Images | Nebraskans for Peace-Palestine Task Force | WSU Old Main: 1134 | 3:30pm – 5:30pm | People react to a situation based on their expectations, judgements and what they perceive is going on. By deconstructing images, we can better understand ourselves. A conflict can be intensified with the “right” images and this conflict can then be manipulated to serve interests, and not the interests of the people necessarily. We will deconstruct and reconstruct images found in the MSM and as a group talk about the impact of these images and together formulate plans, strategies and even actions to overcome this oppression of our minds and eyes. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/palestine-deconstructing-enemy-images |
| The Cairo Declaration and Renewed Strength in the Anti-Apartheid Movement | Louisville Committee for Peace in the Middle East | Cobo Hall: O2-40 | 3:30pm – 5:30pm | The Cairo Declaration and Renewed Strength in Anti-Israeli Apartheid Movement Description: Nearly 1400 international activists gathered in Cairo, Egypt in late December 2009 to mark the anniversary of the massive Israeli military offensive on Gaza that left thousands dead and tens of thousands homeless and displaced. The Egyptian government made every effort possible to thwart the international action. The Cairo Declaration was the response. The intent was a collective global declaration against the Israeli occupation of Palestine with the clear understanding that the state of Israel has racism and colonialism at its deepest foundations. The significance of the Declaration is that it denounces the violence and provides a platform for resistance and steps towards a resolution. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/cairo-declaration-and-renewed-strength-anti-apartheid-movement |
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| The Young & The Restless: Celebrating Contributions of Youth in the Fight for Liberation | SOUL School of Unity and Liberation | Cobo Hall: DO-5A | 10:00am – 12:00pm | Join SOUL as we review the revolutionary contributions of youth across the globe and celebrate the role of young people at the forefront of liberation struggles past & present. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/young-restless-celebrating-contributions-youth-fight-liberation |
| Building Solidarity with Haiti’s Grassroots social movements | Rising in Solidarity with Ayiti; Malcolm X Grassroots Movement; TransAfrica Forum; Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti; Women of Color Global Women’s Strike; Haiti Action Commitee | Cobo Hall: W2-65 | 1:00pm – 5:30pm | Strategy session on how to build solidarity with Haiti’s grassroots. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/building-solidarity-haitis-grassroots-social-movements |
| Building solidarity with working people and unions in Iraq and other U.S. war zones | U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW) | WSU Old Main: 103 | 1:00pm – 3:00pm | Making common cause and organizing solidarity between US workers and workers in Iraq and other countries subject to US military action. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/building-solidarity-working-people-and-unions-iraq-and-other-us-war-zones |
| People’s Resistance Against Empire: A Global Forum on Mass Movements Fighting US Intervention & People’s Cultural Work as Weapons of Resistance | Diskarte Namin; BAYAN USA | Cobo Hall: W2-62 | 1:00pm – 5:30pm | To learn about mass movements fighting US Intervention and how to use Cultural Work as Weapons of Resistance-This workshop will engage participants in using Theater of the Oppressed, music, visual art and other forms to digest a rich and on-going history of people’s resistance movements around the world. (Inspired by the Cordillera People’s Day annual gathering in the Philippines that commemorates the struggle for ancestral domain and self-determination and its popular education technique of engaging thousands of participants of different tribes and tongues) | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/people%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%E2%84%A2s-resistance-against-empire-global-forum-mass-movements-fighting-us-intervention-people%C3%A2 |
| The World Cup, Sports and Social Justice: The Beautiful Game and the Beautiful Struggle, Together | Athletes United for Peace | WSU Student Center: 29 | 1:00pm – 3:00pm | The World Cup is playing live and a billion people are watching – join us to learn about sports as a dynamic site of resistance, popular expression and transformation. Featuring Dave Zirin, and live via video: Center for Civil Society-Durban, South Africa. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/world-cup-sports-and-social-justice-beautiful-game-and-beautiful-struggle-together |
| Migration and the Militarization of U.S. and European Borders: A Comparison and Contrast | Priority Africa Network (PAN) | Cobo Hall: O2-40 | 1:00pm – 3:00pm | The workshop will explore the similarities and differences between migration patterns to the U.S. and Europe and the border militarization policies of the United States and the European Union. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/migration-and-militarization-us-and-european-borders-comparison-and-contrast |
| Peacemaking, Solidarity and Undoing Racism: a Journey Towards Listening | Christian Peacemaker Teams | Wayne County Community College: 342 | 3:30pm – 5:30pm | What does peacemaking work grounded in undoing racism look like? What does it mean to put local communities at the center of building peace? | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/peacemaking-solidarity-and-undoing-racism-journey-towards-listening |
FRIDAY JUNE 25 2010 |
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| Organizing and Alienating – -Stories and Solutions to Islamophobia within the Progressive Movement | Left Turn; CAIR-MI (Council of American Islamic Relations); DRUM (Desis Rising Up and Moving); Harim | Westin Book Cadillac Hotel: WB4 | 10:00am – 12:00pm | Islamophobia affects movements that focus on Muslims, such as Palestine solidarity, immigrant and racial justice, gender justice, and anti-war movements. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/organizing-and-alienating-stories-and-solutions-islamophobia-within-progressive-movement |
| Al Nakba, the Key to a Middle East solution | Al-Nakba Awareness Project | Woodward Academy: 1476 | 1:00pm – 3:00pm | We will review documented history of the Nakba, its central role in the continuing conflict, and interactively explore goals and potential solutions. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/al-nakba-key-middle-east-solution |
| Indigenous Verses Against Oppression – Poetry Workshop | Palestine Cultural Office; Arab American Discrimination Committee | WSU Old Main: 1134 | 1:00pm – 5:30pm | Using poetry as a medium for struggle against oppression and displacement by providing models and people’s experiential participation. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/indigenous-verses-against-oppression-poetry-workshop |
| Palestine: Evolution of the movement for Liberation | Al-Awda-NY | WSU Student Center: 786 | 3:30pm – 5:30pm | This series of workshops is designed to promote discussion of the inherent inequality of the Zionist system and strategies for encouraging the transformation of Palestine solidarity work from a limited “Anti-Occupation” movement into a broader struggle for a single state based on principles of full equality and justice for all | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/palestine-evolution-movement-liberation |
| Hip Hop in the Middle East, Creating Media Dialogues and Youth Empowerment | Arab League Records | Cobo Hall: DO-03C | 10:00am – 12:00pm | Arab Hip Hop as an international social movement, empowering youth and fighting oppression through creative expression. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/hip-hop-middle-east-creating-media-dialogues-and-youth-empowerment |
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| Movement Lawyering: How Legal Advocacy Can and Should Connect with Grassroots Organizing | Advancement Project | WSU Old Main: 1133 | 1:00pm – 3:00pm | Showcasing domestic and international models, we explore how legal advocacy can effectively support movements. Lawyers and organizers share their vision and practice of movement lawyering. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/movement-lawyering-how-legal-advocacy-can-and-should-connect-grassroots-organizing |
| All Money and Power to the People: Using Grassroots Fundraising to Fund Our Liberation | Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training ; Colorado Anti-Violence Program | Cobo Hall: D3-20 | 1:00pm – 5:30pm | U.S. social movements can and have funded themselves. We can fund our liberation through grassroots fundraising. Let’s talk strategy for mobilizing resources for collective liberation. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/all-money-and-power-people-using-grassroots-fundraising-fund-our-liberation |
| The “War on Terror” & the “War on People of Color”: Muslim, Arab, South Asians Build Movement as Black & Brown U.S. Struggle | DRUM- Desis Rising Up & Moving; Arab American Action Network (AAAN); South Asian Network (SAN); | Cobo Hall: DO-7A | 1:00pm – 5:30pm | In the post 9/11 ‘War on Terror’, Muslims, Arab, South Asians join African American, Latino, Native American voices in building a common history of U.S. structural racism and strategizing a unified struggle for justice. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%CB%9Cwar-terror%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%E2%84%A2-%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%CB%9Cwar-people-color%C3%A2%E2%82%AC%E2%84%A2-muslim-arab-south-asians-build-movement-black-brown-us-st |
| A peer education project addressing the reproductive and sexual health needs of Muslim Youth | Advocates for Youth | Wayne County Community College: 131 | 1:00pm – 3:00pm | The workshop will introduce the participants to the Muslim Youth project and engage in a discussion around the barriers to doing this work as well as brainstorm solutions to improve the lives of Muslim Youth. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/peer-education-project-addressing-reproductive-and-sexual-health-needs-muslim-youth |
| Teaching for Social Justice: Spaces for Radical Education | Experimental College of the Twin Cities; Resistance in Brooklyn | Cobo Hall: D3-26 | 3:30pm – 5:30pm | A dialogue among radical educators on educating, organizing, movement-building, and the obstacles and advantages of “teaching for social justice” within different kinds of educational institutions. | http://organize.ussf2010.org/ws/teaching-social-justice-spaces-radical-education |