Posts from — June 2007

TransAdvocacy presents at US Social Forum

Mapping Movements and Building Bridges: Social Change and Nonviolence

June 30, 2007 - 1:00pm

It will be held at: First Floor Room room at the Prince Hall Masons Grand Lodge

Session Description
A four-hour, popular education session using Bill Moyer’s Eight Stage Model for Successful Social Movements as an analysis tool
–A brief training in the Moyer model
–Break-out sessions among movements to map and analyze where different movements/struggles are in those Eight Stages
–Discussing how strategic nonviolence can contribute to moving those struggles into the next stages
–Dialogging around how we can come together around strategic nonviolence to support, be allies to, and merge struggles

Core workshop principles are
–Cross-movement building, an understanding of the interconnectedness of oppressions and struggle,
–Making nonviolence accessible to the mainstream and moving it beyond the anti-war movement

Resource folks include:
–Jerimarie Liesegang: Trans/Queer advocate working with Connecticut TransAdvocacy Coalition, Queers without Borders Affinity Group (Hartford, CT)
–Liana Molina: Chicana labor and economic justice activist with East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE) in Oakland, CA
–David Meieran: organizer/activist from the Thomas Merton Center, Pittsburgh Organizing Group; member of United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) Steering Committee
–Clare Bayard: Anti-oppression/Global Justice organizer with Catalyst Project (Bay Area, CA)
–Alicia Pantoja and Monica Gomery: organizers/educators in immigrants rights struggle, working with English for Action (Providence, RI)

Organization Description
The Voluntown Peace Trust is a nonprofit education center dedicated to social change and sustainable living. We offer programs, workshops, and retreats, as well as hospitality and resources, to people constructing alternatives to the violence of our age. At the Voluntown Peace Trust (VPT), we are committed to those who benefit least from the current structure of society-especially people struggling against racial, sexual, gender, environmental, and economic injustice. VPT understands that “building a new society within the shell of the old” starts here-in our garden and our community, in our actions and our rest, in our work and our relationships.
Proposal Demographics
identify as women
identify as LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-gendered, queer)
identify as people of color
are immigrants (not born in U.S.)
are artists/cultural workers

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We seek a four-hour session for this.
This will be an interactive session in which participants will learn concrete tools for mapping social movements, as well as have opportunities to analyze and strategize for and among social movements.
The incredible diversity of presenters–including age/race/class/gender identity and expression/sexuality/social analysis/geographic location, etc–offers incredible networking and cross-movement fomenting possibilities.
This is a good follow-up to the first session we proposed, which we hope will be a four-hour session on the first day, Pillars of War/Sectors of Struggle.

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