[901] in peace2
Solidarity Summer Workshop!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Boston Jobs WIth Justice)
Wed Aug 8 16:33:36 2001
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>>>Solidarity Summer Workshop! Recruitment, Organization Building, and
Strategy<<<
- Concrete Skills for Student Activists -
Speakers: Laura and Treston- National SLAP staff
Laura and Treston are flying up from the National Jobs with Justice Office
in Washington DC to bring us all skills we need to continue are struggles
in Boston. They are both experienced student activists, national
coordinators of student-labor activism, and trained workshop facilitators.
The training they are going to give us is usually part of a complete
weekend of workshops called a "GROW" or "GrassRoots Organizing
Weekend." I've heard great things about these weekend trainings, but they
are usually really expensive to bring to your campus. We get this one
workshop-free of charge- don't miss it!
We'll also share information about a planned action in support of the
nurses strike! call Jane at Jobs with Justice (617) 524-878 or reply to
this e-mail for more information.
Tuesday - August 14 - 6:30 - Harvard Yard - Phillips Brooks House
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add for the GROW weekendz:
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GrassRoots Organizing Weekends: "concrete skills for student activists"
The GrassRoots Organizing Weekends (GROW) have been developed by students
and community organizers to give student and youth activists the tools to
not only solve the problems we face, but to build our organizations around
the principles of Direct Action Organizing to ensure long term change.
Through an interactive, hands-on environment, GROW is designed to help you:
Overcome lack of participation on campus
Develop strategies to win specific issues campaigns
Gain hands-on organizing experience
Build more effective coalitions
Increase the membership, reputation, funding, and influence of
your organization.
GROW is about ACTION!
Students have a long history of organizing for positive changes on campus
and in society. Yet for too long, we have been forced to reinvent the
wheel to make such changes. GROW addresses this problem by teaching
student organizers successful strategies and skills developed by
experienced organizers over the last 50 years. Regardless of the issue you
work on or your level of experience, GROW can help you build strong,
lasting organizations that will continue to build student power beyond
your tenure on campus.
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corny report from a GROW in Stanford
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In October of 1997, 50 students from Stanford and other area universities
expanded their understanding of national student campaigns, and developed
their organizing skills in an empowering Grassroots Organizing Weekend.
GROW is a weekend long training in direct action organizing. The training
provides students with a solid base of leadership skills and organizing
techniques to increase their effectiveness as activists. The workshops
cover many topics, including: choosing an issue, understanding relations of
power, choosing a target, strategizing, coalition-building,recruitment, and
providing institutional memory so future activists won't have to reinvent
the wheel. It is facilitated by two USSA (United States Student
Association) trainers; these student activists have won concrete victories
on their own campuses using GROW skills. They provide students with
information as well as access to a larger activist network.
Last year's GROW was co-sponsored by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Community
Center, The Black Community Services Center, Students for Environmental
Action at Stanford, The Asian American Students Association, MEChA, The
Women's Coalition, and The Haas Center, among others. One participant reflects,
"GROW was my key introduction to the
possibilities for students
to work for change--on campus, in their
communities, in the
world...I am so excited about the issues I've
committed
myself to
this year, and GROW was critical in that
involvement."
-Sarah Faye McMullen, involved with SEAS,
Coalition for
Labor, Dignity and Justice, and United Farm
Workers
Campaign.
The GROW met with such tremendous success when it came to Stanford campus
last year, students deemed it crucial to bring it back annually.
