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| June 29-July2 |
Gathering VI: Building a Home for Organizers
National Labor College, Silver Spring MD
Registration -
By popular request, the early registration deadline for Gathering VI has been extended beyond April 15th. Take advantage of the lower fees by registering and paying early, by May 11th. Register and pay online at www.noacentral.org or download the registration form and send with your registration fees. Please note that space is limited to 250 participants.
Scholarships -
Because of the generosity of NOA members, major donors and supporting foundations, we will be providing at least $30,000 in scholarships for Gathering VI. Priority for scholarships will be given to those in financial need who are organizers of color, young organizers and organizers representing low-income organizations. We are now accepting scholarship applications. They will be provided on a first come, first serve basis until funds are depleted. Apply today!
Planning Updates -
A tentative agenda has been drafted for Gathering VI. The first full day will focus on presentations and dialog on the organizing struggles for change, from forty years back to today. Some of the issues to be highlighted include workers rights, immigrant rights, environmental justice and voting rights. The big question for discussion is, what kind of country do we want to leave for future generations?
The second full day of Gathering VI will consist of three sessions of workshops. We are looking for participants to facilitate workshops that are skill based, or issue based with a cross-sectoral analysis or comparison. Please submit your workshop proposals by April 25th. You can find the guidelines, workshop proposal form and more about workshops online.
Have any questions or suggestions? Please send them to gathering6@noacentral.org or 202-543-6603 x204.
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| July 2 | KY Social Forum strategy session set!
Alright, friends!
The first KY Social Forum strategy session will be on Wednesday, July
2nd from 6-8pm at the Fairness Campaign in Louisville. Woo hoo!!! What an honor it will be to have Stephanie Guilloud of Project South with us to share her experience and insight in planning a state-wide Social Forum.
There will stories shared from our journey to the USSF in Atlanta in 2007. We'll begin thinking about when in '09 we want to have our Social Forum as we build up momentum for the 2010 USSF. We'll also start thinking about where to have the KY Social Forum (you know we've got some GREAT state parks!).
But why a KY Social Forum, anyway? To bring together folks from rural and urban parts of our state to fight for our basic human rights more collectively. To create strong, grassroots coalitions across the expanse of KY. To become more educated about such issues as housing, hunger, homelessness, poverty, environmental justice, workers' rights, youth advocacy and organizing, mountaintop removal, reproductive justice, immigrant rights, queer advocacy and organizing, media justice, non-partisan political mobilizing, economic justice, and more.
And how will we do this? We'll develop viable communications networks, clear outreach strategies, and we will be intentional about representation, using arts and culture, providing space for healing and spirituality, and more.
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| Aug 1 & 2 | Become a Community Captain
HOLD THIS DATE!
Learn tools to build our democracy together! Join Kentuckians For The Commonwealth and Kentucky Jobs With Justice and other allied organizations. Become a Community Captain and help your friends and neighbors to register to vote, get them valuable information about candidates and the election, and mobilize them to vote! Friday, August 1st and Saturday, August 2nd in Louisville. For more information or to reserve your space, contact Dave Newton at Dave@KFTC.org or call (859) 420-8919 or email attica@kyjwj.org or call (502) 582-5454.
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The Kentucky Jobs with Justice Solidarity Calendar lists upcoming events, actions, meetings and other economic justice-related activities in Kentucky. Inclusion of items in the Solidarity Calendar does not necessarily indicate a JwJ endorsement. To receive a copy by email or fax, call 502.582.5454. To see a list of KY JwJ member organizations visit the About KY JwJ section of the webpage.
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