Organizing School: Building Power and Overcoming Oppression

Posted by on June 9, 2006

[posted from Comm-Org listserv]

The Southern Empowerment Project is presenting Building Power and Overcoming Oppression, week 2 of SEP’s 2006 organizing schools. This Community Organizing Beyond the Basics course will be held July 10-14 in Ashland, Kentucky and is hosted by the Kentucky Fairness Alliance and Kentucky Jobs With Justice. Course contents are power analysis, systems of privilege, systems of oppression, overcoming classism, sexism, heterosexism, and introductiion to dismantling racism. Panel discussions will include new immigrant organizing, wedge issues, labor and unions and more. A poster is available on the SEP web site below and you can register online. Fee for the week is $400 plus $100 registration.

A basics of organizing school will be repeated later this year and the Sisters in Struggle fundraising school will be held in the fall.

For more information, write to train4change@bellsouth.net or call the office: Southern Empowerment Project, 343 Ellis Avenue, Maryville, Tennessee, 37804, 865-984-6500, http://www.southernempowerment.org


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