Developing Revolutionary Consciousness

Submitted by malachi@schoolo... on April 26, 2007 - 8:57pm.
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This session will be on: June 28, 2007 - 10:30am

It will be held at: First Floor Multi-Purpose Room room at the Hammonds House

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Organization Description

Malachi Larrabee-Garza is representing SOUL. SOUL (the School of Unity and Liberation) is a school to build a movement. We work to build an anti-imperialist movement by strengthening the leadership of young organizers and left mass-based organizations rooted in oppressed communities. We believe this work will contribute to advancing powerful people’s movements that can challenge global exploitation and oppression while creating alternative systems based on a just distribution of resources and work. Over the past decade, SOUL has trained thousands of young people from hundreds of organizations in organizing, political analysis, and facilitation through programs like SOUL Summer School, Training for Trainers, the National Youth Organizing Training Institute, and more. Amara Perez, Portland, Oregon is the Former Executive Director of Sisters in Action for Power which is dedicated to building the leadership, critical analysis and community organizing skills of low income girls of color 12-18. She is also Co-founder and Co-Chair of Happy Ours, a seven year old all volunteer community group committed to building the visibility, community participation and collective leadership of lesbian women of color through social, networking, consciousness-raising and action-oriented projects.

Proposal Demographics

identify as women
identify as LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-gendered, queer)
identify as people of color
are artists/cultural workers

Session Description

Developing Revolutionary Consciousness

Working with a group of people to collectively engage in consciousness raising can be a very complicated process. This process must start with how people see and understand the world we live in,—but then what?
As facilitators who seek to develop revolutionary consciousness, we have to do more than teach particular concepts/details of particular issues—we must be able to equip people to be able to think and analyze this world, and our strategies to change it, critically.

This session will use popular/interactive methods to engage participants in exploring “frameworks of analysis” that will give participants concrete tools to take back and apply to their work.

These frameworks are based in the root causes (capitalism, white supremacy, colonialism) of our conditions (poverty, environmental racism, incarceration, wack education…) building upon participants’ lived experiences and the impacts of those conditions as mechanism of control upon our land, culture, mind, body and spirit.

These frameworks have been very effective working with diverse groups of oppressed peoples who are doing different types of political work and who are at different stages of political development.


First Name

Malachi Larrab-Garza

Last Name

Amara Perez

Contact E-mail

malachi@schoolofunityandliberation.org

Proposing Organization

SOUL

Organization Website

www.schoolofunityandliberation.org

Position or Title

Advanced Political Education

Contact Telephone

(510) 451-5466

Event Day

Thursday, June 28th (Consciousness + Awareness Raising / Current Struggles)

Contact Address

287 17th Street

Format

popular interactive methods

Contact City

Oakland

Keywords

Capitalism
Imperialism
Poverty

Audience Number

25-50 people

Contact State

CA

Contact ZIP

94612

Person Reviewing

Mike G
Submitted by Anonymous on April 26, 2007 - 8:59pm.

Two folks repping two powerful organizations!