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From: Kathleen Hernandez
To: mlk_coalit...@yahoogroups.com ; VFP Los Angeles
Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2011 2:46 PM
Subject: [MLK_Coalition] ARTFUL ACTIVISM & EFFECTIVE ORGANIZING FOR HUMAN
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HELP BUILD AND STRENGTHEN YOUR MOVEMENT BY ATTENDING:
Artful Activism & EffectivE Organizing
for Human Rights
3 DAYS OF FREE WORKSHOPS (come to part or all)
Friday, June 24, through Sunday, June 26
sponsored by: Martin Luther King Coalition
for Jobs, Justice and Peace
www.mlkcoalitionforjobsjusticeandpeace.org
****LOCATION OF WORKSHOPS DAYTIME****
Southern California Library
for Social Studies and Research
6120 South Vermont Avenue, Los Angeles CA 90044
*****Evening events at Kwazis hOUSE IN ECHO PARK****
CALL 213.250.3986 OR 213.884.5190 FOR DIRECTIONS
SUPPORT A GREEN PLANET
IF POSSIBLE BRING EATING AND DRINKING CULTERY
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THIS EVENT IS WHEELCHAIR ACESSIBLE AND DISABILITY AFFIRMATIVE.
IF YOU HAVE ANY SPECIFIC ACCOMODATIONS
PLEASE CALL: 213.250.3986 OR 213.884.5190
SCHEDULE FOR THE 3 DAY WORKSHOPS
FridaY, June 24
10:00 am-4:00 pm: SO CA LIBRARY
§ Advanced Strategy & Creative Tactics Intensive foR Artful Activism
§ Bostons Shield, Sword & Offer Strategy for Post-Foreclosure Eviction
Protection and Buy-BackS
6:00 PM-9:00 pm: Location Kwazis in Echo Park
§ Community-Building Potluck w/ Victory Stories from Around the Country
Saturday, June 25
10:00 AM-12:30 AM: SO CA LIBRARY
§ Art Track: Giant Banner Building
12:30 PM-1:30 PM: SO CA LIBRARY
§ Lunch (POTLUCK) Roundtable: Building A Movement That Makes a Difference in
Peoples Lives
1:30 PM-3:30 PM: SO CA LIBRARY
§ Intro to Creative Tactics: The New ART of Organizing (Bill Moyer)
§ The Boston Strategy: Sword & Shield (Steve
3:30 PM-6:30PM: SO CA LIBRARY
§ Art Track: Drumming for DemonstrationS, and The New Flash Mob Propaganda
Technique (Design and implementation, EXPERIENCES TO DATE)
§ Organizing Track: Sword & Shield (Fighting the Corporations and Banks,
defending our communities)
6:30 PM-7:30 PM: ***Kwazis in Echo Park
§ POTLUCK DINNER WITH REFLECTION AND SHARING ABOUT LOCAL AND NATIONAL
STRUGGLES
7:30-9:00 PM: ***Kwazis in Echo Park
§ Talent Share: Music, Acting, Singing, Spoken Word and Stories About Creative
APPROACHES TO Organizing
Sunday, June 26
10:00 AM 1:00 PM: SO CA LIBRARY
§ Creative Tactics Track (dEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING EFFECTIVE NEW APPROACHES
& TECHNIQUES FOR THE STRUGGLES IN FRONT OF US)
§ The Boston Strategy: Sword & Shield ( CONTINUED)
10:00 am-1:00 pm: SO CA LIBRARY
§ Art Track: uSING Giant Helium Powered SIGNS & Overpass Banner Build,
Planning AN l.a. FLASH MOB aCTION
§ Organizer Track: APPROACHES TO Campaign Planning, Leading Mass Meetings AND
ACTIONS
1:00 PM-2:00 PM: SO CA LIBRARY
§ WORKING LUNCH (POTLUCK): PLANNING FOR ROLE PLAY
2:00 PM-3:30 PM: SO CA LIBRARY
§ ROLE PLAY ACIVITIES: THINKING-ON-YOUR-FEET
USING WHAT WEVE LEARNED
3:30 PM 4:00 PM: SO CA LIBRARY
§ CLEAN-UP, HOB-NOBBING
BIO SKETCHES
Bill Moyer (the political artist-activist, not Bill Moyers the journalist!) is
the Executive Director and co-founded the Backbone Campaign in 2003. Bill has
had a dual and intersecting path as both an activist and artist. Bill's
involvement with social change work stretches back to the 80's, when as a
student he was deeply involved in the anti-nuclear movement and the
anti-interventionist movement, lived at Big Mountain to assist Dineh elders
refusing to relocate off their traditional land, and attended the Institute for
Social Ecology. Bill also brings his background as percussionist and sound
designer to his political work, applying lessons of composition, performance,
and pedagogy to the Backbone Campaign, a project he considers a kind of "theme
and variation composition", helping a variety of community-based movements
around the country to learn and use some of the new organizing techniques of
this period. An essential aspect of this is the integration of effective
political art and novel communication techniques into the
organizing process.
Community Organizer Steve Meacham of City Life/Vida Urbana is fighting on the
frontlines of the foreclosure crisis. Meacham and his colleagues at City Life
employ a community organizing strategy they call the Shield and the Sword.
The "Shield" is a strategy of legal defense: teaching City Life members about
their rights under the law, plus providing access to volunteer legal
assistance. The "sword" is a public relations strategy, where City Life
organizes protests in front of banks, and eviction blockades in front of
people's homes. For these protests, City Life tries to attract as much media
attention as possible, trying to draw public scrutiny towards what they argue
are unfair banking and eviction practices in their community. "We find that the
two [strategies] work extremely well in combination," says Meacham. City
Life/Viva Urbana has had impressive success in a unique cooperative campaign
which has returned ownership of bank-foreclosed properties back to the original
homeowners. They feel that organizing techniques used in this effort can be
successfully applied to many other issues and struggles.
A major goal of this workshop is to build networks between various local
struggles, and to promote a general exchange of skills and methods between
serious local activists around the country.
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