SONG & JASMYN Organizing School!!!~ Going down on January 11-13 & 18-20 in Jacksonville, FL
December 17th, 2007 at 12:33 am (On Organizing, Politics, SONG, kindred sprit orgs)
Present:
(For Jacksonville, FL & surrounding areas)
Two-weekend advanced training for people committed to social justice work that is cross-issue, anti oppression work that meets at the crossroads of race, class, culture, gender and sexuality , towards building the local capacity, unity and interconnection of people in the greater Jacksonville, FL area.
(Save The Date & tell your FOLK!!)
Application Deadline: Friday, December 24, 2007
If you are interested?? Want to know more information?? Want to apply??
If you are in the Jacksonville, FL area, contact JASMYN:
Phone: 904.389.3857 // Email: garrettboardman@yahoo.com or
mindymiddleton@hotmail.com // Check out our website: www.jasmyn.org
For more information on the Organizing School,
(including information on future ones!) contact SONG:
Phone: 919.286.3230 // Email: kindred@southernersonnewground.org
“…we cannot live without our lives” ~ Audre Lorde
January 11 – 13 & January 18-20, 2008
Some of the topics & themes of the Organizing School will be:
CONSCIOUSNESS RAISING
· Connections of liberation work within LAND, BODY, SPIRIT & LABOR
· Legacy of Revolutionary Political Movements & People
· Role of Gender & Sexuality within colonization & liberation.
SKILLS-BUILDING
· Popular Education.
· Healing / Memory / Reclamation work.
· Building democratic & equitable structures and groups.
The SONG Organizing school is a two-weekend sub-regional training intensive in collaboration with JASMYN, based on community organizing, starting at the premise of broad-based social justice work. It is an advanced training and opportunity to meet the needs of leading community organizers & movement people from the greater Jacksonville, FL area.
It will give 20 live & ready organizers & members an intense & deep opportunity to do some consciousness raising as well as skills-building into the fundamentals of movement building, healing & sustainability work, and anti-oppression, liberation work…. Southern style’… guided by the experience, heart & vision of other working class, People of Color immigrant Queer / Lesbian Gay / Bisexual / Transgender & Gender-non- Conforming folks living in the Southeast…
This is not a queer-exclusive space, but it is based on the premise of work and experience born out of the connections, lives and intersections within queer communities.
This organizing school is intended and targeted to meet the needs of youth, youth organizers, and folks from organizations, groups and collectives who have at least a year’s experience in community work ~ to help those emerging, as well as more seasoned organizers take their political work, thinking, connections and strategies to the next level. This is not intended to be an introductory training to organizing or social justice work.
Our work, as well as the mission and strategy for this school is out of the belief that while the South as a region is underfunded, and the work & achievements of our communities often invisible and minimalized… that we are the legacy of amazing communities, elders, queers, people of color, and working-class people who’ve been making it happen each and everyday. It is our hope that we can expand, as well as deepen our skills, understanding, and ability to continue engaging inter-generational, multi-racial, multi-gendered communities in our own liberation & survival…please join us!!