Movement for Justice in El Barrio’s Organizing Symposium: Community & Movement Building for Justice

Saturday, April 21, 2018 12:00pm to 6:30pm

April 21, 2018 - 12:00pm to 6:30pm

Morgan Elementary School, 596 So. Bridge St., Holyoke, MA, USA

Organizing Symposium free, snacks & lunch provided
Everyone welcome: REGISTRATION REQUIRED HERE  BY 4/19/18

Childcare provided if requested with registration

Movement for Justice in El Barrio is an immigrant, women and people of color-led grassroots community organization that fights for dignity and against displacement in East Harlem, NYC.

Movement for Justice in El Barrio was named “Best Power To The People Movement In New York City” by the Village Voice. Movement practices participatory democracy and horizontal collective decision-making on a community-wide scale and is committed to autonomy and self-determination.

The Organizing Symposium will include a range of workshops in which participants will engage in hands on trainings in community organizing skills while also confronting multiple forms of oppression – patriarchy, racism, sexism, transphobia, xenophobia and homophobia among them.

Workshops led by Representative Juan Haro will include the following topics:

·      Base-building for Social Justice Organizing

·      Getting our Communities Involved in the Fight

·      The 7 Organizing Principles of the indigenous Zapatistas, Chiapas, Mexico.

·      Confronting Multiple Forms of Oppression: Racism, patriarchy, homophobia,

       transphobia, xenophobia and other forms of oppressions.

Organized by Movement for Justice in El Barrio and The Resistance Studies Initiative, UMass Amherst and Nueva Esperanza

Co-Sponsors: UMass Alliance for Community Transformation (UACT); Civic Engagement and Service-Learning (CESL), UMass Amherst; Social Thought and Political Economy (STPEC), UMass Amherst; The Psychology of Peace and Violence Program, UMass Amherst; Department Afro American Studies, UMass Amherst; Department of Sociology, UMass Amherst; The College of Education, UMass Amherst: The Puerto Rican Cultural Project; El Sol Latino and the Holyoke Public Library.

See poster