Speaker Discusses Movement for Justice Efforts and April 21 Symposium

Juan Haro, an organizer of Movement for Justice in El Barrio, will discuss how the group has organized and fought against inequality, gentrification and displacement of low-income people of color in East Harlem on Thursday, April 19 at 5:30 p.m. in the fifth floor lounge, Goodell Building.

An organizing symposium for Movement for Justice in El Barrio is being held Saturday, April 21from noon to 6:30 p.m. at the Morgan Elementary School, 596 So. Bridge St., Holyoke.

The event, which includes snacks and lunch, is free but registration is required by Thursday, April 19. Childcare will be provided if requested with registration

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

Workshops include the following topics:

Base-building for social justice organizing
Getting communities involved in the fight
The 7 organizing principles of the indigenous Zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico.
Confronting multiple forms of oppression

Co-sponsored by UMass Alliance for Community Transformation, civic engagement and service-learning, social thought and political economy, psychology of peace and violence program, departments of Afro-American studies and sociology, the Puerto Rican Cultural Project El Sol Latino and the Holyoke Public Library.

For more information, call 545-0394 or email resist@umass.edu. More details available at