ACTIVIST TRAINING!!!
SATURDAY -SEPTEMBER 20th 10:30am
95 Montrose Ave upper (off of Englewood in University Heights)
Buffalo, NY 14214-1258
Hosted by UB Students Against Sweatshops but open to anyone interested in building skills to further thier progressive causes.The training will be a way to build new skills, meet new people, and eat free food! Student and community activists are welcome! There will be a number of workshops, and you may come and go as you please.
Here is the tentative schedule (it will be finalized in the next two days) :
10:30 am - 11:00 am breakfast (bagels)/chilling/setting up
11:00 am - 11:45 am - "How to talk to People" (basics of organizing)
11:50am - 12 :15pm - Running a Student Activist Campaign (power on campus)
12:20 pm - 1pm - Political Education/What is Labor Activism
1pm -1:45 lunch (PIZZA!!)
1: 45pm - 2pm Introduction to anti-oppresion (withing movements and groups)
2 pm - 3 pm anti-oppresion from various perspectives
15 min each - working class, people of color, queer, womyn/genderqueer
3:15 pm - 3:40 pm - How to use/create media effectively
3:40pm - 4pm Buffalo community activism/Coalition for Economic Justice
4:pm - 4:30 pm -Tentatively a time for other student activist groups who are coming to present information about thier group, nobody has confirmed (besides GSEU -Graduate Student Employee Union) so if you would like some of this time contact us. (ubsas@yahoo.com)
HOPE TO SEE YOU SOON!
P.S. If you can't make it to the training but would like to meet cool activists there will be a party afterwards starting around 10pm at the same place.
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