WoGAN -- Worcester Global Action Network

SCHEDULE

10-10:15am Welcome
Laura Merner and Sha’Kuana Ona (Worcester Global Action Network)

10:15-11:15 Workshop 1
Dismantling Racism and Enacting Diversity
Facilitated by: Adrián Boutureira (United for a Fair Economy)
With Breakout Discussion:
Youth organizing for social change
Facilitated by: A-team and Toxic Soil Busters

11:15 One-on-ones Workshops
Facilitated by: MaryKeefe (Pleasant St Network Center)
and Frank Kartheiser (Worcester Interfaith)

12-1 Lunch – One-on-ones and Work, Dignity & Social Change video preview

1-1:50 Linking our Issues/Network Action and Building Community Power
Facilitated by: Kevin Ksen (Real Solutions/Indymedia), Camilo Viveiros, Xavier Johnson (Worcester Youth Center), and Anne Lewenberg (Stone Soup)

1:50 – 2:50 Workshop 2
Community Organizing Strategies & Outreach
Facilitated by: Camilo Viveiros (tenant organizer), Allison Kennedy (Neighbor to Neighbor), Steve O’Neill (EPOCA), and Original Black People

2:50 – 3:00 Closing Activity
Matt Feinstein (Worcester Global Action Network)

• Limited and concise planning meetings: Next one is Mon. Oct. 23rd, 5-6pm at the Pleasant St Neighborhood Network Center (301 Pleasant St: next to the Pickle Barrel).
• Event will take place on a Saturday, November 4th (10am-3pm)

• Community Organizing 101 (Relational meetings, building power, forming an organizing strategy/targets)
• Exchange of organizing strategies (Relational power, dual power, autonomy, electoral power)
• Ending violence, building sanctuaries, beyond reforming the CORI
• Racism in our grassroots organizations [aka: why are only white people making decisions in so many of Worcesters community based organizations?]
• Youth Organizing for Social Change
• Work, Dignity & Social Change video workshop (video clips from autonomous social movements in Argentina spark discussion about local organizing strategies)

1. Worcester Global Action Network
2. Original Black People
3. Real Solutions
4. Worcester Roots Project
5. Women Together
6. Ex-prisoners and Prisoners Organizing for Community Advancement (EPOCA)
7. Pleasant Street Neighborhood Network Center
8. Clark Peaceworks
9. Stone Soup Worcester
10. Worcester Youth Center
11. Worcester Immigrant Coalition
12. Worcester Interfaith
13. Regional Environmental Council
14. East Highland Area Neighborhood Association (EHANA)
15. Worcester African Community Development Center

1. Ending Violence Together
2. Neighbor to Neighbor
3. Central Mass Coalition for Peace in the Middle East
4. Oiste
5. [Group convened around Citizen Schools/YMCA issue]
6. WPI JUSTICE
7. Worc. State 3rd World Alliance
8. Can Coke
9. South Worcester Neighborhood Center
10. Dismas House of Central Mass