RSVPs WILL BE REQUIRED FOR THIS EVENT. We will post it closer to the training date to have a more accurate sense of attendance.
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So. We have a new president.
We've heard from many folks who want some direction in this new, Trumpian era, who want to do the work necessary to push back on his destructive decisions and appointments. Now more than ever, we (read: America) need everyone. Even / especially those who are not usually into organizing, activism, or even politics (I know, DC, but I kn...
RSVPs WILL BE REQUIRED FOR THIS EVENT. We will post it closer to the training date to have a more accurate sense of attendance.
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So. We have a new president.
We've heard from many folks who want some direction in this new, Trumpian era, who want to do the work necessary to push back on his destructive decisions and appointments. Now more than ever, we (read: America) need everyone. Even / especially those who are not usually into organizing, activism, or even politics (I know, DC, but I know you're out there!)
We're pulling together a group of folks, to 1. Talk about our thoughts on this moment; 2. Think about our unique contribution in this moment; 3. Give some feedback on what kind of organizing would be exciting / accessible / mobilizing; 4. Maybe learn a skill or two.
If you feel like you want to do even more than donate, volunteer, or march (ALL OF WHICH ARE IMPORTANT, keep doing them and so will I), this is the place for you. Bring your friends and your organizing shoes.
As a group, we're organizers with a whole bunch of years of experience in lots of different settings. But we all met doing organizing together, and building institutions across the US. It wasn't easy—it took some trial and error. We want to teach transferable skills to new organizers in DC to build our own power under this new regime.
To that end, we built a training for organizers and non-organizers alike to get geared up for the work ahead. As thought-partners, we'll get together to develop thinking about what to do under Trump and how to build power in order to get those things done. I want to particularly emphasize the importance of building an organizing infrastructure for the long haul.
In this training, we'll ask such burning questions as:
What is power?
Why organize?
How to we organize?
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On the name, from the creator of this training Sarah Turbow ( @ https://medium.com/good-guys-at-the-barricades/about-33fe09a6642b#.qq6z8n2hu):
This summer, it seemed the world was completely falling apart. #AltonSterling and #PhilandoCastile and Dallas and Nice and Istanbul and Orlando and Brexit and Trump, so much Donald Trump.
And so I texted my father, and asked him, “does 2016 feel better or worse than 1968?”
1968. The year in which, among many other things, Dr. King and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated.
He wrote, worse.
When I asked why, he said “because back then, there was a feeling that the good guys were at the barricades.”
