[Imc] May Day Regional Conference at UIC
Peter Miller
peterm at shout.net
Fri Apr 5 19:23:04 UTC 2002
>From: "Sergio Mojarro" <jaguar83 at email.com>
>To: <peterm at shout.net>
>Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 15:15:03 +0800
>
>Sorry About that.. I just thought it would be a little lame cause there's
>a lot of information...but here it is:
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>Saturday April 27th
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>MAYDAY REGIONAL CONFERENCE
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> From Local to Global: the Midwest on Fire
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>A forum for organizing and strategizing
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>Welcome to a space to educate ourselves about realities and flash point
>struggles in the Midwest, to get involved, to coordinate, to network, to
>design common strategies, and finally to link our activism to the global level
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>UIC CAMPUS
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>Welcome to the MAYDAY organizing workshops. During this conference, there
>will be workshop sessions during the morning and they will be repeated
>during the afternoon.
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>Here you will find 3 items:
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>I. Goals of the workshops
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>II. How can we accomplish these goals??
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>III. Suggested Workshops Outline
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>IV. List of workshop topics
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>I. GOALS:
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>The thrust of this conference is Organizational. Although there will be an
>educational component, it would be awesome trying to facilitate network
>building and strategizing sessions.
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>Explicitly the conference will be a serious attempt:
>a)~ To facilitate and build ties amongst activists/organizers in the
>Midwest with the long-term goal of establishing a functional social
>response network in the region.
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>b)~ To learn about regional flashpoint struggles/campaigns, whats
>burning in our communities and how to support each other.
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>c)~ To connect our local struggles to global resistance movements and
>vice-versa.
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>You can meet other people working on the same or related issues that you
>are working on or interested in!
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>You can begin to coordinate with these people in order to work together in
>the future!
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>II. HOW CAN WE START TO ACCOMPLISH THESE GOALS?
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>*Workshops are based on actual struggles/campaigns currently going on in
>the MidWest. These could be community-based struggles directly affecting
>neighborhoods and towns throughout the region. Also, current regional work
>being done on national/global issues (ie. anti-war work).
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>Come to share your actual lived organizing experience!
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>This is not about academic stuff or discussion just for its own sake!
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>**Workshops combine an informative part & organizational part.
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>Time for educating + Time for networking, discussing strategies,
>campaigns, actions. . . towards furthering activist contact in the region
>around the workshops topic.
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>Everybody can be a speaker!
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>The workshops can serve as mini-forums for your struggle!
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>***Workshops can facilitate the plugging-in of new people interested in
>the topics and the movement.
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>Get in on the organizing!
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>III. SUGGESTED OUTLINE:
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>1. EDUCATIONAL PART:
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>-Presentation about the topic in general & local work being done
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>by some key activists from the region (Q&A)
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>2. ORGANIZATIONAL SESSION with a Facilitator:
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>-Collective Brainstorm: Looking for common strategies
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>And finally
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>3. **FRIENDLY REQUIREMENT**
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>Come up with an Action Proposal!
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>This could be a protest, a campaign, a conference, or anything that could
>use serious support from others in the region.
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>[Every workshop would come up with something in order to make it part of
>the COLLECTIVE ACTION TIMELINE for the MIDWEST to be presented at the
>end of the last Panel of the day.
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>IV. List of workshop topics and Contact Persons:
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>1. FIGHTING FOR A ROOF: Affordable Housing & the struggle against
>gentrification in the Midwest [ Tobe- ]
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>2. WINING PEOPLES CONTROL over HIGHER EDUCATION: Stopping
>Corporatization! Democratizing our Colleges and Universities! [Earl ]
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>3. EDUCATION FOR ALL: Reclaiming opportunities in targeted
>communities [ ? ]
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>4. THIS IS OUR NEIBORHOOD!: Keeping our streets safe from POLICE
>BRUTALITY & RACIAL PROFILING in the MIDWEST [Ted]
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>5. PAPELES PARA TODOS-No human is illegal: Immigrant Rights and
>Amnesty [Aasia?]
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>6. BRINGING THE INTIFADAH to the MIDWEST: the struggle for
>Palestinian Liberation & How to build more solidarity in this region
>[Stephanie and Hakim]
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>7. MAYDAY: HISTORY & FUTURE [ ]
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>8. PATRIARCHY IN THE BARRICADES: Building egalitarian movements,
>organizations, meetings,
! [Tanuja]
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>9. ECOLOGY in the MIDWEST: defending our survival & sustaining our
>future (antinuclear, community gardens and farms, community eco-education,
>etc) [Tom]
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>10. DEFENDING THE AGRO in the MIDWEST: Family Farms, Rights and Justice
>for Farmworkers, and Food Sovereignty [Mari & Seb]
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>11. THE CORPORATE AGENDA FOR MENTAL HEALTH [Catheline]
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>12. A SUCCESFUL CAMPAIGN: the struggle against Corporate Animal Cruelty
>[Mike]
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>13. STOPPING THE ENDLESS WAR AT HOME and ABROAD: Efforts by the
>anti-war movement in the Midwest [? ]
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>14. WORKERS OF THE MIDWEST UNITE!! Labor Struggles in the Region:
>Building Rank and File Control & Solidarity for and amongst Workers
>[Clif???????]
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> #####SOME TIPS FOR CONTACT PERSONS#####
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>These are some current workshop themes.
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>(Please, rename your workshop if you feel it necessary, current titles are
>tentative and add your contact info in the parenthesis)
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> There is need for some contact persons in some of the themes. Please,
> get excited about one of them!
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>There is the possibility to add a new one (until 18 or 20)
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>As a contact person your role would be to invite activists from the
>region (for the moment the workshops are a bit Chicago heavy) working on
>your workshop issue:
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>Try pitching the workshop as a network and outreach opportunity!
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>Maintain contact with them to make sure that they are coming.
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>Keep in mind, that all the contacts that you are doing now are very
>valuable for building an effective DATA BASE for future long-term work in
>the region: please compile them having complete information including:
>NAME, ORG, PLACE, CONTACT, CURRENT CAMPAIGN, NOTES, etc.
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>The workshops require facilitators: please, think about who it could be.
>Maybe yourself or another person (friendliness, assertiveness, brevity,
>and focus are good to keep in mind). A Guide for Facilitators is coming
>soon, so please, let us know who is going to be the facilitator.
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>You can use this DOCUMENT when you are inviting people to join the
>workshop to clarify what they can expect from the workshops. This would
>also ideally empower workshop participants since it would help put people
>on more or less the same page, so they can guide and focus the workshops
>direction.
>--
Peter D. Miller, Ph.D., Organizer
Illinois Education Association/NEA
809 S. Fifth Street
Champaign, IL 61820
(217) 337-5174
(217) 384-7763 (fax)
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