[Peace] Re: antiracism workshop (fwd)

[Mark Enslin]

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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 16:50:48 -0600 (CST)
From: Mark Enslin <enslin at prairienet.org>
To: sdas at onthejob.net
Subject: Re: antiracism workshop 


Andrea del Moral, who visited the School for Designing a Society in
january, is touring with an anti-racism workshop that she and a friend
will be offering at the IMC this Saturday, March 23, 2-6pm (after Ladies
and Laddies Against War).

I look forward to this workshop as a picture of the current state of the
language of racism and an impetus for an "us" or uses to change that
current state. 

--mark

"Confronting Racism. Challenging Privilege. Building Movements. A
workshop for folks working for radical social change"

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From: adm mulblackberry <libreplanet at onebox.com>

Mark,
Our workshop goes like this:
first, sharing our definitions of racism and its components, then framing
it in relation to other forms of oppression
next, a brief overview of the creation of whiteness in the U.S., by laws.
then, examining racial oppression and white privilege within society's
institutions. We use participatory exercises to draw this out of personal
experience. 
then, we shift to looking at racism and white privilege within social
movements, any work people are doing for social change. this definitely
includes the school district and sdas, if those are the issues at hand
right now.
then, the last half of the workshop is offering tools for concretely
working to change these situations. we use small group breakouts to look
at scenarios, discuss, then some roleplays, then a large group discussion
using the situations people in the workshop bring forward. Finally, we
make commitments to concrete action, and present the processes we are
using to sustain anti-racism work, and ask people who want to start similar
processes to meet with us after to get started.
1-5 sounds fine, we're hoping to arrive in town in the morning around
9. so this should give us time to relax a bit before hand. 
I'm glad to be doing this there in urbana! keep in touch as you like/need.
in solidarity,
andrea