Friday, April 3, 2009

Introducing Confronting Racism: Building United Movements

Introducing Confronting Racism: Building United Movements

Confronting Racism: Building United Movements Ohio Conference

May 16th

Mendenhall Laboratory - Ohio State University

9am - 6pm


Introduction

Confronting Racism: Building United Movements will take place on Saturday, May 16th 2009 at The Ohio State University. We would like to thank Catalyst Project, LeftTurn Magazine, SOUL, Colors of Resistance, organizers at the BASTARD conference, and many others for providing us inspiration in both language and in concept for this conference.

Its our goal that Confronting Racism: Building United Movements will be an organizing space for students and community members throughout Ohio, especially women, people of color, queer, and working-class people, to develop the skills and the vision they need to struggle for a collective liberation against corporate power and institutional oppression. To these ends, Confronting Racism: Building United Movements will provide both structured workshops and more open-space-style discussion spaces that will develop participants’ basic organizing skills and deepen their political analysis and visions toward fundamental social change. The Open Space discussions’ goal is to provide a place for structured conversations on specific topics without requiring a talking head to lead the conversation.. We are excited to see what comes out of these free-form sessions!

The Theme

The theme for the Confronting Racism: Building United Movements conference will be “Connecting the dots: racism and issues of global capitalism.” We envision a conference with workshops and action-oriented discussions exposing the interconnectedness of racism with issues of global capitalism affecting us locally such as;
• affordable housing • employment justice
• access to healthcare • public transportation
• immigration • environmental and food justice
• police brutality and prison abolition • physical and sexual violence
• queer & trans liberation • indigenous solidarity
• militarism, and more.

This is an opportunity to examine our common ground within seemingly separate issues and develop a unified voice of resistance against global capitalism and imperialism as we continue building a collective liberation movement in Ohio. We are committed to building an anti-racist, anti-imperialist, multiracial, feminist, queer and trans liberationist, anti-authoritarian movement against global capitalism and promoting the understanding that there are multiple valid approaches to doing this work. Please come and let us hear your voice.

TO RSVP: send us an email at organizecbus@googlegroups.com

1 comment:

  1. This sounds like nothing but MORE divisiveness and stirring the pot of racism, along with a good dose of brainwashing on the green agenda. Why do you want to hold the people down? Why do you think it's ok to dumb the people down by handouts and keeping them from learning how to do for themselves? Why are you pushing this communistic, socialist agenda that has NEVER worked and never will work?

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the Organize CBUS Collective is a network of students and community members in columbus, oh formed to set up and facilitate the state-wide Confronting Racism: Building United Movements conference happening at Ohio State University on May 16th, 2009. We are committed to providing an organizing space for students and community members throughout Ohio, especially women, people of color, queer, and working-class people, to develop the skills and the vision they need to struggle for a collective liberation against corporate power and institutional oppression. To this end it is our goal to; 1) Provide a program that will support a network of participants in developing an overall radical political analysis, organizing skills, and ability to think strategically 2) Place our current anti-racist work within a historical context of Ohio’s multi-racial struggles. 3) Highlight the work of Ohio-based organizations working toward social justice and provide said organizations with support through volunteer placement initiatives