TUPOCC SKILLS TRAINING WORKSHOP
Study and Struggle: Organizing across generational lines
Saturday October 18, 2008, 9:00am-12:00pm
Fact is our public schools are looking more like jails and their jails and prisons are capturing more of our young people. Fact is youth organizing and older people of color having their back can change these conditions. Join us as we welcome youth organizers from Detroit Summer and veteran anti-racist organizer Ron Scott to lead our TUPOCC skill-building session addressing inter-generational politics and power. Our presenters have tackled issues of criminalization of youth, militarization of schools, the school to prison pipeline, and police brutality head-on and will share their knowledge from first hand experience in effective youth and inter-generational organizing. The presentation will provide ways for radical lawyers, legal worker and law students (us) to engage in these struggles, and win!
Detroit Summer is a multi-racial, inter-generational collective in Detroit, working to transform ourselves and our communities by confronting the problems we face with creativity and critical thinking.
Ron Scott is a Co-Founder of the Detroit Branch of the Black Panther Party; is a member of the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality; the Detroit Council of Elders; and the National Lawyers Guild. He is an Emmy Award-winning producer who has completed documentary projects on current affairs, cultural icons, entertainment, and politics in North American the Caribbean.
Study and Struggle: Organizing across generational lines
Saturday October 18, 2008, 9:00am-12:00pm
"And here in this country, it has been my own observation that when you get into a conversation on racism and discrimination and segregation, you will find young people more incensed over it, they feel more filled with an urge to eliminate it." --Malcolm X
Fact is our public schools are looking more like jails and their jails and prisons are capturing more of our young people. Fact is youth organizing and older people of color having their back can change these conditions. Join us as we welcome youth organizers from Detroit Summer and veteran anti-racist organizer Ron Scott to lead our TUPOCC skill-building session addressing inter-generational politics and power. Our presenters have tackled issues of criminalization of youth, militarization of schools, the school to prison pipeline, and police brutality head-on and will share their knowledge from first hand experience in effective youth and inter-generational organizing. The presentation will provide ways for radical lawyers, legal worker and law students (us) to engage in these struggles, and win!
Detroit Summer is a multi-racial, inter-generational collective in Detroit, working to transform ourselves and our communities by confronting the problems we face with creativity and critical thinking.
Ron Scott is a Co-Founder of the Detroit Branch of the Black Panther Party; is a member of the Detroit Coalition Against Police Brutality; the Detroit Council of Elders; and the National Lawyers Guild. He is an Emmy Award-winning producer who has completed documentary projects on current affairs, cultural icons, entertainment, and politics in North American the Caribbean.
•Links for more on Detroit Summer
•Ron Scott's blog at Detroit News
•Grace Lee Boggs on Detroit Summer
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