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Strategies for Anti-Racist Organizing

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November 15, 2009

A panel discussion featuring Linda Burnham longtime leader for racial, gender, and economic justice, Dawn Phillips of Just Cause Oakland, Alicia Garza of People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER), Carla Wallace of the Fairness Campaign and Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression.

Panelists ground current anti-racist work within a legacy of long-term social movements, share strategies for building working class power in communities of color in Oakland and San Francisco toward systemic change. Panelists  lay out what those big picture strategies look like in practice. They share lessons and strategies for anti-racist organizing with white people and ways white people can be part of efforts to build vibrant multi-racial movements for justice.

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Catalyst Project’s Anne Braden Program is a four-month intensive anti-racist organizing training for white social justice activists.  The program combines workshops, mentorship, and volunteer placements at local racial and economic justice organizations, in an effort to develop white anti-racist leadership to build support for racial justice in white communities and help build powerful multiracial movements for collective liberation.

Open sessions of the Anne Braden Program provide an opportunity for participants to invite friends and family to join them in their learning process.  While the Anne Braden Program is designed for white social justice activists, the open sessions welcome guests of all backgrounds.  The open sessions are an opportunity for Anne Braden Program mentors, site supervisors, volunteers and allies to participate in the program.  These sessions are a space for us to come together and learn as a larger community.