The present, on-going, workshops include two which attracted overflow crowds:
- The Student/Farmworker Strategy Session (called by members of the Student/Farmworkers alliance);
- The Comite Zapatista de Los Angeles's teach in.
The other sessions, all of which are also very well attended, include:
- A member to member exchange organized by POWER, LIFT, and the Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates (KIWA);
- US/Mexico Border organizing (organized by Action LA);
- Today's media and the struggle for popular power (Onward Collective);
- Organizing the Working Class Under Imperialism (Miami Workers Center & POWER);
- The Growing Divide (United For a Fair Economy);
- Economic Human Rights (Kensington Welfare Rights Union (KWRU) and the Women's Economic Agenda Project (WEAP));
- Food and Social Justice (Food and Social Justice Project); and
- Human rights and the anti-war movement (POWER - SoCal).
Workshop Session II (Royce and Rolfe Hall**) 1:15-2:15
- PETA: The Struggle is One: The Importance of Solidarity across Progressive Movements.”
- United Farm Workers (UFW): Pictsweet Campaign
- United Church of Christ (UCC): Organizing with Religious Congregations for Social Change.
- Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras: “Claiming our space in the global workshop”
- United for a Fair Economy (UFE): “Creative Actions”
- McDonalds Workers: Strike in France
- International Socialist Organization (ISO): Eyewitness from Argentina: Is Revolution on the Agenda in Latin America?
- Humanrightstech: How to of Virtual Organizing
- Midnight Special Law Collective/ Derechos Humanos: Know your Rights/Legal 101
TWO HOUR WORKSHOP SESSIONS 1:15 – 3:30
- Student/ Farmworker Alliance, United Students Against Sweatshops , Student Action with Farmworkers– facilitated by the Campaign for Labor Rights
- Student Organizing 101
- Pineros y Campesinos Unidos (PCUN), CAUSA
- Consumer mobilizing and the NORPAC Campaign
- KIWA, CHIRLA, GWC, CIW, Miami Worker Center, and Make the Road by Walking, POWER - facilitated by GWC
- Community Based Worker Organizing
- Arts in Action
- Art Making and Skills Building
- Theater of the Oppressed
- Popular theater theory and practice
Break 2:15-2:30
Workshop Session III (Royce and Rolfe Hall**) 2:30-3:30
- Alianza Indigena: The Migration of Indigenous Peoples
- PETA: Social Justice and Corporate Responsibility
- La IndyMedia: Indymedia
- Juventud Anti-Autoritaria Revolucionaria: Pueblos Indigenos de Mexico
- Mexico Solidarity Network: Free Trade Area of the Americas
- International Socialist Organization (ISO): Organizing for Global Justice Post 9-11 : How has the war changed our struggle?
- Libros Revolución: L.A.-Sweatshop Town, and The War on Immigrants
- Movimiento Sem Terra (MST): Brazil’s Landless Worker’s Movement: Organizing Models, Strategies and International Projection
Gather for Forever 21 Demonstration!! (Perloff Quad/ Dickson Plaza) 3:30
Join the Forever 21 protest in Santa Monica: 4:30!!!
Directions to UCLA
o I-10 W
o 405 N
o Exit Sunset, make a right
o Right on Hilgard Ave.
o Park at Structure 2 (paid parking - )
o Disabled Parking along Dickson Court – Free Meters all day
(After turning right on Hilgard, right on Wyton, quick left on Charles E. Young Drive to Dickson Court)
** Campus Map found at www.ucla.edu
Directions to Forever 21 Protest at Santa Monica Place (mall)
o I-10 W
o Exit 5th St, make a right
o Left on Broadway
o Protest is at 3rd Street (Promenade) and Broadway, in front of mall entrance – but no parking available on Third St.
o Parking can be found along 2nd St. or 4th St – paid parking
** Rooms to be assigned