{"article":{"id":15453,"heading":"RISE UP 2002: Hundreds of activists join with Farmworkers at UCLA","author":"IMC in the field","created":"2002-03-11 20:52:37","modified":"2002-03-11 21:08:07","last_modified":"Tue, 12 Mar 2002 04:08:07","article":"

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).<\/p>\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"The RISE UP 2002 Conference has started. Hundreds of participants collected at Perloff Quad on UCLA campus this morning for the opening plenary; and are presently filling the classrooms of both Royce and Rolfe Hall in the first series of workshops. The conference has been organized by the Coalition of Imokalee Workers (CIW)as part of the Taco Bell Truth Tour.","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2002\/03\/15453.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":15454,"heading":"Join Us! Rise Up 2002's afternoon schedule","article":"Workshop Session II\t\t(Royce and Rolfe Hall**)\t\t1:15-2:15\r\n- PETA: The Struggle is One: The Importance of Solidarity across Progressive Movements.\u201d\r\n- United Farm Workers (UFW): Pictsweet Campaign \r\n- United Church of Christ (UCC): Organizing with Religious Congregations for Social Change.\r\n- Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras: \u201cClaiming our space in the global workshop\u201d\r\n- United for a Fair Economy (UFE): \u201cCreative Actions\u201d\r\n- McDonalds Workers: Strike in France\r\n- International Socialist Organization (ISO): Eyewitness from Argentina: Is Revolution on the Agenda in Latin America?\r\n- Humanrightstech: How to of Virtual Organizing\r\n- Midnight Special Law Collective\/ Derechos Humanos: Know your Rights\/Legal 101\r\n\r\nTWO HOUR WORKSHOP SESSIONS\t\t\t\t1:15 \u2013 3:30\r\n- Student\/ Farmworker Alliance, United Students Against Sweatshops , Student Action with Farmworkers\u2013 facilitated by the Campaign for Labor Rights\r\n- Student Organizing 101\r\n- Pineros y Campesinos Unidos (PCUN), CAUSA\t\r\n- Consumer mobilizing and the NORPAC Campaign \r\n- KIWA, CHIRLA, GWC, CIW, Miami Worker Center, and Make the Road by Walking, POWER - facilitated by GWC\r\n- Community Based Worker Organizing\r\n- Arts in Action\r\n- Art Making and Skills Building \r\n- Theater of the Oppressed\t\r\n- Popular theater theory and practice\r\n\r\nBreak\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2:15-2:30\r\n\r\nWorkshop Session III\t(Royce and Rolfe Hall**)\t\t2:30-3:30\r\n- Alianza Indigena: The Migration of Indigenous Peoples\r\n- PETA: Social Justice and Corporate Responsibility\r\n- La IndyMedia: Indymedia\r\n- Juventud Anti-Autoritaria Revolucionaria: Pueblos Indigenos de Mexico\r\n- Mexico Solidarity Network: Free Trade Area of the Americas \r\n- International Socialist Organization (ISO): Organizing for Global Justice Post 9-11 : How has the war changed our struggle?\r\n- Libros Revoluci\u00f3n: L.A.-Sweatshop Town, and The War on Immigrants\r\n- Movimiento Sem Terra (MST): Brazil\u2019s Landless Worker\u2019s Movement: Organizing Models, Strategies and International Projection\r\n\r\n\r\nGather for Forever 21 Demonstration!! (Perloff Quad\/ Dickson Plaza)\t3:30 \r\n\r\nJoin the Forever 21 protest in Santa Monica: 4:30!!!\r\n\r\nDirections to UCLA\r\no I-10 W\r\no 405 N\r\no Exit Sunset, make a right\r\no Right on Hilgard Ave.\r\no Park at Structure 2 (paid parking - $6)\r\no Disabled Parking along Dickson Court \u2013 Free Meters all day\r\n(After turning right on Hilgard, right on Wyton, quick left on Charles E. Young Drive to Dickson Court)\r\n** Campus Map found at www.ucla.edu\r\n\r\nDirections to Forever 21 Protest at Santa Monica Place (mall)\r\no I-10 W\r\no Exit 5th St, make a right\r\no Left on Broadway \r\no Protest is at 3rd Street (Promenade) and Broadway, in front of mall entrance \u2013 but no parking available on Third St.\r\no Parking can be found along 2nd St. or 4th St \u2013 paid parking\r\n\r\n** Rooms to be assigned","author":"IMC in the field","parent_id":15453,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2002-03-11 21:08:06","modified":"2013-11-10 23:43:18","fileurl":""}]}