The Reclaiming Our Dream: Youth Leadership Institute (ROD) kicked off the year-long program Friday, Septmeber 30, 2010 with a spaghetti dinner at the Portland Community Center.
The first of two "Undoing Racism" community organizing workshops, led by The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond, to better understand the structure and function of racism and discover community-based strategies for creating positive social change.
Through discussion, reflection, and role-playing, students from Jefferson County Public Schools analyzed structures of power and privilege challenging social equity, discovering what it takes to be an effective social justice community organizer.
The workshop provided the foundations for understanding many forms of racism - individual, institutional, linguistic, and cultural - by developing a common language for analzying U.S. racism; understanding one's personal connection to institutional racism; analyzing structures perpetuating poverty and exacerbating institutional racism; investing historical context for racial classifications; addressing assumptions of race and racism; developing solutions for change among families, organizations and communities.
Funded in part by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the project aims to empower young leaders to play a constructive role in the development of human rights in their communities and the world.
The group will continue to meet Saturdays (9am-1pm) during the school year, at the Shawnee Boys & Girls Club, and close with a two-week summer camp in June 2011.
The first of two "Undoing Racism" community organizing workshops, led by The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond, to better understand the structure and function of racism and discover community-based strategies for creating positive social change.
Through discussion, reflection, and role-playing, students from Jefferson County Public Schools analyzed structures of power and privilege challenging social equity, discovering what it takes to be an effective social justice community organizer.
The workshop provided the foundations for understanding many forms of racism - individual, institutional, linguistic, and cultural - by developing a common language for analzying U.S. racism; understanding one's personal connection to institutional racism; analyzing structures perpetuating poverty and exacerbating institutional racism; investing historical context for racial classifications; addressing assumptions of race and racism; developing solutions for change among families, organizations and communities.
Funded in part by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the project aims to empower young leaders to play a constructive role in the development of human rights in their communities and the world.
The group will continue to meet Saturdays (9am-1pm) during the school year, at the Shawnee Boys & Girls Club, and close with a two-week summer camp in June 2011.
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