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Track 1 -Community Empowerment
Workshop 1: More Power to You
Facilitators:
David G. La, former Summer Activist Training Coordinator
2004 Summer Activist Participants: Diana Ngo-Vuong, Jonathan Shintaku, and Benjamin Wu
Organizations:
Summer Activist Training sponsored by the Garment Workers Center, Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates, Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress, Pilipino Workers Center, and Thai Community Development Center
By examining the various types of power in and around our community, we can better define our targets and strengthen our campaigns. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss different types of power and ways they have already utilized these skills. This workshop will consist of a presentation on power analysis followed by discussions, which will give the students the opportunity to share their personal experiences and build up ideas for influencing power.
Workshop 2: Take Action: Mobilize Your Community
Facilitator: Jason Chan, National Recruitment Coordinator, City Year
Through interactive role-playing activities and case studies of pivotal civil rights movements in APA history, this workshop will introduce participants to the key steps in organizing a community with diverse viewpoints around a particular cause. At the conclusion of the workshop, participants will have the knowledge needed to:
- Cultivate community support of a cause through the identification of key stakeholders
- Form and lead an advisory committee and/or task force to address crucial issues
- Tap into existing resources and/or allies to further support a cause
Workshop 3: Battle Royale & How to Counterstrike: Coping with Organizational Fractures
Facilitators: Long Bui and Carol Vu
Organizations:
University of California, Irvine and California State University, Fullerton
In Ralph Ellison's classic work Invisible Man, a group of black men are pitted against one another to fight over pieces of gold that are, in actuality, pieces of junk. This violent moment of the novel is often read as metaphor for the competition minority groups engage in over resources and ideology-to the detriment of their social objectives.
Our workshop will highlight the power struggles, tensions, and fractures that hinder our broader collective goals of social justice. We will discuss various personal and political forces that threaten to undermine community organizing as well as ways to address them. We will discuss how the "personal is political" and how that can be deployed to work around contentious political issues. The aim of our workshop is not only about racial politics but how we can strive towards freedom for ALL!
This workshop is an interactive space for dialogue and discussion. There will be a performance by the facilitators followed by an oral presentation. The workshop will end with a lively Q&A forum.
Workshop 4: Health Justice Through Community Empowerment
Facilitator: Lisa Fu
Organization:
Asian Pacific Partners for Empowerment and Leadership (APPEAL)
This workshop will examine the issue of health justice and its impact on Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities. Specifically we will look at the tobacco industry and their tactics of oppressing AAPI communities across the country and in the Pacific, through strategies including racial and cultural profiling. Participants will also learn how communities have successfully advocated for social change around this issue through community empowerment, and there will be a discussion on how students can be involved during college and beyond graduation.
Workshop 5: How We Can Overcome Our Cultural and Language Barriers to Work with the Immigrant Workers Community
Facilitator: Siu Hin Lee
Organizations:
Immigrant Solidarity Network, Action LA, Chinese Immigrant Workers Center (Planning)
This is an interactive workshop to help beginning students and community activists overcome cultural, trust and language barriers to work with inner-city immigrant workers communities. It presents basic information to understand how to deal with complex cultural dynamics and language barriers when working with immigrants in inner-city environments such as those in certain parts of Los Angeles.
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