Call for Applications: Self-Organizing for Social Justice Workshop

Human RightS Initiative (HRSI) is very pleased to invite you to take part on one-day intensive workshop on Self-organizing for Social Justice. The workshop is scheduled on Saturday, June 13th, 10am-5.30pm.

 

 

This workshop will give you the opportunity to learn about different forms of self-organizing on a small or local scale. You will learn how to establish and run small collectives such as self-advocacy groups for disabled people, activist theater groups, feminist reading circles or LGBTIQ student clubs. The workshop will also give you practical skills for starting and maintaining social justice initiatives even when you have limited experience and resources.

 

Knowing how to self-organize is a very important skill for an activist. Although nonprofit organizations and high profile global campaigns are often seen as leading the way to social change, many times these more traditional ways of organizing don't encourage the participation of people with limited resources, who are geographically isolated or who don't have a lot of experience and knowledge of organizing around social justice issue.

 

Through practical exercises as well as case-studies of specific organizations, by the end of this workshop you will:

 

·  become familiar with different kinds of small-scale self-organization

 

·  gain basic knowledge of different forms of advocacy you can use to effectively tackle problems in your own community

 

·  earn the practical skills and confidence you need to initiate and successfully manage self-organized groups

 

 

Please send us an email at hrsi@ceu.edu, notifying us that you would like to participate, by Wednesday, June 3rd, midnight. Registration of the participants is happening on first come-first served basis. Please make sure to register soon, as amount of places in limited.

 

 

 

Andreea Catalina Ros is a CEU MA student in Gender Studies who is graduating this year. Over the last 5 years while living in Romania, Scotland and Hungary, she's had the chance to gain a rich experience in small-scale self-organizing and to become involved in a number of self-organized initiatives, especially through student organizations, including CEU's Student Union and LGBTIQ Student Club. She is especially passionate about helping disabled and LGBTIQ people organize.