Register! 2-Day Anti-Racism in the Workplace Training, August 9th & 10th
This just in! The registration wait for our 2-day long training has dropped to $100 per person! This is your last chance to register for this amazing training!
Anti-Racism in the Workplace
How can we build powerful, dynamic, and effective multiracial movements and community institutions to further our visions of worker self-management and a democratic society? How is white supremacy a major barrier to accomplish this? This workshop by the Catalyst Project is based on the belief that anti-racism can be a catalyst to challenge injustice and help us move towards our vision.
This interactive workshop is designed to support activists in building analysis of white supremacy and white privilege and develop anti-racist organizing skills. While Catalyst Project works primarily with white activists, the workshop is for anyone who wants to develop their anti-racist practice. Core content includes historical and current institutional analysis of white supremacy, looking at how white privilege impacts social justice activist work, and anti-racist organizing principles that we can bring into all of our workplaces, organizations, campaigns, and efforts to build a healthy, sustainable, and just society.
In day two, participants will draw on anti-racism analysis developed in day one to focus on how to create and center anti-racist worker cooperatives. This session will begin by tracing the history of worker cooperatives in both challenging and upholding white supremacy in the US and internationally. Following this discussion, participants will look at examples of worker co-ops and other cooperative organizations that have successfully integrated anti-racist politics and practices into their structures. Participants will workshop possibilities for implementing similar plans at their own co-ops and in the broad cooperative movement in the goal of finding new ways of integrating racial justice and economic justice across the cooperative movement.
Trainers: The Catalyst Project; Esteban Kelly, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs from AORTA (Anti-Oppression Resource and Trainers Alliance)
Our training in Building Democratic Capacity has been shortened to one day, due to enrollment and trainer time constraints. We will directly contact those who have already registered about the scheduling change and any refunds due. Meantime, you can register for this now one-day training for the reduced price of $75. Register here.
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Build the Coop Movement in the Bay at the Volunteer Work Week
This year, participants will be working with EcoSF, a non-profit collective formed in 2006 to cooperatively create communities that are ecologically, socially and culturally in balance. The project is to construct a multi-purpose Natural Building structure with a living roof and earthen wall systems for the ECOSFSchool Farm located on the shared campus of the Academy of Arts and Sciences and the School of the arts High Schools in San Francisco. The structure will serve as a solar power station, tool and equipment storage, and office space and will demonstrate various resource efficient and ecologically responsible natural building techniques.
We're also looking for more projects, so if you need volunteers or know someplace that does, get in touch!
Sound great?! Register here!
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We Want Your Auction Items!
Please bring items to donate to our fundraising auction! We have had a record number of scholarship requests this year and the well is running a little dry. Help us replenish it with awesome auction items.
Some suggestions: your workplace tshirts (always popular), items you make or sell, cooperative resource and history materials, gift certificates for your services. You can also ship items if you prefer not to bring them with you.
If you can donate auction items, please respond with what you're donating, and tell us whether you're going to bring it with you or put it in the mail.
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Transportation
You can now go to our transportation page for information on:
- getting from the airport to the conference site
- getting to and from the Friday night events
- shuttles
- cabs
- getting around the Bay Area
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Interpretation
We will be providing English to Spanish interpretation for three workshops during each of our workshop blocks. Please contact us directly if you have questions about interpretation.
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Schedule and Workshops
For an up-to-date conference schedule, complete with workshop listings, go to our schedule page.
Also check out the workshop page for more information about each workshop... with workshop descriptions soon to come!
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Childcare
We are coordinating on site childcare for an affordable $5 a day. If you know you are going to need childcare, please email kiran@usworker.coop as soon as possible with your child's name and age so that we may best coordinate the childcare (8 years and under) and kids' track (9-13 years) programs.
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Bring Your Clippings for our Media Brag Board
Worker coops have been getting some great press this year, from our star turn in Michael Moore's new movie to our op-ed in the Christian Science Monitor, to all the local paper and trade publications that feature our workplaces.
Let's put all the press together into a Media Brag Board, so we can read each other's stories, see what kind of coverage we're getting in the aggregate, and show off a little.
Bring clippings or printouts of stories featuring or mentioning your coop or your coop organization and we'll put them up for everyone to see, a little old-fashioned news aggregator.
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