POOR Magazine’s Revolutionary Giving Seminar
I recently sent out a recruitment letter to a bunch of people in my life about this really exciting project being launched by the Race, Poverty, and Media Justice Institute at POOR Magazine, and I thought I would post it here because I know many Enough readers would be interested.
Many of you know POOR Magazine (or at least know how awesome I think they are), and I hope you might consider participating in this if it feels relevant to you. It’s been in the works for a long time and I’m so excited about it. Please tell anyone you think might want to be involved!
Dear friends and comrades,
We’re writing to invite you to participate in a revolutionary new seminar developed by the Race, Poverty, and Media Justice Institute at POOR Magazine in the Bay Area. This intensive, weekend-long “Revolutionary Change Session” was developed out of years of work and thinking about funding and fundraising, moving beyond the nonprofit industrial complex, and just distribution of resources in our movements and the world.
For years, especially since INCITE!’s publication of The Revolution Will Not Be Funded, the U.S. left has been struggling with issues surrounding how our movements are funded. With this seminar, we are hoping to begin a process to deeply, critically engage about funding, giving, and wealth distribution in an intentional cross-class space led by poor people. This seminar is intended for people with race, class, and/or educational privilege who care about movement-building and economic justice - organizers, fundraisers, donors, development folks, students, or simply interested allies. Our hope is that this space will lay the groundwork for continued conversation, collaboration, and praxis – we’re fantasizing about future seminars, participants building locally in their hometowns, and the creation of a grassroots fundraising circle for POOR’s Homefulness project, among other things – although future collaboration isn’t a requirement for participation in this seminar.
Dates of the seminar are June 19-21 (Fri-Sun), and the tuition is $248-$680 sliding scale (if this is a stretch for you, talk to us). For a full description, more information, and to register, see: http://www.racepovertymediajustice.org/RPMJ/programSeminar.html#upcomeSem
We guarantee that this seminar will be thought-provoking, exciting, engaging, and inspiring – we would love to have your voice involved.
Sincerely,
Tyrone Boucher
Cathy Rion
Lisa (Tiny) Gray-Garcia
Posted on Saturday, April 4th, 2009.
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