[NYTr] Activists Meet Sociologists - Aug 11 NYC
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Wed Aug 8 18:16:53 EDT 2007
sent by dorinda moreno
Please circulate widely!
INVITATION TO A SPECIAL EVENT AT OUR 102nd ANNUAL MEETING
"New York City Activists Meet Sociologists"
Sat, Aug 11, 6-8pm
Hilton New York, Concourse G Room, Concourse Level.
Food and drink will be provided.
This reception is an opportunity for informal-we hope, even
fun!-interaction between sociologists and local New York City activists.
At this special Presidential event come to find activist partners for
research and meet with other sociologists doing action or applied
research. Graduate students are especially encouraged to come and
network to find research and internship possibilities.
Please come meet and mingle with NYC activists involved in labor,
electoral reform, environmentalism, welfare reform, community action,
immigrant rights and immigration reform, transnational organizing,
governmental watchdog action, justice, youth, school reform,
homelessness, housing, anti-war efforts, and more.
Our hope is that this will be a mutually beneficial opportunity for
activists and scholars-and the many of us who fall somewhere
in-between-to meet, talk about the ways we work together and figure out
new and better ways to keep our scholarship related to the work of
activists.
At the reception, alongside food and drink, we'll hear some (very)
brief presentations allowing plenty of time for you to introduce
yourself and mingle with like-minded others.
Please spread the word about this event. If you have any question,
please contact Penny Lewis at pennywlewis at gmail.com
or Lorna Mason at lornalmason at gmail.com
I look forward to seeing you in August.
In solidarity,
Frances Fox Piven
President, American Sociological Association
The meeting itself is at Hofstra University Aug 9 (sorry, it's just too
hard to clean this up - NY Transfer)
panama, do you think you could pass this around to the folks
in new york and beyond, to attend and participate??? thanks
brother... it will be at hofstra university at the
collective behavior and social movements conference...
Building Bridges Over Great Divides?
Social Inequalities and Social Movement Strategies
Thursday, 8/9 at 11-12:45pm
This proposed thematic session explores the
inter-relationships between social inequalities and social
movement strategies for a broad range of social movements.
Workshop Organizers:
Ellen Reese, Associate Professor of Sociology, UC-Riverside
Toi Carter, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology, UC-Riverside
Jesse Diaz Jr,, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology, UC-Riverside
Christine Petit, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology, UC-Riverside
Proposed Workshop Agenda
Total Length: 1 hour 45 minutes or 105 minutes
I. Introductions: 10-25 minutes (depending on
workshop size)
Facilitated by Christine Petit
A. Introduction to workshop: We briefly introduce the
workshop organizers and explain the goals of this workshop
and distribute our resource list and agenda
B. Recruit Volunteers for record-keeping:
1. Pass around a contact sheet and identify
a volunteer to type it up and distribute it.
2. Identify a notetaker(s) who will take
and distribute notes from our workshop to other
participants. 3. Identify someone to receive
suggestions and collate any additional items for our resource list and
distribute a revised resource list.
C. Introduction of participants: We ask participants to
briefly introduce themselves and to describe the movements
that they've studied or participated in that relate to the
theme of this workshop or their interest in the workshop
(10-15 minutes).
II. Challenging Inequalities & Understanding
Outcomes: 25 minutes
Facilitated by Jesse Diaz
A. Key Questions: What strategies have been effective or
ineffective in confronting social inequalities within
society? What challenges do movements face in achieving
their goals given existing social inequalities and political
conditions?
B. Brief Presentation by Jesse Diaz on the immigrant
rights movement
C. Group Discussion
III. Social Inequalities and Movement
Participation: 25 minutes
Facilitated by Ellen Reese
1. Key Questions: Do social movement organizations (or
campaigns or coalitions) attract and maintain diverse
members? If not, why not? If so, how? How might
activists improve their organizing practices to become
more inclusive? Are there pitfalls in terms of being
'too inclusive'?
2. Brief Presentation by Ellen Reese on ACORN/SEIU's
child care workers' campaign
3. Group discussion
IV. Social Inequalities Within Movements: 25 minutes
Facilitated by Toi Carter
A. Key Questions: How do social
inequalities shape what activists and social movement
organizations do? ( e.g., their choice of
goals/strategies/tactics/rhetoric/language, etc.) How are
social differences and inequalities handled within movement
organizations (or coalitions/campaigns) and what are the
results? Are some ways better than others for handling
participants' social differences and inequalities?
B. Brief Presentation by Toi Carter on the
campaign to save the South Central Farm in Los Angeles
C. Group Discussion
V. Wrap up (5-20 minutes, depending on the time
remaining)
Facilitated by Christine Petit
A. Discussion: What patterns or trends do we
notice from our discussion? What research is most needed in
terms of social inequalities and social movement strategies,
from activists' and scholars' perspectives? Are there
important topics relevant to this theme that we've missed?
Any other burning comments people would like to share?
B. Concluding Statements
www.FingerLakesForPeace.org
<http://www.fingerlakesforpeace.org/>
For Immediate Release
Aug 6, 2007 Contact: Chris Tate 607.351.3768
Finger Lakes for Peace (FLFP) Peter De Mott 607.279.8303
Rochester Declaration of Peace Elizabeth Nguyen 585-623-7165
New Yorkers Urge Kuhl to Stop Funding the War
NEW YORK - Two groups calling themselves Finger Lakes for Peace
in Iraq and Recovery from War and Rochester Declaration of Peace
will visit Rep. John R. "Randy" Kuhl's (R-29) offices
respectively in Bath and in Fairport on Monday to deliver nearly
3000 petitions and demand that he sign a pledge to vote against
further funding of the war in Iraq. This non-violent, peaceful
effort draws its inspiration from a national campaign initiated
by the Chicago-based Voices for Creative Non-violence (
http://vcnv.org/frontpage2).
Call it an old fashioned sit-in or a direct action. Our intent
is to peacefully occupy Rep. Kuhl's office until he signs off on
a pledge to stop funding the Occupation and War in Iraq, with a
complete troop withdrawal .
(http://vcnv.org/congressional-pledge-to-vote-against-iraq-war-funds
<http://vcnv.org/congressional-pledge-to-vote-against-iraq-war-funds>)
We invite everyone to join us at the "Rally In the Alley" on
Monday. Congress must use the leverage it has with the Defense
Authorization and the Defense Appropriations bills, up for votes
in September, to force an end to the Iraq war. Provisions to
these bills should require that a complete withdrawal be date
specific. Additionally a cut-off of funding should be tied to a
safe and orderly withdrawal of these troops.
"I'm tired of all this talk of winning the war. This war of
aggression is a crime. You don't win a crime. You stop a crime."
said Todd Saddler of Ithaca
"I come to Rep. Kuhl's office today to try to give a voice to
the more than 500,000 people who have died in Iraq because of
this war. We need to stop this war now." said Ellen Grady of
Ithaca
"The longer US troops stay in Iraq, the longer the bloodshed
will continue.
We demand that Representative Kuhl vote to cut off funding for
the occupation.
An apology for his support of this illegal war would also be
appreciated." said Harry Murray of Rochester
"One of the things my brother said that stuck with me was about
trying to save as many men and women as he could. This is the
best way I know to support him." said Chris Tate of Hector,
whose youngest brother is a commander currently serving in
Iraq. -
WHO: Finger Lakes for Peace in Iraq and Recovery from War and
Rochester Declaration of Peace
WHAT: Visiting Rep. Kuhl's office until he pledges to stop
funding the war
WHEN: Monday, Aug. 6, 2007 11:30am-?
WHERE: Rep. Kuhl's Bath Office - 22 Buell St., Bath, NY 14810
and Rep. Kuhl's Fairport Office 220 Packetts Landing, Fairport,
NY 14450
www.FingerLakesForPeace.org
<http://www.fingerlakesforpeace.org/>
Mary Anne Grady Flores
514 N. Plain St.
Ithaca, N.Y. 14850
(607)273-7437 / (607)280-8797 (cell)
mgrady at lightlink.com <mailto:mgrady at lightlink.com>
Ithaca Catholic Worker Vieques Support Group
St. Patrick's Four Support Group
< http://www.stpatricksfour.org
<http://www.stpatricksfour.org/>> <http://www.witnesstorture.org
<http://www.witnesstorture.org/>> <http://www.democracynow.org
<http://www.democracynow.org/> >
"If you think you're too small to be effective,
you've never been in bed with a mosquito."
-- War Resisters' League
"The poor tells us who we are,
The prophets tell us who we could be,
So we hide the poor,
And kill the prophets" Phil Berrigan
"Because we want peace with half a heart,
half a life and will, the war making continues.
Because the making of war is total - but the making
of peace by our cowardice is partial." Daniel Berrigan
Vicente " Panama" Alba
panamaalba2 at yahoo.com <mailto:panamaalba2 at yahoo.com>
(917) 626-5847
"if you tremble with indignation at every injustice
then you are comrade of mine."
"Let's be realistic, let's do the impossible"
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
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