4-6:30pm ET (1-3:30pm PT) each session - Live sessions: May 18, June 1, June 8
"Our Collective is the Prize" Moving from defense to offense while fighting Trump, Oligarchy & Fascism
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Suggested registration fee: $75-300 -
No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
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Sessions will be recorded. Live attendance is not mandatory.
“Strengthen those collective spaces that are already around you and that you are in. The only way to get us is to separate us from one another. When you are lost, let the principle ‘how do I make these groups stronger?’ guide you … because our collective is the prize.” - Noura Erakat
Our Collective is the Prize” is an online course and a learning community focused on defending our communities & public institutions against the immediate attacks coming out of the second Trump administration, while building our offensive capacity to create a completely different social system, one that serves the needs & wellbeing of all.
This three session course will focus on: 1) building community, finding your political home, and taking action right now; 2) assessing root causes and liberal failures; 3) expanding our imagination of what’s possible, and committing ourselves to a long term strategy for fundamental change.
All three sessions include curated study materials, engaging facilitator presentations, and opportunities to share, reflect, receive support, and inspire one another in small and large group formats. You can read more about our organization's curriculum model here. Session overviews listed below; more detailed descriptions of the themes of each session can be found on the course page on our website.
We are honored to be of service within the context of wide social action at this time, and we encourage participants to join the program with others they know!
Session Two | June 1:
HOW DID WE GET HERE?
In the second session we’ll engage in study & practical discussion about the foundational problem with relying on a capitalist economic system that inherently reproduces oligarchy, fascism, violence, genocide and ecological destruction. This system was set up for failure, and it has failed us.
We will also dive into the electoral origins of today’s crisis in the United States, with a focus on the last ten years. Our collective scrutiny will fall heavily on the Democratic Party and how its failures and corporate capture have effectively stifled working class organizing and instead handed power to the Right. Participants will be encouraged to consider the implications of these failures within the context of their own political work and decide for themselves how best to respond.
Session Three | June 8:
MOVING FROM DEFENSE TO OFFENSE w/ guest teacher Sophia Elena Gurulé
In session three we’ll be focus on building a personal & collective vision of what type of society we want, what type of society we could have. The problems that we're facing right now are much deeper than Trump's second term in office, and resistance without a plan for fundamental change is a loosing strategy. If we want to effectively counter what's happening right now, we need a positive vision for a different world and the skills to join with others and build a mass movement around that vision. To achieve that, we must consider: What would it take to build a mass movement capable of ending the destructive status quo and building a more equitable and just society that serves the interests of all?
Practical skills will include basics of organizing, an assessment of personal skills, capacity & passions each participant can draw upon to stay energized and engaged in working on a long term vision of social change, in which working people have built the base of power necessary to stop forever playing defense and be able to actually decide - together, democratically - how we should run our society.
Guest teacher Sophia Elena Gurulé will share from her experience as a UAW union member, deportation defense attorney, and Labor for Palestine organizer.
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