Another World is Possible: Visionary Politics

~Please do not forward: SFWAR volunteers may let them know you were invited by Teresa Martyny~

Sunday October 18th

3-5 pm at the Humanist Hall

390 27^th Street, Oakland between Telegraph and Broadway.

We hope you can join us for this panel discussion with Rachel Herzing from Critical Resistance and Creative Interventions, Michelle Mascarenhas-Swan from Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project, Sara Kershnar from the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network and Chela Delgado from INCITE: Women of Color Against Violence. The panelists will be discussing visionary politics for our movements based in the work of their organizations.

Visionary politics are political frames that invite us to imagine and create a world organized and operated by values of justice, cooperation, and liberation. This panel will focus on ways that social justice organizations balance addressing the urgency of organizing against oppressive forces and their immediate impacts on people's lives with building sustainable alternative institutions and practices in line with their alternative visions for the world. Panelists will also discuss ways that their organizations balance fighting for concrete wins and advances in the world with transforming the process and culture of how that organizing happens.

The Anne Braden Program is a four-month intensive anti-racist organizing training for white social justice activists. The program combines workshops, mentorship, and volunteer placements at local racial and economic justice organizations, in an effort to develop white anti-racist leadership to build support for racial justice in white communities and help build powerful multiracial movements for collective liberation.

Open sessions of the Anne Braden Program provide an opportunity for participants to invite friends and family to join them in their learning process. While the Anne Braden Program is designed for white social justice activists, the open sessions welcome guests of all backgrounds. The open sessions are an opportunity for Anne Braden Program mentors, site supervisors, volunteers and allies to participate in the program. These sessions are a space for us to come together and learn as a larger community.

Following the panel, all guests are welcome to continue the conversation with Catalyst volunteer facilitators at a Guest Discussion space from 5-7pm. We will help coordinate car pooling to get to the location. Food will be provided.

Due to space restrictions we have to limit the number of people we can invite. Please feel free to invite a few people you'd like to bring, but please don't forward this out widely. If you would like childcare or ASL please let us know by Tuesday October 13th.

If you plan to attend this open session, please RSVP to Chris Crass at chris@collectiveliberation.org.