Upcoming events from SOUL

The SOUL Solidarity Committee came together to bring people of color together to:
*Mourn the loss of life at the World Trade Center,
*Stand in solidarity with our Arab, Muslim, Afghan, Pakistani, Irani, Iraqi and Sikh sisters and brothers;
*Fight against the possibility of war.

Wednesday, September 19
[1]Training to understand the international situation and to
learn how to do outreach (this is a repeat of the Sunday training
that was held in Oakland)
5:30-8:30
Everett Middle School Auditorium
450 Church (between 16th and 17th), San Francisco

[2] Panel: Why is the U.S. Going to War? Norman Solomon, Hatem Bazian, Noura Erekat, Marla Ruzkia, Snehal Shingavi
6:30 pm
2050 Valley Life Sciences Building
UC Berkeley

Thursday, September 20
[1] Oakland Solidarity Committee Meeting
7 pm
Youth Empowerment Center office
1357A 5th Street @ Mandela, West Oakland
(We\'ll be discussing a structure / work coordination proposal
at this meeting.)

[2] National Student Day of Action to stop the War & Racist Scapegoating
12 noon
Sproul Plaza
UC Berkeley

[3] Barbara Lee Support Strategy Meeting
(Convened by the Network for Social Responsibility)
5:30-7:30
First Congregational Church of Oakland
27th & Harrison, Oakland

Friday, September 21
Teach-in & Coalition-Building Discussion
(convened by Global Exchange, ISO, AADC, MECA)
7pm
Fellowship of Humanity
390 27th Street (between Telegraph & Broadway)

Saturday, September 22
Solidarity Committee Cultural Event & Speak-Out
11am
24th & Mission, March to Dolores Park to join IAC Demonstration
(Security monitors needed! please gather at 10am!)

Sunday, September 30
SOUL Sunday School: Understanding U.S. Imperialism & the International Situation
12-4pm
1357A 5th Street @ Mandela, West Oakland
(SOUL Sunday Schools are intensive training primarily for young organizers of color to learn about the current international
realities and third world liberation struggles).

******************* WHAT IS SOUL?

In the decade before the Civil Rights Movement, there was a training center in the South - called the Highlander Folk School - that helped lay the groundwork for the movement that was to come ten years later. Highlander brought activists together from across the South, trained new leaders and helped initiate new projects. SOUL is working to play the same role to build a youth movement for the new millennium.

Our communities are oppressed by inter-connected systems of discrimination- economic inequality, racism, sexism and heterosexism. We need to change these systems and build a better world based equality for all people. SOUL believes that change can come only when the people who are impacted by these discriminatory systems are themselves empowered and organized to work for social change. Young people have a special role to play in the movement because we have historically been on the front lines of the struggle for social change. We need to develop ourselves as a new generation so that we can organize and empower our entire community.

SOUL\'s mission is to serve as a training center to develop a new multi-racial generation of young organizers - especially young women, young people of color, queer youth and low-income youth - who will have the skills and the vision they need to struggle for the liberation of all oppressed people. These young leaders need to be trained in nuts-and-bolts organizing skills to mobilize their communities, and they need to develop visions for social change. SOUL strives to support the growing youth movement - designing political education, organizing skills trainings and technical assistance programs to meet the special needs of our generation. Whenever you walk into SOUL\'s office, you can feel the energy and the hope of a movement gaining momentum. And you can feel how much the youth movement needs a center like SOUL to survive.