Planning meeting today for NGLTF Creating Change Conference Nov 2005, Oakland

Hello fellow LGBT activist,

The First Host Committee meeting for the 18th Annual Creating Change Conference is today April 26, 2005 at 7pm. The meeting will take place at the Oakland Marriott City Center ( easily accessible by BART ).

All subsequent meetings are Tuesdays at 7:30 PM Pacific at Oakland Marriott City Center.

" May 24

" June 28

" July 26

" August 23

" September 27

" October 25

Please join the Creating Change Oakland Co-Chairs on Tuesday April 26th at 7pm to get started on this great event.
If you need further information please contact me.

Thank you

Kim Singh
Co-Chair
Creating Change Conference Nov 2005
650 346 5998

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Building An Anti-Racist Movement:

A Primary Goal of the Creating Change Conference

Now in its 32nd year, The Task Force remains firmly committed to addressing the impact of racism in this country, in our movement and in our organization. A primary educational goal of Creating Change is to build an anti-racist LGBT movement that includes and reflects the perspectives, needs and priorities of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender activists of all ages, races, ethnic and language origins, spiritualities and incomes.

While we know that building an anti-racist movement will take much time and many resources, we believe that we can take important steps towards the more immediate fulfillment of that commitment. To this end, The Task Force seeks programmatic proposals that will present participants with opportunities that educate, challenge, support, and help to build an anti-racist movement that is more fully representative. Not all presentations at the conference primarily address this goal, but we will give priority to presentation proposals that thoughtfully consider how racism and the failure to build a LGBT multi-racial social and economic justice movement impacts particular issues and communities and organizing projects. Activists of color are strongly encouraged to submit proposals.



Other Creating Change Priorities:

• Educate on issues such as the recognition and protection of our relationships and families, bias violence, domestic violence, repression of sexuality and gender identity and _expression, equality of opportunity in employment, housing, public accommodation and education, the freedom to marry, and military and immigration discrimination;

• Give special attention to strategies, projects, and methods of organizing that link race, class, gender and age oppression with homophobia and heterosexism;

• Strengthen the skills of activists and organizers who work at all levels of our movement;

• Improve our abilities to create change in legislative bodies, media, workplaces, faith communities, community and social institutions, and on campuses and at schools;

• Increase our confidence to work collaboratively with allies to effect durable change;

• Provide opportunities to discuss and explore difficult and challenging issues and topics in a supportive environment;

• Give special attention to emerging issues in our movement and communities, as well as those people most affected by them;

• Build an anti-racist movement for social and economic justice that is vigorous in each state and territory of the US and that includes and reflects the perspectives, needs and priorities of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender activists of all ages, races, ethnic and language origins, spiritualities, and incomes.