Explore Your Social Justice Community Workshop

The first day featured the steps of organizing led by Peter Klotz-Chamberlin, coalition-building with Drew Glover, and the violence-nonviolence spectrum with Sarah Durant Smith.
On the second day of the workshop, the participants went into the community, hearing detailed presentations from various representatives of social justice organizations. The group learned about the extensive and strategic work that the Diversity Center is doing with local clinics and hospitals to make them more accessible and safe for LGBTQI+ communities, and well as to facilitate the implementation of SB48, which added LGBTQI+ history as well as other communities to the curricula in California. Next, they traveled to Barrios Unidos to experience the world of those in state custody, learn their stories, and the work that Barrios Unidos, SCATESC (Statewide Coordinated Actions to End Solitary Confinement), and Sin Barras do to protect the lives and rights of incarcerated people in Santa Cruz County and across California.
On the way to lunch, half of the group even made a detour to join the Boycott Driscolls protest at Safeway!
After lunch, it was off to Food Not Bombs to learn about the history of FNB, what it does in addition to feed the hungry, and the principles that drive the independent chapters. While the group listened to Abbi Samuels present, they helped prepare the food by chopping vegetables. Finally they stopped at The Hub for Sustainable Living and met with two speakers from SubRosa, the anarchist cafe. There they learned about the way the collective operates, the process of consensus, and the wide range of views held by the collective on topics of what anarchism is or whether violence is method to be used.

Participants afterward said that they were inspired to get out and get connected, and were excited about the things they learned and the connections they made during the workshop.
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