Orientation to Organizing: Community Power to achieve immigrants justice
Celebrate Marshall Ganz’s Birthday — Give the Gift of Change!
It is sometimes difficult to imagine how local action on complex problems, such as the climate crisis, can have a substantial impact on solving the problem. Our learning session with DeltagerDenmark, hosted in collaboration with the LCN Climate Justice Group, dived specifically into that challenge, learning from the broad reaching Green Neighborhood Groups
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing our planet, but it doesn’t affect us equally. That’s why we’re hosting our first-ever session focused on climate justice organizing happening in the global south, where the impacts of the climate crises are felt most acutely. Together with the LCN Climate Justice Group and AktivAsia,
Jack Madden, Head of Campaigns and Organizing from housing organization Shelter in the UK, shared challenges, successes, and lessons from their organizational journey around integrating people-based organizing with advocacy and service provision.
In 2020, the human rights agency International Justice Mission began its exciting journey with LCN to center Public Narrative in their work to enable survivors of violence to find their voice and advocate for justice system reform. To date, they have held in-person workshops with survivor leaders in 8 countries – Philippines, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya,
Vanessa Rule (Co-Founder) and Keshia Sexton (Director of Organizing) from Mothers Out Front –a nation-wide movement of over 34,000 mothers in the United States working to protect their children and communities from the impacts of climate change–share their lessons from their successes and challenges in their organization’s journey to building a member-led movement. https://youtu.be/apbXV62nYHM