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Super-T Report: The Unseen Margin
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| | The Drama of the Ontario Super-T
Eleventh Super-T, May 25-June 10, 2006
Summary notes from George Lakey, Training for Change The Super-T came to a climax on the last evening before the final day of the international learning event for social action trainers held by Training for Change.
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Designing tools in the land down under: Australia training report
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| |  Training for Change goes around the world to coach local trainers and help add to their strategy toolbox. And when faced with new theory but no experiential way to teach it, how did training associate Daniel Hunter respond? Creativity and designing a new tool!
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Training Trainers for Third-party Nonviolent Intervention -- In Toronto
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| | George Lakey reports on making lemonade out of lemons.
Also, he's hassled only minimally by Canadian immigration.
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Zimbabwe Workshop Held Despite Country's Breakdown
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| | Despite electricity blackouts, fears of government spies, drastic shortages of gas, and other signs of the countrty's breakdown, participants gathered in Zimbabwe for the first-ever third-party nonviolent intervention training of trainers held in Africa.
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Where Do We Go From Here: post-election training report
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| | Read the training report from TFC's post-election strategy workshop -- where over fifty activists gathered to reflect on: "Where Do We Go From Here?" (includes trainer notes for people interested in leading their own such workshop).
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Exploration, Imagination and Defeating Dependency: a West African training report
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| |  As part of TFC's Africa Project, Daniel Hunter (program director) travels to West Africa to help develop the field of third-party nonviolent intervention. Learn how folks in West Africa responded to his work -- and the challenges he faced in training.
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Russia at a Crossroads
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| |  Each time another round of terrorism and governmental violence happens, the political space shrinks for human rights. Russian human rights activists wanted a workshop to explore what they can do in the next period. Read about George's two major trainings in a Russia reeling from a series of terrorist attacks and government crackdowns.
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Puppets and Strategy: preparing for the RNC
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| |  Training for Change partnered up with Spiral Q, an activist puppet theater, to offer a collaborative day-long workshop on puppets and strategy. The goal: start preparing and creating puppets for protests against the Republican National Convention in New York.
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Challenged in Zimbabwe
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| | "You are delayed!" the student leader burst out...the message was consistent: in Zimbabwe we've been suffering increasing repression while our democratic dreams fade, and we're not getting some of the practical help we need on the ground. Learn more about George Lakey's trip to Zimbabwe and lessons learned.
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Say It Loud: I'm Black and I'm Proud -- training report
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| | "I'm so glad to be involved in this effort. I've been involved in many 'Dismantling Racism' workshops, but never where I get to work on my own 'stuff,'" she wrote. She was not alone, many of the participants in this new workshop for African-Americans commented about the uniqueness of working on our own internal issues.
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Social Activism Meets Spirituality -- A Boston Workshop
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| | It's easier to assert that there IS a relationship between activism and spirituality than it is to explore that relationship . .. together . . . with people ranging from priests to non-religious .. . with people of various colors, generations, and social classes .. . and with aspirations ranging from reform to revolution.
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70 Diversity Workshops in 5 years
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| | From 1999-2003 Training for Change has led 70 workshops to assist people to unlearn oppressive patterns such as racism, classism, and sexism. Clients have included Swarthmore College, the Women's Prison Association of NYC, Greenpeace, and the University of Bologna in Italy.
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New Third Party Nonviolent Intervention Curriculum Field-Tested in Chiang Mai
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| | "Help us! Come help us!" Screams awakened the 16 training participants at 5am as "villagers" ran down the halls of the dorm.to start the first simulation. Soon Thai actors dressed as soldiers appeared, gruffly shouting orders and banging through rooms "searching for terrorists" within the village which had declared itself a peace zone. The simulation went for six hours....
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Visioning a Peaceful World
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| |  On February 2, 2003, Training for Change held a special weekend training in Philadelphia for social activists entitled Waging Peace in Wartime: Strategy & Vision Workshop. It was sponsored by Training for Change and Unite for Peace.
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First Asia Super-T Held in Thailand
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| |  Five Cambodian trainers joined activists from East Timor, the Philippines, Thailand, and Burma for November's Super-T. The intensive15-day course focused on building the capacity of grassroots activism in Asia to do its own training. Although TfC has done six Super-Ts in Philadelphia, this was its first in Asia. Some Asian activists are calling TfC's approach to education a grassroots alternative to globalization.
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Where There is No Vision, The People Go to War
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W. Bush beats the war drums to dramatize his utter lack of positive
vision, I'm happy to report that an extraordinarily visionary
peace project was hammered together last month in New Delhi,
India. Attracted by how the organizers mix practicality with
their vision, I went to New Delhi November 28 to help develop
its training dimension.
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"Dracula's Castle" Region Site for Balkans Training
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| | [3rd Balkans report] How to take the nonviolent direct action experience gained from toppling dictator Slobodan Milosevic and apply it to cleaning up a polluted Serbia? This is the question of four young Otpor activists who are launching the new movement "Greenfist."
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Young Balkan Leaders Argue It Out
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| | [2nd Balkans report] We gathered Balkan youth leaders in Bologna, Italy for a training in leadership and group facilitation. What we got was a war of words, which was exactly what the group needed.
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Youth Bounce Back in the Balkans
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| |  [1st Balkans report] Imagine Vukovar: after years of bombing, it is a town in ruins, a place where 15 percent of the population has been tortured, where 80 percent are alcoholics, and where domestic violence and suicide are epidemic. Now imagine 30 youths from around the region gathering -- here, in the rubble of Vukovar -- to study with me and a team of faculty. The subject: nonviolence.
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Indonesia, Thailand, and Globalization
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| | The fourth most populous country on earth is in turmoil, and Indonesian activists are considering violence as an option. On an exploratory training trip in March, 2001, I worked with student activists in Jakarta seeking once again to bring down a corrupt elite. After a strategy game, the group turned to their most pressing question: even if we accept that methods of nonviolent action can be powerful, why not add violence to the mix?
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R2K: a report on our work
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| |  In late 1999, while the national media were obsessing over the "Y2K problem", in Philadelphia, groups of activists were quietly murmuring about another bug: the "R2K problem": the Republican convention, slated for Philly during the first week in August. Read about TFC's role in the Republican Convention Protests (2000).
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