sociogram: an exercise in which participants arrange their bodies to show something about themselves or to stimulate a new awareness. For example, participants are asked to range themselves along a line that shows how long they've been active with a particular cause. See also "spectrum." Read more...
Walidah Imarisha, a 25-year-old Philadelphia resident, is a spoken word sista and political poet.
Dan Berger, co-editor of Letters From Young Activists and author of Outlaws of America: the Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity is a writer, activist, and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania.
Phoebe Jones is a member of the Global Women's Strike, a network of women in over 60 countries demanding that governments "Invest in Caring Not Killing".
George Lakey is Executive Director of Training for Change. He trained as a Sociologist, taught at the college and graduate level including peace studies at Swarthmore and Haverford Colleges, Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania. George is the author of six books and has trained people all over the world in non-violent resistance.
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BEFORE YOU ENLIST AND AFTER YOU SAY NO: AFSC's counter-recruitment training manual
By Daniel Hunter and Hannah Strange
Get this 239-page training manual with over eighty handouts, articles, and tools on organizing, strategy, and how to do counter-recruitment. Most of the tools in the workshop can be easily adapted for other movements -- many of which are brand new tools.
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WHAT PEOPLE SAY ABOUT TFC
"Many said that this was the most effective training of this type they had ever attended. I felt you did an exceptional job of combining group building, skill enhancement, and theory."
Church of the Brethren, team building for work in the Sudan
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Training for Change
3241 Columbus Avenue, South
Minneapolis, MN 55407
USA
peacelearn@igc.orgph:612-827-7323