FUSsa-talk Mailing List: RE: Fw: Missed the Calendar: Third Thursday Global IssuesForum - UN Peacekeeping Film & Discussion

[bweatherhead (bweatherhead]

Sounds like a great opportunity!

Barbara Weatherhead
bweatherhead [at] mn.rr.com
612-781-0418

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From: Carol Koepp [mailto:ckoepp [at] mn.rr.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 9:39 PM
To: Barb Weatherhead
Subject: Re: [sa-talk] Fw: Missed the Calendar: Third Thursday Global
IssuesForum - UN Peacekeeping Film & Discussion

Hi, FUS Social Action folks -



One of our goals for this year is to organize one large public speaking 
event featuring an outstanding social change leader.  An opportunity has

come our way to accomplish this goal at relatively low cost.



Gary Delgado, nationally known racial justice trainer, organizer,
writer, 
and executive director of the Applied Research Center, (see info at the
end 
of this email), has said that he would do a public speaking event in
January 
or February.  He will be in town then for a racial justice training he's

doing for a coalition I work with through my job.  Many of you received
a 
copy of materials from the racial justice training he did a few weeks
ago - 
I was so impressed with this excellent training that I've been handing
out 
copies to metro UUs actively involved in social action.  At that
training a 
few weeks ago, I asked him if he would consider working with us - and he
has 
said yes.  He lives and works in Oakland, knows Rob and Janne
Eller-Isaacs 
(co-ministers at Unity in St. Paul, who came from Oakland UU Church) and

used to attend a UU congregation himself!



Because Gary will be brought to town for another purpose, the cost to
FUS 
will be MUCH smaller than it otherwise would be.  I think the cost to us

might be in the ballpark of $1,000-2,000.



If we decide to organize this public speaking event at FUS featuring
Gary, I'd 
like to co-sponsor with MUUSJA (that would lower our cost a little more)
- 
and also with the Organizing Apprenticeship Project (they are our
connection 
to Gary coming to town, and they have done core skills training for the
UU 
community over the last two years.)



What do you think?

Jo





here's some info about Gary  -  more info at www.arc.org -  -

Gary Delgado, Ph. D., the Executive Director and founder of the Applied 
Research Center, is a nationally recognized researcher, lecturer and 
activist on issues of race and social justice. He has worked extensively
in 
both the organizing and the academic communities. He received his B.A.
from 
SUNY Old Westbury in 1972, a Masters in Urban Affairs from CUNY Queens 
College in 1975 and a Ph.D. in Sociology from UC Berkeley in 1983. He
was a 
Danforth Fellow in 1979 and a Whitney Young Fellow in 1980. In 1993, he
was 
a Kenneth Pray Visiting Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania
School of 
Social Work. He is currently a scholar-in-residence at the Institute for
the 
Study of Social Change at U.C. Berkeley. His analytical work includes
over 
30 articles and studies on social change practice including his doctoral

dissertation from UC Berkeley, Organizing the Movement: The Roots &
Growth 
of Acorn, published by Temple University Press in 1986. His book Beyond
the 
Politics of Place: New Directions in Community Organizing in the 1990s, 
published by ARC in 1994, created debate throughout the community
organizing 
world. Most recently, he is the editor of the new anthology From Poverty
to 
Punishment: How Welfare Reform Punishes the Poor.

He is a board member of the Nonprofit Sector Research Fund of the Aspen 
Institute, an advisory board member of the Institute on Race and Poverty
and 
an honorary director of the ATR Foundation in Seattle. He was formerly a

member of the board of the Poverty and Race Research Action Council in 
Washington, DC. Gary was one of the initial organizers of ACORN, a lead 
organizer with the National Welfare Rights Organization, and cofounder
and 
director of the Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO). In 1988, he 
received the prestigious Bannerman Fellowship for activists of color in
its 
first year. He was recognized as a Hellraiser by Mother Jones magazine
in 
1996, and was profiled as a one of 61 Visionaries by Utne Reader.

Recent engagements:

  a.. Panel: "Confronting Institutional Racism in Nonprofit
Organizations," 
Funding Exchange Super Skills Conference (June 2004)
  b.. Plenary Key Note Speaker: "Community Organizing at the
Crossroads," 
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation conference (May 3, 2004)
  c.. Lecture: "Advocacy Research: A Tool for Social Change," University
of 
California at Berkeley (April 2004)
  d.. Lecture: "Democracy, Detention and Dirty Tricks," Bucknell
University 
Social Science Colloquium Series (March 2004)
  e.. Lecture: "Grassroots Community Organizing and the Future of
American 
Cities," Brown University Center for Urban Studies (April 2003)
  f.. Workshop: "Uncovering Racial Dimensions of Public Policy," Quebec 
Group of Community Action Speakers, Quebec, Canada


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