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IRTF Social Justice Teach-In
Saturday, February 6, 10am-5pm
John Carroll University
Dolan Science Center
- Learn about critical human rights issue.
- Practice hands-on skills to organize for change.
- Make plans for this year and beyond!
The IRTF Social Justice Teach-In is a great learning and networking opportunity for students, teachers, youth coordinators, campus ministers, and others who want to get active in promoting peace and justice.
JCU students (undergraduate and graduate) can be part of the John Carroll University group contact Chris Kerr at ckerr@jcu.edu. JCU students who register as part of the JCU group will not be required to pay the admission fee. Students will still need to check-in at the registration in the Dolan Atrium.
WHAT IS THE TEACH-IN?: The teach-In provides education and resources to support students’ human rights programming at their schools or places of worship. Participants can attend four workshop sessions and will have time to begin planning their own social justice campaigns for 2010. This day is full of fun, community-building, training, and education to help youth*and young adults become better informed global citizens.
*People of all ages are welcome.
WORKSHOPS by local community leaders and academics will cover fair trade, exploited labor, economic development, trade policy, environmental issues, US military policies, corporate responsibility, sexism, organizing skills, advocacy, nonviolent communication, and more. Attend four different workshop sessions and optional student caucuses during lunch. (Lunch provided.)
WORKSHOP TITLES (some still to be confirmed):
- Organizing Student Power: How to Make the Changes that Matter Most
- Where’s Obama Heading in Latin America?
- Say What? Nonviolent Communication
- From the SOA to Abu Ghraib to Guantánamo: Torture as Government Policy
- Making Democracy Work: Legislative Advocacy and Effective Use of the Media
- Belching Out the Devil: A Guide to kicking Coca-Cola Off Your Campus
- The Game of Life: Engage Yourself in Nonviolence
- Murals: Social Change through Public Art
- The Body Shop: Palm Oil Causes Displacement, Destruction in Colombia
- A Story Lasting 200 Years: US Interventions in Latin America
- Sexism 101: You Need this Course, Sister!
- Fundraising with Fair Trade
- Fun with Fair Trade: Organize a Coffee and Chocolate Tasting Party
- Undocumented Dreams: Immigrant Rights in America
- Make Trade More Fair: End the Race to the Bottom
- Bible Study for Radical Action
- Toward Peace, Productivity & Prosperity: Shaping a Progressive Public Sector
Registration at the door opens at 9am. First session at 10am. Lunch provided. Last session ends 5pm.
 The InterReligious Task Force on Central America (IRTF) is a Cleveland-based interfaith group that promotes peace and human rights in Central America and Colombia. People of faith and conscience founded IRTF after the 1980 execution of four U.S. church women in El Salvador by U.S.-trained soldiers. (The Cleveland mission team lost Jean Donovan and Sister Dorothy Kazel.)
Carrying on the legacy of the martyrs, IRTF educates, advocates, and organizes for peace and human rights, economic justice, and aid to Central Americans and Colombians. IRTF works to change U.S. policies, corporate actions, and consumer behaviors that undermine these aspirations, both here and abroad.
The Task Force is an interfaith group with the following mission:
- To follow our various faith teachings, commitments, and convictions which call us to promote justice and peace with the people of Central America.
- To advocate for human rights, self-determination, economic justice and peace based on nonviolent systemic changes, instead of militarized approaches in the region and in U.S. policy.
- To build bridges of solidarity, especially between faith communities, with the most consistently martyred and oppressed peoples in our hemisphere.
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