Sisters Of The Road Launches Dorothy Day Community School
Posted on December 3, 2010 byWRAP Comms
From the trenches to the frontline, we are the leaders we’ve been looking for!
Sisters Of The Road is embarking on an ambitious and creative plan to build-up, educate, and organize leaders in our community to join the movement for Economic Human Rights. Sisters is allied with amazing organizations like the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign and the Western Regional Advocacy Project who continue to work with and train people experiencing homelessness and extreme poverty to be effective leaders in the struggle. Embracing this idea is no stretch for Sisters who has always used the wisdom and knowledge of our community to seek solutions to end extreme poverty and homelessness. What we have lacked is a comprehensive way to do leadership development that combines existing Sister’s resources with other tools and resources from the broader activist community into a structured and ongoing program. Well…it’s here! This creative and collaborative effort is called The Dorothy Day Community School (DDCS).
“We make the road by walking…”
Leaders exist all around us. Weather they are fighting to meet basic needs for themselves, their families and friends or are already working within established organizations working to advance the causes of economic, social, and environmental justice, people in our communities have some of the essential ingredients to participate in building a better world. The DDCS will build off of those existing skills and knowledge to create a cross-class group of strong and empowered leaders capable of winning social justice and economic human rights for all by providing the training, skill-building, political education and analysis necessary to grow the movement from the ground up.
Over the months of October and November, the Systemic Change Team at Sisters conducted outreach to our community and to local community organizations to message about the schools goals and activities. This outreach identified existing skills and knowledge and has helped us by providing a “road-map”, grounded in the strengths of the community, for what the DDCS’s leadership development program will offer and what it will look and feel like.
How do I get involved?
A cross-class mix of community members, emerging leaders, and already established leaders have given valuable input to the DDCS about the leadership development program but we still want to hear from you! November marches on and there is still time for you to share with us your thoughts and ideas to help shape leadership development at the DDCS! Call us to set up a meeting with you and/or your organization. We are building towards a retreat in December that will bring the leadership base together to train, build relationships, and share skills.
Contact:
Brendan Phillips, brendan@sistersoftheroad.org, (503)222-5694 Ext 13
Lucilene Lira, lucilene@sistersoftheroad.org, (503) 222-5794 ext. 37
“The earth for all the people. That is the demand. The machinery of production and distribution for all the people. That is the demand. The collective ownership and control of industry and its democratic management in the interests of all the people. That is the demand. The elimination of rent, interest, profit, and the production of wealth to satisfy all the people. That is the demand. Cooperative industry in which all shall work together in harmony as a basis of a new social order, a higher civilization, a new republic. That is the demand.” -Eugene V. Debs, 1902-
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