Meeting "rules"

The following is from the Highlander Folk School, where generations of activists have gone to improve their organizing skills. There  MLK learned the song "we shall overcome" and he and Rosa Parks learned organizing techniques.  We will follow these same rules during our class discussions:

· share stories of oppression and struggle from their communities, identifying common concerns across boundaries of race, class, language, gender, sexual orientation, and geography;

·  explore and validate their experiences by sharing them with others, building the trust and self-confidence needed to challenge injustice;

·  reconnect with the history of people’s struggles against oppression, finding inspiration in the example of these struggles and learning from them how to fight injustice and win;

·  share ideas and strategies for change, learning from each other to strengthen and enhance their own efforts;
discover new allies and new ways to join forces to achieve their common goals;

·  create a culture of justice that can inspire their ongoing work in their own organizations and communities; and

·  construct a common vision of a world marked by justice and fairness for all that can provide the inspiration for a broad movement for social and economic change. - See more at: http://highlandercenter.org/resources/facilities/workshop-center/#sthash.F5MMonoh.dpuf