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1. Space- Midlands Tech, Bellfield (Free)
2.  Food - Black Women caterers
3. Recruitment Workshops
4. Flyers
5. Awards - Nykisha, Nia, Shakura-  Elder Award- Afia Wygotta
6. Decroating

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1. ACLU - testimony for distrubing school law. Congressional challenge
2. BLM
3. GGE
4. Ms. Foundation

What is the definition of the partnership?

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Self confidence of Black Girls to act.

Resistance from the Black community- this is the way things are.

Black Girls "okay"

Do Black girls "really" need more programs.

Black women's perceptions of their own situation.

Unearthing the language of "truama as norm."

Competing narratives of which black girls "deserve" to be organized.

The "good" Black girl - the assimilated black girl, following the rules, wholesome, conservative, "nice young lady at this church doesn't show her skin. She's a beacon of light.

The "bad" Black girl - non-traditonal household, not submissive, not obediant.

- Response to power over

- Fear of inferiority

What kind of space can EveryBlackGirl create to help people feel empowered to move despite the rhetoric against the org?

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I was told I was ugly because I was Black!

A space where I get to be my whole self.

Not reproducing violence in my own body.

Making a space for young people feel more comfortable to speak on issues that they experience.

Seeing the conditions for EveryBlackGirl shift in Columbia, Sc.

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Showing up for Racial Justice Chapter Columbia

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SURJ is a national network of groups and individuals organizing white people for racial justice.

Through community organizing, mobilizing and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability.

We work to connect people across the country while supporting and collaborating with local and national racial justice organizing efforts. SURJ provides a space to build relationships, skills and political analysis to act for change.

We envision a society where we struggle together with love, for justice, human dignity and a sustainable world.

Why?

We live in a time of great hope and possibility, yet the potential for a just world for all of us is not possible when racism and oppression keep us divided.

This can make us forget how closely connected we truly are.

Racism is still present throughout all of our contemporary institutions and structures. Racism is devastating to people of color and is closely intertwined with all systems of oppression. It robs all of us- white people and people of color- of our humanity.

We honor and learn from the long history of people of color and white people who have been unrelenting in their struggles for racial justice, and ending all systems of oppression.

We are showing up to take our responsibility as white people to act collectively and publicly to challenge the manipulation of racist fear by the ruling class and corporate elite.

We know that to transform this country we must be part of building a powerful multiracial majority to challenge racism in all its forms.

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Through community organizing, mobilizing and education, SURJ moves white people to act as part of a multi-racial majority for justice with passion and accountability. We work to connect people across the country while supporting and collaborating with local and national racial justice organizing efforts.

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Funding : Budget $102, 800; $44,000
1. Strategy funding the work  of the vision.

Mary Reyonalds Babcock Foundation

Ms. Foundation

2. Cultivate a donor base in Columbia, SC of community.
A. Sustaining donor program
monthly.
Board:

Financial and administering items for running the non-profit.

Quarterly meetings for Board

Community Board Members; Committees

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1. Youth Organizing Training
2. Acting up with Tiffany

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Strategies & Tactics for Organizing Communities

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Guido gives us the run down on the youth organizing principles at play in the collaborative efforts of Our School at Blair Grocery, New York to New Orleans Coalition and the Youth Coalition for Community Action http://www.ourschoolatblairgrocery.org http://www.ny2no.org http://youthcoalition.webs.com

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Website

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Social Media -
-Twitter
- Facebook
Targetting Black Girls; Retweeting and posting news;
Social Media Toolkit - needs tweeked.
Coming
- Youtube
-  Periscope

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I've followed WITNESS' work for years. They have influenced my own work at The Civic Beat, where we study social change memes in global contexts. I'd met a few members of the WITNESS team at SXSW this year and online via Twitter, and I was honored to be invited to share some more of my research with them.

In my presentation I highlighted examples from Mexico, Azerbaijan, Kenya, China , and Turkey to illustrate how memes have helped to grow a networked populace while increasing public debate and dialogue ( see slides 21, 28, 18, 23, 25).

My examples interrogated the false notion that "slacktivism" is simply creative and playful online fun. Rather memes carry an undeniable importance of symbolic action. Memes help communities cultivate storytelling and sharing, and can encourage open dialogue.

One recent example of experimenting with memes for social justice campaigns is the work of Daniel Maree, the founder of Million Hoodies Movement for Justice. Maree arguably was the first persons to use the #HoodiesUp tag after the killing of Trayvon Martin.

While impressed by the overwhelming support for Trayvon - the marches, the hashtags, profile picture changes, and more - Maree recognized the need for still more work. He started his own non-profit, which now has over 50,000 members across the US. Maree managed to make hashtags and profile pictures just the first step of a much larger movement.

If there are fundamental themes for social justice memes, the biggest groupings I've noticed are those that fight for freedom of expression, counter biased media representation, hold those in power accountable, and possess a love of laughter. I think if organizations are considering a meme campaign, it would be wise to think of how your mission and community might work with these basic themes.

Furthermore, consider how your campaign can customize memes to make them:

more their own;

contextualize the meme campaign so it points to deeper actions;

package the mission into the most easily understandable and recognizable image or hashtag;

and factoring in how the memes tap into existing communities will be vitally important to a successful campaign.

It's not as easy as a meme generator would have you believe.

Given WITNESS's experience with documentation and archiving citizen media, I also shared The Civic Beat's Sandbox project; our up and coming open collaboration platform for archiving and amplifying memes. With it, we hope to create a community that values and elevates online citizen media as much as we do. I was eager to learn more about WITNESS's best practices and strategies for archiving citizen media, and more importantly, how they use their archive to create real changes in the communities they work with.
Ben Valentine is a consultant with The Civic Beat as well as a freelance writer. You can follow and talk with him on Twitter @Bennnyv.
Footnote: Featured image from http://blogs.luc.edu/comicrelief/2014/03/21/you-want-social-change-start-laughing/

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Insights on the Use of Memes for Social Justice Campaigns

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I've followed WITNESS' work for years. They have influenced my own work at The Civic Beat, where we study social change memes in global contexts. I'd met a few members of the WITNESS team at SXSW this year and online via Twitter, and I was honored to be invited to share some more of my research with them.

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Vivian - Retreat, Conference, Partners, Funding 

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Vivian - Retreat, Conference, Partners, Funding 

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Trainers Manual and Global Justice Training Manual

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Leadership Development • Campaign Development • Targeting & Power Analysis

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Organizational Development & Supervision Model

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Deconstructing Difficult Topics • Popular Education

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The School of Unity & Liberation, is building a movement. SOUL is working to lay the groundwork for a powerful liberation movement by supporting the development of a new generation of organizers - especially young women, young people of color, queer youth and working-class young people.