[WAsummit] Fwd: Organizing Upgrade Launch today!

[Sharon Martinas]

Here's a powerful new justice resource for everyone.  Starts today  
Oct. 1.  sharon

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> From: mei-ying <hapalovely at gmail.com>
> Date: October 1, 2009 5:51:27 AM PDT
> To: hapalovely at gmail.com
> Subject: Organizing Upgrade Launch today!
>
> Hi folks,
> As we're all struggling to figure out how to be sharper on our  
> message, develop more deliberate networks, and build unity and power  
> in an attempt to strengthen the Left - please check out this  
> exciting new web forum, ORGANIZING UPGRADE!
>
> Peace,
> m
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> ORGANIZING UPGRADE
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> WEB-FORUM LAUNCHES TODAY,  OCTOBER 1, 2009
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> www.organizingupgrade.com
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> We are living in amazing times.  Between the groundbreaking election  
> of President Obama and the onset of the largest economic crisis that  
> this country has seen in decades, the terrain of politics is rapidly  
> shifting beneath our feet. We need to do some serious work to  
> upgrade our vision and our organizing practices if we are going to  
> take advantage of this historic moment.
>
> Organizing Upgrade is an innovative new web-forum launched by  
> Harmony Goldberg, Sushma Sheth and Joseph Phelan.  Organizing  
> Upgrade was created to provide a space where left organizers from  
> across the country can engage in a strategic dialogue about the  
> political terrain and share thinking on what we need to do to take  
> our work to the next level. We hope that this project can bring the  
> kind of inspiration and strategic clarity that we need to strengthen  
> our political impact in our immediate fights and in our longer-term  
> efforts to build the social justice movement and to revitalize a  
> movement-rooted left in the United States.  Each month, Organizing  
> Upgrade will be publishing three new pieces by innovative left and  
> radical leaders who are rooted in the community organizing world.
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>
> The first issue will have a piece by Bill Fletcher Jr. on the  
> demands facing the left and a roundtable on "Left Strategies from  
> the Grassroots" featuring Steve Williams, Ai-jen Poo, Gihan Perera,  
> Willie Baptist and Marisa Franco, including audio and video of their  
> dialogue.
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> Future issues will feature pieces by accomplished organizers and  
> progressive strategists in the fields of affordable housing,  
> economic development, workers rights, gentrification, immigrant  
> rights, war and non-violence, global solidarity and labor, including  
> contributors like: James Mumm, Adrianne Shropshire, Ng'ethe Maina,   
> Noura Erakat, Aarti Shahani,  Terry Marshall, Maria Poblet and Adam  
> Gold.
> We hope that, by encouraging some of the leading innovators and  
> leaders from the sphere of community organizing to put pen to paper  
> and to speak their minds, we can develop unity and clarity about the  
> key demands facing left organizers in these times.
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> CHECK OUT ORGANIZING UPGRADE TODAY!
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> www.organizingupgrade.com
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