Friday, November 13, 2009

Join Us: Inaugural Organizer's Forum - Working Cross Disability

 
 

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Justice For All Action Network (JFAAN) presents...

 

ORGANIZER'S FORUM!

This is a monthly one-hour call, open to all disability organizers, to provide ideas and resources to each other to support and expand community organizing among people with disabilities!

We'll have a conference call the 3rd Tuesday of each month, 1-2 pm Eastern time. Each month will have a set topic, with 3-4 speakers to share their experiences on that topic, focusing on how-to's, challenges, successes, and lessons learned. Then we'll have time for question & answer, and discussion. You don't have to be on the call each month; just join when you're interested in the topic.


FIRST-EVER Organizer's Forum!

Tuesday, November 17 1-2 pm EST

Topic: Working Cross-Disability

Experiences of collaborations between different disability groups, what was challenging and what made it work.

Speakers:

Mike Bachhuber, Independent Living Council of Wisconsin, Inc.

Bill Henning, Boston Center for Independent Living

Courtney Jenkins-Atnip, Tennessee Disability Coalition

 

Call-in number (same for each month): 712-432-0080 Code: 193134#

(If you haven't done a conference call before, at the set time, just call the number, listen to the prompt, and when it asks for the code, enter the code, including # sign. Then you will be connected!) 


Upcoming topics:

December 15: Social networking

January 19: Organizing State Coalitions

February 16: Media

March 16: Outreach and recruitment

April : Action strategizing

 

The Organizer's Forum is put on by the national Organizing Workgroup of the Justice For All Action Network (JFAAN). The Justice for All Action Network is a national cross-disability coalition, led by disability groups run by persons with disabilities with support from allies, committed to building a strong and unified cross-disability movement so that individuals with disabilities have the power to shape national policies, politics, media, and culture. For more information, contact: Andy Imparato, American Association of People with Disabilities, 202 521-4301, AImparato@aapd.com; or Kelly Buckland, National Council on Independent Living, 202-207-0334, kelly@ncil.org.


 
 

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