Posted by toto on January 13, 2001 at 15:34:21:
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From: Douglas Calvin [mailto:douglas@worldyouth.org]
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2001 3:05 PM
To: summer@civilrights.org, dgarvey@smith.edu
Subject: Intergenerational Youth Activist Summit
Study and Struggle
41 Years of Youth Movements in the U.S.A.
February 3 & 4, 2001
Intergenerational Youth Activist Summit
Freedom Jam Celebration and Dance Party
On February 1, 1960, four black college students staged a sit-in at
Woolworth’s in Greensboro, North Carolina. They non-violently asserted
their human rights and demanded equality in America. Their actions
ignited a student movement that changed the world and set in motion
four decades of youth activism that continues today.
Three generations of youth movements converge:
Civil Rights Movement: the Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC) and Friends
Reagan/Bush Years: the DC Student Coalition against Apartheid and
Racism (DC SCAR) and Friends
Students and Youth for Education and Action Today: You and Your
Friends (Represent!)
February 3 & 4, 2001
Josephine Butler Parks Center
2437 15th St NW, Washington, DC
Sponsored by
The Youth Leadership Support Network (YLSN) and Friends, including
Lifepieces to Masterpieces, Campus Alliance to End Gun Violence, Sol &
Soul, Youth Venture, Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press,
Community Harvest, GWU Action Coalition,and the DC Independent Media
Center....
(co-sponsoring organizations now in formation)
Please consider co-sponsoring this event and help with outreach,
participation and follow-up discussions. Please send a donation if you
can (payable to YLSN).
We invite your collaboration as panelists, performers, participants,
volunteers and/or co-sponsors.
We invite your participation and messages of solidarity to the
conference.
Douglas Calvin, Youth Leadership Support Network (YLSN),
douglas@worldyouth.org, 202-882-8678, PO Box 5372, Takoma Park, MD
20913
Tentative Agenda
Saturday, February 3
Afternoon Family Concert
Set-up Independent Media Center
Evening Dance Party Celebration
Sunday, February 4
Intergenerational Youth Strategy Summit
Performance/registration
PANEL: Steps Toward Freedom
The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) emergence as a
movement and it’s lasting impact: examining the growth and dynamics of
the movement, leadership and strategy, impact on society and their
work today
The DC Student Coalition against Apartheid and Racism (DC SCAR) and
80’s student movements against racism, educational rights, women’s
rights movements, g/l/bi movement, etc. Panelists will share
strategies and stories, lessons learned and their work today.
Performance/break
PANEL: Today’s Youth Movement
Representatives from local, national and international youth
organizations, union leaders, artists and allies share roundtable
discussion including: introducing what you do and in what communities,
your successes and how you approach what you do, and group discussion.
Performance/break
PANEL:Youth in the Media/Youth Media
Representatives of youth media programs, independent media producers
and young performing artists share their mediums and messages.
(Independent Media Center: Videos will be shown in the first floor
room which ideally will transform into a mini-independent media center
as working display of collaborative production and conduct interviews
throughout the day)
Freedom Sing/closing
Focus of the Summit:
The focus of the conference is primarily on the 'Hows' of movement
building, as opposed to the 'Whys' or 'What’s', although both are
important to give context and knowledge to the 'Hows.'
Today’s youth movement is a movement of movements, organizations and
programs, largely unknown to each other, but most all are growing
rapidly with really good, dedicated and highly talented people. There
is often little knowledge of earlier precedents in youth organizing or
even the struggles they were built around.
Issues such as organization-building, funding, strategy, building
capacity and coalitions from earlier youth movements will provide
knowledge and historical context for young activists today. Youth
participants will share their work with each other and adults,
highlighting their work and providing networking opportunities. The
third objective is to introduce all to youth and independent media
programs in the community, an important element in building overall
visibility of youth activism.