Crossroads 10th Annual Advanced Organizers Gathering took place July 19 – 21, 2010 at the Kauffman Conference Center – Kansas City, Missouri
Watch for details to come on our 2011 Advanced Organizers Gathering!
Here’s what this year’s participants had to say about the 10th Annual Advanced Organizers Gathering:
The workshop on the Latino/a racial paradigm provided something I’ve been waiting for from Crossroads for years – Excellent!
I feel rejuvenated about the work that needs to be done!
This has been far more valuable than any other training experience I’ve had so far . . . I’m very enthused about continuing this work using new language and tools and caucusing!
A wide variety of workshops were offered, as well as dedicated time for antiracism teams to strategize and apply their learnings. Highlights included:
A plenary session using The Borderlands as an entry point to the power analysis of racism: participants explored how the misuse of power shapes our socially constituted identities in ways that support the status quo. Look for information about this plenary to be added soon!
Participants viewed Salt of the Earth and discussed how our organizing has been gendered as well as racialized:
Louise Derman-Sparks and Anne Stewart gave a presentation on Early Childhood Education and Social Identities which included how we become who we become within the groups we belong to; racial micro-contaminants; and in identifying Race as the 4th ‘R’ of learning, how we can help young children begin to develop the tools of anti-bias and antiracism.
