http://curriculum.global-action.org/

The product of over two decades of experience, Global Action Project's Media In Action Curriculum is available here for free download. Grab it, read it, use it, adapt it, and tell us how it worked (or didn't) for you. Global Action Project developed the Media In Action Curriculum through its after-school media arts programs and, more recently, its Media in Action trainings. Media in Action runs multi-day, intergenerational trainings for community organizers who want to harness the power of youth media to move their work further, faster. To learn more about Media in Action or to find out how to participate in a training, follow this link.

Organizers for America is a free service to community organizations, unions and allied groups seeking to hire community organizers and related positions. Job seekers can also use the site at no charge. Employers can list jobs, internships and volunteer positions (please no partisan political party jobs). Job seekers can search the listings and post resumes.

In community organizing, we can enter into Coalitions to face immediate issues or to win long term reform. How and why we form a coalition often takes back seat to the content of the issue or the action. This is a simple checklist of questions to consider. It encourages you to think about the different ways a coalition can impact what you do. 

Fundraising for Justice. The Vicki Quatmann trained hundreds of people how to hold effective fundraising house parties. For the Southern Empowerment Project's fundraising schools for community organizing, this 12 page handout was included. It can be picked up by almost anyone and a house party can be put together. If you don't want to raise money, it can also be a successful issue party but why not do both in a relaxed way. 

The Southern Empowerment Project closed in 2007 and this booklet is now distributed by the National Organizers Alliance. You are welcome to reproduce with credit. 

A Requiem for Detriot? is a new documentary directed by Julien Temple that provides a great cover of the history of Detriot, involving the auto industry and changes of its economy. Grace Lee Boggs comments, "A new documentary illustrates a different kind of American Dream taking hold in Detroit."

The zine has 5 male identify people of color writing and sharing words around their personal connections with patriarchy and a woman critic. Its both in spanish and english has some resources and a workshop. We hope that this work can help you and other people (the zine is mainly targeting men) in our communities start questioning/challenging ourselves and other men to fight against patriarchy and find ways to be allies to women. Please pass this along and if you can give us feedback, it will be much appreciated since it will help us for our next project.

Summary of Hate Crimes Incident at UCSD 1996 - has been used widely as a tool to educate youth and adults about intersectionality and racism.

This is a summary I wrote in response to the recent incidents of hate crimes at UCSD 2010.

All this has reminded me of the hate crimes voice mail I got for standing up for affirmative action in 1996, when it was an unpopular and unexpected stand for Asian Americans. BUT because of my stand on behalf of APSA, I got attacked for being in solidarity with other brothers and sisters of color. This incident gave me the determination and passion to fight; the system's contradiction became all too clear. No matter how much you want to be a part of this system, it is not yours, your agency is not yours, it is theirs and they put you where they believe you belong. I hope you all can pass this (voice) message along to other Asian and people of color to remind us that in fact we are in the same boat, the same fight and fighting the same system of oppression no matter how it appears on the outside. red pill baby. this is how wicked the system is. recently, in san francisco there have been a string on attacks on chinese seniors by young black men. 1 senior died shorty after the attack.  Chinese people are scared to go outside; Blacks are silent on this issue. Reactionary Chinese leaders want to lock up black youth and try them as adults and the list goes on. Meanwhile, 70% of the Black community is unemployed and 40% of the Chinese community is unemployed. The system is fucked and our communities are pitted against each other but for what? and why is this happening? We are going to start (re)building Black and Asian solidarity, affirm people's experiences and reframe onto the racist system but with all this it aint easy. Keep up the good fight in SD and keep me posted. much love and respect to you all for holding things down. alex

Quick Summary of the UCSD Hate Crime Incident:

Date: March 21, 1996

Where: UC San Diego

What: Hate Crime against Asians for standing up for affirmative action. This message was left on my answering machine after I spoke on behalf of APSA at an affirmative action rally in the Price Center organized by the No Retreat Coalition on March 21, 1996. At first, the UCSD police did NOT want to consider this as a hate crime but after meeting and building support with other students of color, the administration 'woke up' and classified it as a hate crime. UCSD seems to be a bastion for these types of vicious hate crimes. In the mid 1990's, the right wing attacks on affirmative action, spurred on politically by then Governor Pete Wilson and others like Ward Connerly, created a racially divided campus. It was almost a perfect storm for Asians to become either very radical OR very conservative. Asians were the pivotal group as the growing majority yet did not truly engaged into the politics since they were not seen as directly impacted. As an affirmative action group within SAAC, APSA was a part of building support on campus to fight the right wing attacked but many Asians (APSA members) were still very reluctant. This hate crimes voicemail made it all too clear to me that Asians are only accepted into this system if we do not stand up and speak up for our rights and the rights of others. If you want to be a part of this system, you must be stripped of your respect and dignity. Solidarity is the only way even if it appears that the system is working for you, it is only working for you enough for the oppression to continue on other communities of color. As Asians on the UC campus, we need to have the most courage to challenge the dominant paradigm and stand together with our brothers and sisters of color. We also need to be clear about what we need as a community and to continue to build a political and radical voice for Asian Americans.