Breaking Boundaries and Building Bridges: Women's Activism, Values, and Vision Workshop Series
This workshop series will take place on Friday, April 11, and will include the following:
Network Building Across Movements. The workshop series is designed to bring together women activists from across different movements for change: religious and secular, feminist and social justice. Workshops will explore the basic values that inspire and shape our work, examine how those ideas shape our goals and strategies, and assess how our similarities and differences shape potential collaborations.
Encouraging the Development of Local Collaborations. A central goal will be to build new alliances among women who are active in all kinds of social justice movements: feminist organizing, religious social justice organizing, secular social justice organizing, community organizing, civil rights, and others. The workshop series will encourage women to develop their own collaborations across movements for change among women in their local communities and constituencies.
Women's Action Agenda. The workshop series will encourage the development of a women's action agenda based on women's values. IWPR will present a draft national agenda, analysis of issues in the agenda, and exploration of language for women's organizing that moves beyond traditionally "secular" and "religious" approaches. The document will serve as a "white paper" to spark conversation. Participants will be asked to engage and react to it, and will help mold the final version.
Lunch will be provided. Participants must pre-register for the series and will be sent background materials ahead of time.
Note: We ask that those who register for this special workshop series attend the full day of sessions and lunch. This means you will miss other sessions occurring simultaneously with this workshop series. However, the series will not conflict with the summit’s plenary sessions.
