March 28-30, 2008
Organizing Communities Across Boundaries: An Organizing Teach-in
For more info: Call 608-262-0854 or write info@mwsocialforum.org
April 11-13, 2008
Labor Notes 2008 Conference - Rebuilding Labor's Power
Detroit, Michigan
May 19-25, 2008
Building a New World: Moving Past Empire Towards New Local and Global Paradigms
For more info: www.wpaconference.org
June 8-10, 2008
"Just Giving: Global Social Change Philanthropy" - Grantmakers Without Borders' 8th Annual Conference
Since 2001, Grantmakers Without Borders (Gw/oB) has convened an annual gathering focused on global social change philanthropy. These events have brought together a diverse assembly of 150 to 250 grantmakers, individual donors and global Southern activists, who learn, network, and explore collaboration through sessions that cover a wide range of grantmaking topics. For many international grantmakers, Gw/oB¹s annual conference has become a cherished and indispensable event in their yearly calendars. The majority of conference workshops are identified through a competitive process. In developing the conference program, Gw/oB strives for a balance of two kinds of sessions focused on: * GRANTMAKING PRACTICE: Past workshops have focused on topics such as site visits, proposal review, accountability, power relations, and gender issues, among many other topics. * SOCIAL JUSTICE ISSUES: Past workshops have explored topics such as resource rights, HIV/AIDS, women¹s rights, trade issues, workers rights, and FGM, among many other topics.
For more info www.internationaldonors.org/justgiving2008/pdf/callforsessions2008.doc.
June 19-22, 2008
3rd Annual US Federation of Worker Cooperatives Conference
New Orleans, Louisiana
For more information, see the USFWC web site: www.usworker.coop.
October 16-18, 2008
Learning Democracy by Doing: Alternative Practices in Citizenship Learning and Participatory Democracy
An international conference organized by the Transformative Learning Centre (TLC)
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto (OISE/UT)
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
252 Bloor St. West, Toronto, Canada
This conference, which celebrates the 15th anniversary of the Transformative Learning Centre at OISE/UT, will provide a space for mutual learning and critical reflection about innovative and inspiring international
initiatives. The conference will take place in Toronto, one of the most diverse cities in the world, and it will build on Canadian experiences in social action learning and participatory democracy, including indigenous
models of democratic self-governance, the Antigonish Movement of Nova Scotia, the Citizens Forum, the Citizens Assemblies in British Columbia and Ontario, the Practicing Democracy initiative in Vancouver, and the emerging participatory budgeting initiatives in municipalities, public housing units and schools.
See http://tlc.oise.utoronto.ca/tlc2008/info.html for more information and the call for proposals.
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