Justice
For All Action Network (JFAAN) presents...
ORGANIZER'S FORUM!
This is a monthly one-hour call, open to all disability organizers, to provide ideas and resources to each other to support and expand community organizing among people with disabilities!
We'll have a conference call the 3rd Tuesday of each month, 1-2 pm Eastern time. Each month will have a set topic, with 3-4 speakers to share their experiences on that topic, focusing on how-to’s, challenges, successes, and lessons learned. Then we'll have time for question & answer, and discussion. You don't have to be on the call each month; just join when you're interested in the topic.
FIRST-EVER Organizer's Forum!
Tuesday, November 17 1-2 pm EST
Topic: Working Cross-Disability
Experiences of collaborations between different disability groups, what was challenging and what made it work.
Speakers:
Mike Bachhuber, Independent Living Council of Wisconsin, Inc.
Bill Henning, Boston Center for Independent Living
Courtney Jenkins-Atnip, Tennessee Disability Coalition
Call-in number (same for each month): 712-432-0080 Code: 193134#
(If
you haven't done a conference call before, at the set time, just call the
number, listen to the prompt, and when it asks for the code, enter the code,
including # sign. Then you will be connected!)
December 15: Social networking
January 19: Organizing State Coalitions
February 16: Media
March 16: Outreach and recruitment
April : Action strategizing
The Organizer's Forum is put on by the national Organizing Workgroup of the Justice For All Action Network (JFAAN). The Justice for All Action Network is a national cross-disability coalition, led by disability groups run by persons with disabilities with support from allies, committed to building a strong and unified cross-disability movement so that individuals with disabilities have the power to shape national policies, politics, media, and culture. For more information, contact: Andy Imparato, American Association of People with Disabilities, 202 521-4301, AImparato@aapd.com; or Kelly Buckland, National Council on Independent Living, 202-207-0334, kelly@ncil.org.
Will there be any sort of real-time captioning offered for the conference call? Or alternatively, would it be OK to call in via relay?
Posted by: codeman38 | November 12, 2009 at 11:22 AM
(I only ask that because, well, it's not exactly much of a cross-disability forum if there's one rather important disability that's left out...)
Posted by: codeman38 | November 12, 2009 at 11:24 AM