Archives for May 2018

 

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Grassroots Organizer Training for Power (GOT Power), Mid-South Peace and Justice Center’s training program, is committed to building our community’s capacity through building skills in grassroots organizing, providing support to people doing community work and offering oppression awareness and liberation education.
Our method of education is Popular and Direct Education. Direct education means education that directly confronts and challenges the current system of injustice, which includes traditional education. Rather than traditional education, which gives all the expertise to textbooks and teachers, Direct Education invites the expertise of the people themselves. Direct Education is about liberation and empowerment — going to the direct source of wisdom: the community itself!

Please contact us to get more information and schedule a training in your group or community. Fees are negotiable, scholarships are available and donations for scholarships are greatly appreciated.

Trainings can be designed specifically for established groups, organizations, campaigns, coalitions, etc. Comprehensive weekend workshops on specific organizing skill sets, issue or community-specific formats are available.

Trainings in Spanish are also available. All trainings are offered in English or Spanish as requested. We work and collaborate with bilingual trainers and facilitators.

G.O.T Poder – Entrenamientos en Español

For more information visit G.O.T.Power or write to GotPower@midsouthpeace.org

 ≈• Please Let Us Know What You Think ≈•

The Training Department of the Mid-South Peace & Justice Center (G.O.T. Power) would like to hear from the movement community. We want to know what you think about us and how we could better support your work or group! Please take a couple minutes to complete this short survey. This survey is for everyone, whether you have attended a workshop or not! Feel free to list your name or remain anonymous.

G.O.T Power Survey

https://midsouthpeace.org/2018/05/02/2834/

Holding an effective meeting that meets the needs of your participants can be a tough job! In this workshop participants will have the opportunity to go through the characteristics of a good Facilitator and basic tools for an effective facilitation, as a warm up for practicing facilitation skills when disruption happens based on participants real experiences.

Date: Thursday, May 24th

Time: 6p.m. – 8:30p.m. Please, be on time.

Location: 1350 Concourse Ave, Suite 451, Memphis, TN 38104 – A Step Ahead Foundation. Free parking in the Crosstown Concourse parking garage. Use main entrance, take elevator to 4th floor. Follow signs for A Step Ahead Foundation.

*Limited to the first 12 people who register.

Cost: $20-$45 Sliding scale.

REGISTER HERE

Registration online or by phone is required to attend.

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H.O.P.E. (Homeless Organizing for Power and Equality) will erect Tent City at Morris Park (747 Poplar Avenue) on THIS SATURDAY, May 5, 2018.  The National Low-Income Housing Coalition is planning a National Housing Week of Action to bring awareness affordable housing for low-income recipients, and H.O.P.E is joining the fight! Currently the City of Memphis doesn’t invest anything in direct homeless services. The funding that is allocated for housing service providers in Memphis, comes largely from Federal grants, and in uncertain times like these, and with Presidential administrations and Congress being what they are, we think it’s incumbent on our Mayor and City Council People make a compassionate investment of local funding to address homelessness in the ‘City of Good Abode.’ Many people don’t even realize that Memphis doesn’t have a free shelter. The ones that do exist, are dangerous, often require participation in religious ceremonies as a prerequisite for services, and don’t comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act. H.O.P.E’s Tent City will dramatize the plight of Memphis’ most vulnerable residents,  and call on local officials to do more to address Memphis’ growing housing crisis.

At 2PM, we’ll begin with a rally, then there will be a community cookout, and to finish the evening, there will be a movie. H.O.P.E would like to make sure that this event serves our community and those directly affected by homelessness, so we chose Morris Park on Poplar Ave, where hundreds of those without homes, and those made poor by an unjust economic system, come in search of a meal on any given Saturday, provided by area churches.

How can the community help?  We’re looking for tents, as well as a donations of bottled water and snacks for the actual day.  We also need monetary donations to purchase National Low Income Housing Coalition’s stickers and t-shirts to wear In addition, we need volunteers to pass out snacks and to help with sign making.  If you can donate to H.O.P.E.’s Tent City or volunteer, please contact Tamara by cell at (901) 254-5964 or by email at tamara@midsoutheace.org

Support H.O.P.E. – Feed the Movement!

One of the ways we learn about the needs of the homeless community and strategize around ways to best support one another, is through our weekly Wednesday meetings in which we invite people experiencing homelessness to fellowship, share, and brainstorm.For many groups and organizations offering free food at meetings is a plus for their attendees, but for H.O.P.E. it is a necessity due to the fact that most often the meal offered at H.O.P.E. meetings, may be the only meal they will have all day.

If you are an individual or a restaurant, you can help by donating a prepared meal, once a month, for our Wednesday afternoon meetings.  Don’t have time to cook or buy prepared foods and bring them to our meeting space? We also accept monetary donations towards this cause.We’d like to give a special shoutout to Marco’s Pizza on Belvedere & Madison Ave for providing our meal, one week out of every month! As always, all forms of donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.

If you have questions or would like to support to HOPE by making a donation, please call Tamara @ 901-254-5964 or email tamara@midsouthpeace.org.