Found this on an old blog I wrote back in 2005!!!

Monday, March 14, 2005

Movement Building Notes

I need a strategy on how to mobilize the masses, the community, in becoming empowered and standing up for their freedom.

Freedom from:

inefficient mental health services
inadequate and false educational practices and implementation
terrorism in our community in the form of law enforcement
gentrification and the "smoking out"of African and Indigenous people from their homes and community.

Study the strategies from Greenwood, Ms 1963-64 (Freedom Fighters)

What are our pressing issues? What are the focal points of the people in the community, specifically with the women in the community?

their children
their children's education
their children's imprisonment
their children's quality of life.
Education and Imprisonment

children by the 3rd not reading at grade level have a stronger statistical connection to future imprisonment.

How do we educate and make aware to the community this information?

How did they (Freedom fighters 1960's) do this?

Their tag word for hooking the community was VOTE, and through that they were able to open the community to their own empowerment to tackle the other atrocities that were strangling their existence.

Highlander School

What did they teach?
What was their focus?
Who did they target?
Find out their timeline and when they peaked with their work in civil rights.

Oxford, Oh - place where they trained the Freedom Riders and interns for Freedom School.

Who were their trainers?
Were these trainers students of Highlander?
How did they break down the issue of voter registration or how did they connect their everyday life with the issue of voter registration; ie how do you make a sharecropper understand or connect with the fact that they don't have a right to vote and their need to have a right to vote?

originally scribed January 2005