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How We Win Workshop

  • Veterans Building, Room 206 401 South Van Ness Avenue San Francisco, CA, 94103 United States (map)

How We Win Workshop, led by George Lakey

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“It’s after the election – what shall we do?”
“Let’s win with a direct action campaign!”

Saturday, December 1, 2018

1:00-4:00 PM (Registration at 12:30 PM)

Veterans Building, Room 206

401 Van Ness Avenue, at McAllister

San Francisco, CA 94102

(Close to BART-Civic Center and the 47 Muni line)

Participatory workshop on starting and conducting Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigns

including addressing racism, sexism, and other oppressions, and deflating right-wing extremists

George Lakey, author of just published How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent campaigning, has led over 1500 workshops on five continents. He was first arrested in the civil rights movement and was a trainer for the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer. In 2018 he was arrested campaigning for Power Local Green Jobs.  He has given leadership to campaigns on neighborhood, city-wide, state, national, and international levels, including cross-race, cross-class coalitions and the LGBTQ movement.   He co-led strategy workshops with César Chavez, and worked with labor unions, Mohawks, high school students, environmentalists, and the Puerto Rican independence movement. He also taught conflict studies at colleges and universities and authored ten books on how to bring about change.

“…If you want to be a nonviolent change-maker, George Lakey has both remarkable stories and remarkable insights--not to mention some remarkable colleagues who add their perspective to this necessary manual.” -- Bill McKibben, co-founder 350.org

Co-sponsored by Veterans for Peace and San Francisco Friends Meeting 

BOOKS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE WORKSHOP                                                                                                                                                   

Contact davidrhartsough@gmail.com with questions, or to RSVP