Northwest
Regional Immigrant and Refugee Rights Training Institute
April 7-9, 2006 Portland, OR
AGENDA
Friday, April 7, 2006
8:30 AM- 9:30 AM Registration and
Breakfast
10:00 AM-1:00 PM Opening Session
Welcome
Housekeeping/Logistics
Introductions and Icebreakers
Review Community Agreements/Ground Rules
Immigration History Timeline in Pictures
1:00 PM-2:30 PM LUNCH
Optional: Identity/Issue-based caucuses gather for lunch
in classrooms
2:30 PM-6:30 PM WORKSHOP SESSION I
Workshop I-A: Migrant Rights are Human Rights
Workshop I-B: Building Immigrant Community Power Through
Legislative Advocacy
Workshop I-C: Monitoring and Documenting Human Rights
Abuses
Workshop 1-D: Race, Migration and Multiple Oppressions
6:30 PM- DINNER ON YOUR OWN
Saturday, April 8, 2006
8:00 AM-9:00 AM BREAKFAST
9:00 AM-1:00 PM WORKSHOP SESSION 2
• Workshop 2-A: Building Immigrant Women’s
Leadership
• Workshop 2-B: Immigrant Rights and LGBT Rights
• Workshop2-C: Building Common Ground Between
Communities—The Changing Demographics of Race
and Migration
• Workshop II-D: Popular Education and Curriculum
Development 101
1:00 PM-2:30 PM LUNCH
Optional: Identity/Issue-based caucuses gather for lunch
in classrooms
2:30 PM-6:30 PM WORKSHOP SESSION 3
• Workshop 3-A: Globalization, Migration, and
Workers Rights
• Workshop 3-B: Power Tools for Sharing Power--Interpretation
and Translation in Organizing Immigrant Communities
• Workshop 3-C: Media Spokesperson Training—SPIN
Project
• Workshop 3-D: Strategizing Action on Legislative
Ballot Initiatives
6:30 PM—9:00 PM DINNER and CULTURAL TALENT
SHOW!
Sunday, April 9, 2006
9:00 AM-10:00 AM BREAKFAST
10:00 AM-10:30 AM Opening: Remembering
Our Roots
10:30 AM-11:15 AM Taking it Back to
Our Communities---Building on Our Work, Training More
Trainers, Next Steps: Individual work and Large group
discussion
11:15 PM-12:30 PM Strategy Session:
Combating the Right Wing Attack on Immigrant and Refugee
Communities
We will hear experiences and strategies from local and
regional groups organizing against right wing anti-immigrant
propositions, anti-immigrant racism and vigilante violence;
then conduct local strategy sessions.
12:30 PM-1:00 PM Large Group Closing
and Evaluation
1:00 PM-- Lunch and Departures
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