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Immigrant and Refugee Rights Training Institute
September 24-26, 2004 Oakland, CA
AGENDA

Friday, September 24, 2004

8:30 AM- 9:00 AM Registration and Breakfast ( OACC lobby and auditorium)

9:30 AM-12:00 PM Opening Session— (OACC auditorium, large group session)
Welcome
Housekeeping/Logistics
Introductions and Icebreakers
Review Community Agreements/Ground Rules
Immigration History Timeline in Pictures

12:00 PM-1:30 PM LUNCH (OACC auditorium)
Optional: Identity/Issue-based caucuses gather for lunch in classrooms

1:30 PM-5:30 PM WORKSHOP SESSION I (OACC classrooms)

•  Workshop I-A: Human Rights are Migrant Rights (Room 4)
• Workshop I-B: Globalization, Migration, and Workers Rights (Room 5)
•  Workshop I-C: History of Immigration 101 and 102 (Room 6)
•  Workshop I-D: Media Spokesperson Training—SPIN Project (Room 2)

6:00 PM-7:00 PM DINNER (OACC auditorium)

7:00 PM-9:00 PM Cultural Performances and Training Institute Talent Show/Open Mic! ( OACC auditorium)
Bring your talent, your poetry, your songs, your musical instruments, your performances, your cultural spirit with you to the event! We'll be drawing on you to provide the talent!

Saturday, September 25, 2004

8:00 AM-9:00 AM Free Yoga Class ( Room 6)
BREAKFAST (OACC lobby)

9:00 AM-1:00 PM WORKSHOP SESSION II (OACC classrooms)
•  Workshop II-A: Building Immigrant Women's Leadership (Room 4)
•  Workshop II-B: Introduction to Race, Migration, and Multiple Oppressions (Room 5)
•  Workshop II-C: Immigrant Rights and LGBT Rights (Room 2)
•  Workshop II-D: Self-Care for Organizers: Avoiding Burn-Out In Our Work (Room 3)

1:00 PM-2:30 PM LUNCH (OACC room 1 and lobby)
Optional: Identity/Issue-based caucuses gather for lunch in classrooms

2:30 PM-6:30 PM WORKSHOP SESSION III (OACC classrooms)
•  Workshop III-A: Building Common Ground Between Communities—The Changing Demographics of Race and Migration (Room 4)
•  Workshop III-B: Monitoring and Documenting Human Rights Abuses: Tools for Building Immigrant Community Power (Room 5)
•  Workshop III-C: Raising Money for Community Change: Grassroots Fundraising (Room 2)
•  Workshop III-D: Power Tools for Sharing Power--Interpretation and Translation in Organizing Immigrant Communities (Room 3)

6:30 PM— DINNER

Sunday, September 26, 2004

9:00 AM-10:00 AM BREAKFAST (OACC Lobby)

10:00 AM-11:30 PM Building a Strong and Healthy Immigrant Rights Movement (OACC room 4 and 5)

11:30 PM-12:30 PM Taking it Back to Our Communities---Building on Our Work, Training More Trainers, Next Steps (OACC room 4 and 5)

12:30 PM-1:00 PM Large Group Closing and Evaluation (OACC room 4 and 5)

1:00 PM-- Lunch and Departures