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National Service Learning Conference
Summer Application Due
May 1st
To put it succinctly our trips will be more like a 9-day social and environmental justice intensives. NY2NO Alum are planning radical curriculum for the brigades as well as skill building workshops in the areas of community organizing, urban farming, educating, and community analysis. We will be using the New York 2 New Orleans Coalition’s school bus for groups along with a bus driver provided by Ifco/Pastors for Peace or School at Blair Grocery. We want to build a tight-knit working community to organize with when we return to our prospective cities. We will be doing work on reconstruction, community organizing, urban farming with School at Blair Grocery. The students will be participating in experiential learning workshops that directly connect to their boots on the ground everyday.
Participants will learn:
-the meanings of
sustainability
-what food justice is
-what community
organizing is
-what experiential
learning is
-about industrial
systems (food, school, prison) specifically
Participants
will gain practical skills in:
-Democratic
decision-making (Consensus)
-Seeding and
transplanting/garden and market planning
-Organinzing/canvassing/building
relationships workshop/orientation
-building curriculum
for liberation
-creating solutions
and building practical guides to direct action
-how to design
ecological farms
-how to seed and
transplant
-how to live
communally (be responsible, cook, clean, organize life and live sustainably
too)
-holistic solution
building
-community organizing
basics
Morning:Students participate in experiential-based education developed by the School at Blair Grocery in the form of a Food Justice 101 course. They learn:
1. Our food is part of a global food system and a global economy.
2. The dominant food system/economy is unsustainable.
3. We are all participants in this system.
4. This system isn't natural and it isn't permanent. It will last only until we build something new and sustainable or it collapses upon itself and destroys us all.
5. The prospect of choosing the “build something sustainable” option is both necessary and invigorating.
Afternoon: Our youth do physical Labor which usually involves building rehabbing and reconstruction and the building urban farms.
Often our college youth participants do community organizing in the afternoon as well for various projects developed by School at Blair Grocery and NY2NO.
Evening: Our participants debrief, reflect and evaluate how the trip is going. This occurs in a people's circle following the principles of an egalitarian space and our consensus-based organization. Students participate in radical education developed by NY2NO which usually involves democratically-run discussions on articles, videos, and books chosen by Alum Organizers.
April Trip Begins
April Trip Returns
National Service Learning Conference
Summer Application Due
May 1st
