Catalyst Project is a center for political education and movement building based in the San Francisco Bay Area. We are committed to anti-racist work in majority white sections of left social movements with the goal of deepening anti-racist commitment in white communities and building multiracial left movements for liberation. We are committed to creating spaces for activists and organizers to collectively develop relevant theory, vision and strategy to build our movements. Catalyst programs prioritize leadership development, supporting grassroots fighting organizations and multiracial alliance building.
 
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Anne Braden Program Panels

Check out these three amazing program panels that were organized for the Anne Braden Program!

 
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Visionary Politics: Another World is Possible

A panel discussion with Rachel Herzing from Critical Resistance and Creative Interventions, Michelle Mascarenhas-Swan from Movement Generation Justice & Ecology Project, Sara Kershnar from the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Chela Delgado from INCITE: Women of Color Against Violence. The panelists discuss visionary politics for our movements based in the work of their organizations.

Visionary politics are political frames that invite us to imagine and create a world organized and operated by values of justice, cooperation, and liberation.  This panel focuses on ways that social justice organizations balance addressing the urgency of organizing against oppressive forces and their immediate impacts on people’s lives with building sustainable alternative institutions and practices in line with their alternative visions for the world.  Panelists discuss ways that their organizations balance fighting for concrete wins and advances in the world with transforming the process and culture of how that organizing happens.

 

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Strategies for Anti-Racist Organizing

 
Sunday November 15th
 
Panelists on Strategies for Anti-Racist Organizing with Linda Burnham longtime leader for racial, gender, and economic justice, Dawn Phillips of Just Cause Oakland, Alicia Garza of People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER), Carla Wallace of the Fairness Campaign and Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression.
 
The panelists ground current anti-racist work within a legacy of long-term social movements, and share strategies for building working class power in communities of color in Oakland and San Francisco toward systemic change. Panelists share lessons and strategies for anti-racist organizing with white people and ways white people can be part of efforts to build vibrant multi-racial movements for justice.

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Anne Braden Program Panel: Indigenous Resistance and Colonization in North America

 From Sunday August 23rd

Panel discussion on the historic process of European colonization of North America and indigenous resistance struggles historically and today.

Panelists Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Randy Burns, Cathy Chapman, Ras K’dee. 

 

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