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Fundraising Drive to Build Anne Braden Program
Dear Friends, We are reaching out to you today with a special request: to help us bring forth a hopeful new vision, the Anne Braden Antiracism Training Program! We have deeply appreciated your generous support of Catalyst Project in the past, and our work is strengthened and sustained by your commitment to it.
Just the FAQs
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Catalyst Project Launches
The Anne Braden Anti-Racist Training Program For White Social Justice Activists, Spring of 2008 This four month political education and leadership development program is designed to support the political development, skills, and analysis of white activists in becoming accountable, principled anti-racist organizers building multiracial movements for justice. The program will begin in February of 2008. […]
The U.S. Social Forum
If Another World is Possible, Another U.S. is Necessary Catalyst is building for the U.S. Social Forum with allies around the country. We believe that the Social Forum is of critical importance for our movement and strongly encourage all of you, our comrades and allies, to participate in and build this historic opportunity. From June […]
Catalyst’s Internship Program
Reflections on My Internship at Catalyst by Cile Beatty I have had the great pleasure of being an intern with the Catalyst Project from the beginning of February to early May; a 20 hours a week internship. This internship has been part of my masters program at Starr King School for the Ministry. I graduate […]
Report From NCOR 2007
Building Grassroots Power: The Catalyst Delegation and Program at the National Conference on Organized Resistance: March 9-11th 2007 With over a thousand activists from around the country, Catalyst led three sessions at this years National Conference on Organized Resistance. NCOR, which was founded by Catalyst advisor Nisha Anand, celebrated it’s 10 year anniversary. NCOR is […]
We Must Know Our History
Catalyst Benefit Brings Out a Community of Support On May 22nd over 80 people come together at El Rio, a community bar in the Mission District, for the Heads Up Collective monthly film series. Heads Up Collective, a sister organization of the Catalyst Project, has been using the film series over the past 3 years […]
The Ruckus Society 2001-2003
From 2001 through 2003 Catalyst Project worked closely with the Ruckus Society. Ruckus is a leading direct action training center. Working primarily in the environmental and social justice movements through the late 1990s, Ruckus trained hundreds of mostly white activists in the skills of non-violent direct action: blockades, media, legal, campaign design, banner hanging and […]
Direct Action to Stop the War 2003
With the Bush administration leading the United States to a war against Iraq, millions of people around the world took to the streets for peace and justice. On February 15th, 2003, over fifteen million people in 60 countries marched against the war in the largest protest in recorded history. In the Bay Area, global justice […]
Direct Action to Stop the War 2003
With the Bush administration leading the United States to a war against Iraq, millions of people around the world took to the streets for peace and justice. On February 15th, 2003, over fifteen million people in 60 countries marched against the war in the largest protest in recorded history. In the Bay Area, global justice […]