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• Activists and organizers
• People engaged in mutual aid work
• Anyone who bought a whistle in preparation for ICE raids on your community
• Anyone who supports the human rights of Palestinians
• People who don’t consider themselves Activists but did go to a No Kings protest

• Step One: Fill out this registration form
• Step Two: Figure out your payment on this sliding scale
• Step Three: make your payment here.

Note:  Registration will close on June 9th.

Sessions will be on zoom for two hours with a 10 minute break about halfway through. Session will include presentations from guest speakers and breakout discussions of various sizes.

This course will be facilitated by Catalyst Project members and volunteers, and will feature the following guest speakers:

• Ejeris Dixon (they/she) is an organizer and political strategist with 20 years of experience working in racial justice, LGBTQ, anti-violence, and economic justice movements. They are the Founding Executive Director of Vision Change Win Consulting and the Principal of Ejerie Labs. 

• Mark Tilson is a poet, educator, and frontline veteran from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, in the homelands of the Oglala Lakota Nation.

• Darkashan Raja, is the founding executive director of Muslims for Just Futures (MJF) where she manages the organization’s overall development, programming, administration, and strategic direction. Darakshan leads MJF’s national advocacy and movement-building efforts, local Chicago power-building programming, and the DC Guaranteed Income program.  Darakshan is an abolitionist who made her way to organizing through the anti-violence movement providing crisis advocacy support to survivors in NYC. She is passionate about building power, bringing organizing visions to life, and figuring out ways to build a strong infrastructure for movement work.

• Soffiyah Elijah is the Founder and former Executive Director of the Alliance of Families for Justice. She has dedicated her life to human rights and social activism and is a frequent presenter at national and international forums on criminal justice policy, incarceration and human rights issues.

• June 10th: Opening session
• June 17th: Mark Tilsen, Indigenous Environmental Network
• June 24th: Soffiyah Elijah, movement Lawyer
• July 1st: Darakshan Raja, Muslims for just Futures
• July 8th: Ejeris Dixon, Ejerie Labs
• July 9:  Principles of Anti-Racist Movement Security and Closing

• Zoom: Sessions will be held on zoom.
• Breaks: In our 2 hour training, we will be taking one 10 minute break. 
• Video: Use of video is encouraged but not required. Please do what you need to take care of yourself. We understand you have busy lives and are happy to see your pets, kids, etc on screen. 
• Captions: We will be using zoom's automatic transcribing during this training. 
• Recordings: Presentation portions of the course will be recorded for registered participants who have to miss the session.  Participatory discussions will not be recorded.

If you have additional access needs not covered by this information, please let us know in your registration.

Presentation portions of the course will be recorded for registered participants who have to miss the session.  Participatory discussions will not be recorded.

This course has no required homework.  However, there will be recommended readings (or videos or audio sources) for each session.