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Color of Violence 4: Beyond the State: Inciting Transformative Possibilities
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Saturday, March 28 • 10:00am - 11:30am
De-militarize & Politicize: How Movements can Organize Against Military Recruiters & Police Departments

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This is a popular education style workshop, using a “training the trainers” format. Participants will gain practical, how-to knowledge of workshop to lead similar conversations with the communities and organizations they with. Using small group breakout sessions and a problem tree exercise, participants will determine what are the roots causes of militarism and police brutality: what upholds this system and what are symptoms of militarism? Drawing connections between militarism and patriarchy, neoliberalism, white supremacy and environmental degradation, participants will be contributing to a working list of strategies to combat Empire.
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Sharmin Hossain

Sharmin Hossain is a Queens bred, Bangladeshi henna tattoo artist, writer, and political educator. She currently works at the Ya-Ya Network as a youth educator and communications coordinator . She enjoys frollicking through books of anti-colonial, anti-racist histories within South... Read More →
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Uruj Sheikh

Uruj Sheikh (she/her): Uruj’s interest in social transformation has been shaped by her upbringing as a first generation Pakistani Muslim woman, and through coming into her queerness. Since 2005, she has been participating in grassroots struggles around a multitude of issues. She... Read More →

Saturday March 28, 2015 10:00am - 11:30am CDT
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