{"id":35354,"date":"2020-11-06T17:23:35","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T01:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/?p=35354"},"modified":"2020-11-06T17:23:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-07T01:23:37","slug":"workshop-nonviolent-grassroots-organizing-glens-parallax-perspectives-virtual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/workshop-nonviolent-grassroots-organizing-glens-parallax-perspectives-virtual\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshop: Nonviolent Grassroots Organizing, Glen&#8217;s Parallax Perspectives (Virtual)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sign up now for 6 FREE online workshops to empower you for Nonviolent Grassroots Organizing on any issue!<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m offering each workshop twice each week, so you may CHOOSE:<br \/>\nEITHER 6 Sundays afternoons Nov. 15 to Dec. 20 (1:30-3:30 pm Pacific Time)<br \/>\nOR 6 Monday evenings Nov. 16 to Dec. 21 (6:30-8:30 pm Pacific Time)<br \/>\nIf you have a scheduling conflict on any day, you may take that week\u2019s workshop on the other day that week.<\/p>\n<p>How are the issues YOU care about doing nowadays?<br \/>\nMany people feel frustrated that peace, social and economic justice, the environment and climate, and other vital goals are left behind by \u201cpolitics-as-usual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nWhen \u201cthe system\u201d keeps failing to solve the real problems, YOU can work with other people to ORGANIZE NONVIOLENT GRASSROOTS MOVEMENTS to make progress on issues YOU care about!<\/p>\n<p>\nSign up now for 6 FREE online workshops to empower you and provide insights, strategies and resources to help you win!<br \/>\nGovernments, big businesses, mainstream media, and other entrenched entities will do what we want ONLY WHEN a strong nonviolent grassroots movement forces them to do what is needed \u2014 or when we creatively work around them to accomplish good goals despite their obstinacy.<\/p>\n<p>Recent history has proved this many times. (In the 1960s Congress passed civil rights legislation only because the Civil Rights Movement forced them to. Grassroots organizing against nuclear weapons forced the U.S. government to enact several treaties in the 1960s. President Obama opposed LGBTQ rights to marriage until the grassroots movement forced him to support equal rights. The list goes on and on.)<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m offering again my series of 6 FREE ONLINE workshops on Nonviolent Grassroots Organizing so YOU can empower yourself with insights, strategies, and practical ways to MAKE SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS on issues YOU care about.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS FLYER for more information:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/parallaxperspectives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/6-practical-workshops-on-Grassroots-Organizing-Nov-Dec-2020-FLYER.pdf\">6 practical workshops on Grassroots Organizing \u2014 Nov-Dec 2020 \u2014 FLYER<\/a><br \/>\nPeople ANYWHERE can use Zoom video to take these 6 workshops.<br \/>\nPlease sign up now and I\u2019ll tell you the Zoom meeting ID.<br \/>\nContact me at <strong>glenanderson@integra.net<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For EVERY issue you care about (peace, climate, economics, democracy, social justice, human rights, etc.), the REAL SOLUTIONS will come when people organize nonviolently and strategically at the grassroots.<\/p>\n<p>ALL OF US \u2014 new people, experienced organizers, and everybody in between \u2014 can STRENGTHEN OUR SKILLS and add resources to our \u201ctoolboxes\u201d so we can make more progress in working on our issues.<\/p>\n<p>Please see information on the flyer I posted at the link above \u2013 and SIGN UP NOW!<\/p>\n<p>To sign up or ask questions, please phone me at (360) 491-9093 or e-mail me at\u00a0<u><a href=\"mailto:glenanderson@integra.net\"><strong>glenanderson@integra.net<\/strong><\/a><\/u><\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/parallaxperspectives.org\/sign-up-now-for-6-free-online-workshops-to-empower-you-for-nonviolent-grassroots-organizing-on-any-issue\">http:\/\/parallaxperspectives.org\/sign-up-now-for-6-free-online-workshops-to-empower-you-for-nonviolent-grassroots-organizing-on-any-issue<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3815,"featured_media":34064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[11],"tags":[4,40,13,9,39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3815"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35355,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35354\/revisions\/35355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mesweekly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}