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"Making Change" Schedule |
"Making Change: Working for Social Justice"
Schedule:
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2002
1:00 - 3:00 pm Class meeting of College 130 “Coming of Age in America: Narratives of Difference”. Bob Moses as special guest speaker.
9:00 pm Performance
Dance performance by Vanessa Paige '88
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2002
8:30 – 9:00 Opening Reception for Conference.
9:00 – 9:15 Introductory Remarks
9:15 – 10:30 Panel 1 –Educating for Social Change: In the Belly of the Beast
Teachers and students at public and private institutions, inside and outside of the system, will discuss schooling and social change, from educating the dispossessed to raising the consciousness of the privileged.
11:00 am Keynote Address
Robert P. Moses ’56 "The Presumption of Innocence, Sharecropper Education and America's Ideals"
Robert “Bob” Moses spent his young adult life as a pioneer in the Civil Rights Movement, working as a prime mover in the drive to register Black voters in Mississippi. More recently, as a teacher and founder of the national math literacy program called the Algebra Project, he has been applying the lessons of grassroots organizing to one of today’s most pressing civil rights issues – education and its effect on economic access.
1:30 – 2:45 p.m. Panel 2– Using the Law for Social Change: Making Rights Real
How can the law become an instrument for social justice? Our panel includes lawyers working in the areas of gay rights, labor issues, the environment, and community empowerment.
3:00 – 4:15 p.m. Panel 3 – Writing for Social Change: From Proposals to Propaganda
To make change happen we need to communicate our ideals and involve others—and we need to raise money. Social change organizations need writers who can produce a variety of materials—newsletters, research reports, action guides, websites, and funding proposals.
4:15 – 5:30 p.m. Panel 4 – Organizing for Social Change: Policymakers and Grass Roots Activists
From the Arts to the Federal Government, these panelists are working on the front lines. How have they made social change happen? What obstacles have they faced? How did they get started in their careers?
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