STARC Summer Organizing Institute

[colist-admin at comm-org.utoledo.edu]

[ed:  in addition to the summer institute promoted here, STARC is 
also running a conference on "Investing in Our Communities."  See 
http://www.starcalliance.org ]

From:	LC <radkid2 at yahoo.com>

You've got drive, you've got vision and guts--But all college has 
done is teach you to write essays and hold a protest. There's a 
movement for social justice swelling across the country and you 
want to build it. The STARC Alliance is ready to work with young 
activists who want to learn how to organize.  


Introducing.....The STARC Summer Institute  

What is it? An intensive 8-week training school for young activists. 
It is being offered for the first time in the summer of 2002. The 
Summer Institute is designed to help youth & student activists 
become successful, conscious organizers on our campuses, in our 
communities, and for the broader student movement.  

What’s STARC? The STARC (Students Transforming and 
Resisting Corporations) Alliance is a national network of youth and 
student activists who are working for a just and sustainable society 
by building power with the people most impacted by inequality.  

As young activists, we’re committed to building our skills as 
principled, effective organizers who will work in movements for 
racial, economic and environmental justice over the long run. At 
the Summer Institute, we'll learn organizing skills and develop our 
political analysis through a combination of training and hands-on 
community organizing experience. The Summer Institute has 4 
major components:  

Internships: Students will be placed as interns with principled 
community-based organizations. There, we'll witness community-
based organizing from the inside, and gain some concrete 
organizing experience ourselves. We'll also have the opportunity to 
support critical community struggles around a variety of issues.  

Political Education: A core piece of the Summer Institute is a 
weekly workshop that build our practical analysis of interlocking 
systems of oppression-- white supremacy, capitalism, and 
patriarchy—and their relationship to current struggles and 
movements. We'll combine guest presentations, readings, 
discussion of liberation struggles of oppressed communities, 
challenging privilege, and organizing strategy.  

Organizing Skills: A series of organizing trainings led by 
professional organizers and trainers will ground us, as participants, 
in basic direct action community organizing, power mapping, 
strategic campaign design, media, direct action/civil disobedience, 
and other important organizing skills.  


Building STARC: Participants will take on collective projects related 
to STARC, including helping plan our national gathering to be held 
at the end of the summer. Not only will we learn and organize 
together, we'll also work to build a stronger sense of community in 
STARC over the next year. In building thoughtful relationships with 
each other, we have the roots to create powerful alliances with 
other groups and organizers. We are the next generation of social 
justice, and we must work together!  


The Summer Institute begins on June 8 with a 5-day orientation 
and ends August 9. It will take place in the San Francisco Bay Area 
in California. Participants will be provided housing and receive a 
stipend to cover their living expenses.  

The STARC Alliance is an affirmative action network, women, 
queers, people of color are encouraged to apply!  

 

The STARC Summer Institute Application  

This application is due Feb. 15 2002  

 

 

Name:                                           Email:

 

School/Community:                       Phone Number for Feb.-May 
2002:

 

Address:

 

1.     Please provide us with a resume of your community 
involvement and organizing thus far. 1 pg max, 10 pt font min.  

 

2.     Describe your experience organizing with the STARC Alliance.  

 

3.     What are you hoping to get out of the Summer Institute?  

 

4.   What role does challenging racism, sexism & gender, classism 
have in the work you do?  

 

 

Application Process:  

Jan. 14, 2002 Announcement and applications are available  

Feb. 15, 2002  Applications due at 
starcsummerschool at yahoo.com  

Feb. 25, 2002 During this week there will be phone interviews if 
necessary  

Mar. 15, 2002  We’ll notify you by this date as to whether you’re in 
or not.  

 

 

Questions?  

Email: Staffer at starcalliance.org  or call (503) 247.5995 for STARC 
HQ  





Laura Close, STARC Field Organizer
503.247.5995
www.starcalliance.org

"Holding each other close across differences, beyond conflict, 
through change, is an act of resistance."
                                    --bell hooks