query: training on injustice framing

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[ed:  thanks to Michael for replying to Helen's query.]

From: MBrown7387 at aol.com


Helen, I think the part of my book, Building Powerful Community 
Organizations,  (pp. 136-145) has some stories and an exercise from the 
labor movement and other places that might be useful in this process.  
Important question!  Michael Jacoby Brown  (www.LongHaulPress.com )

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> From: Helen Schaub <has8119 at yahoo.com>
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> Hi Comm-Org,
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> I am designing a training for labor organizers to help them improve 
> their conversations with workers who are unsure about whether or not to 
> support their coworkers in an organizing drive.  The focus is on the 
> process that an individual goes through in order to recognize the 
> injustice of the situation they are in, overcome their fear about taking 
> the risk to change it and decide to take action.
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> I would greatly appreciate suggestions about resources to draw on for 
> this training.  In particular, I thought that a description of stages of 
> individual transformation would be useful in helping organizers to think 
> about how to move someone through such a process.
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> Thanks so much
> Helen Schaub
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