Plug In to Campus and Community Organizing
Photo: UMass Department of History
The UMass Alliance for Community Transformation (UACT) will offer it’s annual Plug In event, a collection of workshops, exhibits, food, and tabling focused on community organizing and social change, on Thursday April 3, from 4-6 p.m. at the lobby of the Bromery Center for the Arts at UMass. This event is in-person only and will not be recorded. The event is free and open to all.
The UACT plug-in is presented in conjunction with the exhibit 1980s Anti-Imperialist Student Activism at UMass and the Feinberg Family Distinguished Lecture Series.
Effective struggles for liberation and justice require grounded strategies and creative tactics, context-specific power analysis, and diverse methods for shifting power to the people. The Plug In event is an opportunity for students, faculty, staff, and community members to think about the university as a site where social struggle plays out.
This event will feature local and campus groups that are organizing for immigrant justice, worker power, reproductive justice, and housing justice, and for an end to student debt, carceral violence, and university complicity with the weapons and fossil fuel industries. Participants will hear from organizers and attend two short participatory workshops.
The Plug In is an annual event hosted by the UMass Alliance for Community Transformation (UACT), a program of the Department of Anthropology that prepares students to engage in social change work wisely and sustainably, across many lines of difference.
Stop in to the Plug In to eat, check out info/activity tables, view an exhibit on the history of activism at UMass, and attend short workshops led by powerful student and community organizers!
Workshops include:
- Building Campaigns for our Movements: Strategy
- Collective Debriefs: A Tool for Strategic Action
- Drumming in Demonstrations – Beginner to Expert
- Know Your Rights is Mutual Aid
- Multi-Lingual Organizing
- Staying Grounded and Connected: Nervous System Basics
- Transformative Justice
- Why Did We Stop Singing? Movement Songs
- Zine-Making
- And many more!
The Bromery Center for the Arts is located at 151 Presidents Drive on the UMass campus.
Directions and Parking information.