Events

 

September 12, 2008 Workshops at LaGuardia Community College

 

Men’s Work:  The Roots of Male Violence
10:00 am – 11:30 am (suggested audience - Common Reading & B-MEC & Classes)
Location: Student Conference Center MB-10

Where does male violence come from? This training explores male socialization, social issues of power and violence, anger and control, male/male and male/female relationships, and basic techniques for working with men in diverse settings. Participating service providers practice new skills and obtain new resources for working more effectively and accountably with men learning to overcome violence.

 

Uprooting Racism
12:30 – 2:00 pm (suggested audience - Everyone)
Location: Student Conference Center MB-10

A highly interactive and participatory workshop looking at the intersection of race, gender, and class. Participants focus on the roots of institutional racism and white privilege, and how the work of uprooting racism remains central to eliminating male violence, and to rebuilding our divided communities. Exercises help the group explore interconnections among racial, economic, and gender-based violence, and provide practical guidelines on how to be an ally in the struggle for racial justice.

 

Wealth, Power, and Class:  Who Benefits, Who Pays, and Who Really Decides
2:30 – 4:30 pm (suggested audience – Leadership & Diversity & B-MEC)
Location: Student Conference Center MB-10

Using interactive exercises, this workshop examines how power and wealth operate in the U.S., where each of us fits into this system, and how our daily work is affected by economics. We’ll learn how distractions keep us from understanding what is going on, and explore the role of the “buffer zone” in maintaining the current system. Discussions include how to be an ally across class lines, and helping people get together as well as to get ahead.

 

Paul Kivel
is a social justice educator, activist, and writer, has been an innovative leader in violence prevention for more than 27 years. He is an accomplished trainer and speaker on men’s issues, racism and diversity, challenges of youth, teen dating and family violence, raising boys to manhood, and the impact of class and power on daily life. Paul has developed highly effective participatory and interactive methodologies for training youth and adults in a variety of settings. His work gives people the understanding to become involved in social justice work and the tools to become more effective allies in community struggles to end oppression and injustice and to transform organizations and institutions.
Kivel is the author of numerous books and curricula, including Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice, which won the 1996 Gustavus Myers Award for best book on human rights, Men’s Work, Making the Peace, Helping Teens Stop Violence, Boys Will Be Men, I Can Make My World A Safer Place, and most recently, You Call This a Democracy?: Who Benefits, Who Pays, and Who Really Decides.