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The DC Counter-Inaugural Welcoming Committee

The DC Action Camp document describes the schedule from January 14th to the 16th for the DC Action Camp #DISRUPTJ20. The DC Counter Inaugural Welcoming Committee has created a series of training to disrupt the inauguration processes on January 20th, 2017. The core set of training provided in DC Action Camp aims to actively gather and resist measures of repression that Trump would enact. The curriculum includes direct action tactics, legal training, and security. Some of these are bystander intervention training, strategic organizing in the face of police violence, and radical cheerleading. These training were organized by time and location.

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The DC Counter-Inaugural Welcoming Committee

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The DC Counter-Inaugural Welcoming Committee seeks not only

to disrupt the inauguration procession on January 20th, but also

every repressive measure that Trump would try to inflict on our
world and the people in it.
To make this happen, The Welcoming Committee has put togeth­
er this weekend of trainings and workshops to prepare people for
upcoming inauguration actions to prepare them for the next 4
years and beyond.

In these trainings, we will analyze and discuss why material, col­
lective resistance is necessary during the Trump administration,
how we can resist, and what future our actions are building to­
wards.
We have a core set of trainings on direct action tactics, legal train­
ings, and digital security that we hope all attendees participate in
to prepare for inauguration actions. In addition to this core cur­

riculum, we have a series of trainings to help develop organizing

skills, social theory, and people's histories to help activists develop
their strategies going forward.
We hope all participants learn as much as possible to bring back
to their communities to fight against the repression of Trump's
America. We are the heroes we have been waiting for.
All sessions marked with an asterisk (*) will have Spanish translation
available.
Todas las sesiones marcadas con un asterisco tendran traducci6n al
espafiol disponible.

SATURDAY JANUARY 14 TH

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
9:30am-6pm

Registration, Tabling, and Open Space Sign-up - SIS Atrium

10am-1'2pm
Decolonize the Shit and Let's Move•

Ward Circle Building 113 - Emem Obot is a member of The Darkening.

This session is a discussion on the process of unlearning white and western

thought and the importance of this process from everyday life to community

organizing.

Climate Science and the Politics of Resistance

Ward Circle Building 104 - Brittany is a social scientist, activist and educator
who has been a part of climate justice movements in the US and the U. K.

since

2009.

Gustavo is a phd researcher at Johns Hopkins who specializes in

the effects of climate change on indigenous peoples in Latin America. In this
workshop, we want to provide an interdisciplinary introduction to the science

and politics of climate change, from what's likely to happen in terms of inter­

national agreements in 2017, to confronting lifestyleism as a distraction from
collective action, the limitations of climate science, the decades-long resis­

tance of the global climate justice movement to market based solutions like
cap and trade, the collective utopian spaces and visionary politics created

by resistance movements around the world.

1'2pm-lpm
Lunch

1'2:30pm-'2pm (Bring lunch)
From May

1971

to A16

& Beyond: Learning from Past DC Blockades

SIS 233 - L.A. Kauffman is a longtime organizer and movement historian.
Her book, Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radi­

calism, will be out next month. Lisa Fithian is an anti-racist direct action

organizer and trainer who has worked for nonviolent social change since

1975

with many movements More about Lisa can be found on her website

Organizing for Power. As people prepare to disrupt the inauguration, what

can we learn from previous attempts to shut down the city? We'll discuss
the organizing models and blockading tactics used in several important
past efforts, including the Mayday 1971 antiwar actions, the April

16, 2000

anti-globalization protests, and the M/9 Iraq War protests of 2008.

lpm-'2.pm
Legal Training*

Ward Circle Building 113

Transforming Enemy Imagery: Building Ot

-

This training will be led by experienced protestors

and legal observers. It will take participants through the basics of dealing

w,th law enforcement in DC, what police departments we have, and what
we expect legal repercussions to be.

The Next System: Changing the Rules of the Game

Ward 104

-

Historian Gar Alperovitz is the author of several books, most

recently What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk About the Next American

Revolution, and is co-chair of the Next System Project as well as co-founder

of the Democracy Collaborative.

'2:15pm-6pm

Direct Action Training
Kay Chapel

& SIS 233 - This training will take participants through the

basic tactics and strategies that have historically leveraged mass action for

political change.

'2: 1 Spm-4: lSpm
Bystander Intervention Training*
Ward Circle Building 113

-

Noor Mir is a DC-based anti-war organizer with

the Washington Peace Center and the Muslim American Women's Policy
Forum. In the current context of lslamophobia and spike in hate-based

harassment (over 700 hate crimes reported since November 9th alone),

attend this interactive workshop to learn the basics of bystander intervention

within the context of lslamophobia in the United States. Participants will

be briefed on how lslarnophobia is currently exerted by the state (Muslim

registries and countering violent extremism) and will then be taken through a
bystander intervention training where they will learn how to recognize subtle

signs of aggressive behavior and use bystander intervention strategies to

stop harassment.

'2:15pm-3:30pm

�trategic nonviolent organizing in the face of police violence and repres­
s10n

EOB 200 - Cathy Lisa Schneider is Associate Professor in School of Inter­

national Service and author of Police Power and Race Riots: Urban Unrest in
Paris and New York and Shantytown Protest in Pinochet's Chile. We will look

at how movements organizing under conditions of severe repression have

created and sustained safe spaces for resistance.

Differences

East Ouad Building 205 - Kevin Spangenb

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experiential workshop, we will explore what 1

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4:30pm-6pm
Migration and Deportation: Breaking Do•

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Transforming Enemy Imagery: Building Our Capacity to Connect Across

Differences

East Ouod Building 205 - Kevin Spangenberg is a Nonviolent Communi­

cation coach and group facilitator currently living in on intentional commu­

nity coiled Rainforest Lab in the Pacific Northwest. In this interactive and
experiential workshop, we will explore what it might look like to create satis­
fying relationships in our lives which prioritize safety, trust, and core for all.
Disability

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Ward Circle Bui/ding 104

- Shayna Cook is a research assistant and student

at American University; they run 2/stcenturycoping.com, a collaborative

resource-in-progress for disabled people. Disability 101 will discuss what
disability as a lived experience and identity is, a very brief history of disability
activism, and what it means to be disability-inclusive in activism planning,
direct action events, and in day to day life.

4:30pm-6pm

Migration and Deportation: Breaking Down Stories•

Ward Circle Building 104 -Arianna Montero-Colbert is organized as part

of the educational development team for Anokboyan New Jersey, a com­

prehensive progressive youth organization advancing the movement for a

national democracy and genuine liberation from imperialism in the Philip­
pines. Jo Ouiombao is the Secretary-General for GABRIELA DC a grass­
roots-based alliance of progressive Filipino women's organizations in the
United States seeking to wage a struggle for the liberation of all oppressed
Filipino women and the rest of our people. Jhonry de la Cruz is focused on
organizing Filipino-American Youth with Anakbayon and recent immigrants
to the US with /vligronte rooting their experiences here to the conditions
in the Philippines. This workshop will start from the context and history of
Filipino women, youth, and migrants and then break out into groups to
discuss larger immigration narratives as well as participants' own personal
organizing and migration stories. The workshop will include a basic overview
of foreign policy between the United States and the Philippines centering

discussions of imperialism and human trafficking.

Picket Training
Ward Circle Building 113 - Ben Egerman Kieran Knutson are organizers
with the /WW This training was developed after several harrowing incidents
in which IW W members on picket lines and at protests were assaulted, hit by
cars, or prevented by liberal marshals from confronting neo-nazis who were
taking video of potential targets at a may day march. Discussions of useful
roles to have ahead of time, ways to approach interference from police or
others, and past successes and failures aim to give participants the kind of
skills and confidence to plan the kinds of pickets and marches needed to
scare the crap out of the ruling class.

&

6pm-8pm
Dinner St. Stephen's

SUNDAY JANUARY 15TH

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY
9:30am-6pm

Registration, Tabling, and Open Space Sign-up - SIS Atrium

llam-12pm & 3pm-4pm

Digital Security
East Ouad Building 205 - Learn to use Signal, device encryption, and 9th­
er digital security tools. Workshops will be WoC/nonbinary/trans-centered
spaces.

10am-12pm

Combating Threats to Unions, Workers, and the Labor Movement*
Ward Circle Building 104 -Jonathan Williams is the communications
manager for UFCW Local 400. Allison Burket is an organizer with UNITE
HERE Local 23. Elizabeth Falcon is the Executive Director of DC Jobs with
Justice. This interactive Union 101 workshop to deepen understanding of
unions and what's at stake in federal and local fights to undermine union
power. Learn about collective action, worker leadership, and protections for
immigrant workers.

Fascism 101

& Lessons Learned for Today's Movement Strategy

Ward Circle Building 113 - Waldo Katz-Fishman is a long time movement

organizer and professor of sociology at Howard University, and a founder
of Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty

& Genocide.

Britany

Gatewood is a second year doctoral student in sociology at Howard Uni­

versity. Anthony Jackson second year Masters students in the Department

of Sociology and Criminology at Howard University. In this workshop we

will develop our movement analysis of fascism in the US as a racial and

gendered corporate and military state, and its relation to capitalism in the
current political moment and the '2017 Trump presidency. Vision the world
we wont and need, and think together about movement strategy using
lessons learned from historic movement struggle

I0:30am-1'2pm

Mobile Training Team

Kay Meeting Room - Join the Mobile Training Team as we prep to field

small mobile crews to deliver SHORT 30+ min trainings on site at )'20

and the Womens March as folks gather or get off buses. Help participants

understand strategic nonviolent action, tools
and connect with movement work

& tips for street smarts/safety,

What's Race Got to Do With It? Things White Activists Need to Know

SIS '233 - SUR) DC facilitators will work with participants to examine those
intersections, both in this moment and as they continue to tak? action. A

handout with 3 key questions from that curriculum will be shared that train­

ees can to take with them and use for future conversations with other white
folks they engage with during the inauguration activities and beyond.

1'2pm-lpm
Lunch
lpm-Spm

Direct Action Training•

Koy Chapel - T his training will take participants through the lvasic tactics

and strategies that have historically leveraged mass action for political

change.

lpm-'2pm

Digital Security Open Lab Hours

- Learn to use Signal, device encryption, and other digital security
tools. Workshops will be WoC/nonbinary/trans-centered spaces.

SIS 349

Legal Training

Wo rd Circle Building 1 1 3 - This training will be led by experienced pro testors

and legal observers. It will take participants through the basics of dealing

with low enforcement in DC, what police deportments we hove, and what
we expect legal repercussions to be.
l pm -3 pm

Radical Cheerleoding

Wo rd Circle Building 104 - Allison Aguilar has gained most of her sho uting

experience from the picket line. An expert breather from the diaphragm,

and lady with mucho animo, she "ii get you shaking and shouting. Emma

Cleveland hos a booming voice, con ·t sit still, and hates authority so she was

destined to be a radical cheerleader. Elizabeth Fa lcon believes most things

ore made better with a pop song, good rhymes and smart puns. An interac­
tive workshop to build a radical cheerleading squad for )2 0 actions/ We will
learn old ch eers I Write new cheers I Rewrite our fave pop songs into radical
cheers ! Chants I Dance moves! More/ Collaboratively build on each other's
great ideas to create hilarious rhymes, uplifting beats and biting commen­

tary for everyone on the cold ) 2 0 streets/ Come! Bring you r G R R R L power!
l p m -'2:3 0pm

Press Strategy and Media Rapid Response Trainin g •

East Ouad Building 205 - Morzeno i s a DC-based activist, and works as

the Earned Media Strategist for the National Domestic Wo rkers Alliance. In

this hands-on training, we will go over pitching, press releases, spokespeople,

and tips for rapid-response when news breaks. We 'll conclude with tactics for

holding press accountable when they try to sanitize your radical message.
'2pm-4-pm

Walking Tour: Lessons from the Anti-Globalization Movement

Lincoln Theater at 1 2 15

U Street NW - Join the Ex-Worker Podcast on a

walking tour of sites from the Anti- Globalization Movement in DC. Learn

subversive DC history, visit the DIY spaces where anti-capitalists organized
their attacks on the World Bank and

/MF,

and listen to lessons from a vision ­

ary struggle for global liberation The tour is just under 2 hours long, and is
wheelchair accessible with only one detour

l pm-2pm

Legal Training•
Ward Circle Building 113 - This training will be led by experienced protestors
and legal observers. It will take participants through the basics of dealing
with law enforcement in DC, what police departments we have, and what
we expect legal repercussions to be.
The Next System: Changing the Rules of the Game

Ward 104 - Historian Gar Alperovitz is the author of several books, most
recently What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk About the Next American
Revolution, and is co-chair of the Next System Project as well as co-founder
of the Democracy Collaborative.

2:1 5pm-6pm

Direct Action Training
Kay Chapel & SIS 233 - This training will take participants through the

basic tactics and strategies that have historically leveraged mass action for
political change.

2:15pm-4:15pm

Bystander Intervention Training"
Ward Circle Building 113 - Noor Mir is a DC-based anti-war organizer with
the Washington Peace Center and the Muslim American Women 's Policy
Forum. In the current context of lslamophobia and spike in hate-based

harassment (over 700 hate crimes reported since November 9th alone),
attend this interactive workshop to learn the basics of bystander intervention
within the context of lslamophobia in the United States. Participants will
be briefed on how lslamophobia is currently exerted by the state (Muslim
registries and countering violent extremism) and will then be taken through a
bystander intervention training where they will learn how to recognize subtle
signs of aggressive behavior and use bystander intervention strategies to

stop harassment.
2:15pm-3:30pm

Strategic nonviolent organizing in the face of police violence and repres­
sion

EOB 200 - Cathy Lisa Schneider is Associate Professor in School of Inter­
national Service and author of Police Power and Race Riots: Urban Unrest in
Paris and New York and Shantytown Protest in Pinochet's Chile. We will look
at how movements organizing under conditions of severe repression have
created and sustained safe spaces for resistance.

2 : I Spm-3:l Spm

How to Talk to a Nazi: Protection and Preparation for a Fascist Society
SIS 233 - Mike Isaacson is on anti-fascist activist and reseorcl1er and
co-foun der of Smash Racism DC Th is workshop will go through how to
safely engage with Nazis, how to suss out whether someone hos Nazi
leanings, what Nazis typically believe, and how you might reach them on a
political and personal level.

3: 30pm-5:30pm

How to Cop Watch
SIS 233 - Copwatch of East Atlanta has been intervening against the police
at protests and on the block since 2009. Copwotching provides evidence
of police misconduct and sometimes even stops cops From abusing people.
Learn to record cops in a safe, legal, and effective wa y. Work in a small
team to monitor police activity during large protests or everyday encounters
in the neighborhood. It is highly recommended that participants also attend
one of the legal trainings.
Facts of Organizing Training

Ward Circle Building 1 1 3 - Robby Diesu is on organizer, trainer, and move­

ment queen who is a member of the DC Action Lab Collective. Using on
episode of the 80s hit tv show the Facts of Life as a case study, The Facts
of Organizing training will h elp give participants the skills to understand the
importances of tronsformative as opposed to transactional organizing.
Fighting Racism and Anti-Semitism for Jews and Allies
Ward Circle Building 1 04 - Rebecca Ennen builds community through orga­
nizing and Jewish education & practice. Eliana Roberts Golding is a tenant
organizer with a commitment to Jewish comm unal spiritual practice. In this
workshop we 'll unpack what anti-semitism is, historically and today, identify
anti-Jewish oppression as it shows up on the Right and the Left, and talk
about how Jews and allies together con resist all Forms of racism

4pm-5:30pm

Digital Security Open Lab Hours

SIS 349 - Learn to use Signal, device encryption, and other digital security
tools. Workshops will be WoC/nonbinary/trans-centered spaces.

6:30pm-8:30pm
Din ner St. Stephen 's

1525 Newton St. N W

M O N DAY JAN UARY

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ST. ST EPH E N 'S
9:30am-6pm

Registration
Newton St. Entrance

10am-11:30am

Decision Making and Consensus Building

Sanctuary - Emma Lillian is an organizer and agriculturist from Vermont
currently working in the climate movement. How to engender true consensus
within communities: a discussion and participation heavy workshop that will
cover the tenants of consensus building while working to subvert traditional
concepts of group communication. Will address the issues of implied power

and social conditioning as much as the tips, tricks, and techniques (the pro­
cess) for making consensus work for your particular affinity group.

l l:45am-12.:45pm
Legal Training

Sanctuary - This training will be led by experienced protestors and legal
observers. It will take participants through the basics of dealing with law
enforcement in DC, what police departments we have, and what we expect
legal repercussibns to be.

12.:45pm-l:45pm
Lunch

2.pm-6pm

Direct Action Training

Sanctuary - - This training will take participants through the basic tactics
and strategies that have historically leveraged mass action for political
change.

2.pm-4pm

Walking Tour: Lessons from the Anti- Globalization Movement

Lincoln Theater at 1 '2. 15 U Street NW - Join the Ex-Worker Podcast on a

walking tour of sites from the Anti-Globalization Movement in

subversive

DC history,

DC.

Learn

visit the D I Y spaces where anti-capitalists organized

their attacks on the World Bank and I M F, and listen to lessons from a vision­
ary struggle for global liberation. The tour is just under '2. hours long, and is
wheelchair accessible with only one detour.

6pm-8pm
Dinner

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AU Stud�nt Worker Alliance
AU Bloc� Student Alliance
AU Latino

& American Student Organization

The Darkening

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American University and provide tra nsit near St. Stephen's
Church at 1 6th

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Irving St. NW. The closest Metro to American

University is Tenleytown and the closest to St. Stephens is Co­
l u mbia Heights.

Parki ng: Vehicles parked around American University will be

subject to local ordi nances. While there may be places for l ong
term parki ng in the S I S building, the most reliable option is
public tra nsportation.

Privacy policy: Out of respect for the privacy of our partici­

pa nts, we kindly ask a l l participants not to him or take photo­
graphs in training spaces unless consented u pon by a l l people
present. Participants are welcome to take notes.

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The DC Counter-Inaugural Welcoming Committee seeks not only
to disrupt the inauguration procession on January 20th, but also
every repressive measure that Trump would try to inflict on our
world and the people in it.

To make this happen, The Welcoming Committee has put together
this weekend of trainings and workshops to prepare people for
upcoming inauguration actions to prepare them for the next 4
years and beyond.

In these trainings, we will analyze and discuss why material, collective
resistance is necessary during the Trump administration,
how we can resist, and what future our actions are building towards.


We have a core set of trainings on direct action tactics, legal trainings,
and digital security that we hope all attendees participate in
to prepare for inauguration actions. In addition to this core curriculum,
we have a series of trainings to help develop organizing
skills, social theory, and people's histories to help activists develop
their strategies going forward.

We hope all participants learn as much as possible to bring back
to their communities to fight against the repression of Trump's

America. We are the heroes we have been waiting for.

All sessions marked with an asterisk (*) will have Spanish translation
available.

Todas las sesiones marcadas con un asterisco tendran traducci6n al
espafiol disponible.


14TH

SATURDAY JANUARY

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY

9:30am-6pm

Registration, Tabling, and Open Space Sign-up -SIS Atrium

10am-1'2pm

Decolonize the Shit and Let's Move•

Ward Circle Building 113 -Emem Obot is a member of The Darkening.

This session is a discussion on the process of unlearning white and western
thought and the importance of this process from everyday life to community
organizing.

Climate Science and the Politics of Resistance

Ward Circle Building 104 -Brittany is a social scientist, activist and educator
who has been a part of climate justice movements in the US and the U. K.
since 2009. Gustavo is a phd researcher at Johns Hopkins who specializes in
the effects of climate change on indigenous peoples in Latin America. In this
workshop, we want to provide an interdisciplinary introduction to the science
and politics of climate change, from what's likely to happen in terms of international
agreements in 2017, to confronting lifestyleism as a distraction from
collective action, the limitations of climate science, the decades-long resistance
of the global climate justice movement to market based solutions like
cap and trade, the collective utopian spaces and visionary politics created
by resistance movements around the world.

1'2pm-lpm

Lunch

1'2:30pm-'2pm (Bring lunch)

From May 1971 to A16 & Beyond: Learning from Past DC Blockades

SIS 233 -L.A. Kauffman is a longtime organizer and movement historian.

Her book, Direct Action: Protest and the Reinvention of American Radicalism,
will be out next month. Lisa Fithian is an anti-racist direct action
organizer and trainer who has worked for nonviolent social change since

1975 with many movements More about Lisa can be found on her website

Organizing for Power. As people prepare to disrupt the inauguration, what
can we learn from previous attempts to shut down the city? We'll discuss

the organizing models and blockading tactics used in several important

past efforts, including the Mayday 1971 antiwar actions, the April 16, 2000

anti-globalization protests, and the M/9 Iraq War protests of 2008.


lpm-'2.pm

Legal Training*
Ward Circle Building 113 -This training will be led by experienced protestors
and legal observers. It will take participants through the basics of dealing
w,th law enforcement in DC, what police departments we have, and what
we expect legal repercussions to be.

The Next System: Changing the Rules of the Game
Ward 104 -Historian Gar Alperovitz is the author of several books, most

Transforming Enemy Imagery: Building Ot
Differences

East Ouad Building 205 -Kevin Spangenb
cation coach and group facilitator currently
nity called Rainforest Lab in the Pacific Nor
experiential workshop, we will explore what
fying relationships in our lives which prioritiz,

recently What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk About the Next American
Revolution, and is co-chair of the Next System Project as well as co-founder
of the Democracy Collaborative.

'2:15pm-6pm

Direct Action Training
Kay Chapel & SIS 233 -This training will take participants through the
basic tactics and strategies that have historically leveraged mass action for

Disability 101

political change.

'2: 1 Spm-4: lSpm

Bystander Intervention Training*

Ward Circle Building 113 -Noor Mir is a DC-based anti-war organizer with
the Washington Peace Center and the Muslim American Women's Policy
Forum. In the current context of lslamophobia and spike in hate-based
harassment (over 700 hate crimes reported since November 9th alone),
attend this interactive workshop to learn the basics of bystander intervention
within the context of lslamophobia in the United States. Participants will

be briefed on how lslarnophobia is currently exerted by the state (Muslim
registries and countering violent extremism) and will then be taken through a
bystander intervention training where they will learn how to recognize subtle
signs of aggressive behavior and use bystander intervention strategies to
stop harassment.

'2:15pm-3:30pm

􀂦trategic nonviolent organizing in the face of police violence and repress10n
EOB 200 -Cathy Lisa Schneider is Associate Professor in School of International
Service and author of Police Power and Race Riots: Urban Unrest in
Paris and New York and Shantytown Protest in Pinochet's Chile. We will look
at how movements organizing under conditions of severe repression have
created and sustained safe spaces for resistance.
4:30pm-6pm

Migration and Deportation: Breaking Do•

Ward Circle Building 104 -Arianna Monh
of the educational development team for J

prehensive progressive youth organization
national democracy and genuine liberatio,
pines. Jo Quiambao is the Secretary-Generoots-based alliance of progressive Filipinc

United States seeking to wage a struggle

Filipino women and the rest of our people.
organizing Filipino-American Youth with i'
to the US with Migrante rooting their exp,
in the Philippines. This workshop will start I


Transforming Enemy Imagery: Building Our Capacity to Connect Across

Differences

East Ouod Building 205 -Kevin Spangenberg is a Nonviolent Communication
coach and group facilitator currently living in on intentional community
coiled Rainforest Lab in the Pacific Northwest. In this interactive and
experiential workshop, we will explore what it might look like to create satisfying
relationships in our lives which prioritize safety, trust, and core for all.

Disability IOI

Ward Circle Bui/ding 104 -Shayna Cook is a research assistant and student
at American University; they run 2/stcenturycoping.com, a collaborative
resource-in-progress for disabled people. Disability 101 will discuss what
disability as a lived experience and identity is, a very brief history of disability
activism, and what it means to be disability-inclusive in activism planning,
direct action events, and in day to day life.

4:30pm-6pm

Migration and Deportation: Breaking Down Stories•

Ward Circle Building 104 -Arianna Montero-Colbert is organized as part

of the educational development team for Anokboyan NewJersey, a comprehensive
progressive youth organization advancing the movement for a
national democracy and genuine liberation from imperialism in the Philippines.
Jo Ouiombao is the Secretary-General for GABRIELA DC a grassroots-
based alliance of progressive Filipino women's organizations in the
United States seeking to wage a struggle for the liberation of all oppressed
Filipino women and the rest of our people. Jhonry de la Cruz is focused on
organizing Filipino-American Youth with Anakbayon and recent immigrants
to the US with /vligronte rooting their experiences here to the conditions
in the Philippines. This workshop will start from the context and history of
Filipino women, youth, and migrants and then break out into groups to
discuss larger immigration narratives as well as participants' own personal
organizing and migration stories. The workshop will include a basic overview
of foreign policy between the United States and the Philippines centering
discussions of imperialism and human trafficking.


Picket Training
Ward Circle Building 113 -Ben Egerman & Kieran Knutson are organizers
with the /WW This training was developed after several harrowing incidents
in which IWW members on picket lines and at protests were assaulted, hit by
cars, or prevented by liberal marshals from confronting neo-nazis who were
taking video of potential targets at a may day march. Discussions of useful
roles to have ahead of time, ways to approach interference from police or
others, and past successes and failures aim to give participants the kind of
skills and confidence to plan the kinds of pickets and marches needed to
scare the crap out of the ruling class.

6pm-8pm

Dinner St. Stephen's

15TH

SUNDAY JANUARY

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY

9:30am-6pm

Registration, Tabling, and Open Space Sign-up -SIS Atrium

llam-12pm & 3pm-4pm

Digital Security

East Ouad Building 205 -Learn to use Signal, device encryption, and 9ther
digital security tools. Workshops will be WoC/nonbinary/trans-centered

spaces.

10am-12pm

Combating Threats to Unions, Workers, and the Labor Movement*

Ward Circle Building 104 -Jonathan Williams is the communications
manager for UFCW Local 400. Allison Burket is an organizer with UNITE

HERE Local 23. Elizabeth Falcon is the Executive Director of DC Jobs with
Justice. This interactive Union 101 workshop to deepen understanding of

unions and what's at stake in federal and local fights to undermine union

power. Learn about collective action, worker leadership, and protections for

immigrant workers.


Fascism 101 & Lessons Learned for Today's Movement Strategy

Ward Circle Building 113 -Waldo Katz-Fishman is a long time movement
organizer and professor of sociology at Howard University, and a founder
of Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide. Britany
Gatewood is a second year doctoral student in sociology at Howard University.
Anthony Jackson second year Masters students in the Department

of Sociology and Criminology at Howard University. In this workshop we

will develop our movement analysis of fascism in the US as a racial and
gendered corporate and military state, and its relation to capitalism in the
current political moment and the '2017 Trump presidency. Vision the world
we wont and need, and think together about movement strategy using
lessons learned from historic movement struggle

I0:30am-1'2pm

Mobile Training Team

Kay Meeting Room -Join the Mobile Training Team as we prep to field
small mobile crews to deliver SHORT 30+ min trainings on site at )'20
and the Womens March as folks gather or get off buses. Help participants
understand strategic nonviolent action, tools & tips for street smarts/safety,
and connect with movement work

What's Race Got to Do With It? Things White Activists Need to Know

SIS '233 -SUR) DC facilitators will work with participants to examine those
intersections, both in this moment and as they continue to tak? action. A
handout with 3 key questions from that curriculum will be shared that trainees
can to take with them and use for future conversations with other white
folks they engage with during the inauguration activities and beyond.

1'2pm-lpm

Lunch

lpm-Spm

Direct Action Training•

Koy Chapel -This training will take participants through the lvasic tactics

and strategies that have historically leveraged mass action for political

change.

lpm-'2pm

Digital Security Open Lab Hours

SIS 349 -Learn to use Signal, device encryption, and other digital security
tools. Workshops will be WoC/nonbinary/trans-centered spaces.


Legal Training

Word Circle Building 113 -This training will be led by experienced protestors
and legal observers. It will take participants through the basics of dealing
with low enforcement in DC, what police deportments we hove, and what
we expect legal repercussions to be.

lpm-3pm

Radical Cheerleoding

Word Circle Building 104 -Allison Aguilar has gained most of her shouting
experience from the picket line. An expert breather from the diaphragm,
and lady with mucho animo, she "ii get you shaking and shouting. Emma
Cleveland hos a booming voice, con·t sit still, and hates authority so she was
destined to be a radical cheerleader. Elizabeth Falcon believes most things
ore made better with a pop song, good rhymes and smart puns. An interactive
workshop to build a radical cheerleading squad for )20 actions/ We will
learn old cheers I Write new cheers I Rewrite our fave pop songs into radical
cheers! Chants I Dance moves! More/ Collaboratively build on each other's
great ideas to create hilarious rhymes, uplifting beats and biting commentary
for everyone on the cold )20 streets/ Come! Bring your GRRRL power!

lpm-'2:30pm

Press Strategy and Media Rapid Response Training•

East Ouad Building 205 -Morzeno is a DC-based activist, and works as
the Earned Media Strategist for the National Domestic Workers Alliance. In
this hands-on training, we will go over pitching, press releases, spokespeople,
and tips for rapid-response when news breaks. We'll conclude with tactics for
holding press accountable when they try to sanitize your radical message.

'2pm-4-pm

Walking Tour: Lessons from the Anti-Globalization Movement

Lincoln Theater at 1215 U Street NW -Join the Ex-Worker Podcast on a
walking tour of sites from the Anti-Globalization Movement in DC. Learn
subversive DC history, visit the DIY spaces where anti-capitalists organized
their attacks on the World Bank and /MF, and listen to lessons from a visionary
struggle for global liberation The tour is just under 2 hours long, and is
wheelchair accessible with only one detour


lpm-2pm

Legal Training•

Ward Circle Building 113 -This training will be led by experienced protestors
and legal observers. It will take participants through the basics of dealing
with law enforcement in DC, what police departments we have, and what
we expect legal repercussions to be.

The Next System: Changing the Rules of the Game
Ward 104 -Historian Gar Alperovitz is the author of several books, most
recently What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk About the Next American
Revolution, and is co-chair of the Next System Project as well as co-founder
of the Democracy Collaborative.

2:15pm-6pm

Direct Action Training
Kay Chapel & SIS 233 -This training will take participants through the
basic tactics and strategies that have historically leveraged mass action for
political change.

2:15pm-4:15pm

Bystander Intervention Training"

Ward Circle Building 113 -Noor Mir is a DC-based anti-war organizer with
the Washington Peace Center and the Muslim American Women
's Policy
Forum. In the current context of lslamophobia and spike in hate-based
harassment (over 700 hate crimes reported since November 9th alone),
attend this interactive workshop to learn the basics of bystander intervention
within the context of lslamophobia in the United States. Participants will

be briefed on how lslamophobia is currently exerted by the state (Muslim
registries and countering violent extremism) and will then be taken through a
bystander intervention training where they will learn how to recognize subtle
signs of aggressive behavior and use bystander intervention strategies to
stop harassment.

2:15pm-3:30pm

Strategic nonviolent organizing in the face of police violence and repres


sion

EOB 200 -Cathy Lisa Schneider is Associate Professor in School of International
Service and author of Police Power and Race Riots: Urban Unrest in
Paris and New York and Shantytown Protest in Pinochet's Chile. We will look
at how movements organizing under conditions of severe repression have
created and sustained safe spaces for resistance.


2:ISpm-3:lSpm

How to Talk to a Nazi: Protection and Preparation for a Fascist Society
SIS 233 -Mike Isaacson is on anti-fascist activist and reseorcl1er and
co-founder of Smash Racism DC This workshop will go through how to
safely engage with Nazis, how to suss out whether someone hos Nazi
leanings, what Nazis typically believe, and how you might reach them on a
political and personal level.

3:30pm-5:30pm

How to Cop Watch

SIS 233 -Copwatch of East Atlanta has been intervening against the police
at protests and on the block since 2009. Copwotching provides evidence

of police misconduct and sometimes even stops cops From abusing people.

Learn to record cops in a safe, legal, and effective way. Work in a small
team to monitor police activity during large protests or everyday encounters
in the neighborhood. It is highly recommended that participants also attend
one of the legal trainings.

Facts of Organizing Training

Ward Circle Building 113 -Robby Diesu is on organizer, trainer, and movement
queen who is a member of the DC Action Lab Collective. Using on
episode of the 80s hit tv show the Facts of Life as a case study, The Facts

of Organizing training will help give participants the skills to understand the
importances of tronsformative as opposed to transactional organizing.

Fighting Racism and Anti-Semitism for Jews and Allies

Ward Circle Building 104 -Rebecca Ennen builds community through organizing
and Jewish education & practice. Eliana Roberts Golding is a tenant
organizer with a commitment to Jewish communal spiritual practice. In this
workshop we'll unpack what anti-semitism is, historically and today, identify
anti-Jewish oppression as it shows up on the Right and the Left, and talk
about how Jews and allies together con resist all Forms of racism

4pm-5:30pm

Digital Security Open Lab Hours

SIS 349 -Learn to use Signal, device encryption, and other digital security

tools. Workshops will be WoC/nonbinary/trans-centered spaces.

6:30pm-8:30pm

Dinner St. Stephen's 1525 Newton St. NW


H,TH

MONDAY JANUARY

ST. STEPHEN'S

9:30am-6pm

Registration

Newton St. Entrance

10am-11:30am

Decision Making and Consensus Building

Sanctuary -Emma Lillian is an organizer and agriculturist from Vermont
currently working in the climate movement. How to engender true consensus
within communities: a discussion and participation heavy workshop that will
cover the tenants of consensus building while working to subvert traditional
concepts of group communication. Will address the issues of implied power

and social conditioning as much as the tips, tricks, and techniques (the process)
for making consensus work for your particular affinity group.

ll:45am-12.:45pm

Legal Training

Sanctuary -This training will be led by experienced protestors and legal
observers. It will take participants through the basics of dealing with law
enforcement in DC, what police departments we have, and what we expect
legal repercussibns to be.

12.:45pm-l:45pm

Lunch

2.pm-6pm

Direct Action Training

Sanctuary --This training will take participants through the basic tactics

and strategies that have historically leveraged mass action for political
change.


2.pm-4pm

Walking Tour: Lessons from the Anti-Globalization Movement

Lincoln Theater at 1'2.15 U Street NW -Join the Ex-Worker Podcast on a
walking tour of sites from the Anti-Globalization Movement in DC. Learn
subversive DC history, visit the DIY spaces where anti-capitalists organized
their attacks on the World Bank and IMF, and listen to lessons from a visionary
struggle for global liberation. The tour is just under '2. hours long, and is
wheelchair accessible with only one detour.

6pm-8pm

Dinner


Supporting organizations:

AU Stud􀁍nt Worker Alliance

AU Bloc􀁎 Student Alliance

AU Latino & American Student Organization

The Darkening

Tra
ns
portati
on: The H2 & H4 busses stop at Tenley Circle at
American University and provide transit near St. Stephen's
Church at 16th & Irving St. NW. The closest Metro to American
University is Tenleytown and the closest to St. Stephens is Columbia
Heights.

Parki
ng: Vehicles parked around American University will be
subject to local ordinances. While there may be places for long
term parking in the SIS building, the most reliable option is
public transportation.

Privacy policy: Out of respect for the privacy of our participants,
we kindly ask all participants not to him or take photographs
in training spaces unless consented upon by all people
present. Participants are welcome to take notes.


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