Boston SkillShare: 50+ Workshops THIS weekend!

yeah! here it is:


the 2008 BOSTON SKILLSHARE!


now with over *50* different workshops! to see the updated workshop schedule and full descriptions, visit
http://bostonskillshare.org/workshop.php

saturday and sunday
april 5 and 6, 2008

register at MIT's stata center
32 vassar street, cambridge
10:30am-6:30pm
$3-10 sliding scale and/or volunteer
www.bostonskillshare.org

skillshare workshop list (visit http://bostonskillshare.org/workshop.php for updated schedule and descriptions):

Esperanto Conversation
Introduction To Juggling
Learn To Knit
Practical Urban Cycling
The Truth About Identy Theft
35mm Film Pinholes: Simple Cameras Made Out Of Trash
Beginning Lampwork: Making Glass Beads
Creating Emotional Safety As A Facilitator
Drag King 101: Strut For Success!
Intermediate To Advanced Juggling
Sprouts And Microgreens
Crafting Creatures: Easy Techniques For Knitted Stuffed Animals
Games And Fun And Games And Fun And Games: Fun And Games
Herbal First Aid
Kick the Kibble: Cooking for your Animal Companion
Lesbian Dating 101
People's Poetry Workshop
Rad Library Resources
Grow It Yourself: Beginner Urban Gardening
How To Become A Backgammon Master
Mental Health: Navigating Systems, Self-Care, And Safety Planning
Salsa, Merengue, Spanish & La Lucha
Supporting Survivors Of GLBT Abusive Relationships
You Are Not A Number: Applying To Grad School Even If Your GREs Are Low
Destroy The Binary: Taking Back Gender
Free (the) Net : Build Your Own Wireless Internet Router
Home Brewing
Intro To Linguistics
Mask Making And Cardboard Sculpting
Time Management
Vintage Moped Restoration And Small Engine Repair
Basic Self Defense
Electronic Design, Microcontrollers and You
Fun with Fermentation!
Overcoming Procrastination, Perfectionism, And Blocks To Success
Run, Run, Run For Fun
Speed Erotica
Strap It Down, Pack It In: Drag King Masculine Performance Workshop
Chemical Weapons & Police Tactics
I Wanna Felt You Up
How To Use Your Story: A Community Organizing Overview
Prefigurative Parenting: Growing Empowered Kids from the Beginning
Soccer for All
Wild Carrot: Natural, Conscious Herbal Contraception
Yurts and Simple Shelters! What. Why. How.
Basic Bicycle Maintainence
Growing Yr Own Mushrooms
JP Kickball©: Strategize And Socialize
Personal Coaching 101
Protest Street Tactics
Soap Making And Embroidery Everyone Can Do It!
Know Your Rights!
Wiggle It Just a Little Bit: Indoor Worm Composting

COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT – JOB ANNOUNCEMENT / JOB DESCRIPTION

COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT – JOB ANNOUNCEMENT / JOB DESCRIPTION

Community Survey Coordinator

Position: Consultant - 80% time Duration: 1 year

Supervised by: Program Director Salary: $26,000

Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) is an environmental health and social justice non-profit organization that seeks to achieve environmental health & justice by building grassroots power in and with communities of color and low-income communities.

CBE’s unique three-part strategy provides grassroots organizing, strategic research and legal advocacy to urban communities disproportionately impacted by industrial pollution.

In the midst of a campaign against a massive refinery expansion and at the close of a community-based study testing for the presence of indoor and outdoor sources of toxic exposure, CBE aims to conduct a community health assessment as a critical tool to evaluate neighborhood level health conditions, community needs and resources.

Job responsibilities include:

􀂃 Work with collaborative partners to develop survey design, format and protocol

􀂃 Orient (4) community surveyers & (2) organizers to the survey and provide training on door-to-door

outreach

􀂃 Coordinate implementation of door-to-door survey

􀂃 Organize a community educational forum around breast cancer and the environment

􀂃 Complete an assessment of local resources for breast cancer screening and treatment

CBE seeks a Community Survey Coordinator to oversee implementation of a community health

survey in one of CBE’s target communities adjacent to a large oil refinery and other significant

sources of pollution. Residents of Contra Costa are encouraged to apply.

DESIRED SKILLS & QUALITIES

􀂃 Must have strong people skills, be community friendly and have the ability to engage a broad spectrum of

people representing various social, cultural and professional backgrounds.

􀂃 High accuracy, attention to detail, organization and ability to prioritize multiple tasks.

􀂃 Must have strong time-management skills.

􀂃 Ability to ensure a positive, team-oriented environment.

􀂃 Feels aligned with CBE’s mission and work

􀂃 Willing to work evenings and weekends

EXPERIENCE & JOB REQUIRMENTS

􀂃 Requires previous experience in survey design and/or implementation.

􀂃 Solid understanding of Environmental Justice and commitment to long-term social change.

􀂃 Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

􀂃 Public speaking/presentation experience.

􀂃 Spanish language proficiency.

􀂃 A valid driver’s license, driver’s insurance and access to a reliable vehicle.

TO APPLY

Send résumé with cover letter and include three professional references with phone numbers.

Send email to cperez@cbecal.org and/or mail to the address below:

Communities for a Better Environment

Attn. Carla M. Pérez, Northern California Program Director

1440 Broadway Ste. 701

Oakland, Ca 94612

CBE is an equal opportunity employer and encourages applications from candidates of every age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and disability status that are committed to Environmental Justice.

Environmental Policy Design MA Program--Lehigh Univ.

We are pleased to announce a new graduate program at Lehigh University in "Environmental Policy Design" and can begin accepting Masters students this coming Fall '08. A short description is attached. For more general information, see the EI web site, or http://www.ei.lehigh.edu/academics/programs/Envma.pdf

The new degree program represents a new, forward-looking approach to environmental policy and should begin to prepare the next generation of scholars and professionals to develop and implement more effective environmental policy than has existed to date.

Please post and/or forward to any current students or practicing professionals who may be interested in this graduate program.

Retreat for Organizers and Activists of Color, April 29-May 2

http://www.contemplativemind.org/programs/socialjustice/events.html#spring=

Ruckus Society Internship, Oakland, CA

Internship Announcement:
The Ruckus Society is seeking an intern to begin as soon as possible in our Oakland office. Length of term is flexible, although a semester or equivalent is desired.

The internship can be a part-time or full-time position, depending on the successful candidate's availability. Class credit is encouraged. This internship will serve a variety of functions, supporting existing integral organization-wide systems and helping create new systems in order to ensure a healthy foundation for our program work. The intern will work with the Operations Dept. (administration and fundraising) and the Communications team.

Areas of Work:
Communications, Operations, Fundraising

For the full Job Description www.ruckus.org/intern
Please email megan@ruckus.org to receive an application form.

Um, Lawrence Harrison (Fletcher School) is sort of a racist.

Um, Lawrence Harrison, Director of Cultural Change Institute at the Fletcher School is sort of a racist.

I may try to write a response to this if I can find some time. Does anyone want to write a short response with me? Daylight savings has made a new man out of me, all this sunshine has given me renewed energy to tackle projects like this, plus spring break is next week. -Tom

Andrea Smith denied Tenure

Call for Action: Andrea Smith Denied Tenure at University of Michigan

See http://www.woclockdown.org/ for more details including press release, talking points, and petition.

Here is a letter from Sarita See:

Dear Colleagues,

I always have understood that the tenure process resembles an application for membership in an elite country club much more than it does a path toward intellectual autonomy. There simply have been too many examples of outstanding scholars of color and queer scholars who have joined the ranks of what might be called the Talented Untenured Tenth. But the case of my colleague Dr. Andrea Smith here at the University of Michigan effectively destroys any vestige of faith in meritocracy that one may have.

The current director of Native American Studies at the University of Michigan, Andrea Smith is the author of the monographs Conquest: Sexual Violence and Native American Genocide (South End); Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances (Duke UP); co-editor of several journal issues and anthologies including the forthcoming Native Feminisms Without Apology (U of Minnesota P); and author of fifteen peer-reviewed articles in scholarly journals like Hypatia, American Quarterly, American Behavioral Scientist, Meridians, Feminist Studies, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion and Australian Feminist Law Journal. She has outstanding undergraduate course evaluations, with students regularly reporting that their experience in her classes has been profoundly transformative, and a record of fine advising with a growing cohort of Native American and Native Pacific Islander graduate students. Her organizing and activist work has garnered a well-deserved national and international reputation, and she is high demand as a speaker, panelist, and conference organizer. She is a colleague who daily reminds me of a basic premise in the humanities and social sciences: That philosophy and theory are ever transformed by practice. Indeed, Andrea found out about the University of Michigan's recent negative tenure decision while on her way back from the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, where she had testified in the United States' hearings before the Convention to Eliminate Racial Discrimination.

This is a crucial opportunity--a potentially historic moment--for scholars in Asian American studies to join with those in Native American and Native Pacific Islander studies. These attached documents compiled by student organizers invite you to write to administrators at the University of Michigan and to voice your opinion about Andrea Smith's case as it moves to the Provost for review. Yet it is to Andrea's credit that she always has objected to campaigns that focus on individual tenure cases. With that in mind, I invite you to join us in creating and shaping a political context in which university administrators and departments find it harder and harder to act with impunity in all such cases and decisions, certainly in the present and well into the future.

Best wishes,

Sarita See

Asian/Pacific Islander American Studies

Program in American Culture and English Department

The University of Michigan

3700 Haven Hall, 505 South State Street

Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1045

Save the Date: Van Jones at Tufts UEP

Save the Date
Tuesday, April 22, 2008

In celebration of its thirty-five years of graduate education, UEP welcomes Van Jones to Tufts University.

3:30–4:30 p.m. UEP Community Networking Reception–Remis Sculpture Court
4:30–5:30 p.m. UEP Community Dialogue with Van Jones–Balch Arena Theater
(Open to UEP alumni, students, faculty, and staff only)
6:00–7:00 p.m. Van Jones–Public Lecture, Cohen Auditorium
(doors open at 5:45 p.m.)

Tufts University’s Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning (UEP)
will celebrate its 35th anniversary on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 (Earth Day). The special guest
speaker for this event will be civil rights leader and activist Van Jones. Join fellow UEP alumni, faculty, students, and staff at this free event.

RSVP by April 4 for UEP Community Networking
Reception: 617.627.3394 or e-mail uep@tufts.edu.

Van Jones is the founder and board president of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, a California-based nonprofit organization that works to prevent youth violence and incarceration. Through its Green-Collar Jobs Campaign, Jones and the center have expanded their work to address global climate change and advance the emerging green economy by lifting people out of poverty through employment and other opportunities in green construction, clean technology, urban agriculture, and energy.

To learn more about Van Jones, go to www.vanjones.net.

Job: seaQuel Program Director

2. Hiring seaQuel Coordinator!

Position Title: seaQuel Program Director

Starting Date: March or April, 2008

Background

Southeast Asian Queers United for Empowerment and Leadership (seaQuel) is seeking a passionate, open-minded, queer- (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, questioning) friendly individual to fill a new part-time position as the seaQuel Program Director. seaQuel is a program with a mission is to provide a safe and supportive space for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and questioning (GLBTQ) Southeast Asian American (SEA) youth where they can lead healthy lives, develop their leadership potential, and become involved in making change in their community. Visit us at www.myspace.com/seaQuel.

seaQuel is a program of the Providence Youth Student Movement (PrYSM), a SEA social justice youth organization with a vision to confront state-, street-, and inter-personal forms of violence affecting SEAs in Providence, Rhode Island. Visit www.prysm.us

Required Qualifications

· Experience and or knowledge of SEA (Cambodian, Hmong, Laotian, Vietnamese) communities, culture, language, and politics

· Strong communication, facilitation, and inter-personal skills

· Strong organizational and writing skills

· A positive and supportive attitude towards queer people

· Must be responsible and highly accountable

· High School Diploma or GED/ Equivalency

· Ability to mediate conflicts and promote healthy group dynamics

· Flexible schedule and must be available on some weekends

Recommended Qualifications

· Proficiency in a SEA language - Khmer, Lao, Hmong, or Vietnamese

· 1-2 years experience working with queer individuals and communities

· 1-2 years experience coordinating a program

· 1-2 years experience working with youth development, youth leadership, civic engagement, or youth organizing activities (or a non-profit equivalent)

· Reliable method of transportation

Compensation

Part-time Salary of $20,000 with health benefits. Expected to commit 30 hours per week.

Send cover letter and resume to Kohei@prysm.us. For more information, contact Kohei at 401-419-5713 or Kohei@prysm.us

Job: program director, the organizing circle

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT!

Program Director, the Organizing Circle

Salary: $30,000- 35,000 depending on experience, plus health and dental.

Starting Date: March or April 2008

Background

The Organizing Circle (OC) is a leadership and organizing training program for Southeast Asian high school students, designed to make them both scholars and community leaders. The OC challenges youth to advance and apply their academic, interpersonal, and leadership skills to the betterment of their families and their communities. It's called the Organizing Circle because every Friday evening, youth facilitate the Organizing Circle Meeting, where youth leaders from all our programs- seaQuel, BRIDGE, and the Women's Group- meet to engage in dialogue and debate about the strategies and vision that they will agree to employ to make the Southeast Asian community a better place. The OC Program Director is responsible for guiding youth to design, launch, run, and win community organizing campaigns, using a wide variety of tactics such as direct action and accountability sessions.

The Organizing Circle (OC) is a program of the Providence Youth Student Movement (PrYSM), a SEA social justice youth organization with a vision to confront state-, street-, and inter-personal forms of violence affecting SEAs in Providence, Rhode Island. Visit www.prysm.us

Required Qualifications

· Experience and or knowledge of SEA (Cambodian, Hmong, Laotian, Vietnamese) communities, culture, language, and politics

· Strong communication, facilitation, and inter-personal skills

· Strong organizational, administrative, and writing skills

· Must be responsible and highly accountable

· High School Diploma or GED/ Equivalency

· Ability to mediate conflicts and promote healthy group dynamics

· Flexible schedule and must be available on some weekends

· Experience and/or demonstrated ability to run social justice community organizing campaigns

Recommended Qualifications

· Proficiency in a SEA language - Khmer, Lao, Hmong, or Vietnamese

· 1-2 years experience running a Youth Development/ Youth Organizing/ Community Organizing program

· 1-2 years experience in campaign development and community organizing.

· Reliable method of transportation

Compensation

Full-Time Salary of $30,000- 35,000 depending on experience, health and dental insurance, training and support from staff.

Send cover letter and resume to Kohei@prysm.us . For more information, contact Kohei at 401-419-5713 or Kohei@prysm.us