Name: Building a Movement
Start: 2017-01-27T10:00:00-05:00
End: 2017-01-27T15:30:00-05:00
Location: Bordy Theater

Building a Movement

TheOffice of Academic Engagement and Community Action (AECA)promotes civic engagement in the form of service learning through curricular and co-curricular activities. The AECA works closely with community partners to identify, understand, and address community needs, help re-frame real-world social justice issues, and discover how Emerson can best contribute its strengths toward the public good while practicing itscore valuessuch as teaching excellence, intercultural competence, and ethical engagement.

Emerson College Office of Academic Engagement and Community Action

Every Movement needs knowledge and skills to organize and create change. Join us during MLK Week to learn skills and tools to continue building a movement towards justice. Registration is required, and you can register for all or part of the day:
 
10:00am-12:00pm  Know Your Rights:  Movements need knowledge! Join an engaging conversation about free speech, civil disobedience, protests, and how to impact current legislation.
 
12:00-1:00pm Networking Lunch
 
1:00-3:00 pm Know Your Powers:  Movements need skills! Participate in a training on strategy, coalition-building, and group action planning.
 
3:00-3:30pm Closing and Commitment: What can you do? All Emersonians who participated in any MLK Week activity are invited to help construct a visual display of individual commitments to making change. Refreshments provided.
 
Open to all faculty, staff, students, affiliates, and alums. Breakfast and lunch included. Registration required.
Part of the College's annual MLK Week celebration.

Bordy Theater

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