We’re happy to announce our next set of trainings for April and May, following on our Justice is Love in Public weekend in February.
Please RSVP to tell us which trainings you’d like to attend and we’ll send more details to you.
Workshops are free and open to all but please consider making a donation to support this programming. Peace House relies on community support to do this work.
Send questions to meg@peacehouse.net.
Thursday, April 16th, 3-5pm – Strike Readiness Training
We’ll gather in person to participate in a national training on preparing for strikes, then debrief together and talk about plans for upcoming May 1st strikes.
Wednesday, May 13th, 6:30-8:30pm – HOPE-PV: Elections Focus
Harnessing Our Power to End Political Violence is a framework being used around the country to push back against authoritarian violence. We’ll learn the basics of this framework and then put it into practice with a focus on elections, working through scenarios in which violence or threats of violence attempt to disrupt our right to vote and govern ourselves.
Wednesday, May 27th, 6-8pm – Noncooperation 101
Words like authoritarianism, fascism, and autocracy are all being thrown around a lot these days. How does this moment in the U.S. compare to authoritarian take-overs in other places? We’ll share about the current authoritarian threat, then share stories of noncooperation and how nonviolent noncooperation has been used to push back against anti-democratic forces.
Saturday, May 30th, 10am-3pm – Economic Noncooperation Against ICE and Militarism
Rescheduled from February. Boycotts, strikes, tax resistance — these are just a few of the nonviolent noncooperation tactics movements have used around the world to disrupt authoritarian forces. We’ll break down the mechanics of these tactics and look at how they might be deployed against the violent excesses of ICE and the U.S. military in our current moment. We’ll share stories from global movements, review concepts like the pillars of support and basics of campaign strategy, then dig into creative campaign design ourselves to see what actions we might take together here in Oregon.
