RI Conference
Join leading and emerging Jewish activists, intellectuals,
and religious leaders from across the country to help strengthen the Jewish
social justice and environmental movement , invigorate the growing progressive interfaith
religious community, and lead our country in a more progressive direction.
Building on the success of the
groundbreaking anthology of Righteous Indignation: A Jewish Call for Justice
(Jewish Lights), 15 Jewish justice organizations are co-sponsoring a
national conference that will prepare young Jewish leaders (age 21-40) from across the country to
help mobilize their communities to voice social justice and environmental
issues as Jewish priorities in the 2008 elections. In return for heavily subsidized admission to the
conference and travel to Boston, participants will pledge to
put their skills to work by helping to organize voter education, registration,
and media events in their home communities in the months leading up to the 2008
elections. There are also plans to take
a large cohort of Jewish activists to a key election state the week before the
presidential election to aid with voter mobilization, transportation, and
observing polling stations.
At the Conference:
- Connect with progressive Jewish activists from across
the country, together working to strengthen the growing Jewish justice
movement - Learn election-related organizing and media skills (including
an advanced strategic communications track for experienced organizers) - Study Jewish sources on a key justice issue with
leading scholars, rabbis, and educators and teachers. Issue tracks will include
education, environment, genocide, healthcare, immigration, worker's
rights, and the war in Iraq. - Come away with an action plan for how to organize
voter events, participate in national days of action, and garner media
coverage for your activist work during this critical moment in U.S.
history.
