STOP Leadership Retreat 2017
December 8, 2017
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At Highlander in
Tennessee we did personal reflections, workshops on systems of oppression and
direct action, we did skits on our vision for our future, and began a process
to set organizational values. We visited the Civil Rights Monument inBirmingham and walked the march route of the Children’s Crusade. We also met
with Cooperation Jackson in Mississippi: an organization that is building Black
worker owned cooperative businesses and that is part of a movement that has
elected a progressive mayor.
Diane Adams,
from the Mental Health Movement and a Board Member of STOP explained, “to meet
with the lady from Cooperative Jackson, that really got me, what they are
doing, how they got that mayor in, if they can do that, then STOP can do that
too.”
Kyana Butler
STOP’s Youth Organizer, noted that “the
connections with the youth that I made will be something that I will hold on to
through the rest of my organizing journey.”
Janet Wilson,
STOP’s Housing Organizer, “loved the skit part because we got to act out what
we are fighting for”.
And for
Devondrick Jeffers, also a STOP Housing Organizer, “the highlight of the retreat was being able to lay the
groundwork for establishing organizational values with input from each of our
member groups.”
We didn't just work though, we also had some fun too we ate good soul food, chased some chickens, made bonfires and s'mores and built community. The retreat was a transformative experience and we look forward to building on the relationships made down in Jackson and with each other as we continue to connect and grow our struggles.
We didn't just work though, we also had some fun too we ate good soul food, chased some chickens, made bonfires and s'mores and built community. The retreat was a transformative experience and we look forward to building on the relationships made down in Jackson and with each other as we continue to connect and grow our struggles.
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