Course Description: Get Organized! is a FREE workshop series that aims to empower socially engaged students to collectively realize visions of social change. Participants will have the opportunity to form working relationships with one another, meet local organizations doing transformative work, and gain tangible skills (including 1:1 organizing conversations and campaign planning). In an explicitly decolonial and anti-capitalist space, participants will be introduced to the tenant’s rights, land back, and migrant justice movements, among others. Participants can register for the program-long cohort to gain a certificate of completion or attend individual workshops without registration. Each workshop will begin with a free community meal, and we will close off the series in style via an intimate party at Co-op Bar Milton Parc!
Series will include the following workshops:
- Know Your Rights/Protest safety
- Good Jobs Panel with McGill Students for Good Jobs
- Indigenous Solidarity: Doing Land Back
- Tenant Organizing and the Housing Crisis with SLAM
- Students for Migrant Justice (topic undetermined)
- Panel on the History of Political Activism at McGill
- Community Solidarity in Practice with Mobilizing for Milton Parc
About the Workshop Facilitators: The SSMU’s External Affairs (EA) portfolio is proud to put on the “Get Organized: Skills for Social Change” workshop series in partnership with a host of partners in the Milton-Parc and greater Tiohtià:ke/Montreal community. In furthering the SSMU’s anti-oppressive mandate, the EA portfolio’s mandate encompasses four main domains: community relations, affordable housing, campaigns/external representation, and solidarity efforts. As such, the EA portfolio has supported student-led initiatives such as Divest McGill and Let’s Eat McGill, as well as other workshop series such as Culture Shock and Spring into Action alongside QPIRG-McGill. Through facilitating Get Organized, the EA team hopes to prepare the next cohort of student organizers at McGill while creating a space for curiosity, compassion, and, of course, camaraderie.
Location: SSMU University Centre (in-person)
Required Materials: A pen/pencil, a notebook, a curious mind, and a hungry belly!
Required Knowledge: None!