http://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/index.php?title=Workshops&feed=atom&action=historyWorkshops - Revision history2024-03-29T05:16:15ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.32.0-alphahttp://wiki.pghrights.mayfirst.org/index.php?title=Workshops&diff=273&oldid=prevPghrights: Created page with "<div id="content_view" class="wiki" style="display: block"> =Housing Summit= =Saturday November 12, 2016= <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.6667px">''All workshops take place..."2018-06-25T22:50:43Z<p>Created page with "<div id="content_view" class="wiki" style="display: block"> =Housing Summit= =Saturday November 12, 2016= <br /> <span style="font-size: 18.6667px">''All workshops take place..."</p>
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<br /> <span style="font-size: 18.6667px">''All workshops take place in the Frick Fine Arts building, across from the Main Carnegie Library in Oakland and adjacent to Schenley Plaza. Film sessions will take place in Posvar Hall, at the University of Pittsburgh.''</span><br /> <span style="text-align: center"><span style="display: block; text-align: center">'''<u><span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 21.3333px">Workshop block #1 11:00AM-12:15PM</span></u>'''</span></span><br /> <br />
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| <span style="text-align: center"><span style="display: block; text-align: center">'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 21.3333px">Tales of Displacement and Local Root Shock</span>'''</span></span><br /> <span style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">Residents most impacted by housing insecurity will share their experiences and describe how the city's development policies have transformed Pittsburgh's neighborhoods and communities. Organizers working with displaced and housing insecure residents will help participants gain a better understanding of conditions in our city, including neighborhoods altered by encroaching university campuses. </span></span><br /> '''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">Speakers: </span>''''''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">Jonathan Reyes</span>'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">, Braddock Carnegie Library Art Lending Collection; </span>'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">Lisa J. Gonzalez</span>'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">,Northside Coalition for Fair Housing & Homes for All Pittsburgh; '''Carol Hardeman''', Hill District Consensus Group</span><br /> '''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">Facilitators: Tony Fabio</span>'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh & '''Patricia Parker''', Northside Coalition for Fair Housing</span><br /> '''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">Location: </span>'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">Frick Fine Arts Room 202</span><br /><br />
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| <span style="text-align: center"><span style="display: block; text-align: center">'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 21.3333px">Resident Rights and Remedies</span>'''</span></span><br /> <span style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">Learn about the legal resources and community agencies that can help residents get assistance when facing housing discrimination. What legal rights do residents have through City, County, and State Human Relations Commissions? How can residents be sure their legal rights are respected?</span></span><br /> '''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">Speakers:</span>'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px"> '''Carlos Torres,''' MPA, Executive Director Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations; '''Lyle Wood''', Acting Regional Director, Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission; '''Kevin Quisenberry,''' Community Justice Project</span><br /> '''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">Facilitators: Mary Ohmer</span>'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">, School of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh; '''Sabina Dietrick''', Graduate School of Public and International Affairs </span><br /> '''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">Location: </span>'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">Frick Fine Arts Room 203</span><br /><br />
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| <span style="text-align: center"><span style="display: block; text-align: center">'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 21.3333px">Taking back the land”Part 1: (Dis)investment and Displacement</span>'''</span></span><br /> <span style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">This workshop uncovers the processes of investment and disinvestment that contribute to the global process of '''''serial forced displacement'''''. In particular, the role of global finance and local/city policies and financial institutions in determining how communities' land is used is explored, as are some of the strategies communities have used to defend their right to stay. </span></span><br /> '''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">Speakers: Desiree Fields*; Max Rameau*; Ernesto Lopez Morales*; </span>''''''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">Malcolm Torrejón Chu</span>'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">, National Right to the City/ Homes for All Coalition </span><br /> '''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">Facilitator:</span>'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px"> '''Laura Wiens''', The Union Edge, Labor's Talk Radio</span><br /> '''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">Location: </span>'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">Frick Fine Arts Auditorium</span><br /><br />
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| <span style="text-align: center"><span style="display: block; text-align: center">'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 21.3333px">Gender and Housing: Opportunities with new </span>'''</span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="text-align: center"><span style="display: block; text-align: center">'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 21.3333px">City Women's Rights Ordinance? </span>'''</span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">How does the affordable housing issue impact women in particular? How does gender identity impact peoples' ability to find secure and decent housing? What opportunities does the new City ordinance on women's rights provide for those working for housing justice?</span></span><br /> <br /> <span style="text-align: justify">'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;">Speakers: Ronell Guy</span>'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;">, Northside Coalition for Fair Housing; '''Marcia Bandes''', Cities for CEDAW Coalition; </span>'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;">Ciora Thomas</span>'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;">, Community Human Services </span></span><br /> <br /> '''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;">Facilitator:</span>'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;"> '''Michael Goodhart,''' Department of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh & Human Rights City Alliance</span><br /> <br /> '''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;">Location: </span>'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">Frick Fine Arts Room 204</span><br /><br />
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<span style="text-align: center"><span style="display: block; text-align: center">'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 21.3333px">Films: ''Building Alternatives''</span>'''</span></span><br /><br />
* <span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">Know Your Rights: The Human Right to Housing (5 mins.)</span><br />
* <span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">Streets of Dreams (16 mins.)</span><br />
* <span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">Movement for Justice in El Barrio (17 mins.)</span>''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">Discussion will follow film screening</span>''<br /> '''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;">Facilitator: Roger Rouse, </span>'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;">University of Pittsburgh Global Studies Center, TBA-Northside Coalition for Fair Housing</span><br /> '''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;">Location: </span>'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">Posvar Hall, Room 1700 (</span>'''''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">Posvar Hall</span>'''''''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px"> is located across from the Schenley Plaza tent) </span>''<br /><br />
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<br /> <span style="text-align: center"><span style="display: block; text-align: center">'''<u><span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 21.3333px">Workshop block #2 1:45-3:00</span></u>'''</span></span><br /> <br /> <br />
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| <span style="text-align: center"><span style="display: block; text-align: center">'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 21.3333px">Repetitive Root Shock: Immigrants' experiences in Pittsburgh</span>'''</span></span><br /> <span style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">This workshop considers connections between the forces of economic globalization that displace people from communities outside the United States and the forces that have displaced/disrupted neighborhoods in Pittsburgh. How does continued housing insecurity impact immigrant residents of our city? What happens to people when they are displaced from multiple homes and communities? How can communities fight the forces that divide us? </span></span><br /> '''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;">Participants: </span>'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;">Speaker TBA: Acculturation for Justice, Access and Peace Outreach(AJAPO)</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;"> '''Leslie Aizenman''', MPPM, Director, Refugee & Immigrant Services-Jewish Family & Children's Services; TBA Latino Family Center</span><br /> '''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;">Facilitator: Brenda SÏŒlkez</span>'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;">, Community Justice Project</span><br /> '''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;">Location: </span>'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">Frick Fine Arts Room 202</span><br /> <br /> <br /> <span style="text-align: center"><span style="display: block; text-align: center">'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 21.3333px">Renter Nation: Tenants'/Renters' Unions</span>'''</span></span><br /> <span style="text-align: center"><span style="display: block; text-align: center">'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 21.3333px">as tools for building collective power</span>'''</span></span><br /> <span style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">This workshop describes projects to organize renters in order to enhance collective voice in relation to landlords and to help shape public policies in ways that protect people's ''right to stay'' in the communities where they have grown up or where they have chosen to live while enjoying protections from dislocation and unfair treatment by landlords. </span></span><br /> '''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;">Participants: Ronell Guy,</span>'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;"> Northside Coalition for Fair Housing; </span>'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;">Carl Redwood</span>'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;">, Hill District Consensus Group; '''George Moses''', Former Board Chairman, National Low-Income Housing Coalition; '''Malcolm Chu''', National Right to the City/Homes for All Coalition</span><br /> '''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;">Facilitators: Waverly Duck</span>'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;">, Sociology Department, University of Pittsburgh & '''Anu Jain,''' Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies Program (Pitt) & Coalition for Racial Equity in the Arts</span><br /> '''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;">Location: </span>'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">Frick Fine Arts Auditorium</span><br /><br />
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| <span style="text-align: center"><span style="display: block; text-align: center">'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 21.3333px">Taking back the land”Part 2</span>'''</span></span><br /> <span style="text-align: center"><span style="display: block; text-align: center">'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 21.3333px">Building Community Resistance and Resilience</span>'''</span></span><br /> <span style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">How have people struggled to resist global processes of '''''serial forced displacement''''' and to build sustained communities? This workshop features accounts of popular struggles to take back control of the places where individuals and communities live and thrive. </span></span><br /> '''<span style="font-size: 14.6667px">Participants: Bonnie Young Laing, </span>''''''<span style="color: #000000; font-size: 14.6667px">MSW, Ph.D.</span>'''<span style="color: #000000; font-size: 14.6667px"> California University of Pennsylvania, Department of Social Work & Hill District Consensus Group; </span>'''Max Rameau''';* '''Rob Robinson;'''* '''Hillary Caldwell''', NYC Community Land Initiative<br /> '''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;">Facilitators: </span>''''''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;">Mary Ohmer</span>'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;">, School of Social Work & Center for Race and Social Problems, University of Pittsburgh</span><br /> '''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;">Location: </span>'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">Frick Fine Arts Room 203</span><br /><br />
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| <span style="text-align: center"><span style="display: block; text-align: center">'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 21.3333px">Homes are not Enough: </span>'''</span></span><br /> <span style="text-align: center"><span style="display: block; text-align: center">'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 21.3333px">Elements of Strong Communities</span>'''</span></span><br /> <span style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">Building a city where human rights are a priority requires a radical re-thinking of many aspects of public policy. This workshop considers what it would take to achieve communities where residents enjoy all of the basic human rights they need to live life to their full potential. People need not just good, secure homes, but they need access to good jobs, transportation, quality education, food, and a healthy environment. How is the work of community activists in Pittsburgh and elsewhere contributing to achievements in advancing such a vision of peoples' ''right to the city''? </span></span><br /> '''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;">Participants: </span>''''''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;">Jason Beery/ Jamil Bey</span>'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;"> Urbankind Institute;</span>'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;">Alyssa Lieberman</span>'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;">, United Students Against Sweatshops; '''Molly Nichols''', Pittsburghers for Public Transit; '''Dawn Plummer,''' Pittsburgh Food Policy Council</span><br /> '''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;">Facilitators:</span>'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;"> '''Helen Gerhardt''', Homes for All Coalition; '''Antonia Domingo''', Labor Council for Latin American Advancement & USW </span><br /> '''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;">Location: </span>'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">Frick Fine Arts Room 204</span><br /><br />
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* ''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">For Sale: The American Dream</span>''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px"> (25 mins.)</span><br />
* ''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">A Dream Foreclosed</span>''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px"> (11 mins.)</span><br />
* ''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">Fighting for Our Homes</span>''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px"> (6 mins.)</span><span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;">Discussion will follow film screenings</span><br /> '''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;">Facilitators: Roger Rouse</span>'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;">,University of Pittsburgh Global Studies Center & '''Reggie Good''', Northside Coalition for Fair Housing</span><br /> '''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;">Location: </span>'''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">Posvar Hall, Room 1700 (</span>'''''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px">Posvar Hall</span>'''''''<span style="font-family: &#39;Times New Roman&#39;,&#39;serif&#39;; font-size: 16px"> is located across from the Schenley Plaza tent)</span>''<br /></div>Pghrights