Strategic Dialogue #2: Agenda and Resources

7:15-9:30PM – Dinner and Discussion

• Questions for discussion

Friday, November 7th

10 :30AM-1PM – What is a Poverty Scholar?

• What is a Poverty Scholar? What does a Poverty Scholar need to be today? (PDF)
• I See The Promised Land by Martin Luther King Jr., Memphis, Tennessee April 3, 1968 (PDF)
• Church of Scotland Priority Areas

2:30-6PM – The Economic Crisis

• Chris Caruso on the Root Causes and Implications of the Economic Crisis (email poverty@povertyinitiative.org for distribution)
• Chris Grove on the History of Race in the U.S. and in the Effort to Build a Movement to End Poverty (PDF)

Saturday, November 8
9AM-12PM – Workshops

Flipcameras: How to use, edit, and get your videos on the web!

• Video created by facilitators and participants of this workshop (YouTube)
• Get a Flip Camera! – Available through the Poverty Initiative’s Poverty Scholars Program

Introduction to Blogging

• Check out the Poverty Blogs!

Street Theater and Theater Games for the Movement

• Notes, resources, description of all games from workshop (PDF)
  

Political Education in Our Organizing: Methods, Lessons and Stories

• Notes from discussion on Political Education (to be posted)

2:30-4:30PM – Stories from Tutwiler and Marks Mississippi: The Mule Train, 1968 Poor People’s Campaign, and Mississippi Delta Today

• Notes from the facilitator, John Wessel-McCoy (PDF)
• Questions for panelists from Colleen Wessel-McCoy (PDF)
• Powerpoint of photos from 1968 Poor People’s Campaign by Connie Rudolph (to be posted)
• Audio recording of discussion by panelists (Facilitator: Marian Kramer, Panelists: Bertha Burres, Betty Crawford, Connie Rudolph, Lucinda Berryhill, Mary Ann Willis, Sr. Maureen Delaney) (to be posted)

6:30- 9PM – Quilt Exhibit Celebration and Reception

• Slideshow from exhibit (to be posted)