Strategic Dialogue #3: Agenda and Resources
We are pleased to provide this (abridged) agenda and resources from Strategic Gathering #2.
Use them with your community and organization and be sure to Contact Us with requests or questions!
Thursday, March 26th
8 – 10:30 p.m.
Brief discussion and movie
"Matewan" is a visual documentation of the Coal Wars in Appalachia and West Virginia
Below are pivotal scenes from the film:
Friday, March 27th
9:30 – 10:30 a.m.
The Role of Education in Fighting For Our Economic Human Rights (Power Point)
10:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
The Conditions We Are Organizing In Today: The Economic Crisis
2 – 5:30 p.m.
Tour of Wall Street, New York City, NY (PDF)
Saturday, March 28th
Preparing for August 2009 Poverty Scholars Leadership School
9 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Proposal for Goals, Logistics, and Curriculum
12:30 – 2:15 p.m.
- Poetry Workshop with Sam King
- Youth Track for the Leadership School
2:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Curriculum Brainstorming and Planning
6 – 7 p.m.
- Fundraising Team for the Leadership School
- Small and Medium Sized Towns: Rural Organizing
Sunday, March 29th
Preparing for August 2009 Poverty Scholars Leadership School contd.
9 – 10:30 a.m.
Biblical Reflection: The Bible and the Economic Crisis (PDF)
10:45 a.m.– 12:15 p.m.
Visioning Beyond the Leadership School:
Next Steps for the Poverty Scholars Program and Reigniting MLK Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign
See you in August!
A New and Unsettling Force: Reigniting Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign - the Poverty Initiative's newest original publication is 
