CWS Challenging White Supremacy Workshop
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Analyzing and Organizing with an Anti-Racist Lens

Creating an Anti-Racist Agenda

Creating Anti-Racist Organizing Strategies

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Challenging White Supremacy (CWS) workshop organizers believe that the most effective way to create fundamental social change in the U.S. is by building mass-based, multi-racial grassroots movements led by radical activists of color. We also believe that the major barrier to creating these movements is racism or white supremacy. One way to challenge white supremacy is to do anti-racist training workshops in our own communities. CWS has worked in the broad-based radical, multi-racial community of the Bay Area since 1993.

CWS workshops have been designed by a group of white anti-racist organizers. We believe our special responsibility is to help white social justice activists become principled and effective anti-racist organizers -- both to challenge our white privilege and to work for racial justice in all our social justice work.

We think that anti-racist training and organizing with white social justice activists complements and supports grassroots organizing and leadership development in communities of color. Both kinds of work are necessary to help build mass-based, multi-racial social justice movements.

New: ‘PASSING IT ON:' REFLECTIONS OF A WHITE ANTI-RACIST SOLIDARITY ORGANIZER by Sharon Martinas (19 page PDF).

CWS Workshop 2440 - 16th. St. PMB #275 San Francisco, CA 94103 cws@igc.org 415-647-0921