Border-crossing in the struggle for home: confronting problems with international organizing in movements for land and housing
Submitted by daryamarchenkova on Sun, 2011-01-02 22:40
Panel Abstract:
From Hungary to South Africa to the United States, organizations fighting for justice in land and housing are working internationally. With our organizations resource-strapped and struggling locally, collaboration -- even contact -- with a group faraway has the power to inspire and educate. This panel offers organizers an opportunity to reflect not on our successes with international work, but with its inadequacies. If international solidarity has often suffered from being led by relatively privileged activists, how can we make internationalism relevant for local housing struggles and build an international movement led by the most impacted? Can education and inspiration alone justify the high costs of international work? If so, how can we make learning more productive? If not, how can we tap the potential of international organizing? Does international solidarity in the housing struggle have the potential to transform how our broader movement thinks about solidarity?
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Panel Abstract:
From Hungary to South Africa to the United States, organizations fighting for justice in land and housing are working internationally. With our organizations resource-strapped and struggling locally, collaboration -- even contact -- with a group faraway has the power to inspire and educate. This panel offers organizers an opportunity to reflect not on our successes with international work, but with its inadequacies. If international solidarity has often suffered from being led by relatively privileged activists, how can we make internationalism relevant for local housing struggles and build an international movement led by the most impacted? Can education and inspiration alone justify the high costs of international work? If so, how can we make learning more productive? If not, how can we tap the potential of international organizing? Does international solidarity in the housing struggle have the potential to transform how our broader movement thinks about solidarity?
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