[SustainableTompkins] Transformative Action events, Town and Gown

[Daniel Roth]

> >Transformative Action
> >sponsored by CRESP
> >
> >CRESP has invited Dr. Scott Sherman, UCLA, to speak about, Transformative
> >Action, an innovative approach to social change that draws on Martin
> >Luther King, Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi's non-violent action. This model
> >suggests that  social change agents are more successful in achieving their
> >goals when they approach conflict with compassion rather than anger, and
> >seek to transform antagonism into cooperation, enemies into friends, and
> >adversaries into allies. Dr. Sherman is here to help launch The CRESP
> >Center for Transformative Action.
> >
> >Dr. Scott Sherman speaking in downtown Ithaca
> >
> >"From Protest to Power: An Innovative Model for Transformative Action"
> >Tuesday, October 24th
> >5:15-6:30pm
> >Borg Warner Room
> >Tompkins County Public Library
> >
> >
> >"How David Conquers Goliath: The Power of People to Overcome the World's
> >Largest Corporations and Governments"
> >Wednesday, October 25th
> >6:30-8:00pm
> >Workers' Center above Autumn Leaves
> >115 The Commons
> >

> >Dr. Scott Sherman speaking at Cornell (see below for events in downtown
> >Ithaca)
> >
> >"How David Conquers Goliath: The Power of People to Overcome the World's
> >Largest Corporations and Governments"
> >Wednesday, October 25th
> >4:30-6:00pm
> >165 McGraw Hall
> >Cornell University
> >
> >"Teaching to Transform the World: An Innovative Approach to Education"
> >Thursday, October 26th
> >5:15-6:30pm
> >165 Statler Hall
> >Cornell University
> >
> >Scott Sherman and his colleague Randy Parraz have been named by Echoing
> >Green among the world's "Best Emerging Social Change Entrepreneurs" for
> >their bold plan to train new leaders to address Southern California's most
> >pervasive problems by applying this innovative model for social activism
> >called "transformative action."
> >
> >Moreover, Dr. Sherman's undergraduate course, designed to train a new
> >generation of leaders to become social entrepreneurs, visionaries,
> >innovators, and problems solvers, has quickly become the highest-ranking
> >course at UCLA.
> >As winners of the prestigious 2005 Echoing Green Fellowship, Sherman and
> >Parraz will receive $90,000 in seed funding, as well as two years of
> >technical support, leadership training and strategic counsel, to develop
> >the Transformative Action Institute (TAI) in Los Angeles, California, for
> >training college students in innovative social change strategies that
> >break the "us versus them" model. Using as a backdrop the many critical
> >issues facing Southern California (from labor and immigration to the
> >environment), TAI will train college students, starting at UCLA, in how to
> >start social movements based on these new, innovative strategies. TAI
> >hopes to be the 21st century, West Coast version of the Highlander Center
> >- the social change school in Tennessee where individuals such as Rosa
> >Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. learned how to become more effective
> >activists.
> >
> >Campus Events are co-sponsored by: Departments of Africana Studies and
> >Research Center, Natural Resources, Education, Anthropology, City and
> >Regional Planning,  The Belnick Fund-Government Department,  The Peace
> >Studies Program, The Public Service Center, The Office of the Vice Provost
> >for Outreach, The Office of the Dean of Students, SAFC, The Sustainability
> >Hub, The Society for Natural Resource Conservation, Engineers for a
> >Sustainable World, The Cornell Coalition for Trade Justice
> >

> >
> >
> >--
> >
> >Anke Wessels, PhD
> >Executive Director
> >Center for Religion, Ethics, and Social Policy
> >117 Anabel Taylor Hall
> >Cornell University
> >Ithaca, NY 14853
> >
> >607-255-5027
>

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