Reflections on Organizing and Power: Anti-Black Police Brutality and the Popular Uprisings

September 18, 2020

1:00- 1:20 pm
Opening Remarks
Clarence Lang, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts
Consortium for Social Movements and Education
Black Caucus
Black Graduate Student Association
Social Movement Student Group

1:20- 2:00p
Chenjerai Kumanyika, Assistant Professor of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University and Organizer with 215 People’s Alliance and the Debt Collective

2:00- 2:25p
Koby Murphy, Youth Organizer with the Philadelphia Student Union

2:30- 2:50p
Breakout rooms - Reflecting and Breaking Down Key Concepts

2:50-3:20p
Valentina McKenzie, Minneapolis Workers Center and Black Vision Collective, Minneapolis

3:20- 3:45p
Nanre Nafziger, co-chair of the 3-20 Coalition, State College
Tierra Williams, co-chair of the 3-20 Coalition, State College

3:45- 4:15p
Breakout rooms - Skills Building Sessions

1. “Letter Writing as Political Advocacy” led by Cynthia Young, head of Penn State African American Studies Department (STUDENTS ONLY)
2. “Youth Organizing for Racial Justice” led by Koby Murphy (STUDENTS ONLY)\
3. “Seeing through the Anti-Black Diversity Playbook: Identifying and Applying Structural Interventions” led by Chenjerai Kumanyika
4. “Organizing to Defund the Police and Alternative Solutions to Community Policing” led by Valentina McKenzie
5. “The Labor Movement and Black Lives Matter” led by Valerie Braman, The LABOR School at Penn State and School for Labor and Employment Relations
6. “Processing the response to the BLM Movement” led by Carly Pourzand, Community Engagement Specialist at Penn State Center Philadelphia
7. “Building a movement for Black Lives in State College through the 3-20 coalition” led by Nanre Nafziger, co-chair of the 3-20 coalition