community organizing, this Sun

[Amy Price]

Hey, y'all! Since this group is particularly interested in reaching out to the communities, the workshop on Sun is probably right up your ally...

What better way could there be to honor Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday than to spend it sharpening your activist skills?

5:30 at the Stag's Head Pub, 2128 Portsmouth Street

Join Occupy Houston for the 3rd installment in its community organizing series: Local and International Perspectives on Organizing for Social Justice

Presenters: Maria Jiminez

Maria Jiminez is the Special Projects Coordinator for CRECEN/America Para Todos. An international organizer with experience in the United States and Mexico, Jiminez is also a local who graduated with a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Houston in 1974. Today, her efforts are focused on developing programs for immigrant workers, providing concrete support to immigrant workers fight for social justice, and voicing immigrant rights concerns in community and political processes already at work locally, nationally and internationally for social justice and change.