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The Dorothy Day School for Nonviolence and Economic Human Rights at Sisters Of The Road

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Vision

The Dorothy Day Community School for Nonviolence and Economic Human Rights (DDCS) will develop and advocate for the use of the Economic Human Rights model to address social injustices.  The DDCS will train Sisters Of The Road’s community members and cross-class allies in leadership and organizing, and systematically develop and share Sisters’ philosophy of nonviolence as an organizing model.  The DDCS will seek Systemic Change to bring about a world in which all human beings have access to the vital elements that are needed to lead healthy and productive lives.

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Organizing Principles

  • The DDCS will seek solutions to the problems people experiencing poverty, homelessness, and other oppressions face daily.
  • The DDCS will create space for uniting people experiencing homelessness, poverty, and oppression as the leadership base for a broad movement to abolish systems of oppression everywhere and forever.
  • The DDCS will make clear that poverty and homelessness are NOT the results of personal failure but rather a result of failures inherent to the current socioeconomic system that fosters domination and oppression and uses violence as its main form of control.
  • The DDCS will create space for learning and education across class lines and will empower the sharing of personal truth and experience as the source for analysis of collective knowledge and struggle.

The DDCS will foster a broad social movement, engage our community to envision a new system, and build up leaders within the community. Through weekly, interactive, and consistent trainings, seminars, dialogues, film screenings, and community events we will share our truth, experience and knowledge. The curriculum will include arts and culture, nonviolence trainings, media trainings, economic human rights/political analysis, organizing tools and skill building.

Click here to learn about the Empowered Voices Media Project, a project which has already resulted in several amazing videos which highlight the experiences of folks experiencing homelessness and poverty.

Contact

Lucilene Lira at 503- 222-5694 ext. 37 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

“We will make the road by walking…” - Antonio Machado