It Takes a Movement: Movement Building Dinners
Sunday, June 10, 5-7:30 pm
Local Organizing
How do people of faith join with hungry and poor people to make a long-term impact in their communities? Our advocacy and church-based community development work can be enhanced by connecting with and learning from local-level activists. Hear how these leaders' strategies -- and the victories of broad-based organizations, faith-based community organizing and other movements -- intersect with grassroots advocacy.
International Movements
Religious and civil society movements that cross national boundaries and reach around the world are driving today's work against global hunger and poverty. Unusual coalitions are demanding transparency and accountability and building public will to end hunger and poverty in both developing and developed countries. We have much to learn from international activists' energy and passion, and their efforts are essential to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
Hands Across the Aisle: Moving beyond the Partisan Divide
At critical junctures, elected leaders have worked together against the tide of partisanship, positioning, and polarizing sound bites to negotiate compromises and pass important policy initiatives for hungry and poor people. Hear about how bipartisan work has even created coalitions to fight hunger, poverty and disease.
National Movements and Campaigns to Build Public Will
In recent years, broad-based campaigns have brought together celebrities, diverse institutions and activists on messaging around hunger and poverty, designed to reach a wide cross-section of the U.S. public. How can these organizations change the direction of U.S. public opinion and policy?
Be the Change You Want to See in the World
From the earliest days of religious history to today, people of faith and conviction have generated the energy and relationships to work for change by living simply, often in the midst of hungry, poor and disenfranchised communities and often in communities like monasteries or intentional households. What role do such communities have in the larger movement to end hunger and poverty? Hear from leaders who've chosen this path to justice.
