Panel and Workshop Summaries and Notes

Disclaimer: The transcripts of these sessions are edited versions. Any wisdom, we attribute to the speakers; any fault, we take on ourselves for imperfect records. We had not initially intended to post these, but upon reviewing our session coordinators' notes and receiving calls asking for the proceedings, we decided that more formal - if partial - documentation was warranted. We hope the wisdom of the many panelists is useful in the ongoing work to build a more equitable Los Angeles.

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Concurrent Panels | Building Movements: Lessons from Two Decades of Organizing

Panel #1 | From Criminalization to Empowerment: A Growing Youth Justice Movement and Building a Cradle-to-Career Pipeline

Panel #2 | From Disinvestment to Reinvestment: What Post-Unrest Urban Development Strategies Can Teach Us Today

Panel #3 | From Prop 209 to Prop 8: Lessons from the Electoral Battleground

Panel #4 | Research for Change: Strategic Partnerships, Popular Education, and Participatory Research

Panel #5 | Finding the Uncommon Common Ground:  Organizing across Race, Place, and Faith

Strategy Workshops | Sustaining this Movement Moment: Strategies for Today and for the Future

Workshop #1 | Showing Up and Signing Up: Integrating Media and Organizing

Workshop #2 | Sustaining Organizations: Scaling with Soul

Workshop #3 | Building Powerful Alliances: Balancing Depth, Density, and Size

Workshop #4 | Measuring Movement Building: Defining Metrics that Matter

Workshop #5: Skilling Up: Engaging Communities in Campaigns