RI Conference
Join leading and emerging Jewish activists, intellectuals, and religious leaders from across the country to help strengthen the Jewish social justice and environmental movement , invigorate the growing progressive interfaith religious community, and lead our country in a more progressive direction.
Building on the success of the groundbreaking anthology of Righteous Indignation: A Jewish Call for Justice (Jewish Lights), 15 Jewish justice organizations are co-sponsoring a national conference that will prepare young Jewish leaders (age 21-40) from across the country to help mobilize their communities to voice social justice and environmental issues as Jewish priorities in the 2008 elections. In return for heavily subsidized admission to the conference and travel to Boston, participants will pledge to put their skills to work by helping to organize voter education, registration, and media events in their home communities in the months leading up to the 2008 elections. There are also plans to take a large cohort of Jewish activists to a key election state the week before the presidential election to aid with voter mobilization, transportation, and observing polling stations.
At the Conference:
- Connect with progressive Jewish activists from across the country, together working to strengthen the growing Jewish justice movement
- Learn election-related organizing and media skills (including an advanced strategic communications track for experienced organizers)
- Study Jewish sources on a key justice issue with leading scholars, rabbis, and educators and teachers. Issue tracks will include education, environment, genocide, healthcare, immigration, worker's rights, and the war in Iraq.
- Come away with an action plan for how to organize voter events, participate in national days of action, and garner media coverage for your activist work during this critical moment in U.S. history.
