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The Sea of Change:
Check Your Head
The Sea of Change is a popular education exercise that can be used as a tool to help groups do visioning and build strategies for working together. It is a creative exercise that takes participants through building a river of change between the injustices in today’s world and the ideal world they would like to see. The process can be used to tackle a range of issues.
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Power and Imperialism:
SOUL
This module is set up as a series of exercises designed to introduce participants to a basic understanding of imperialism and its impact on the people of the world. You should mix-and-match these exercises to meet the needs of your particular group, which should stay in the order in which they are presented. The workshop helps participants develop a basic understanding of the power and how the U.S. has built its wealth through conquest.
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- Power and Imperialism: part 1
- Power and Imperialism: part 2
- Power and Imperialism: part 3
- Power and Imperialism: part 4
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The Roots of Terror:
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This training gives participants a space to discuss terrorism, helping them to develop a deeper understanding of what terrorism is and to understand the relationship between individual acts of terrorism and state terrorism.
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The Freechild Project:
Profile
The Freechild Project is based out of Olympia, Washington and was started in 2000 by Adam Fletcher, and a group of six other young people who were dedicated to youth activism for community change and social justice. Having grown disenchanted with national organizations that did not directly provide resources that young people needed to create social change, The Freechild Project was created as a grassroots alternative to these larger national organizations. In 2002, through the assistance of Dr. Michael Vavrus, a Professor at the Evergreen State College, The Freechild Project began working with issues surrounding globalization. In partnership with a nonprofit in Washington called The Youth Alliance, The Freechild Project developed a curriculum named "The Global Freechild Program", that's objective is to provide students with the tools, awareness, motivation, and skills to become advocates of socially, politically, economically, and environmentally just responses to globalization.
Today, The Freechild Project is comprised of one full time employee (Fletcher), and a network of people and organizations around the country that Freechild contracts with and provides training, research and technical assistance, and resource development for, to support young people involved in social activism.