Organizing For Power
The Victoria Tenant’s Union is gathering people to join the Organizing for Power’s (O4P) 2025 Core Fundamentals workshop. We are inviting both members and non-members. It takes place in weekly sessions over 6 consecutive Thursdays from February 13th until March 20th, 2025. If you’re interested, send us an email:
The O4P Core Fundamantals workshop will give you and our neighbours the training to organize into a union that has actual bargaining power over landlords. Here’s what their description has to say:
You will begin each week in a global plenary with Weeks 1 and 6 taking place over 2 hours entirely in plenary. During Weeks 2-5 you will meet with your group (virtually or in person) during the second half of the session to work through practical exercises, taking as long as you need to finish your work. You should also meet with your group between each session to complete crucial weekly campaign practice assignments. Over the six weeks you will learn the following core fundamentals of organizing: leader identification: understanding who can move people to action, and that it’s often not who you think; semantics: recognizing that the words you use matter - you must center each worker’s active participation as key to winning; structured organizing conversations: learning what it takes to win over the hardest-to-move leaders; charting: incorporating a simple method to understand human social relationships, and to prioritize and systematize outreach; structure tests: developing mini campaigns to build solidarity and site structure, and to know when you are ready to win.
https://bit.ly/O4P-CF-About-2024
O4P is a training program put on by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, in collaboration with legendary organizer Jane McAlevey. Jane passed away in July of 2024, and O4P is a continuation of her legacy.
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