WORLD YOUTH JAM USA WOMEN'S JAM AFRICAN WOMEN'S JAM
WORLD YOUTH JAM
Petaluma, CA, August 4-11, 2002
Who's coming to the World Jam in 2002?
YES!’s
fifth annual World Youth Jam will unite 30 of the world’s outstanding young
change makers from 15 nations for a week of networking, skills sharing and community
building. Held August 4-11, 2002 at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS)
Campus, this event will help to connect and empower the global youth movements
for social justice, human rights, peace and environmental sanity. The Jam will
culminate with a Community Day on August 11.THE FACILITATION TEAM
The 2002 World Youth Jam is being organized by YES!, in partnership with a four-member facilitation team.
MALIKA SANDERS is director of 21st Century Youth Leadership Movement in Selma, AL, an organization created in 1985 by civil rights movement veterans. 21st Century helps youth (primarily in the African-American community) to be skilled community leaders, empowering themselves and their communities for positive change. Malika was 16 when she organized 100 students to shut down Selma High School for four days in an ultimately victorious protest of the school’s racist “tracking” system. She also helped organize the "Joe Gotta Go" campaign that recently unseated the 36-year reign of racist Selma mayor Smitherman. She serves on the board of several organizations, and won the 2002 Reebok Human Rights Award.
COUMBA TOURE is coordinator of the Youth Leadership Program at the Institute for Popular Education (IPE) in Mali. Coumba works for women’s empowerment through popular education, and has facilitated hundreds of educational workshops. She speaks regularly at college campuses and conferences internationally, and she also works with 21st Century Youth Leadership Movement to organize numerous exchanges between African-American youth from the Southern United States and African youth from throughout West Africa.
OCEAN ROBBINS founded Youth for Environmental Sanity (YES!) at 16, and has served in a leadership role with YES! for 12 years. He is co-author of Choices for Our Future, has spoken in person to 200,000 high school students, and has facilitated 29 week-long camps for young activists from 42 countries. At 14, Ocean facilitated global youth summits in Moscow and in Washington, DC, presenting for Mrs. Gorbachev and numerous US Senators in the process. He has served as a board member for Friends of the Earth, The Tide Turning Coalition, and EarthSave International.
PUMA QUISPE SINGONA is founder of CUSI HUAYNA, an indigenous youth institution that empowers youth and protects traditional folklore and wisdom of the Inca Culture in Peru. Puma is an Andean Medicine Man in training, and since he was a child he has been practicing global healing and herbal and pre-natal care. He is a Council Member of Indigenous and Non Indigenous Youth Alliance (INIYA) and actively works with Youth leadership Council.
USA WOMEN'S JAM
July 24-31, Ben Lomond, CA
Organized in partnership with 21st Century Youth Leadership Movement, Barrios Unidos, and the Institute for Popular Education, the USA Women’s Jam is a gathering of 25 young women leaders who have dedicated their lives to social change and committed to improve their communities. For seven days we will explore our place as young women in the history of the struggle for justice in the United States, and connect our movements and dreams for the 21st Century. We will share our experiences as young women in a sexist society and our role in creating new possibilities for women and all people. The USA Women’s Jam will take place July 24-31, 2002 at the Quaker Center (link to http://www.quakercenter.org/) in the Redwood Forest of the Santa Cruz mountains of California (near San Francisco). We will have discussion circles, healing ceremonies, networking, visioning, and conversations with remarkable mentors including (invited) Angela Davis and Dolores Huerta. We will sing, dance, and celebrate the struggles and sacrifices of those women who have worked for our liberation, and explore how to continue their legacy so that our daughters may thrive and grow in a just world that affirms and honors their gifts, intellect, feelings, and lives.
THE FACILITATION TEAM
The USA Women’s Jam is being organized by YES!, in partnership with a four-member facilitation team.
MALIKA SANDERS is director of 21st Century Youth Leadership Movement in Selma, AL, an organization created in 1985 by civil rights movement veterans. 21st Century helps youth (primarily in the African-American community) to be skilled community leaders, empowering themselves and their communities for positive change. Malika was 16 when she organized 100 students to shut down Selma High School for four days in an ultimately victorious protest of the school’s racist “tracking” system. She also helped organize the "Joe Gotta Go" campaign that recently unseated the 36-year reign of racist Selma mayor Smitherman. She serves on the board of several organizations, and won the 2002 Reebok Human Rights Award.
COUMBA TOURE is coordinator of the Youth Leadership Program at the Institute for Popular Education (IPE) in Mali. Coumba works for women’s empowerment through popular education, and has facilitated hundreds of educational workshops. She speaks regularly at college campuses and conferences internationally, and she also works with 21st Century Youth Leadership Movement to organize numerous exchanges between African-American youth from the Southern United States and African youth from throughout West Africa.
MICHELE ROBBINS is Executive Director and Co-President of Youth for Environmental Sanity (YES!), an organization dedicated to educating, inspiring and empowering youth to join forces for social justice and environmental sanity. YES! has spoken in person to 620,000 people in more than 1,200 school assembly and conference presentations, led hundreds of day-long workshops, and held 73 week-long transformative, community building events for young changemakers from 45 countries. Michele is working and thriving in a 3 generation home with her husband Ocean, his parents John and Deo, and the new additions of her 1 year old twin babies, River and Bodhi.
MARIBEL GALLARDO is outreach coordinator for Santa Cruz Barrios Unidos (http://www.barriosunidos.net), a non-profit organization that empowers at-risk young people with job and computer training, education, legal support, self esteem, and community economic and cultural empowerment.
AFRICAN WOMEN'S JAM
June, 2002
The Africa Women’s Jam will bring together young women change makers from West Africa who are addressing the unique cultural, environmental and political realities of their region in effective and powerful ways. Organized by the Institute for Popular Education in Dakar, it is scheduled for June, 2002. To learn more, contact Coumba Toure by e-mailing coumbis@eudoramail.com