Needed: Your ideas on workshops for our conference
The conference is now less than 6 months away. But we haven’t gotten a lot of responses to appeal for ideas for workshops. The plan is to have 20 of these over the course of 2 days. So please – if you have any ideas for subjects you would like discussed, please share them! Email ericlee@labourstart.org with your ideas. Thanks very much.
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Last year the ‘What is LabourStart’ session was well attended – well beyond our expectations really. As many of those attending the conference will not know much about LS, it might be worth repeating.
As well, I think it may be a good idea to do, early on, a ‘social media for dummies’ workshop, something that is a quick survey of the online organizing tools that are available. I know it is the theme of the conference but I think we can expect many attending to be more towards the international solidarity end of the interest spectrum and in need of a brief overview of the tech that will likely be referred-to throughout the conference.
And of course each of the North African countries would probably be worth a workshop on their own, but it might also be interesting to, in addition, have presenters from each on a panel where they focus on and compare a specific issue or trend.
Global themed caucuses might be appreciated, outside of the workshops I mean. Public sector unions, oil industry unions etc. Just a quick opportunity to network a bit.
The state of trade unions in Palestine and Israel?