BROOKLYN COLLEGE–“Stand up fight back!” The Brooklyn College Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Project hosted an activism and organizing workshop for students to learn how to become better activists, manage their own events, and how to work with other activism organizations on Dec. 5.
This event was in collaboration with two Brooklyn-based organizations currently working in activism, Malikah, which is an organization that fights against gender and hate-based violence through self-defense training, and the Vera Institute of Justice whose mission is to end the overcriminalization and mass incarceration of immigrants, people of color, and individuals who are experiencing poverty. These two organizations spoke with BC students about the impact that organizing can have on making a change.
“When we’re talking about organizing, we’re talking about how we can strategically work towards creating concrete changes materially for our communities,” Deena Hadhound, director of programs and operations at Malikah, told the audience.
