Missed Something at CSTI?
Our staff, board and guest bloggers write about CSTI 2009.
No Worries! Read our Blog and Watch our Slideshow.
Click here to see the CSTI 2009 slideshow.
Western
States Center staff, board and guest bloggers can fill you in on what
you missed at CSTI. Our CSTI blog starts with a short entry, Getting
Ready for CSTI by our board member 
George Cheung. George makes a case
that the networking may have been just as hot as the weather.
On
Friday morning Professor Daniel HoSang kicked off CSTI with Racial
Justice in the Age of Obama. The full transcript is available here. Our very own Kalpana Krishnamurthy also covered this session
in her blog, The Politics of Tolerance. The Saturday plenary on the Impact
of the Economic Collapse is covered by our new board member Cathy
Howell. Read about the Sunday plenary in Real Districts Have Curves by
our director, Dan Petegorsky.
You can also catch a glimpse of
some workshops in our blog. Our board members really pitched in. Dan
Neal reports on Building Statewide Power, Cathy Howell blogs about
Census and Redistricting; and Alysha Goheen Jannotta writes about
Organizational Development in Tough Times.
Our board members were not the only ones slumping over a computer blogging about CSTI. Our
WILD participant Tiffany McClain gives you a sneak peek at our
soon-to-be-released Uniting Communities toolkit and trainer Kathleen
Pequeño shares the life of a trainer in Hard for a Trainer, Great for a
Movement. Our colleague at Rockwood Leadership Institute, Bernie Schlotfeldt, steps out of his comfort zone to reveal his experience in rewiring biases of gender identity in Tran Justice and My Body. 
CSTI was also where Switch: A Community in Transition
made its regional premiere. “Within minutes after it started, I knew I
was seeing a special piece of work,” said labor activist Kim Fellner.
Read Kim’s blog on Switch in The Bait… and Switch.
Another film
that made one of its first introductions was Papers the Movie. Papers
tells the story of undocumented youth and the challenges they face as
they turn 18 without legal status. A 3-minute preview is available on
Papers the Movie website.
