PAYMENT

If you have not paid off your balance yet, you can make a secure on-line payment with a credit card by clicking here.

Checks by mail are also acceptable and can be sent to: P.O. Box 40305  Portland, OR  97240.

Checks should be made out to Western States Center/CSTI.

Please be sure to specify the full names of the participants you are paying for if the names differ from the name printed on the check or credit card.

The Community Strategic Training Initiative is a unique three-day training and networking event for community-based leaders, staff, and volunteers of groups organizing for justice in the West. CSTI participants represent a spectrum of experiences and backgrounds. They are diverse with respect to race, geography, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, and skill level.

Workshops run all day to provide an intensive experience in the subject you’ve chosen. Workshops are designed to be highly interactive and to provide hands on tools for your organization to use after you leave CSTI. Trainers, drawn from around the region and beyond, are among the most knowledgeable in their areas.

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Additional CSTI 2008 Activities

MORNING PLENARY SESSIONS
CSTI participants gather each morning starting at 9 AM for a plenary prior to breaking off into their individual workshops for the day.

Friday August 1st
CSTI Opening Ceremony: This is what the movement for justice in the West looks like. Join us for a formal opening to CSTI 2008.

Saturday August 2nd
Revolution in Jesusland: The emerging social movement among evangelical Christians is working towards key progressive goals: eliminating poverty, saving the environment, promoting justice and equality.-Zack Exley. Check out Zack Exley's blog at: revolutioninjesusland.com

Sunday August 3rd
Nativism’s Strange Bedfellows: The Christian Right and the anti-immigrant movement both think that immigration is the problem. We’ll discuss why controlling women’s reproductive lives both unites and divides these groups and what this convergence on the Right may bring down the road. -Tarso Luís Ramos & Kalpana Krishnamurthy

CSTI RECEPTION Thursday July 31st 6:00 – 8:00 pm Outside the Student Union on the Quad

Mix it up with early arrivals and Western States Center staff and Board over finger food and a no-host bar. 

FILM SCREENING AND HIP HOP PERFORMANCE Thursday July 31 7:30 – 9:30 pm Student Union

Abdul Folfanah will present and discus Moving to the Beat, a film documenting the journey of Rebel Soulz from  Portland, Oregon to Freetown, Sierra Leone, to discover a spiritual homeland and resurrect Chuck D’s notion of hip hop as the "black CNN." The film presentation and discussion will be followed by a hip hop performance.

FILM AND DISCUSSION Friday August 1st 7:30 – 9:30 pm Vollum Lecture Hall

Banished: American Ethnic Cleansings. Alicia L. Young of Working Films to view Marco Williams’ film Banished, followed by a discussion of displacement, gentrification, racial injustice, and reparations.

CSTI 21ST BIRTHDAY PARTY CELEBRATION Saturday August 2nd 6:00 PM Kaul Auditorium

Mix and mingle with friends old and new at a reception on the lawn outside Kaul Auditorium with musical guest Victor Benavides sharing flamenco guitar songs.  Inside Kaul Auditorium a banquet dinner and celebratory program will pep you up after the day of workshops.  Let your memories and creativity flow as we share art work created over the weekend: a mural, a poem, and stories galore!

TALENT SHOW Saturday August 2nd 8:00 PM Kaul Auditorium

Who needs American Idol when we’ve got each other!  Show us your talents – or encourage those with talents in your crew to shine their little light tonight!  Hosted by Good Sista/Bad Sista we anticipate a show of political insights and poetry in motion.