Upcoming Community Events

How powerful is Camp Courage?

“At any time throughout the day I could look around the room and see a smile on someone’s face, a tear running down their cheek, and the wheels turning in their head. Every moment, you could look to your left and look to your right and know that you were sitting next to a fellow soldier, someone that will be, or is, in the trenches with you fighting in the name of justice. How powerful is that?” — Sara P., a participant at Camp Courage

As one participant at our first Camp Courage said, it is a “magical and life-changing” event — a shining experience that is bringing Obama-style organizing into the movement for equality.

And now, Camp Courage is coming to South LA. On the weekend of April 10-11, activists from our neighborhoods will be gathering in Watts to learn how we can bring full equality — social, economic and racial — to Los Angeles.

Camp Courage South LA will focus primarily on issues of concern to the black community and we hope that African-Americans from all over the Southland will participate. South LA is a very diverse community, of course, and people from all backgrounds are welcome to attend. Everyone who cares about organizing for equality — especially in communities of color — should be there.

In the new post-Obama world we have a chance to create lasting change by using the same inspired organizing strategies that propelled President Obama into office. At this moment, the black community is facing historic challenges — challenges that require all of us to come together with new purpose and a new perspective. This is why Camp Courage South LA is, in many ways, our most important training to date.

On April 10-11, I want you to be at Camp Courage South Los Angeles. But first, we need you to sign up. Space is limited, so please click here to watch video highlights of our first Camp Courage and then RSVP before the event is full:

http://www.couragecampaign.org/CampSouthLA

Modeled on the “Camp Obama” trainings that fueled President Obama’s campaign in 2008, Camp Courage uses the “Story of Self” to transform personal experiences — each participant’s unique inspiration for supporting fairness and equality — into compelling and authentic narratives that build the progressive movement.

Several amazing and diverse organizations will be represented at Camp Courage South LA, supporting the event or sending staff to participate or present:

• Black AIDS Institute
• Black Lesbians United
• California Assembly Speaker Emeritus Karen Bass
• Community Coalition
• F.A.I.R.
• Green Dot Public Schools
• Here to Stay Coalition
• In the Meantime Men’s Group
• Jordan Rustin Coalition
• L.A. City Councilwoman Jan Perry
• L.A. County Federation of Labor
• Liberty Hill Foundation
• Manifest Equality
• Max Mutchnick & Erik Hyman
• National Action Network
• Ronald Dumont
• S.A.M.E. Santa Barbara/Pacific Pride Foundation
• Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Greater Los Angeles

Will you be there? Spots are filling up fast for Camp Courage South LA on April 10-11. Click here to watch video highlights of one of our first Camp Courage and then sign up ASAP:

http://www.couragecampaign.org/CampSouthLA

Thank you for doing your part to build the movement for full equality that will change California and our country. I hope to see you at Camp.

Lisa Powell
Co-Founder, Camp Courage