PROGRESSIVE IDEAS IN PRACTICE

The Foundation is sponsoring a 2024 Summer of Action. The country has experienced months of intense political action by students and workers against US foreign policy in Gaza and Israel. The level of political activity, from campus protests to high school walkouts to marches in the street, is growing daily. Many of the participants in our 2023 Community Building Conference have taken active leadership in these events. They are ready to carry the work forward and expand it this summer with particular attention to activities around the Presidential Conventions. Asserting the fundamental right to free speech in the US is a time-honored element of the political party conventions. In addition the Foundation will collaborate with many grass roots organizers by providing resources to facilitate their work in their local areas.  

The Foundation will sponsor workshops in Milwaukee, WI (July 15-19) during the Republican Convention and in Chicago, IL (August 19-23) during the Democratic Convention. We plan to gather participants from around the country as we did last summer for our 2023 Conference. For more information about joining us go to Contact Us on the homepage.

We have supported "Hoops for Justice“ for many years. This will be the 11h Annual event. Hoops for Justice” was founded in remembrance of Shantel Davis & Kimani Gray, young Black workers murdered by the NYPD. This tournament was brought together by tragedy and now we bring the community together in celebration of Shantel & Kimani’s life. 

Email hoops4justice@gmail.com to register.

TILDEN PARK (E. 49th St., & Tilden Ave., Brooklyn, NY)

Saturday, August 3, Game Starts 9AM