GLSEN, the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network, is pleased to announce it’s sixth Student Of Color Organizing Weekend to be held on January 16-19, 2009.

The Student Of Color Organizing (SOCO) weekend will gather Middle and High School students of color from all over the country during the Martin Luther King Jr. weekend. The mission of this weekend is to provide networking  and skills building opportunities to empower young people of color to organize and engage in safer school work.

Interested youth can apply on line or use the down-loadable application form. GLSEN will cover all transportation, lodging and meals throughout the weekend. Application deadline is November 10, 2008.

Apply on line: SOCO Application

http://www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/library/record/2003.html

A completed application for must include.

A completed application.  A letter of reference/recommendation. Registration on http://www.studentorganizing.org/. Availability during the weekend of January 16-19, 2009.

Any questions contact: Melissa Davis, Student Organizing Associate at mdavis@glsen.org.

From GLSEN’s Site

Student of Color Organizing Conference 2009

GLSEN, the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network, is pleased to announce it’s sixth Student of Color Organizing weekend to be held on January 16 - 19, 2009.

The Students of Color Organizing (SOCO) weekend is an important component of our student organizing work. This event, made possible by a generous grant from the Time Warner Foundation, will gather Middle and High School students of color from all over the country during the Martin Luther King Jr. Weekend. The mission of this weekend is to provide networking and skills building opportunities to empower young people of color to organize and become engaged in safer schools work.

Throughout this weekend we will be providing students with an opportunity to: network with organizers from across the country, create action plans for organizing in their communities and begin looking at their work with an anti-oppression lens.

Each

student, representing diverse communities and from different parts of the country, will arrive at the retreat with an idea for a project which would combine safe schools organizing and communities of color and/or students of color. By the end of the weekend, each student will leave with a plan, using the new information, networks and skill-building from the SOCO conference to make their projects come to life!

Check out GLSEN here.