About
The Solidarity Institute is a national organization, currently residing at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, that produces research, events, and projects to connect diverse communities in a collective vision for social justice. We have engaged in this work organizationally since 2002.
Our work is informed by the People’s Institute, the Center for Third World Organizing, the Challenging White Supremacy workshop, the Catalyst Project, the Alliance of White Anti-Racists Everywhere - Los Angeles, and the Department of American Studies & Ethnicity at USC.
We have received recognition from the Ford Foundation, the Harry S. Truman Foundation, Bloomsbury Press, Greenwood Press, the Associated Press, NBC, ABC, Current TV, MTV Networks, Complex magazine, and various universities including Yale University, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Southern California.
Check us out and let us know if we can be of service to your organization or community.
Jeb Middlebrook, Director
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ARORA: Anti-Racist Organizing Respository and Archive
The Solidarity Institute, in partnership with the Challenging White Supremacy workshop, has begun an ambitious project to document organizational practices of anti-racist organizing from the 1960s to the present and make these documents available to the general public.
Archival documents will be free and available at: http://www.solidarityinstitute.org/category/arora
This project is in support of the Solidarity Institute's first book manuscript, Challenging White Supremacy: Multiracial Alliance and Antiracist Organizing in the U.S., which will be authored by director Jeb Middlebrook and released initially as a doctoral dissertation through the University of Southern California in 2010.
If you have documents you believe should be included in the archive please email: jeb.middlebrook@usc.edu and a staff member will be in touch with you.
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ONWARD: Organizing Network for Widespread Anti-Racist Development
ONWARD is a national project designed to lend free long-term support and consulting to people and groups interested in starting or growing antiracist alliances between people of color organizations and white organizations to challenge individual and institutional racism on the local level, and to connect them to a national movement.
The Solidarity Institute has teamed up with the networks of AWARE-LA, U.S. for All of Us, AntiRacist 15 and Jeb Middlebrook as a way for people to link into the project.
Additionally, the Solidarity Institute has partnered with Facebook.com to provide an online tool for people to connect both locally and nationally with other people and organizations involved in discussions and development of antiracist alliances through ONWARD.
The social networking tool is available through the Solidarity Institute Facebook page at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Solidarity-Institute/125078843094. "Like" the Solidarity Institute page through a new or existing Facebook account to join ONWARD.
For more information, or to connect your community to the project online or in person contact: jeb.middlebrook@usc.edu
Updates on the ONWARD project can be read at: http://www.solidarityinstitute.org/category/onward
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Organizing to End Racism: Anti-Racist Movements on Campus and Beyond (an ONWARD project)
Jeb Middlebrook is the Director of the Solidarity Institute and one of the most sought after anti-racist speakers and organizers today.
Jeb holds a B.A. in Ethnic Studies from the University of Minnesota and a M.A. in American Studies & Ethnicity from the University of Southern California, where he is earning his PhD.
Drawing from historical and contemporary examples, his talks demonstrate the power of campus and community organizing in building a world free of racism.
His educational and entertaining talks engage:
* topics of anti-racism, racial justice and community organizing with a variety of stories, statistics, and anecdotes
* historical and contemporary examples that address the promise of campus and community organizing
* realities of multiracial alliances against racism that positively transform relationships, communities, and institutions
Talks are 50 min, followed by a 25 minute Q & A.
For more information, check out: http://www.jebmiddlebrook.com
For booking information email: jeb.middlebrook@usc.edu
Updates on the ONWARD project can be read at: http://www.solidarityinstitute.org/category/onward
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Antiracist 15: Creating Anti-Racist Culture on Campus: Poetry and Discussions for Racial Justice
Jeb Middlebrook and Trevor Wysling are AntiRacist 15, one of the most unique arts and activism duos in the U.S.
They are dedicated to fifteen anti-racist principles including: Learn Anti-Racist History, Respect Leadership of Color, and Stand in Solidarity.
Touring nationally since 2003, they engage the topic of racism with poetry and discussions to create anti-racist culture on campus and in local communities.
Led by Jeb Middlebrook and Trevor Wysling (from the film Mirrors of Privilege: Making Whiteness Visible), AntiRacist 15 presents an arts + education + activism experience: a live spoken word or hip-hop show, a discussion panel with local racial justice activists and a Q & A on creating and sustaining anti-racist culture on campus.
For more information, check out: http://www.antiracist15.com
For booking information email: jeb.middlebrook@usc.edu
Updates on the AntiRacist 15 project can be read at: http://www.solidarityinstitute.org/category/antiracist-15
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