Starting Date: 07-26-2013
Ending Date: 07-28-2013
U Southern California
Los Angeles, California 90089
United StatesEvery summer GSA Network offers GSA Activist Camp! GSA Activist Camps are youth-planned, youth-led summer training academies.
GSA Activist Camps serve middle and high school students in Northern California, Southern California, and the Central Valley.
GSA Activist Camps are 3 days long and feature intensive community building, skill-building, political education and leadership training for current and potential GSA members.
Participants come from a wide range of backgrounds and learn how to:
Strengthen their GSA clubs through coalition building and strategic organizing.
Understand the legal rights of students and GSA clubs.
Protect students from slurs, bullying and discrimination.
Recognize the ways that homophobia and transphobia are connected to racism, sexism, classism and other oppressions.
Work with school administrators to fight homophobia and transphobia.
Run successful campaigns to change the climate on their campuses.
GSA Activist Camps 2013
NorCal/Central Valley Activist Camp - July 12-14 at Marin Headlands Institute. Check in May to apply.
SoCal/Central Valley Activist Camp - July 26-28 at USC. Check back in May to apply.
Mentors Wanted! If you are interested being a young adult/college mentor at a camp in your region, please check back in May to apply. Mentors are adults who have been out of highschool for 2+ years.Geographical Scope: State Other |
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