The Kalamazoo Peace Center, in conjunction with student organizations on campus, has successfully managed to get fair trade coffee served on Western Michigan University's campus.

The KPC now hopes to teach other organizations to do the same by hosting a series of progressive organizing workshops called “From Roots to Action: Organize and Mobilize,” which teach skills in grassroots organizing and then applying those skills to campus campaigning.

“There are many problems with our campus, from the skyrocketing tuition, to privatization of the campus workers - these are issues that students can organize around and make a difference,” she said.

The workshops are aimed at giving students the tools they need to become more actively involved with making positive changes on their campus, Moore said.

The program will then focus on direct action and escalation, which includes a workshop to conceptualize and prepare for direct action in a campus campaign.

Finally, the focus will shift to group dynamics, with a basis on issues of group sustainability, accountability and combating race, class, gender and sexuality-based oppression within a group and its work.

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