Conference Topics
National STOPMAX Conference
May 30-June 1st, 2008,
Temple University,
Philadelphia, PA
The STOPMAX Conference will provide information, first-hand experience strategies, training and skills-building on topics such as:
- mental illness in solitary confinement
- examples of successful advocacy
- models of community organizing and activism
- youth as activists
- unique concerns for women in isolation
- empowering family members of people in solitary confinement
- organizing with communities of faith
- understanding appeal/grievance processes
- positive examples of current International practice
- youth in isolation
- understanding paradigm of healing and transformative justice
- fundraising techniques for grassroots groups
- litigation strategies
- exposing torture and documenting human rights abuses in prison
- using a human rights framework as an educational and organizing tool
- media and internet organizing techniques
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