Think Global, Act Local: Grassroots Engagement to End the Drug War

Think Global, Act Local: Grassroots Engagement to End the Drug War
San Jose, 2nd Floor
No movement for social change can succeed without intensive engagement at the local level. The last few years have seen an explosion in drug policy reform activity at the local level. What are the particular challenges of advocating at the local level? How does this work connect with national priorities? And what can we learn from people who have launched efforts to mobilize communities to end the war on drugs? 

Facilitator: Dan Berger, PhD, University of Pennsylvania  

• Gretchen Burns-Bergman, Co-Founder, Moms United; Executive Director & Co-Founder A New PATH, Rancho Santa Fe, CA            
• Susan Burton, Founder and Executive Director, A New Way of Life; Steering Committee Member, Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted Peoples Movement   
• Hiawatha Collins, Board Member, Vocal-NY, New York, NY
• Neill Franklin, Executive Director, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), Washington, DC Alice Huffman, Executive Director, California NAACP   
• Ajeng Larasati, Drug Policy Reform Program Coordinator, Community Legal Aid Institute, Jakarta, Indonesia     
• Dan Rush, Director of State Operations, United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 5, Los Angeles, CA