Opening:

• How Do We Create Revolutionary Change?
1. We make power more transparent
2. Engage in processes to build a model of power for all
3. Think of the most vulnerable people
4. Use strategy to get what you need
• We Must Recognize:
• We are the largest institution of public learning in the world with 2 million students and 6,000-7,000 faculty and 40-50,000 classified, our students are predominantly working class people of color
• This Camp Based On:
• Paul Wellstone, who ran for 12 years in Senate and started camp of movement building. He was a great community organizer. He died with family in plane.
• Our power is us.

Wellstone Triangle:

• This Camp Based On:
• Paul Wellstone, who ran for 12 years in Senate and started camp of movement building. He was a great community organizer. He died with family in plane.
• Wellstone Triangle:
• Unique way of thinking of ways to organizing - talk to voters and stay grounded even when in office - this is a great issue who can we partner with and raise people up?
• Activity:
• Think about a time that you felt out of your power
• Think of a time you got your power back or felt powerful
• Line up 1-10 points, 10 points=powerful, what are you?

Jasmin did poetry!

Leadership Styles

VISIONARY Leader

• Inspirational, visionary, and can motivate others to join the cause.
• Flies above the gritty work of getting tasks accomplished and uses the power of their personality to move people to take action.
• Becomes the public face and voice of a campaign or organization, who can connect a larger community to our cause, even if themselves are not always involved in the organizational details.

TASK Leader

• Creates effective plans, holds people accountable, and manages details.
• The person who “makes it happen” and gets the tasks accomplished on time.
• Sweats details and is concerned with making sure each task has someone assigned to them.
• Often uses flip charts, “to-do” lists, and/or remembers to write the agenda for meetings.

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Leadership Styles (cont.)

STRATEGIC Leader

• Sees the big pictures and knows how to get “from here to there” by working backwards from the goal.
• Can see what alliances need to be built and usually thinks three steps ahead.
• This person usually will start drawing timelines or ideas on the board or comes up with different strategies.

PROCESS Leader

• Builds community, resolves conflict, and allows people to participate and be heard.
• The “energy checker” and the person who believes the journey is as important as the destination.
• Makes sure everyone is interacting, might bring cookies to the meeting to build community, who notices who isn’t talking, and makes sure everyone feels comfortable.

ETHICAL Leader

• Concerned that things are done honestly, authentically, and with integrity.
• Reminds us of our mission and why we are doing the work in the first place.

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Nicky Gonzáles Yuen

• Political Science professor at De Anza College
• He was a Congressional Fellow in the office of the late U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone with whom he studied as an undergraduate at Carleton College in Northfield, MN
• He is an active participant in local and state politics, and has been serving as an elected official in the East Bay since 2004
• He has taught courses in U.S. politics, grassroots political activism, and race and gender for 20 years.
• His main areas of scholarship are social movements, grassroots organizing, civil rights, and environmental politics.
• He influences his students to reach the goals that they have in their personal lives. He does this by informing his students about ways to engage in populist politics centered on issues that matter to them the most, such as the homelessness crisis, topics on minimum wage, educational access, labor rights, peace, justice, and civil rights.

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