Call for Workshops: Student Track (click here for the general Call for Workshops)
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The Second Popular Palestinian Conference in the US, Palestine: One Land, One People, One Destiny: Together, Restoring our National Institutions, Reclaiming our Rights, Empowering our Community, is scheduled to take place on October 29-31, 2010 in Chicago.
The Popular Conference will feature a student track of workshops and programs led by students and facilitated by student organizations, focused on meeting students’ needs and encouraging discussions and actions to unify and support the Palestinian student voice in the United States.
The Conference’s primary goal is to empower our community in the US to assume a key role in reclaiming Palestinian human and national rights. As Palestinians, we have an obligation to become full participants in our people’s quest for freedom, self-determination and the return of Palestinian refugees to their original towns and villages. This is only possible is we collectively develop a principled, nonpartisan, and effective Palestinian student voice in the US.
There is a strong correlation between the effectiveness of Palestine-related political activism in the U.S., on the one hand, and the existence of vibrant and credible national Palestinian American institutions or networks, including student organizations.
The Palestinian Popular conference is a project that belongs to its participants; therefore we are soliciting student workshop proposals for the student track of the program. Since our venue space is limited so is the number of workshops that we can accept. If you would like to lead a workshop at the national popular conference, please fill out the form below, or Download our Student Track Workshop Application here and send it to students@palestineconference.org.
Deadline: September 12, 2010
Point System for selecting Workshops (35 total points)
We will use the following point system to select workshops. You should keep this in mind as you fill out your application.
| Criteria | Possible Points |
| Appeal to a significant sector of the Palestinian-American community (Is the workshopleader(s) speaker(s) representative of a large sector of our community and able to draw out that community?) | 8 |
| Attainable goals (what does the workshop plan to accomplish) | 8 |
| Best fits the description of the workshop | 5 |
| Interactive quality (i.e., is it a “talking” workshop or an interactive one) | 5 |
| Well structured(overall proposal) | 3 |
| Youth friendly( grabs students interest, how much is it geared towards students/youth) | 3 |
| Diversity (identity i.e., youth, students, Arab Americans, Activists, non-activists) | 3 |
Please email us at students@palestineconference.org with any questions or concerns!
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