"My group, Stop the War!, is working with Amnesty International, the Greens, the Student Labor Action Coalition, the Muslim students, all kinds of groups," said Josh Healey, a University of Wisconsin freshman who helped organize a teach-in Tuesday and a rally Wednesday.
After returning from Chicago, Ms. Erickson, who had previously been hesitant to express her views, organized a teach-in to discuss nonviolent options for bringing to justice the terrorists responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks.
The following week, the Department of Government organized a teach-in on academic freedom, and Kahin was invited to speak at the event by department chair Peter Sharfman.
And Maria Mercado, a local businesswoman, recalled that shortly after they met at a charity event years ago, Mr. Nowillo helped her organize a seminar to teach new immigrants how to start businesses.
Ms. Derby, a teacher, moved to Mississippi from New York to work as a field secretary for the coordinating committee and went on to organize adult literacy programs, found a repertory theater company and help organize a cooperative to teach people to document their own lives with still and movie cameras.
When I ponder the next big push for action on climate change, I think back to the late summer of 1969, just before Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson vowed to organize a nationwide environmental teach-in.
PAGE A9 London Votes for Mayor A10 NATIONAL TEACHERS IN CALIFORNIA Organize a Teach-In Dozens of teachers across Oakland set aside their normal lesson plans in favor of such topics as the war in Iraq, racial inequality and a recent 10percentt budget cut for the state's schools.
Christine Comaford Lynch, managing director at Artemis Ventures, a venture fund in Sausalito, Calif., recently organized a seminar, taught by marketing experts, to help her portfolio companies generate sales leads and to get clear returns on marketing investment.
(For ideas about how to organize a project, see The Learning Network's "Teaching with Infographics: A Student Project Model").
Gazelle announced on Monday that he is helping to organize a community training that will teach people how to de-escalate potentially dangerous situations.
