All left wing and radical organizations need money and in this seminar you will learn about how to get money, how to fundraise and how to grow money for your cause.

The Trade for Change workshop series is a collaboartion between The Radical Imagination Project and Trade School Halifax aimed at offering a venue for activists and organizers to share critical skills and knowledge for radical social transformation. This workshop responds to mounting pressure for 'trigger-warnings' in classrooms, community groups, workplaces and during cultural events. In many ways, trigger warnings can help to validate and draw attention to the complexities of life after traumatic experience. However, un-critical use of the practice…

Unlike corporations, governments, and universities, most activists don’t have access to a PR department to handle their media relations. A good media strategy, and tight media messaging, is key to mobilizing the masses, throwing a at-capacity event and even changing government policy. Learn about message boxes, media advisories and press releases, and creative ways to woo the media. Facilitator: Rebecca Rose is a Ryerson Journalism graduate and freelance writer. She has spent over 10 years on the other side of…