Ruckus Updates

Adrienne Maree Brown attended a Governance Summit hosted by Common Fire to rethink governance and the role of nonprofits in movement building.

There are so many ways to raise a Ruckus, and righteous song is the latest practice The Ruckus Society is taking on. At the Social Venture Network Member Gathering in Kennebunkport (yes, summer home of the Bush Family), Ruckatista Adrienne Maree shared original songs as well as a few movement classics, weaving uplifting song throughout the entire event.

Movement building begins with a good meeting and meaningful solidarity. Here is a brief compilation of the best practices.

On the weekend of January 12-14, 2007, Executive Director Adrienne Maree Brown joined 2500 people in Memphis, TN for the Third National Conference on Media Reform. Adrienne moderated two panels at the conference on Hip-Hop and Independent Media.

Hannah Strange, Ruckus’s Training Director, just returned from a week long workshop on How to do Transformational Work, lead by Training for Change’s longtime director, George Lakey.

The Not Your Soldier Project just made a big transitional change as it held its first Advisory Board meeting over the weekend of October 6-8 in New York City.

The Ruckus Society just descended from Black Mountain, where we spent 4 intense days and nights planning our exciting 2007 year. Looking back over the