Education and Training Program

Invite IFCO to host educational training at your place of worship, conference, university, or community organization.

In the current social, economic and political landscape, there is an urgent need for a politically clear, grounded, skilled and solidarity - driven faith- based leadership. The proposed programming is centered on conceptualizing our faith not as refuge, but as a call to action. 

A faith that promotes solidarity with workers, immigrants, the LGBTQ + community and all historically marginalized communities currently experiencing an overt attack by the Trump administration and the billionaire class. This educational program will utilize and teach the See-Analyze-Act methodology, foundational to liberation theology and popular education. 

Furthermore, this educational program promotes and encourages participants to activate our faith in building international solidarity and to stand against militarism and war. Our aim is to convene educational spaces to bring together an interfaith and secular community of people concerned with, and committed to organizing and mobilizing for change. This type of education is essential to building bridges and unity across the different sectors of society and fronts of struggle, building the power and resilience necessary for effective organizing and movement building. 

This education program is designed for organizers, activists, faith and community leaders who seek to deepen the theoretical, theological, and strategic foundations of their work.  

The educational program addresses foundational frameworks and analysis, history of resistance and movement building in the U.S., anti imperialism and internationalism, as well as worker and immigrant rights. To make these educational spaces relevant to the audiences, we connect the analysis of the current moment to movements, campaigns and/or organizing drives.

Bring this urgent programming to your university, church, conference or community organization.

Speech/Lecture topics include, but are not limited to: 

• An Analysis of the Current Moment and What’s to be done? 

• The Weaponization of Christianity and the Call for Revolutionary Faith

• Internationalism and Solidarity: the Antidote Against Militarism and War

• U.S foreign Policy, Borders and the Fight for Immigrant Rights

• Building a Society for the Many, Not the Few

• Community Organizing as Ministry

Methods of Analysis: Approach to a Materialist Reading of the Bible and the Current Moment: A four-part training that integrates popular education, Liberation Theology, and Marxist Analysis. Our goal is to equip communities with an accurate assessment of the moment and gain a materialist understanding of the Bible that can aid organizing beyond faith communities. Hence, enabling them to more effectively and actively contribute to building bridges and a stronger movement towards liberation. 

Consciousness, Culture and Class Struggle: A three-part training that aims to equip participants with popular and political education tools to understand: why do the oppressed often accept the logic of their oppressor? How do we engage in education that deepens consciousness and builds the confidence necessary to become protagonists in the struggle? We will explore concepts from Paulo Freire, Antonio Gramsci, and Amilcar Cabral, utilizing their writings as foundational readings and approaches in an integrated manner. 

Intersections of Black Liberation Theology and Movement Building (Socialism in the Black Church) In this three- part training, grounded in a revolutionary tradition, we will explore the rich, often overlooked tradition of socialism within the Black church and its central role in the Black liberation struggle. By integrating the prophetic framework of Black Liberation Theology with movement building principles, this session provides a roadmap for waging a holistic struggle against interconnected systems of racial, economic, and social oppression, and militarism and war. Our aim is to develop a relevant and revolutionary faith that will respond to our time, grounded on a revolutionary tradition of faith.

An immigrant rights theology: A faith against borders and towards class solidarity. In this three-part training, participants will build a shared understanding that connects the immediate fight for Sanctuary with the long history of U.S. foreign and economic policy that displaces communities. Grounded in principles of liberation theology, this series is designed to equip participants with the history and framework to strengthen our collective action to revitalize, protect and expand the Sanctuary movement. 

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