The topic of his year’s Community Movements Conference, Zooming in on Local Change: Collective Action in a Remote World, aims to address topics surrounding local organizing as well as activism during the time of the pandemic. The conference aims to bring attention to how local organizing and collective action has changed and will change in the future. We aim to explore the different ways people can continue to get involved in their community.
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We look forward to sharing the many plans and great speakers we are bringing to this year's event.
This year’s panel speakers are:
Ben Phillips, the author of How to Fight Inequality, which has just been release worldwide. He is an advisor to the United Nations, governments and civil society organizations, was Campaigns Director for Oxfam and for ActionAid, and co-founded the Fight Inequality Alliance.
Charmaine Magumbe, who has recently been named a Woman of Influence in Peterborough for 2020. In 2017, she was one of the top 20 influential persons in Peterborough. She also was the 2017 YMCA Peace Medal recipient. Charmaine is a Jamaican-born, Zimbabwean-Canadian who is a community activist, business owner of Zingha, a mother of five, and a grandmother of three, residing in Peterborough, Ontario. She is the co-founder of Black Lives Matter Peterborough, past board member and staff at Jamaican Self-Help, present chairperson of Community Race Relations Committee pf Peterborough (CRRC), fiddler with the English Country Dance, and a model and actor with Strutt Models in Peterborough.
Rosemary Ganley of Peterborough, is a lifelong feminist activist and writer who attended the fourth UN conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. Subsequently, she published 25 articles about this experience in various journals and papers. She lived for six years inJamaica and Tanzania, and founded the development agency, Jamaican Self-Help, in 1980. In 2016, she published a book on this experience called “Jamaica Journal: The Story of a Grassroots Canadian Aid Organization”. Rosemary now writes a weekly column for the Peterborough Examiner where one hundred of these columns are collected in the book “Positive Community” (2018).