Join human rights organizers and social justice activists, students, youth, faith leaders, workers and union leaders in Durham, North Carolina for the seventh Southern Human Rights Organizers Conference (SHROC)
SHROC 7 will be held from December 12-14, 2008 at the Radisson Hotel Research Triangle Park, 150 Park Dr, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709.
Registration is open through the start of the conference. There is a registration fee, but no one who wants to attend will be turned away because they cannot afford to register.
Issues that will be discussed at SHROC 7 include:
- Post-Katrina Human Rights Issues
- Immigrants Rights
- Slave Plantation Workplaces
- Environmental Justice
- Hate Crimes
- The War in Iraq
- Women’s Rights as Human Rights
- Voting Rights and Felony Disenfranchisement
- Global Lock-out of the Working Poor
- Death Penalty & Racism in the Criminal Justice System
- Juvenile Justice
For more information, including details about how to register to attend SHROC 7, download the conference brochure.