What people had to say:

"I've never felt in such good hands. The diversity of strategies and approaches that were used make learning occur simultaneously on many levels."

"Action Camp has opened my eyes to institutionalized oppression in my community."

"Thanks to NASCO's Anti-Oppression Action Camp, I will soon be training community organizers where I live."

"Action Camp has been a crucial, multi-faceted learning experience. I feel I have been given knowledge and tools that will allow me to create change wherever I find myself, and continually grow and learn on my own." 

"Anti-Oppression Camp was incredibly useful to me! I can't wait to take the tools I learned back to my city and put them to use in my everyday life!"

"If it hadn't been for the leadership and awareness that the facilitators and fellow action campers instilled in me, I certainly wouldn't be where I am today."

"I call myself out more easily and I am less defensive when called out by others."

"[Action Camp] has continued to inspire me to seek continual training"

"I came home from Action camp and almost immediately turned around to incorporate a lot of the ideas, games, and new vocabulary into my job at the Berkeley Student Co-op, namely Member Services and Education Coordinator."

"Overall the experience was an extremely influential and important starting off point for me and looking back I'm very grateful to have gone."

"I felt constantly challenged at a personal level from all angles. I appreciated the time to work through my defenses and resistance to opening up and engaging. I felt supported in acknowledging my own mistakes.”

"This camp opened my mind to many new ideas which is immensely useful. I will carry these ideas through my life."

“I was HUGELY challenged, and believe the camp facilitated a lot of growth for me.”

"The Anti-Oppression Action Camp was very useful to increase my awareness of the issues, gave me creative tools to address these issues, and left me educated, rejuvenated, and better prepared to combat oppression in my community and my neighborhood."

Action Camp alum have gone on to:

• discuss lack of diversity among managerial jobs in their co-op, leading to a more racially diverse leadership within the co-op

• organize a committee to address management and Board issues, and work towards a more inclusive decision-making process

• plan an anti-oppression event for the community and facilitate activities learned at the camp

• join a local anti-racism working group

• develop cooperative housing

• get involved in the greater co-op movement as NASCO staff

• plan safe space and anti-oppression required for al house managers and residents in their co-op system

• incorporate anti-oppression conversations into new member trainings at their co-op

• design workshops and invite speakers to present on topics such as: consent and communication, anti-oppression, privilege

• create a zine addressing sexual consent

• continue to attend in-depth trainings addressing power, privilege, and oppression

• facilitate Theater of the Oppressed activities with incarcerated youth

• organize dialogues about racial, class, and gender oppression in their co-op

• work to develop a sponsorship campaign for NASCO programs, to make them more financially accessible

• serve on the Board of Directors for their co-op

• work with local youth and environmental justice organizations to set up community gardens in urban centers