MAU at TAP Compass Conference.

Tennessee Alliance for Progress (TAP) – Compass IV Conference

April 13 & 14, 2007

Cohn Adult Learning Center, 4805 Park Avenue, West Nashville

Don’t miss TAP’s biggest meeting of the year. This two-day gathering of progressives from around the state will feature networking, workshops, skills trainings, films, live music, the TAP Long Haul Awards and Silent Auction, plus other events. This is THE statewide progressive gathering of the year in Tennessee. Keynote speakers will be David Sirota and Paul Waldman. David Sirota is a nationally renowned political commentator and author of the book, Hostile Takeover: How Big Business Bought our Government and How we can Take it Back. Paul Waldman is a senior fellow at Media Matters for America and the author of, Being Right is Not Enough: What Progressives Must Learn from Conservative Success. Visit the TAP website to register (click here).

Mothers Acting Up will be At TAP:

Mothers Acting Up presents MAU now!: the Joy of Activism— Mobilizing the Mamas

(Fathers and all others who care about & for children are WARMLY WELCOME!)

MAU will facilitate a conversation about parental activism: where are we on our current journey? What are the barriers and obstacles to parental activism? How can we overcome them? We will view Mothers Acting Up, the movie, which gives a terrific overview of the movement: a magnificent revolution to honor the promise of our children’s lives.

The workshop will provide a copy of the Mothers Acting Up 2007 Mother Leadership Handbook and Engagement calendar for each participant family.

Points of focus in context of the Mother Agenda : community building, Mother’s Day Reclamation, tabling, and advocacy for children in the offices of our representatives. The goal of our sessions is to provide each participant with the tools to create and put on a Mother’s Day Parade or other reclamation event and / or start a Mothers Acting Up Community in their own hometowns.

A children’s workshop / activity—Mini MAUs in Community-- on Global Citizenship will coincide with the adult programming.