Zoom video conferencing

Tuesday, May 21 12:00 – 1:00 pm PT / 3:00 – 4:00 pm ET Connect & Refresh with EAN’s Civic Values & Culture Team Join our Civic Values & Culture Team as we pause from our activism and release our serious concerns during this challenging year. Once again, we will come together to enjoy our virtual […]

Third Thursday of each month 9:00 - 10:30 am PT / 12:00 - 1:30 pm ET Elders for Social Justice (ESJ) will host a Building Bridges introductory session. You’ll learn more about EAN’s Building Bridges and get your questions answered. In June, ESJ will host a Building Bridges conversation that continues our discussions of Confronting Whiteness. […]

Pro-Democracy Messaging in Challenging Times Join us for our Call to Action meeting. By applying what we learned from Anat Shenker-Osorio at our town hall in April, we will use our collective creativity to turn threats to democracy into positive messaging opportunities. Our goal is to craft messages we can use to persuade and mobilize others […]

Second Thursday of the month 9:00 - 10:30 am PT / 12:00 - 1:30 pm ET We’ll continue exploring what actions that we, as elders, can take to push back against extremist attacks. We’re focusing on right-wing efforts to undermine public education, including restricting curricula, punishing discussion of targeted topics, and eliminating programs (like DEI) […]

Monday, May 6 1:00 – 2:00 pm PT / 4:00 – 5:00 pm ET Join Promote the Youth Vote, EAN State Teams, and Third Act to learn about how you, too, can support the Civics Center to “make voter registration part of every American high school.” In just 5-10 hours a month, Elders volunteer to: […]

10:00 – 11:00 am PT / 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET Join us for a one hour gathering for new members of Elders Action Network (EAN) to learn about the work we do and how you might participate in the network. This will be an in depth introduction to the different areas of our Elder […]

Tuesday, April 30 1:00 – 3:30 pm PT / 4:00 – 6:30 pm ET Making the Implicit Explicit: What Neuroscience Reveals About Controlling Our Unconscious Biases with David Rose The Building Bridges team is honored to sponsor this special class by neurophysiologist David Rose. In recent years, there has been a great deal of scientific […]

Third Thursday of each month 9:00 - 10:30 am PT / 12:00 - 1:30 pm ET We will continue our conversation on Confronting Whiteness and explore next steps in creating awareness around this concept. "White people are trapped in a history they don't understand and until they understand it they cannot be released from it."  –James Baldwin, The Fire […]

Get Out the Vote: Persuading and Mobilizing Voters Join us to hear Anat Shenker-Osorio, host of the Words to Win By podcast and Principal and Founder of ASO Communications, explain how her research and advice have led to electoral policy victories on progressive issues across the globe. Anat will highlight ASO’s Guide to Messaging our […]

Second Thursday of the month 9:00 - 10:30 am PT / 12:00 - 1:30 pm ET We’ll continue exploring what actions that we, as elders, can take to push back against extremist attacks. We’re focusing on right-wing efforts to undermine public education, including restricting curricula, punishing discussion of targeted topics, and eliminating programs (like DEI) […]

Tuesday, April 9 12:00 - 1:30 pm PT / 3:00 - 4:30 pm ET FixMyFunds is a working group developing a strategic campaign to educate our EAN/ECA folks about “climate finance campaigns” and get them engaged. We will be discussing: How to choose and then amplify the FixMyFunds/Climate Finance campaigns that most align with the interests […]

Monday, April 8 1:00 – 2:00 pm PT / 4:00 – 5:00 pm ET Join us to learn about EAN and The Civics Center (TCC) in 2024: The Civics Center Strategies and Programs for 2024 Update on TCC-EAN Training for Ambassadors to Local High Schools on April 4 How EAN-TCC can help you support a […]

10:00 – 11:00 am PT / 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET Join us for a one hour gathering for new members of Elders Action Network (EAN) to learn about the work we do and how you might participate in the network. This will be an in depth introduction to the different areas of our Elder […]

Friday, March 29 12:00-1:30 pm PT / 3:00-4:30 pm ET Building Bridges is bringing us together for a conversation about how our planet’s multiple systems are showing signs of imminent collapse and how we choose to respond to The Great Unravelling. Can we assume that technology, our current educational systems, reducing reliance on fossil fuels, […]

Wednesday, March 27 10:00 - 11:30 am PT / 1:00 - 2:30 pm ET Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas (Please get at your local library or bookstore) Empire of Storms is the fifth book in Maas’ Throne of Glass series, which is a young adult fantasy series focusing on a teenage assassin. “Fantasy is an amazing escape genre […]