hi all!
putting my need out into the internet since it has been working lately! (love to you all)
do any of yall have information on liberation schools organized by the black panthers, community-led classes, popular education programs, organizing schools, or anything of that nature?
i am in the process of organizing a “campus” locally for the school of our lorde. where i live, this will mean people of color coming together every saturday to study the poetry, pedagogy [study of teaching], and politics of audre lorde
and the youth crew i am is also sketching out the framework we want to use for the event we are holding this summer for disabled youth to come together for a week and return home as revolutionaries
if you have access to online libraries, books you can rec, stories you know, stuff you’ve seen in your communities, models you’ve used, please let me know. told a friend today i was excited to learn that things in my head and in the collective are not new— being accessible is called “popular education”, events where youth come together to learn power analysis, activism, poetry is called “liberation schools”… just have to do the homework!
excited for 2010!!!
cripchick
Are you familiar with the work of Myles Horton and Paulo Freire? If not, We Make the Road By Walking is a good place to start: it’s a dialogue between them where they talk about Horton’s Highlander Folk School and the citizenship schools he and many others ran, and Freire’s work in Brazilian community & collective education.
Freire’s Pedagogy of Freedom is good too.
Look up Tory Sammartino — she is or was the director of Voices Unbroken (in NYC), writing workshops designed to let people (including homeless young people and incarcerated people) both develop both their own creative work and become leaders of workshops.
GOOD LUCK and lots of strength!
Posted by kate on January 11th, 2010.