This page is no
longer being updated, please check out http://www.florycanto.org/freeuni/freeuniversity.htm
for the latest info
This
Series of talks is not a FyC specific event, i'm just doing them the favor of
posting their info here. They are looking for people to contribute and if
you'd like to help, write to them at FreeUniversityOfLa@yahoo.com
we WILL have our own schools that are NOT designed to re-produce
ignorance, obedience, helpless docility, fear, and hate
ALL NON-AUTHORITARIAN PEOPLE ARE INVITED!
CONTACT: freeuniversityofla@yahoo.com (please try to send us
your phone # if you are thinking about helping with presentations or
promotion)
CHECK OUT www.florycanto.org/freeuni.htm
for updates
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the series is designed in a way that the
earlier sessions facilitate the understanding of the latter sessions.
therefore, you are encouraged to attend all of the sessions.
If your sources
of inspiration come from a place that is not listed above, PLEASE contact us
as soon as possible and we will try to add that topic somewhere in this
listing where it makes some chronological sense. THANK YOU! |
This series of talks is intended for ALL NON-AUTHORITARIAN people
of LA who would like to learn about/discuss SOME of the most significant
instances, movements, theories, and languages of liberation. Most importantly,
the presenters will try to discuss how they are applying these lessons into
their own actions toward liberation. Currently, we are as ghettoized as our city! It’s
time for us to come together and introduce ourselves to one another. The
speakers will discuss: the sources of their inspiration - HISTORY, how they understand the world around them - THEORY, and what they do about it – ACTION ! The point of the university is to
provide a space for various non-authoritarian people of LA to explain/share/discuss/etc
the roots of their inspirations; and then explain how some of those ideas are
being applied into their existing ideas and actions. For example, if it was learning about
the Chinese peasant rebellions that initially motivated you to start a
community garden project, then it would be great if you could come and talk
to us about (1) the Peasant Rebellions that you know about, (2) what you
found to be the most inspiring/enlightening elements of it (here you will
have a chance to more explicitly express your current way of seeing the
world), and (3) how that inspiration is translated into the way in which you
go about building the gardens. (This is
only an example of one of the ways in which this can be done. The actual
presentations are completely up the speakers.) Generally, the topics will be presented by people
who use the presented ideas and lessons in their own actions. In addition to
being educational, this will also give the presenters and the people of our
communities the much-needed opportunity to get to know one another, build
links, participate in mutual aid, and fight against the ghettoization of our
city. What you can do to help: We need help with: 1) finding
speakers/presenters 2) promotion If you can help us or know anyone who might want to
help/participate, PLEASE contact us as soon as possible. Each session is going to be run by the speakers of that
session! Since we are
very ghettoized and know very little about one another, then it should
probably be a broad intro thing, but again, it’s up to the presenters to
determine how they would like to run their session. At the end of the session
if the people want to get into the topic in any more depth, then, on the
spot, they can agree to meet again, hopefully even branching out to turn this
into a multiplicity of popular education schools. The location of the particular talks will be up to the
speakers for that week, however, if they don't have a space or don't care, we
can provide a space. |
DROPPED
SESSIONS
Sessions that
no one signed up to present (or signed up but never followed up or responded
to emails)
These topics can still be rescheduled, if anyone wants to present them. For now (contrary to our previous expectations), we are assuming that either none of these topics are inspirational enough for anyone in LA to discuss them with others, or we didn’t get enough help with promotion. |
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AMERICAN
INDIAN RESISTANCE TO GENOCIDE Some
PRE-20TH CENTURY REVOLUTIONS 1.
PEASANT
REBELLIONS, 2.
LUDDITES,
3.
AMERICAN
REVOLUTION 4.
FRENCH
REVOLUTION, 5.
etc Some early 20th Century Revolutions: section 1 1.
RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, 2.
SPANISH REVOLUTION, LABOR HISTORY, SYNDICALISM etc THE REVOLUTIONARY POWER OF HIP
HOP AND ITS CULTURE 1. US PRISONS COINTELPRO: THEN AND NOW |
Some of the
FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN ANTI-AUTHORITARIANISM : 1.
MAGON, 2.
ZAPATA
3.
BAKUNIN 4.
KROPOTKIN, ANTI/POST
COLONIAL RESISTANCE 1.
CHINA 2.
IRELAND 3.
CARIBBEAN: HAITI, CUBA, JAMAICA, etc 4.
HUNGARY, POLAND, etc, (AGAINST USSR) Middle
East/Palestine. HOUSING STRUGGLES: Atenco, Brazil, North America AFRICAN RESISTANCE IN US: 1.
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, 2. BLACK
POWER MOVEMENT, MOVE WEB Du Bois XICANO movements: BROWN BERETS, FARM WORKERS, etc ASIAN RADICAL MOVEMENTS |