1. Introduction and Life Maps (October 15) How have individual experiences related to knowledge for organizing? People describing “their moment” of awareness shed light on the combination of our experiences. The impact on social relationships of the commonality of individuals’ development The benefits of sharing with a supportive elder Someone else’s reactions to our stories […]
Join Project South for the second course of the University Sin Fronteras, Atlanta Campus. Five classes will explore social movement histories specific to Atlanta, collective action, and leadership in global movements. As a critical part of the People’s First 100 Days, Monday evening classes will prepare organizers and community members to connect education to action […]
October 15-November 19, 2012 Mondays (6-8 PM) Introduction After a very successful 2nd Strategic Meeting of the UNSIF board of directors in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico at the Foundation & Casa Arana, University Sin Fronteras kicked of the first ever social movement University, and the first semester for the UNSIF, the LIBERATION SUMMER SEMESTER […]
Synthesis Assembly On August 29 the last class of the 2012 Liberation Summer Semester took place. The goals of this final class were: To synthesize and articulate the knowledge developed throughout the course To establish an Atlanta Campus Working Group to move forward To outline Fall and Spring Semester ideas I. Introductions & Checkins II. […]
What: Assembly of Liberation Summer Semester class 2012 Who: University Sin Fronteras & Project South When: August 29, 2012 6-8 PM Where: Project South 9 Gammon Ave SE Atlanta,Georgia 30315 To synthesis the liberation summer class experience To plan the class for the “Freedom Fall” Semester To re-group the liberation summer class
The core curriculum of the UNSIF composed of four (4) core value areas: liberation and colonialism, emancipation and emancipatory education, economics, capitalism and globalization and social movement and self development. The Liberation Summer Semester course was within the colonialism & liberation curricular area. The course on Liberation and Colonialism was made up of six (6) […]
The strategy of focusing on the personal stories of individuals, whether in the past or today, is not a trivial approach since it reveals the extent of personal conflicts and failings in the lives of people too often portrayed as perfect heroes. We need to see ourselves in the lives of the people we study. […]
Project South and the University Sin Fronteras, the two grassroots social movements organizations hosting the Liberation Summer Semester 2012, welcomed Rose Brewer who travelled from Minneapolis, Minnesota to be with us in Atlanta, Georgia on August 8, 2012. This class on Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade & Capitalist development was the 5th of six classes, organized as […]
The fourth Liberation Summer class took place on August 1, 2012 taught by Rita Valenti and Jerome Scott. Jerome S. is one of the founders of Project South and since has transitioned out of the organization to make room for younger leadership, Emery Wright and Stephanie Guilloud. The class division according to Jerome “Class divisions […]
The patterns of slavery and Indigenous displacement have had physical and material effects on the social, political, and economic structures that exist today. Emery deconstructs Atlanta’s political machine that reproduces and sustains the neoliberal project that is the modern manifestation of colonialism. The Problem of Colonialism and Decolonization in the US South was the topic […]
