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 […]
Liberation Summer in Atlanta had Reynaldo Padilla from Puerto Rico to teach class 2 about the Colonization of the Caribbean Island . Reynaldo is the Vice-President of the Board of Directors of UNSIF. The case of Puerto Rico offers the opportunity to imagine beyond Colonial Reality and beyond a nation limited by constraints of 20th Century […]
Will Puerto Rico be an Independent nation, a State of the United States, or a commonwealth colony as it stands now? This is the question that Reynaldo Padilla Teruel posed to the Liberation Summer course on Colonialism and Decolonialization being sponsored by Project South in Atlanta in partnership with University Sin Fronteras. Reynaldo is the […]
The first class of the Liberation Summer Semester of the University Sin Fronteras (UNSIF) has started. On July 11, the first class session took place at Project South with 26 people participating. The room was overflowing and full of energy from the very start. The two hour class seemed like it went by real fast […]
From Mexico, to Egypt, to Spain and around the WORLD this is Liberation Summer! University Sin Fronteras and Project South are organizing a ‘Liberation Summer’ semester starting July 11 to August 15th. The semester will focus on Peoples’ Liberation, de-colonialization, colonialism, resistance, and emancipation. This is a ‘clandestine’ class because ETHNIC STUDIES is ‘prohibited’ in […]
University Sin Fronteras and Project South from Atlanta, Georgia are organizing a ‘Liberation Summer’semester starting July 11 to August 15th. The semester will focus on Peoples’ Liberation, DE-colonialization, colonialism,resistance and emancipation. This is a ‘clandestine’ class because it is a ‘prohibited’ ETHNIC STUDIES in such places as TUCSON, AZ, because it looks critically at Oppression, […]
Knowledge is not the privilege nor domain of the powerful few but a right of all people. We envision education as a vehicle for social movement development, rather than a commodity to be bought, sold, or corrupted. People construct and carry knowledge in multiple ways. Emancipatory education is informed by the wisdom of our communities […]
