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 […]
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 […]
