No. 60 February 2009
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
1. EDITORIAL
2. NEW RESOURCE
3. ONLINE, DOWNLOADABLE RESOURCES
4. IN MINNESOTA: AN INTRODUCTORY POPULAR EDUCATION LIBRARY IN
A BOX
5. WHERE POPULAR EDUCATORS WILL GATHER
6. LINKS TO POPULAR EDUCATION WEB SITES AND ONLINE BOOKSTORES
7. QUOTE OF THE MONTH
1. EDITORIAL
I am resuming publication of this newsletter after a
several-month-long
break. There are three reasons for the unplanned break: first, it
has been a difficult time personally with the death of my former spouse
and
with the many tasks helping our sons plan a memorial and take care of
her
estate Second, I had not received or heard of any new materials
within
the scope of this publication in the second half of last year -
surprising, but
true. Finally, I have been working on a re-design of the look of the
newsletter and the www.popednews.org web
site where six years of back issues are archived. As I resume, I am
thinking that the newsletter will become an occasional newsletter
rather than a
monthly one. Also I wish to focus more on it becoming a communication
tool for local organizers and activist educators in and around the Twin
Cities. I will continue to send it to the many subscribers from around
the world - and as always, will remove your address from the
subscription
lists if
you ask.
As our new president takes office, hope is on the lips of
many. It is a
time when steps toward a different, saner, and more peaceful world are
possible. There is much for our movements against oppression and
violence, and for democracy, sustainability, social justice, and peace
to be
doing. The title many of the workshops and presentations that I do,
"Another Kind of Movement Education Is Possible: Popular
Education" captures the essence of my hope for this newsletter.
We can improve the educational work in our movements. Please help by
sharing information about resources for the work. ...Larry Olds,
Publisher and Editor
2. NEW RESOURCE
Undoing Silence: Six Tools for Social Change Writing, by
Louise Dunlap, New Village Press, 2008, p.240. http://www.newvillagepress.net/books/undoing-silence-social-change-writing.php
A book for citizen activists, scholars and professionals who want to use writing for social change. Empowering tools include freewriting and audience analysis along with ways to organize ideas and the writing process itself. A favorite tool is a process for feedback that does not activate self-censorship.
Drawn from many traditions and piloted in classes
and
workshops over forty years, these tools build self-confidence and skill
in
writing for real-world audiences. They are grounded in inspiring
stories of
people at all levels of education undoing their reluctance to write and
producing letters, memos, op-ed articles, and proposals with the power
to shift
attitudes, change policies, and restore sanity to a world gone mad.
“If fish had hands,
Louise Dunlap
could teach them to write! After attending her workshops and classes,
hundreds
of labor and community activists have used Dunlap’s tested techniques
to write
clearly and passionately for social and economic justice. With the
publication
of Undoing The Silence,
Dunlap’s tools are available to all those who struggle to write and to
those
who teach them."
…Susan
Moir,
Director, Labor Resource Center, University of Massachusetts Boston
(Please send information about other links. -- the editor)
- Collectivo Flatlander resources http://www.colectivoflatlander.org/Site/Resources.html
- Partnership for Immigrant Leadership and Action (PILA) tools: From Personal to Political - Timeline Exercises,
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- Southerners On New Ground (SONG) LGBT&Q resources: http://www.southernersonnewground.org/?cat=11
- The School for Unity and Liberation (SOUL) training manuals and a variety of specific training
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- The Change Agency in Australia one of the best sources for popular education materials and links to
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- Books by Michael Newman - free access: (http://www.michaelnewman.info/)
- Just Associates: “ short publications from our work that deal with popular education in different ways.” :
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- Training for Change - "Tools": http://trainingforchange.org/content/section/4/39/
- Great materials on health related subjects with a popular education point of view from Luis Kong
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- Wonderful photos that can be used for popular education “codes” to help people share experience and find their voice
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- HIV/AIDS stigma popular education manual http://www.changeproject.org/technical/hivaids/stigma.html
- The Ruckus Society resources http://www.ruckus.org/article.php?list=type&type=9
- Trapese Popular Education Collective resources http://www.trapese.org/
- Poped Toolkit various links http://poped.org//links/poped.html
- Partners Training for Transformation http://www.trainingfortransformation.ie/
4. IN MINNESOTA
AN INTRODUCTORY POPULAR EDUCATION LIBRARY IN A BOX
This newsletter and the Popular Education Fund have organized a project here in Minnesota to put into a box a Basic Introductory Popular Education Library for Organizers, Activists, and Community-based Educators, and to give those boxes to to progressive organizations that request them and meet the general criteria below. We are working with the Headwaters Foundation for Social Justice both to identify recipient organizations for the boxes and to create opportunities for training using the materials in the boxes. There will be approximately 16 items in the boxes with some additional ones in Spanish if the recipient organization can make use of them. Ten boxes are being prepared for the first round of the project. Recipient organizations must agree to participate in two training sessions on the materials.
The library includes materials dealing with the following issues:
5. WHERE POPULAR EDUCATORS WILL GATHER
February 28, 2009 3rd
Annual A.R.E. Education Conference: Rethinking Social Justice in
Education: Ser Pueblo, Hacer
Pueblo, y Estar Con el Pueblo, Santee
Education Complex, 1921 S. Maple Ave., Los Angeles, CA
90011 www.razaeducators.org
March 12, 2009 BUILDING LEADERSHIP FOR CHANGE: Connecting Services to Social Movements, Oakland, California www.pilaweb.org
April 21-24, 2009 International Conference: Performing Arts Training Today, Bovec, Slovenia http://www.iugte.com/projects/PerformingArts.php
April 22, 2008 Undoing Silences: Writing for Social Change Workshop with Louise Dunlap, The Loft, Minneapolis, Also at Humphrey Institute TBA. www.undoingsilence.org
April 24-26, 2009 Reworking
the University: Visions, Strategies, Demands, University
of Minnesota, Minneapolis, http://rethinkingtheu.wordpress.com also see http://www.emancipating-education-for-all.org/
May 21-24, 2009 15th
Annual International PTO Conference: Mad as Hell? Now Move (or
Draw, or Act...): Organizing for Social Justice, Augsburg College,
Minneapolis, (Pre-Conference Workshops May 18-21, 2009, Post-Conference
Workshop May 24-25, 2009) http://www.ptoweb.org/conference.html
August 26-29, 2009 Educating the people, the history of popular education Utrecht University, The Netherlands, http://edugate.fss.uu.nl/ISCHE2009/
6. LINKS TO POPULAR EDUCATION WEB SITES AND ONLINE BOOKSTORES (*those with online bookstores)*Catalyst Centre ( www.catalystcentre.ca/index.htm )
*Highlander Center (www.highlandercenter.org )
*Growing Communities for Peace ( www.humanrightsandpeacestore.org )
*IPEA (www.peopleseducation.org/ )
Project South (www.projectsouth.org )
Center for Popular Education and Participatory Research ( www.cpepr.info)
Pop Ed Links Directory http://poped.org
WE LEARN: Women Expanding-Literacy Education Action Resource Network (http:// www.litwomen.org/news.html)
Centre for Popular Education Archives (http://www.cpe.uts.edu.au/ )
The Change Agency ( www.thechangeagency.org/index.htm)
Kotare Trust (www.kotare.org.nz)
Training for Change www.TrainingforChange.org
TRAPESE: Take Radical Action Through Popular Education and Sustainable Everything http://www.trapese.org/
North American Alliance for Popular and Adult Education (NAAPAE) Archives http://www.popednews.org/naapae_archives.htm
PROVERB OF THE MONTH: A tasty soup draws people to itself. Ewe Proverb