The School of Echoes, Los Angeles
Teach – In
October 12th, 6:30pm
At CONCORD:
1010 N San Fernando Road, Los Angeles 90065
Please join the collaborators of The School of Echoes, Los Angeles for a teach-in on the evening of October 8th, hosted by Concord Space.
About The School of Echoes, Los Angeles
School Of Echoes Los Angeles is an experimental popular education research laboratory, developed out of a collaboration between organizers, artists, and educators. Drawing on the history of radical Freedom Schools and popular education, School of Echoes provides an active space for artists, organizers, activists, social workers, and concerned neighbors to enter into active solidarity with the poorest neighborhoods, and support knowledge between struggles in the Los Angeles County.
Anyone committed to social justice is welcome to participate. We will launch a yearlong pilot project in early 2013. Enrollment is free.
School Of Echoes Los Angeles brings together community-based organizations working with the poorest neighborhoods in Los Angeles County. Some of these organizations are part of a growing movement to establish a city and countywide movement of poor people building their own social, political, and economic democracy from the ground up.
What organizations are behind School Of Echoes Los Angeles?
- Union de Vecinos facilitates twenty-two neighborhood committees in Boyle Heights and the City of Maywood. Union de Vecinos supports community leaders to model democratic accountability to the aspirations and capacities of the community itself.
- Woodcraft Rangers supports inquiry-based after school clubs in seventy elementary, middle and high schools in Los Angeles County. Woodcraft Rangers train club-leader to help future leaders sharpen their critical thinking.
- The Los Angeles Public Health Social Justice Working Group supports public health workers committed to mobilizing around social justice; seeing issues like access to housing, ending mass incarceration, high quality public education, sustainable income, etc. as preconditions for the health of communities.
- Ultra-red is an art collective that conducts art-based research with social movements. With a dozen members in the United States, Germany, and Britain, Ultra-red seeks to shift the aim of cultural action from the “art world” to popular education.
What is the schedule?
SEMESTER 1 (beginning Feb 2013)
- Teach by listening (develop a practice of being with the community).
- Base community leaders learn by telling their stories.
SEMESTER 2 (beginning Sept 2013)
- Develop an investigation that responds to the needs of the base community.
- Compose cultural objects that help groups reflect and take action.
How do I get more information?
To enroll or for more information about School Of Echoes Los Angeles, contact:
Telephone (English):
SCHOOL OF ECHOES
c/o Woodcraft Rangers
213-249-9293
Attention: Leon
Telephone (en Español):
SCHOOL OF ECHOES
c/o Union de Vecinos
323-908-3454
Attention: Elizabeth
Post / Email:
SCHOOL OF ECHOES
c/o Ultra-red
PO Box 291578
Los Angeles, CA 90029
info@ultrared.org
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SCHOOL OF ECHOES resources:
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+ + Ultra-red, “Popular Education in the Organizing of Unión de Vecinos” (article)
An interview with Union de Vecinos organizer (and School of Echoes team member) Elizabeth Blaney about how popular education contributes to organizing.
http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/issue8/ultrared.htm
+ + Grace Lee Boggs, “Education the Great Obsession” (article)
Originally written in 1970, this article by Detroit’s legendary radical community organizer, Grace Lee Boggs, is just as relevant today as forty years ago. A call for organizers and educators to see the whole community as a classroom!
http://monthlyreview.org/2011/07/01/education-the-great-obsession
+ + Freedom School Curriculum, Mississippi 1964 (archive)
Download the entire archive of curriculum, oral histories, and teaching materials related to the historic Freedom School of 1964, a popular education initiative within the larger Civil Rights movement in the South.
http://www.educationanddemocracy.org/
