FREE UNIVERSITY of LA: Series I

we WILL have our own schools that are NOT designed to re-produce ignorance, obedience, helpless docility, fear, and hate



Too often we try to reinvent the wheel and too often we have difficulty communicating with one another due to a lack of understanding of the cornerstones of other people’s ideas (e.g. “indigenous sovereignty,” “positive power,” “The Commune”, “internal colonialism”, “praxis”, ‘liberation’ vs. ‘rights,’ “direct democracy”, etc). This series of talks is intended for ALL NON-AUTHORITARIAN people of LA who would like to have a general overview of SOME of the most significant instances, movements, theories, and languages of liberation.

Generally, the topics will be presented by people who use the presented ideas and lessons in their own struggles (praxis!). In addition to being educational, this will also give the presenters and the people of our communities the much-needed opportunity to get to know one another, build links, and fight against the ghettoization of our city.

The point of the university is to provide a space for various non-authoritarian people of LA to teach/explain/share/discuss/etc the roots of their inspirations and then explain how some of those ideas are being applied into their existing ideas and, most importantly - actions.

For example, if it was learning about the Chinese peasant rebellions that initially motivated you to start a community garden project, then it would be great if you could come and teach us about (1) the Peasant Rebellions, (2) what you found to be the most inspiring/enlightening elements of it (here you will have a chance to introduce your current way of seeing the world), and (3) how that inspiration is translated into the way in which you go about building the gardens.

This way we will get to learn some relevant history and theory, understand where others are coming from, and see how we can help one another.

What you can do to help:

Contact relevant organizations to line up speakers and have them help us promote and provide links to other potential speakers. We are trying to get speakers from organizations that are active in the particular field (e.g. Casa De Pueblo, American Indian Youth, Black Cross, etc.).

The promotion will include a preliminary listing of upcoming talks and desired speakers and then point to a web site to get the dates (each date should have a link if the speaker’s org has a site). By early December 2004 we will post and promote the dates themselves. The website will also give individuals an opportunity to sign up for particular talks in order for us to know how large of a space we need for each talk.

Each speaker will be asked to provide an outline of their talk 10 days in advance so that it can be shared with other speakers who might be presenting on the same topic.

Each session is going to be run by the speakers of that session. Since we are very ghettoized and know very little about one another, then it should probably be a broad intro thing, but again, it’s up to the presenters to determine how they would like to run their session. At the end of the session if the people want to get into the topic in any more depth, then, on the spot, they can agree to meet again, hopefully even branching out. The location of the particular talks will be up to the speakers for that week, however, if they don't have a space or don't care, we can provide a space.

CONTACT: FreeUniversityOfLA@yahoo.com (please send us your phone # if you are thinking on presenting on any topics)

check out www.FlorYCanto.org for updates (coming soon)



DAY TOPIC



1 INTRO TO MARX, HISTORICAL MATERIALISM, SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISM, etc. section 1 1/24/04 at Flor Y Canto (check out FlorYCanto.org)






2 INTRO TO MARX, HISTORICAL MATERIALISM, SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISM, etc. section 2 1/31/04 at Flor Y Canto (check out FlorYCanto.org)






3 Some PRE-20TH CENTURY REVOLUTIONS


1. PEASANT REBELLIONS, 2. LUDDITES, 3. AMERICAN REVOLUTION


4. FRENCH REVOLUTION, 5. etc






4 Some of the FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN ANTI-AUTHORITARIANISM: section 1


1. PROUDON, 2. MAGON, 3. ZAPATA 4. BAKUNIN 5. KROPOTKIN,


6. GOLDMAN (traci), 7. MALATESTA (roy) 8. etc.






5 Some of the FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN ANTI-AUTHORITARIANISM: section 2


1. PROUDON, 2. MAGON, 3. ZAPATA 4. BAKUNIN 5. KROPOTKIN,


6. GOLDMAN (traci), 7. MALATESTA (roy) 8. etc.



6 Some 20th Century Revolutions: section 1


1.RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, 2. SPANISH REVOLUTION, 3. LABOR HISTORY, SYNDICALISM


4. etc






7 Some 20th Century Revolutions: section 2


1. RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, 2. SPANISH REVOLUTION, 3. LABOR HISTORY 4.etc






8 AMERICAN INDIAN RESISTANCE TO GENOCIDE






9 1. AFRICAN RESISTANCE TO SLAVERY 2. “RACE”: PRODUCTION OF “RACES”






10 ANTI/POST COLONIAL RESISTANCE


1.IRELAND (traci) 2.CHINA 3.CUBA 4.Hungary, Poland, etc,- AGAINST USSR 5.etc



11 ANTI/POST COLONIAL RESISTANCE


1. AFRICA 2.PALESTINE/Middle East, 3. LATIN AMERICA 4. ETC.




12 1. THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, 2. BLACK POWER MOVEMENT,






13 1. BROWN POWER MOVEMENT 2. ASIAN RADICAL MOVEMENTS 3.GAY LIBERATION 4.etc




14 1. US PRISONS 2. COINTELPRO: THEN AND NOW




15 STIUATIONISTS



16 GLOBALIZATION, CAPITALISM TODAY, PROPAGANDA TODAY



17 HERSTORY AND THEORY: FEMINISMS - RESISTING GENDER HIERARCHY and other forms of OPPRESSION of Women/Womyn



18 The ANTI-AUTHORITARIAN LEFT




19 POST-MODERNISTS: DERRIDA, etc




20 POST-STRUCTURALISTS: FOUCAULT, etc




21 HISTORY AND THEORY: ZAPATIZMO




22 QUESTIONING CIVILIZATION AND TECHNOLOGY, GREEN @



23 RESISTING THE DESTRUCTION OF EARTH AND ANIMALS



If your sources of inspiration come from a place that is not listed above PLEASE contact us as soon as possible and we will try to add that topic somewhere in this listing where it makes some chronological sense.

THANK YOU!

the post did not end up looking the way in which I had typed it. The only way that I can clarify all of the numbers at this point is to let you know that the numbers without a period after it

e.g. 5 represent the day

the numbers with a period after it

e.g. 7. represent the number for the topic to be covered on the particular day.

sorry about the confusion. please email us if it is stil not very clear and we will send you a much cleared copy of this document

--Health -- "Soap: The Perfumed Enemy"

--Progressive Graphic Arts -- "'Bush = Hitler' Photoshop Techniques"

--World History -- "Mussolini -- At Least He Had the Trains Running On Time"

--Debate -- "How to Claim You're Not Anti-Semetic, You're Anti-Zionist"

--Race Relations -- "White Men are Inherently Evil"

--Activism -- "How Chanting and Drums Will Change the World"

--Computer Technology -- "Cyberstalking: Accuracy in Evidence Gathering Isn't Really Necessary" (special guest lecturer: Stephen DeVoy)

--Political Science -- "The Greatest Anarchists in History and the Societies They Never Changed"

--American History -- "The USA: Responsible For Every Evil In History, Including the Ones Before its Inception"

--Feminism -- "Our Vaginas, Ourselves: How to Get Even With That Bastard Who Said He'd Call"

LMAO!!!!

It's amazing that here still seems to be a few flat-earthers about who are prepared to wilfully ignore the numerous lessons from History which have clearly demonstrated, without exception, that any society based on Marxist ideas will end in total, genocidal failure.

Astonishing. The reason Capitalism is successful is because there is no big idea, no Grand Plan. Nobody is being ordered about and told what they can and can't do. People are simply allowed to do what comes naturally, trade and exchange goods and services and recieve rewards for their efforts without it all being taken away from them and given to people who have done hardly any work.

That's why we are always the winning side. Marxism, and all other Big Ideas are doomed to failure. People don't like being ordered about.

Nonanarchist....



That was great. I literally laughed out loud.

It's up there with "Operation Pinnochio"

--Health -- "How powdered milk killed thousands in Africa"

--Progressive Graphic Arts -- "Pentagon=Small hole-big lie' Photoshop Techniques"

--World History -- "Saddam-Hey no WMD, but at least we get that oil"

--Debate -- "How to Claim You're Not a Racist because your Jewish"

--Race Relations -- "Why slavery never happened"

--Activism -- "How to change the Constitution so the people cannot speak"

--Computer Technology -- "Cyberstalking: Why we support online hate-mongering" (special guest lecturer: KOBE)

--Political Science -- "The Greatest Empires in History and how they crumbled"

--American History -- "The USA: Why the right wing can't understand how the corporations special interests influence democracy"

--Feminism -- "Our Vaginas, Ourselves: Why some Republicans can't get laid"

Think you're funny? You're not, really. Had you posted that under a relevant thread, without my post first having been there, yeah, it would have been funny, and I would have laughed. But:

To turn around a joke just isn't funny.

You sound like a blond who, upon hearing a dumb blond joke, immediately tells THE SAME JOKE substituting "brunette" for "blond". That may make your righteous indignation feel better, but you get no chuckles from the audience.

Why, oh, why, are lefties so lacking a sense of humor?

Poor folks...

Thanks, fellahs.

FIRST YOU WRITE....

To turn around a joke just isn't funny.



THEN YOU WRITE...

Why, oh, why, are lefties so lacking a sense of humor?

????????????????????



(try a logic class?)

I made a joke.

Sissie tried to tun the joke around, and it wasn't funny.

I told Sissie it wasn't funny, and why.

Then I lamented the fact that Lefties don't have a sense of humor, as evidenced by Sissie's unfunny joke.

Then you so kindly provided further evidence.

Thanks!

Social Failure's pathetic attempt at a riposte was embarassingly unfunny. I blush to the tips of my tippytoes for you, Social Failure. You must be such a drag at parties...

Why is "nonanarchist" posting under another moniker........again?

Thought we would let you all know.

More leftwing dirty tricks?

I am not nonanarchist, I'm not even living in America.

Now don't you tell us IP's are not logged or collected or are even known to anyone who posts on any IMC?

Either YOU are full of shit or IMC is full of shit.

Which is it?