Teach A Class
Submitted by exco on Sat, 2007-06-02 02:22.EXCO is always looking for new teachers. Think about teaching a workshop or becoming an EXCO teacher for Spring/Summer 2009!
Classes may take place anywhere around the Twin Cities, we strongly encourage you to find space in your neighborhood such as at your local library, community center, coffee shop, conference rooms, etc. We are glad to help you brainstorm spaces or reserve space for you on the Macalester campus.
EXCO semesters parallel college semesters, which run from September to November and February to April. However, we are glad to sponsor classes that do not adhere to this schedule because they are shorter, longer, or in the summer.
The final deadline for Spring class applications is January 5th! though we are happy to receive applications before then. Classes begin the week of September 22nd though, again, facilitators can set their schedule to fit their needs.
Questions? Contact us at excotc@gmail.com. We look forward to talking to you!
Download a teacher application for the Spring 2009 term here.
Attachment
Size
TeacherAppspring09.doc
104 KB
Join the Impact: Fight the H8
Protest Proposition 8 – Stand Up for Same-Sex Marriage Rights
Event Info
Host:
Twin Cities Socialist Alternative
Type:
Network:
Global
Time and Place
Date:
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Time:
12:30pm – 2:30pm
Location:
Hennepin County Government Center
Street:
350 S. 5th Street
City/Town:
Minneapolis, MN
Contact Info
Phone:
6175993026
Email:
Teach A Class
Submitted by exco on Sat, 2007-06-02 02:22.EXCO is always looking for new teachers. Think about teaching a workshop or becoming an EXCO teacher for Spring/Summer 2009!
Classes may take place anywhere around the Twin Cities, we strongly encourage you to find space in your neighborhood such as at your local library, community center, coffee shop, conference rooms, etc. We are glad to help you brainstorm spaces or reserve space for you on the Macalester campus.
EXCO semesters parallel college semesters, which run from September to November and February to April. However, we are glad to sponsor classes that do not adhere to this schedule because they are shorter, longer, or in the summer.
The final deadline for Spring class applications is January 5th! though we are happy to receive applications before then. Classes begin the week of September 22nd though, again, facilitators can set their schedule to fit their needs.
Questions? Contact us at excotc@gmail.com. We look forward to talking to you!
Download a teacher application for the Spring 2009 term here.
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| TeacherAppspring09.doc | 104 KB |
Join the Impact: Fight the H8
Protest Proposition 8 – Stand Up for Same-Sex Marriage Rights
| Host: |
Twin Cities Socialist Alternative
|
| Type: | |
| Network: |
Global
|
| Date: |
Saturday, November 15, 2008
|
| Time: |
12:30pm – 2:30pm
|
| Location: |
Hennepin County Government Center
|
| Street: |
350 S. 5th Street
|
| City/Town: |
Minneapolis, MN
|
| Phone: |
6175993026
|
| Email: |
An educational forum and discussion
| Host: |
Mayday Bookstore
|
| Type: | |
| Network: |
Global
|
| Date: |
Thursday, November 13, 2008
|
| Time: |
7:00pm – 9:00pm
|
| Location: |
Mayday Books
|
| Street: |
301 Cedar on the West Bank
|
| City/Town: |
Minneapolis, MN
|
| Phone: |
6123334719
|
| Email: |
Description
Presentations followed by discussion and question and answer session.
Michael Livingston of Socialist Action: Why the Spanish Revolution is still important today
Kieran Knutson of Anarchist Michigan-Minnesota Group: The Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution
John Peterson of Workers International League: The Trotskyists in the Spanish Revolution
THURSDAY 7 PM
NOVEMBER 13 2008
MAYDAY BOOKS
301 Cedar Ave. South on the West Bank in Minneapolis
Progressive, non-profit, volunteer-run bookstore: “Not making a profit since 1975”
In the basement of THE HUB; enter on side of building. Public parking ramp behind the building. For info, call 612-333-4719 or go to www.maydaybookstore.org
HELP BRING JUSTICE IN THE COURTS: RNC COURT WATCHERS NEEDED!!!
Come support the RNC arrestees! The days of direct action are over, but the legal support work has just begun. People are going up before the court and the state to face their criminal charges for expressing their dissent during the RNC. We need a strong showing of community solidarity in the courtrooms to support our friends and provide a deterrent to judge’s behavior. Having many people present at the upcoming hearings is an effective way of challenging the political oppression of the RNC protesters. Come out and show your solidarity!
Food and drink are not allowed in the courtroom and all supporters will have to pass through a metal detector (no guns, knives, or scissors are allowed past security). While in court, supporters must remain silent and will not be allowed to carry signs through the security station; the strength of our collective presence will send the message we need to send.
If you are interested in doing court watches, you must contact rnccourtwatch@gmail.com for information you will need in order to be a court watcher.
THE PEOPLE UNITED WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED!
When: Tuesday November 04, 2008
Time: 9:00 A.M. – 11:30 A.M.
Where: Ramsey County Courthouse
Judge DeCourcy
When: Tuesday November 04, 2008
Time: 1:00 P.M. – 3:30 P.M.
Where: Ramsey County Courthouse, Room 131A
Judge Marrinan
When: Wednesday November 05, 2008
Time: 9:00 A.M. – 11:30 A.M
Where: Ramsey County Courthouse
Judge Edward Wilson
When: Thursday November 06, 2008
Time: 8:30 A.M.-11:00 A.M.
Where: Public Safety Facility, Room 142
Judge Thorwarld Anderson
When: Thursday November 06, 2008
Time: 9:00 A.M. – 11:30 A.M.
Where: Ramsey County Courthouse
Judge Edward Wilson
When: Thursday November 06, 2008
Time: 9:00 A.M.-12:00 P.M.
Where: Ramsey County Courthouse
Judge VanDeNorth
When: Thursday November 06, 2008
Time: 1:00 P.M.-3:30 P.M.
Where: Ramsey County Courthouse
Judge Edward Wilson
When: Friday November 07, 2008
Time: 1:00 P.M.-3:30 P.M.
Where: Ramsey County Courthouse Room 131A
Judge Fetsch
Where: Monday November 10, 2008
Time: 9:00 A.M.-12:00 P.M.
Where: Ramsey County Courthouse
Judge Guthmann
Where: Monday November 10, 2008
Time: 9:00 A.M.-11:30 A.M.
Where: Ramsey County Courthouse
Judge Fetsch
When: Thursday November 13, 2008
Time: 8:30 A.M.-11:30 A.M.
Where: Public Safety Facility, Room 142
Judge (please contact rnccourtwatch@gmail.com for updated info)
When: Thursday November 13, 2008
Time: 8:30 A.M.-11:00 A.M.
Where: Public Safety Facility, Room 141
Judge Hopper
When: Thursday November 13, 2008
Time: 1:15 P.M.-3:45 P.M.
Where: LEC, Room 102
Judge Gearin
When: Thursday November 13, 2008
Time: 1:30 P.M.-4:00 P.M.
Where: (please contact rnccourtwatch@gmail.com for updated info)
Judge Nathanson
When: Monday November 17, 2008
Time: 9:00 A.M.-11:30 A.M.
Where: Ramsey County Courthouse
Judge Clark
When: Monday November 17, 2008
Time: 1:30 P.M.-4:00 P.M.
Where: Ramsey County Courthouse
Judge Guthmann
When: Tuesday November 18, 2008
Time: 1:30 P.M.-3:30 P.M.
Where: Ramsey County Courthouse
Judge Monahan
When: Wednesday November 19, 2008
Time: 1:15 P.M.-3:45 P.M.
Where: LEC, Room 102
Judge Finley
When: Wednesday November 26, 2008
Time: 9:00 A.M.-11:30 A.M.
Where: Ramsey County Courthouse
Judge Awsumb
RENEWING THE ANARCHIST TRADITION
to get a sense of
> A Scholarly Conference
> November 7-9, 2008 in Montpelier, Vermont
>
> “Call for Proposals & Ideas”
>
> The ninth edition of the Renewing the Anarchist Tradition (RAT)
> conference, sponsored by the Institute for Anarchist Studies (IAS),
> once again aims to provide a participatory and scholarly space in
> which to reexamine, reinvigorate, and make relevant the social and
> political tradition of anarchism.
>
> Each year, RAT brings together anarchists, anti-authoritarians, and
> libertarian leftists who want to critically engage both the
> tradition itself and the world in which we live. Participants and
> presenters at the conference thereby contribute to developing a
> more rigorous contemporary theoretical framework for anarchism as
> well as a stronger basis from which nonhierarchical movements can
> organize and resist.
>
2008 is a strange time to be an anarchist in North America. Thomas
> Friedman is calling for a green revolution, and Bono is at the
> forefront of a global war on poverty. The bright light of the U.S.
> presidential election campaign, anointed by Silicon Valley capital,
> has harnessed massive popular desire for radical social
> transformation–”Change”–to propel himself toward the White House.
> The reception he receives abroad articulates a thirst for a genuine
> internationalism, even as he signals his readiness to command more
> of the same military interventionism that has devastated people and
> social movements around the world. As anarchists and anti-
> authoritarians, it is easy to feel marginal, dissipated, defeated,
> and irrelevant as we watch some of our dearest ideas co-opted,
> sucked of content, turned inside out, and projected into the
> mainstream political scene.
>
> What better moment, then, to come together to reflect on and
> honestly appraise the practices, platforms, convictions, dogmas,
> truisms, and theories that anarchism offers? What better moment to
> reimbue that tradition with a crucial sense of urgency and the
> substance that can genuinely challenge racism, imperialism, sexism,
> colonial pillage, capitalist exploitation, and the multifold and
> mutually reinforcing forms of oppression and systems of domination?
>
> RAT is also a place to discuss and share theoretical tools from
> beyond the anarchist tradition that can add to building more
> sustainable social movements and practices, and eventually a world
> characterized by freedom, justice, and dignity for all.
>
> RAT aims to nurture and support a new generation of anti-
> authoritarian public intellectuals from different backgrounds and
> experiences. So when we describe it as “a scholarly conference,” we
> are referring to a quality of the presentations and discussions–
> not to some professional identity of the participants. You do not
> have to be an academic to attend or present at RAT. All you have to
> do is be ready to actively participate in the conversations and
> debates, as peers who are creating the conference space together.
> In the past, RAT has served as a forum for organizers, scholars,
> writers, artists, educators, publishers, and students from a range
> of anarchist and libertarian left tendencies to come together to
> engage in challenging yet respectful dialogue. Participants have
> observed that RAT offers a distinctive social environment in which
> long-term conversations and relationships between anti-
> authoritarians from various places and political contexts can be
> built.
>
> The RAT conference is co-organized by IAS board members Andréa
> Maria, Cindy Milstein, and John Petrovato.
>
> CALL FOR PROPOSALS & IDEAS (Due on or before September 1, 2008)
>
> We are once again accepting proposals for a limited number of talks
> and panels. In addition, we will be curating a number of talks and
> panels that build on previous conversations and provoke even more
> dynamic debate than at past conferences, and are eager to hear your
> ideas about what you’d like to see.
>
> At previous conferences, presenters have proposed topics that
> ranged from the character of social change to the ongoing relevance
> of categories such as class, community, and labor; from the
> changing shape of the state and capital to emergent forms of both
> domination and resistance in a globalizing world; from the
> character of twenty-first-century technology to the functions and
> potentials of anti-authoritarian art and propaganda; and from
> anarchism’s relation to geopolitical concerns such as terrorism and
> war to its ability to grapple with issues of identity such as race,
> gender, and sexuality.
>
> If you want to send us ideas for panels in particular, please keep
> your thoughts short and sweet, but include as much detail as
> possible–a potential title; a MAXIMUM 150-word description of the
> panel; and suggested people, including their e-mail addresses, who
> you’d like to see speak to this question(s) or topic(s). Your ideas
> will help us shape/curate RAT, so are much appreciated.
>
> If you are interested in presenting, please take a look at the RAT
> archive (currently at http://www.homemadejam.org/renew for RAT 1-7,
> and http://www.anarchiststudies.org for RAT
> the topics that have been explored in the past. If you feel
> alienated when you look at this list, or think that important
> issues that should be considered through an anarchist lens have
> been left out, do not panic or decide not to attend. Please send us
> a proposal. We particularly encourage nonacademics, working people,
> women, indigenous people, people of color, queer and trans people,
> and others frequently marginalized in scholarly life to submit
> proposals.
>
> Each presentation proposal should include: a succinct talk or panel
> title; a MAXIMUM 150-word description of your talk or panel, and
> specifically the question(s) or topic(s) you wish to address; a
> MAXIMUM 50-word description of yourself and any other panelists;
> and your full name and e-mail, along with the full names and e-
> mails of other panelists.
>
> You can submit multiple proposals. Please note that we will be
> choosing from the proposals by mid-September, and not every
> proposal will be selected.
>
> If your proposal is accepted, you are automatically registered. All
> presenters must still pay the registration fee, however, since RAT
> has no funding other than all of us contributing to make this space
> possible.
>
> Send your proposal(s), on or before September 1, to: rat-
> presentations at anarchiststudies.org.
>
> REGISTRATION (TBA, but starting in late September 2008)
>
> RAT registration, limited to 150 people, will open sometime in late
> September (TBA). All presenters are automatically registered, but
> like everyone else, they must pay the registration fees in full by
> or before October 15. RAT has no outside or independent funding, so
> everyone who attends contributes financially to making this
> conference possible. Those who register for RAT can also book a
> table(s) for bookstores, infoshops, magazines, and other projects.
>
> Once registration opens, we will offer a sliding-scale registration
> for the following three options:
>
> 1. Registration and five meals (for locals and others not requiring
> housing)
>
> 2. Registration, five meals, and 2 nights in shared dorm room
>
> 3. Registration, five meals, and 2 nights in single dorm room
>
> We’re still figuring out the exact cost for these three options,
> since the cost of renting the space has increased slightly, but
> last year’s sliding scale ranged from $45-65 for option 1, $105-125
> for option 2, and $155-180 for option 3.
>
> Also, a limited number of partial scholarships will be available to
> subsidize RAT conference fees for those with financial need. These
> scholarships, as in the past, will be made possible because of the
> generosity of other RAT participants who can afford to pay the
> higher end (or more!) of our sliding scale.
>
> SCHEDULE
>
> RAT will again open with a single panel on the evening of Friday,
> November 7, followed by a full day of presentations, panels, and a
> party on Saturday, November 8, and will wrap up with more
> presentations and panels until about 2 p.m. on Sunday, November 9.
> All presenters and participants should plan on attending the entire
> conference, since RAT is meant as an extended conversation among
> peers, not a spectator sport, or something you simply zip in to
> present at and then leave.
>
> We are renting space at a small college in Montpelier, Vermont, for
> meeting rooms, tabling, five meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner on
> Saturday; breakfast and lunch on Sunday), and dorm rooms. Details
> to follow once you’re fully registered.
>
MINNEAPOLIS – On Tuesday, October 28, Glass Bead Collective, Twin Cities
Indymedia, and other independent media activists will release a new film,
“Terrorizing Dissent: Election Cut,” an exposé of events at the 2008
Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Featuring first-person accounts and footage from more than forty cameras
on the streets, “Terrorizing Dissent” focuses on the story of dissent
suppressed. People charged with “conspiracy to riot in furtherance of
terrorism” speak out against the government’s campaign to manipulate media
coverage and label civil disobedience and community organizing as
terrorism.
The documentary consists of four provocative sections:
September 1st: The Battle of St Paul
September 2nd: The Gassing in St Paul
September 3rd: Terrorizing Dissent
September 4th: The Bombing of the Peace March
Cut from hundreds of hours of donated footage, “Terrorizing Dissent:
Election Cut” will be released for free on the Internet in HD, FLV and
Quicktime formats, under the Creative Commons / CopyLeft license, and its
producers encourage everyone to share this important film.
Free screenings of the film will be offered in both Minneapolis, MN and
Oakland, CA:
Sunday, November 2nd:
* Arise! Bookstore (2441 Lyndale Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN) at 7 pm.
Monday, November 3rd:
* Arise! Bookstore (2441 Lyndale Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN) at 7 pm. * AK
Press (674-A 23rd Street, Oakland, CA) at 8 pm.
Another Minneapolis-area screening on Thursday, October 30th is also being
scheduled.
Visit http://www.terrorizingdissent.org to view the trailer and sign up for
updates on the project.
***
Glass Bead Collective (www.glassbeadcollective), based in New York City,
brings together individuals from diverse academic and professional
backgrounds including video art, film, theater, architecture, photography,
music, mathematics, fine arts and philosophy to create works which
re-contextualize culture and the world in which we find ourselves today.
Twin Cities Indymedia (tc.indymedia.org) is the local chapter of the
international Indymedia network, a collective of independent media
organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots,
non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the
creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth. Twin
Cities Indymedia provided up-to-the-minute coverage of the St. Paul’s
Republican National Convention with news and media straight from the
streets. As an entirely volunteer-run organization, the Tech Collective
handles the Web platform, and the passionate observers of the Editorial
Collective write stories and fend off spam. TC Indymedia plans to organize
a new video project collective as an extension of the work behind
producing “Terrorizing Dissent.”