This is the second to last post for this class. And yet I feel it necessary to return to my first post. We have been exposed in this class to facts in our modern society that are disillusioning and hopefully enraging. We have hopefully realized the living and oppressive existence of racism, classism, homophobia, paternalism and patriarchy, all in the name of the ruling class described synthetically by S.C.H.W.A.M.P. So then what do we do, if we accept the premise that as educators we must work beyond just the classroom to solve social injustice and thus ripen the possibilities in the classroom how do we go about it. I've come to my own conclusion on this and while in all honesty I don't have the energy at the moment to fully articulate it all I hope anyone would feel welcome to spark up a conversation on the topic and I'd happily go in depth. But in short I'll label it as such; through direct action solidarity with the community of oppressed minorities, through mutual aid, through revolutionary community building we can and must radically change society, our economic systems, and governmental bodies to mirror our dreams of a more egalitarian and truly democratic society in which the demands of the Mexican revolutionary Emanuel Zapata (Terra y Libertade, land and freedom) and that of the Blank Panther Party (Land, bread, housing, education, justice, and peace) can come to be fully realized. below are the link to two videos; the first is an inspiring interview of a Jewish anarchist revolutionary who survived the holocaust and came to this country and considered it his duty to work for social justice in his new home. The second is a description of a revolutionary educational method contrived in the escula mordena in Barcelona by a man by the name of Fransisco Ferrer y Guardia. It is a method I think we should all consider when we enter into this decrepit and oppressive system that I hope we aim to change.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR7dNntU5oI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwJzCLtLwnY
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