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Radical History Reading Circle - Summer FreeSkool!

Saturday, 07 July 2007
6:00 PM - 12:00 AM

Hi!

Interested in reading some good books and discussing them? You may have heard about the Ithaca Freeskool by now - it is a non-heierarchial, peer-to-peer (mostly adult oriented) learning environment for skill shares, projects, classes and discussion groups. This summer is our second term, and we have a great set of free classes for the community.

As part of the freeskool, we are beginning a Tuesday evening reading/discussion circle looking mostly at radical

history…the plan is to start with readings from Emma Goldman's

Anarchism and Other Essays, followed by parts of Howard Zinn's

(http://howardzinn.org) Peoples History of the United States.

With the nature and scope of the readings, we

feel it is especially important to try and make this group as open and

non-heierarchial as possible, but at the same time show that this will

not devolve into a flaky non-productive setting. So the class will be

open to moving in directions that participants consense on taking it.

Among other places on the web, you can find Emma's book at:

http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/goldman/GoldmanCW.html

Zinn's book can be found at:

http://historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html

with some other resources available at:

http://www.synaptic.bc.ca/ejournal/HowardZinn.htm

The first meeting will be important in trying to set the scope,

decision process, meeting places and curriculum/itinerary for the

group. While

drop-ins to the group are likely to alway be welcome, we hope if the

process for the group is important to folx, that they will try to make

it

to the first meeting.

Feel free to contact the facilitators with questions/concerns: BobWölfé

Jung2: wolfe23@gmail.com (607)319-4780

Wes Hannah: crow@riseup.net (860)559-4976

Jeremy Gardner xhabitat4humanityx@gmail.com Thanx again to Bob at No

Radio Records for hosting yet another Freeskool class, and of course

for having such a kickass place in this town…Please support No Radio

as much as you possibly can… ** ** ** ** **

For further info on the Freeskool, look at the listserve on

yahoogroups.com at: ithaca_freeskool@yahoogroups.com or eMail us at

Ithaca_freeskool@riseup.net or call Biz (607)277-2370 For more about

the freeskool concept, check out:

http://santacruz.freeskool.org/news.php (as a group that inspired us)

and look for calendars for Ithaca's own freeskool around town. There

will be

an ithaca.freeskool.org online soon hopefully. June/July/August is our

second semester. Also, there is a monthly BikeRide social, that will

meet at RIBs (530 W Buffalo) at 10am on Sundays (6/17, 7/22 and 8/19).

These will be leisurely road rides of 25-35 miles. Please join us!

Contact BobWölfé above for more info.

Location:
The first meeting will be June 5th at 7:30-8:30pm at No Radio Records (312E Seneca) but we are hoping to move classes to various agreed upon locales around town. Contact the facilitators for this weeks location and readings.