If your organization is interested in hosting Free Minds, Free People 2013 in your hometown, we strongly encourage you to participate this discussion. Representatives from the national planning team and previous host cities will talk about what it means to host Free Minds, Free People and what we are looking for in the next host city. Applications for hosting the conference will be available.
Organizing Space
Submitted by tmack on Wed, 2011-06-22 15:14
This is a space in which participants can come together to network and begin organizing around various issues. The conference team will host some of the activities that will take place during this time. We also invite all conference participants to use this space to connect with others. This is a unique opportunity to begin national organizing conversations on education issues. Please email Tara at tara(at)edliberation.org if you have some ideas you would like to bring to the space.
As activities are developed we will add them to this list. So watch this space!
Be the 2013 Host City
If you missed this discussion you can still apply. Download an application here.
Hosted by Free MInds, Free People planning team
Combatting Privatization
Across the country public schools are being aggressively turned over to private entities. Join us as we talk about the connection between the push for centralized, anti-democratic control of urban districts and the process of privatization in our communities. Let's examine how local organizations can connect nationally to increase democracy and resist privatization.
Hosted by Community Education Task Force Slate for Educational Change
National Student Bill of Rights
Youth from cities across the country have been working since Free Minds, Free People 2009 to draft local bills of rights. These youth have organized this session to bring together youth from the conference to develop a national bill. That process will begin Saturday afternoon and continue during this time. All youth are invited. We will use this time to discuss the ideas for rights that were suggested Saturday and to develop next steps in this process.
Hosted by National Student Bill of Rights
New England Organizing
If you are based in New England and you are committed to building community power for education justice please join us. Youth Organizers United for the Now Generation (YOUNG) Coalition invites you to exchange with folks interested in amplifying the power of the community to put the public into public education. In our time we want to connect with each other and start to create next steps that build off of the amazing energy of Free Minds Free People.
Hosted by the YOUNG Coalition
The Role of White Educators and Movement Builders in Education for Liberation Work
This discussion will focus on how we can incorporate privilege and power
concepts into education for liberation practices with an emphasis on white
privilege and white supremacy. We will also explore ideas for connecting
privileged / white students to education for liberation movement building
efforts based on the goal of dismantling racism among white populations in
the U.S. and increasing the number of white allies to people of color.
Hosted by the Chicago Freedom School
Woods News: People of Color Off Grid n Unplugged
Join an Afrakan-Native couple--who have been living with solar power (for electricity), composting toilets (for health and wellth), and waste vegetable oil/biodiesel (for fuel) since 2002--for an organizing/strategy session furthering liberation in balance with the natural world. Woods New is a national network for people of color building collectively toward sustainable, self-determined, unplugged lives in the woods and in their hoods.
Hosted by Southern Tier Advocacy & Mitigation Project (S.T.A.M.P.)
Conference Dates
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June 27-30, 2013 |
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