UC Davis faculty are offering an Open University on the quad this week, featuring "Lectures of Dissent" Please RT! I am giving a workshop, too.

THE DISSENT LECTURES
PUBLIC LECTURES ON
HISTORIES OF DISSENT AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

EVERYBODY WELCOME

Three Theories of Power, Three Forms of Struggle
Three day strike workshop with Professor Nathan Brown
Quad Village, Mon, Tue, Wed, 1-3pm
This three part workshop will provide a basic introduction to the
thought of Marx, Fanon, and Foucault, through their approach to
theorizing power and resistance. Email ntbrown@ucdavis.edu for
optional readings or further information.
Monday: Marx
Tuesday: Fanon
Wednesday: Foucault

Monday 11/28 Ari Kelman (History) on Abolitionism. (3.30-4.30)
Holly Cooper (Law School) prisoner's rights movements (6-7)
In the Dome, on the Quad.

Tuesday 11/29 Ari Y. Kelman (American Studies) on radicalism in the 1910s*
Bob Ostertag (Technocultural Studies) on power & approaches to organizing *
Victoria Langland (History) on student activism in Brazil in the 1960s*
Amy Champ (Performance Studies) Community organizing

Wednesday 11/30 Bruce Haynes (Sociology) Blacks and the American Tradition of Protest*
Lorena Oropeza (History) on the Chicano Movement and/or the Anti-Vietnam War Movement/ and the Bonus Army in the 1930s.

Thursday 12/1 Sasha Abramsky (University Writing Program) radical writers/journalists in American social movements.*
Gary Goodman (University Writing Program) on feminism and radical movements.*
Frances Kay Holmes (Education) on the American Indian Movement*

Friday 12/2 Carolina Novella Centellas (Performance Studies) Protest movement in Spain.”

DURING FINALS WEEK: Simon Sadler (Design) speaking on radical art/architecture movements, Caren Kaplan (American Studies) on the Paris Commune, Eric Smoodin (American Studies) on the Blacklist

(Background: In response to the reclaiming of the Quad as a public space, a call went out from faculty to students on the Quad about whether there was interest for a public lecture series on the history of dissent. There was, so here it is. )

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INFORMATION ON MY WORKSHOP

If you are wondering….
How or “can” social change groups really achieve their goals??

ATTEND
**The Student Empowerment Workshop**

“COMMUNITY ORGANIZING”

In this 3-hour-long workshop, you will learn:
How to Focus your Political Goals into Action Items and
Design your own Personal Activist Project.

Tuesday Nov. 29th, 2011 –> 2pm-5pm on the Quad!

#1) Figure out what issue(s) you are most interested in
#2) Understand how to connect it to your major & career
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• What are civil disobedience, nonviolent resistance, and direct action?
• What is a demonstration and a counter-demonstration?
• What is coalition building?
• How to write a position paper
• How to contact and visit your elected officials
• What is a Political Action Committee?
• How to get on committees and boards
• How to get involved with elections and campaigns
• Different kinds of media and communication
• What about political parties?
• Letters to the Editor
• Art and cultural expression
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Facilitator: Amy Champ, 5th yr grad student in Performance Studies

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