Popular Education is my approach to community organizing. It is both a method and a worldview based on radical democracy. It has a long history, but two of the most prominent practitioners and two of my heroes were Paulo Freire and founder of Highlander, Myles Horton.
A new paper by CNE Corbin explores the relationship around race and green space to understand how environmental policies and practices in the past has and in our current moment continues to effect vulnerable populations.
Official Newsletter of the Magic City Rising Movement
Official Newsletter of the Magic City Rising Movement
The current status quo in urban development argues that we should invest at the top end of the labor pool and that the money those people bring will develop the city, and this is true, the city is developing, but the results are not as significant as they could be if another, more salient development paradigm was implemented. The other paradigm, the one we're pushing, argues for investing at the bottom of the labor pool because it creates higher demand.
The students, faculty, and staff at The CNS are practicing a form of autotopography. We are creating an educational institution that responds to our needs and interests, and reflects our values.
Official Newsletter of the Magic City Rising Movement
We must remember that in Marx's time, the proletariat was the most privileged fraction of the working class and, thus, thought to be indispensable to capitalism and the revolutionary agent. This is no longer true because of automation, off shoring, and globalization. The new revolutionary agent is what we call the cyletariat or knowledge and affective workers also called, erroneously, the feminization of labor. These workers often work in decentralized teams and rely on creativity for production.
The Cooperative New School for Urban Studies and Environmental Justice officially endorses Randall Woodfin for Mayor. We have made a $100 donation in support of his campaign.
Official Newsletter of the Magic City Rising Movement
Special Edition: City Council Candidate Forum
