All Power to the Imagination

Andrea and Meltron will host a conversation on how to use popular education and critical pedagogy models to create and develop effective and reflective social justice collectives. Looking at education as a tool for liberation rather than "the great equalizer," we may begin to think critically about how we teach, learn, and experience our world and our relationships.

The presentation & group discussion will explain what Cyberquiliting is: From training women of color organizations on how to use multi-video conferencing technologies to hosting multiple city rallies to end violence against women, holding online tutorials on how activists can use Google documents to assist with administrative work and more.

Women's reproductive health has been a site of oppression and resistance for millenia. In the last 300 years,forces as diverse as the industrial revolution, the scientific method, big Pharma, colonialism, feminism and the Internet have all forced humanity to confront the relationship between individual bodies, freedom, and political action. Drawing from sources as varied as medical manuals, history books, zines and anarchist publications, she will examine how Western radical movements (and some non-Western radical movements) have dealt with autonomy, gender and reproductive health, and how those perspectives have changed over time. Finally, she will use her background in a women's health work to both applaud and critique the radical women's reproductive health movement in the United States, presenting concrete ways for all activists to be better stewards of their bodies, the planet, and one another.

Members of IAS will dialogue about their presentations.

This presentation and discussion will introduce participants to the history and practice of the Movement for a New Society and draw lessons from the experiences of that organization with the intent of facilitating more effective anti-authoritarian political activism in the contemporary period.

Joshua Stevens

This talk will relate some work in philosophy by people like Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, Foucault and Mark Lance’s own work, some central ideas from the history of anarchist thought and some concrete organizing issues that confront those working according to anti-authoritarian principles in the midst of a capitalist, imperialist, sexist, racist, and heterosexist society.

Alachua Committee Against Police Brutality