[RSCT] Only one week left for early bird registration for social justice conference!

[Tara Mack]

Free Minds, Free People

Houston, TX

June 25 to 28, 2009

 

 <http://www.freemindsfreepeople.org/> www.freemindsfreepeople.org

The deadline for Early Bird Registration for Free Minds, Free People is
Monday, June 1, after which registration fees increase. Free Minds, Free
People is a national conference that brings together teachers, high school
and college students, researchers, parents and community-based
activists/educators from across the country to build a movement to develop
and promote education for liberation. It will take place in Houston, TX from
June 25 to 28, 2009. 

Our keynote speakers are Charles Cobb, one of the architects of the 1964
Freedom Schools in Mississippi, and Rosa Clemente, a hip hop activist and
journalist and the Vice Presidential candidate for the Green Party in the
2008 elections. 

 <http://www.freemindsfreepeople.com/fmfp/registration> Click here (
<http://www.freemindsfreepeople.org/fmfp/registration>
www.freemindsfreepeople.org/fmfp/registration) for more information about
conference fees, vendor and exhibition tables, the conference location,
transportation and for a link to our online registration page. You can also
pre-order conference t-shirts online for $15 when you register 


Education for liberation prepares the most excluded, under-served members of
our society, in particular low-income youth and youth of color, to fight for
a more just world by: 


* Teaching students the causes of inequalities and injustices in society and
how communities have fought against them. 
* Helping them develop both the belief in themselves that they can challenge
those injustices and the skills necessary to do that. 
* Supporting them in taking action that leads to disenfranchised communities
having more power.


The goal of Free Minds, Free People is to provide a forum for sharing
knowledge, experiences and strategies that support the use of education as a
tool for liberation. The conference will feature more than 70 activities on
a variety of topics including educating new teachers, youth participatory
action research, Arne Duncan, science and social justice education, youth
organizing, a bike tour of Houston, quilt-making, hip hop as a tool for
liberation and much more. 

 

The lead organizations for Free Minds, Free People are The
Brotherhood/Sister Sol, the Chicago Freedom School, the Education for
Liberation Network and the SHAPE Center.  

We need your help to spread the word! Please share this information with
anyone you know who might enjoy this energizing and educational event. I
look forward to seeing you in Houston. 

Tara 

  

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