Radical Sunday School: Learning about the Vrije Bond

By: börek - January 24th, 2024  Filed under: Workshop

Sunday 28 january 2024, Radical Sunday School: Learning about the Vrije Bond, from 18:00 till 20:00.

In this Sunday’s session, we’ll be talking with a comrade from the Vrije Bond (https://www.vrijebond.org/groepen/vrije-bond-amsterdam/) about anarchist federations, the work that VB does for local movements, how they help spread anarchist practices, and how mutual aid is essential to building the kind of world we want! This isn’t a lecture – we want to open a dialogue, so come with questions, with experiences you want to share, and with your proposals for actions we can take together!

From the Vrije Bond website: “De Vrije Bond is a collection of people who strive for a different society. A society without hierarchies, without oppression and exploitation of people and animals and without depletion of the environment. An anarchist society, in which people deal with each other on the basis of equality. The people within the Free Union are in their own way, in their own city, neighborhood, work or action group, bringing such a society closer: through direct actions, organizing or conducting discussions, writing articles or providing information. The Vrije Bond serves as a platform to meet, exchange experiences, develop theory, devise strategies, but also to set up or support activities together.”

The formal education system affects us all. Not only are we forced to attend schools growing up, but academic research shapes our governments, our news, and how we view the world around us. As much as many of us want to believe in the promise of institutional education, the sad fact is that our schools and universities are undemocratic and elitist. They perpetuate inequalities instead of giving people the tools to fight them. This world is fucked.

Here at Radical Sunday School, though, we know that another world is possible. Everyone should be able to direct their own learning, to grow together with their communities, and to live as though they’re already free. There are countless examples of movements already putting these ideas into practice. This collective is trying to follow in their footsteps, organizing to explore new ways of learning based on principles of autonomy, mutual aid, and egalitarianism.

This is not intended to be a course that you would have to follow all the way through. Jump in and out whenever you like. Sessions will be held every Sunday, except for every second Sunday of the month (when Joe’s Garage is having an open assembly)

Radical Sunday School
radicalsundayschool [at] riseup [dot] net
https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/radical-sunday-school
https://radicalsundayschool.noblogs.org/

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Radical Sunday School: Threading a Narrative, Storytelling Workshop

By: börek - January 10th, 2024  Filed under: Workshop

Sunday 21 january 2024, Radical Sunday School: Threading a Narrative, Storytelling Workshop, from 18:00 till 20:00.

The formal education system affects us all. Not only are we forced to attend schools growing up, but academic research shapes our governments, our news, and how we view the world around us. As much as many of us want to believe in the promise of institutional education, the sad fact is that our schools and universities are undemocratic and elitist. They perpetuate inequalities instead of giving people the tools to fight them. This world is fucked.

Here at Radical Sunday School, though, we know that another world is possible. Everyone should be able to direct their own learning, to grow together with their communities, and to live as though they’re already free. There are countless examples of movements already putting these ideas into practice. This collective is trying to follow in their footsteps, organizing to explore new ways of learning based on principles of autonomy, mutual aid, and egalitarianism.

This is not intended to be a course that you would have to follow all the way through. Jump in and out whenever you like. Sessions will be held every Sunday, except for every second Sunday of the month (when Joe’s Garage is having an open assembly)

Radical Sunday School
radicalsundayschool [at] riseup [dot] net
https://radar.squat.net/en/amsterdam/radical-sunday-school
https://radicalsundayschool.noblogs.org/

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Radical Sunday School: Germany, Europe and Anti-Antisemitism, Or: why you are not supposed to criticise Israel

By: börek - November 28th, 2023  Filed under: Debat, Workshop

Sunday 3 December 2023, Radical Sunday School: Germany, Europe and Anti-Antisemitism, Or: why you are not supposed to criticise Israel, from 18:00 till 20:00.

Why is it so difficult to criticise Israel in Europe even as the country’s government is conducting genocide? In this session, we are going to look at how Germany in particular, but colonial Europe more generally, require Israel to justify their ideological hegemony. How is the Holocaust and the subsequent founding of Israel, declaration of human rights, etc. used to silence Europe’s (post and neo) colonial responsibility? How can Europe – as it so often does – present itself as the bearer of human rights and dignity as it funds yet another genocide?

Sharing experiences is highly welcome; Islamophobia, Antisemitism, and any other racisms are not.
If you’d like to get involved at RSS, collaborate with us as a collective, or propose a topic for a meeting, mail us at radicalsundayschool [at] proton [dot] me […Lees verder]

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Radical Sunday School: How to “teach” like an anarchist

By: börek - November 10th, 2023  Filed under: Workshop

Sunday 19 november 2023, Radical Sunday School: How to “teach” like an anarchist, from 18:00 till 20:00.

None of us grew up in the kinds of liberating, egalitarian classrooms we wish we had. As we run sessions of RSS together, we learn from each other what works and what doesn’t, we question as we walk. Sometimes in the mess of organizing classes, though, we don’t have enough time and space as we’d like to reflect on the process. At this session of Radical Sunday School, we invite everyone interested in radical pedagogy to join us as we look the problem in the eye: how does one do anarchist pedagogy? What’s worked in history? What’s worked in our own practices? What can we do moving forward to make these the kind of classrooms we want?

The formal education system affects us all. Not only are we forced to attend schools growing up, but academic research shapes our governments, our news, and how we view the world around us. As much as many of us want to believe in the promise of institutional education, the sad fact is that our schools and universities are undemocratic and elitist. They perpetuate inequalities instead of giving people the tools to fight them. This world is fucked.

Here at Radical Sunday School, though, we know that another world is possible. Everyone should be able to direct their own learning, to grow together with their communities, and to live as though they’re already free. There are countless examples of movements already putting these ideas into practice. This collective is trying to follow in their footsteps, organizing to explore new ways of learning based on principles of autonomy, mutual aid, and egalitarianism. […Lees verder]

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Radical Sunday School for Palestine

By: börek - November 1st, 2023  Filed under: Infoavond, Muziek, Volkseten/Voku, Workshop

Sunday 5 november 2023, Radical Sunday School for Palestine, from 15:00 till 19:00.

It’s time for some good care. Radical Sunday School is aided by some lovely Palestinian folks and other comrades to serve some delicious food (feel free to donate a little), have a some Palestinian live music on the Oud at 5:00pm, and a short talk on education in times of crisis, but we also simply want to offer a space to share how we feel. We hope to create a warm and caring space for anyone who would like to join us for the day and enjoy delicious mujaddara. […Lees verder]

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Film screening and discussion on Criminalization and Migration. “Tell me, Europa” (Merel Groels)

By: börek - June 16th, 2023  Filed under: Filmavond, Infoavond

Sunday 25 june 2023, Unbubble Academia: The criminalization of solidarity in migration. Discussion and film screening: Tell me, Europa (Merel Groels). From 2pm till 4pm, free event, open for all!

Unbubble Academia will organise an event about topics of migration and criminalization. The visual ethnographist Merel Groels will share her film called “Tell me, Europa”, in which she explores the criminalization of people who help refugees on the island of Lesbos, Greece. After the film screening, there shall be an open dialogue between Merel, other academics working on Migration, and everyone else who would like to join.

“Unbubble Academia” strives to bring information and knowledge from the academic bubble, to a broader public, and to make knowledge co-production accessible to everyone.

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Radical Sunday School: Against Intellectualism

By: börek - May 19th, 2023  Filed under: Workshop

Sunday 21 May 2023, Radical Sunday School: Against Intellectualism, from 14:00 till 16:00

As students are protesting the university, calling for the democratisation, decarbonisation, and decolonisation of their education, the Radical Sunday School is opening weekly to discuss the failings of our current educational system and imagine new ways to learn. As Paulo Freire believed, education can be an emancipatory tool, liberating consciousness, and widen the options for action – and of course, it can take place anywhere, and at any time. In this ‘school’, everyone, students and not-students, is invited to participate. We will decide on the content and form freely. The options for things to discuss are endless: What is the point of today’s educational system? What is it promising, what does it deliver? How is it funded? What counts as education? What would an abolition of the university entail? How do you actually decolonise education? Or democratise it? What is the history of the university? How do fossil fuels inform our beliefs on learning? Let’s follow whatever sounds interesting and worthwhile – whatever seems important enough to be learned.

This is not intended to be a course that you would have to follow all the way through. Jump in and out whenever you like. Sessions will be held every Sunday, except for every second Sunday of the month (when Joe’s Garage is having an open assembly). Come through, and let’s educate ourselves in ways not possible inside the silly institution that is called university.

This session we will focus on intellectualism. (more info coming soon)

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Radical Sunday School – 2 KOOL 4 SKOOL

By: börek - May 11th, 2023  Filed under: Workshop

Sunday 14 May 2023, Radical Sunday School – 2 KOOL 4 SKOOL, from 14:00 till 16:00

As students are protesting the university, calling for the democratisation, decarbonisation, and decolonisation of their education, the Radical Sunday School is opening weekly to discuss the failings of our current educational system and imagine new ways to learn. As Paulo Freire believed, education can be an emancipatory tool, liberating consciousness, and widen the options for action – and of course, it can take place anywhere, and at any time. In this ‘school’, everyone, students and not-students, is invited to participate. We will decide on the content and form freely. The options for things to discuss are endless: What is the point of today’s educational system? What is it promising, what does it deliver? How is it funded? What counts as education? What would an abolition of the university entail? How do you actually decolonise education? Or democratise it? What is the history of the university? How do fossil fuels inform our beliefs on learning? Let’s follow whatever sounds interesting and worthwhile – whatever seems important enough to be learned.

This is not intended to be a course that you would have to follow all the way through. Jump in and out whenever you like. Sessions will be held every Sunday, except for every second Sunday of the month (when Joe’s Garage is having an open assembly). Come through, and let’s educate ourselves in ways not possible inside the silly institution that is called university.

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