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UPCOMING SEMINARS — January 28, 2010

PeopleSkooL at The Race, Poverty, Media Justice Institute 2010 Class Schedule

All classes begin Thursday, January 28, 2010

Register by January 15th - Late Registration: First day of classes
Tuition on a sliding scale � Scholarships available from the Po� Skolaz Fund

THURSDAYS

  • 1- 3pm Computer Basics and Computer Lab
  • 3:30pm Voces de Inmigrantes en resistencia � Digital Resistance Revolutionary Journalism en Espanol � including investigative research, interview basics, column development and blogging- This class includes a stipend for working poor migrant poverty scholars Class taught in Spanish
  • 5pm Revolutionary Media fo� SkolaZ #101& 103 Creative Writing Basics, Revolutionary jour- nalism, interview basics, investigative research, column development and blogging- #103 �Book Publishing Class begins in March � same time (Radio and Video training on Tuesdays) Media Justice Organizing and Poverty Scholarship Development Class taught in English
  • 7pm Ethnic Studies/Xicana/o Studies/Peoples Studies: Herstory & Resistance-Featuring Aka- Demik in Residence- Jose CuellarC lass taught in English and Spanish

TUESDAY

  • 2-4pm Revolutionary Media for SkolaZ #102 Radio & Video News production: Section #1 Radio editing � radio blogging, radio production and pod-casting � Section #2 Video editing, shooting and posting for news Class taught in English and Spanish
  • *2 - 4pm Last Tuesdays of the Month �HEAL Group & Po� Poets/Poetas POBRE�s
  • 5pm Challenging Media. Akkkademia and Research; The Race, Poverty and Media Justice Institute has a revolutionary way of addressing the impact of poverty that up-ends the traditional US models of service provision, mental health treatment, media production, education, policy creation and philanthropy. Each training seminar or workshop is led by Poverty Scholars who have survived poverty, homelessness, violence, profiling, immigration, disability, incarceration, police harassment, domestic violence, etc.
  • *6pm 1st Tuesday of the Month Community Newsroom� Indigenous News-Making Circle �Mandatory for All Students and skolaZ- All media and organizing work at POOR Magazine is launched from this meeting
  • *6:30pm All other Tuesdays- News Production Meeting � for staff and students � if you want to propose a story or get an assignment � this is the meeting you must come to if you are interested in working with POOR Magazine

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PAST SEMINAR — June 19-21 2009

Crumbling the Myth of The Gift- Deconstructing Donor Denial & Dismantling The Non-Profit Industrial Complex... One outcome at a Time!

POOR Magazine mural

June 19 - 6-7:30pm Juneteenth Opening Ceremony/Performance
RPMJ Resistance in Film Series 7:30-9pm
June 20 - 10am-5pm Change sessions-
RPMJ Resistance in Film Series 6-9pm
June 21 - 10am-4pm Change sessions & Closing Ceremony

A three day intensive seminar, "Revolutionary Change Session" offered by the Race, Poverty and Media Justice Institute (RPMJ) at POOR Magazine. This session is designed for conscious folk with race, class and/or education privilege from across the globe who are interested in exploring. implementing and practicing truly revolutionary expressions of giving, equity sharing and change-making.

How is wealth distributed across the Globe? Who actively decides how and where resources go? And how does one actually de-fund the Non-Profit Industrial Complex. As conscious peoples questioning, working on or actively participating in the just redistribution of resources, it is time to practice a new model of equity- sharing, financial decision-making and resource division.

The Revolutionary Change Session is a three day intensive moment in herstory aimed at cleansing, shaking, enervating, reinvigorating, de-bullshit-izing, un-entangling, bringing you to back to your own truth/spirit and real-ness, life-changing session.

We deconstruct the lies intrinsic in philanthropy, reconstruct the truths of humanity, care-giving, sharing and community and practice a new form of equity sharing we at POOR Magazine call, Revolutionary Giving.

About Revolutionary Giving:

POOR Magazine is proud to introduce a solution to the Non-Profit Industrial Complex and the exclusionary hierarchy of U.S. philanthropy; Revolutionary Giving. As an indigenous people led/poor people led non-profit, grassroots, arts organization we have long been critical of the classist, racist, model of philanthropy that perpetuates the deserving versus undeserving notion of caregiving, service provision and charity.

This notion turns people's pain and struggle into a product, pits the poor against the poorest and ultimately inhibits, silences and destroys the spirit, culture, art, language, and voices of poor people, indigenous people, and cultures of color across the globe. This damaging notion is pervasive in institutions and systems in the US, from the Prison Industrial Complex to the Non-Profit Industrial Complex, from the education system to the welfare System -it is how these harmful systems can continue to operate - it is how these systems can "profit" from our poverty without ever truly working towards change, access to equity, resources, civil, economic and human rights for all.

From POOR Magazine's perspective, we believe that giving and donating for the giver or donor is not a privilege, an option, or a nice idea, rather, it is a duty. A duty of people with class and/or race privilege, to give their time, their surplus income, their equity, and/or their support, towards change for people struggling with poverty in the US and across the globe.



A SAMPLE Of 2008-09 CORE SEMINARS

Deconstructing Case Management; Reconstructing Real Service Provision

This session explores several aspects of the Western psychological notion of “independence and individuation” and how these concepts shape our frame of sanity and pathology in the ways that individuals, families and communities are evaluated, pathologized, criminalized and treated. In contrast we will present indigenous values of interdependence as a value and model for evaluation, healing and caregiving. Finally this session will present new models of treatment through art, social justice and restoration for families, individuals and elders in poverty.

  • A HISTORICAL AND HERSTORICAL REVIEW OF POVERTY, RACISM, DISABILITY, CRIMINALIZATION AND SERVICE PROVISION
  • SEPARATION VERSUS RESTORATION: CONFRONTING THE WESTERN MODEL OF FAMILY CRISIS TREATMENT AND INSTITUTING CARE-GIVING AND HEALING

It Takes a Village to Raise a Classroom: Multi-generational teaching and learning in a 21st Century classroom.

How do we transform the rigid, linear, mono-generational classroom into a multi-generational, multi-cultural , multi-lingual, space of inclusion, eldership and community where parents and community elders are valued for their scholarship, their languages, cultures and leadership. Conversely, how do we use art and media to promote student and family leadership and community consciousness that not only cultivates powerful teaching and learning but sustains the community around the school in the face of violence, gentrification, border fascism, redevelopment,homelessness and poverty.

  • Cultivating Parent and Student Scholars in the classroom
  • How to create a Multi-generational classroom
  • Integrating the Arts and Media as a learning and organizing tool
  • Creating the Indigenous Classroom: Genuine integration of our indigenous languages and cultures through curriculum development, project-based teaching and art
  • Saving our communities/Healing our students: Sustaining our communities in the face of poverty , violence and gentrification

Default Colonizers, 21st Century Missionaries and The Fetishization Of Global Poverty and Activism

In this session we look at the role of US to global “activism”, media production and organizing and the transubstantive errors of cross-class, cross-cultural activism, media production and development.

  • CONNECTING THE GLOBAL TO LOCAL POVERTY DOTS - REVISIONING LOCAL TO GLOBAL ORGANIZING
  • ANALYZING THE MYTHS/PRIVILEGE OF TRAVEL

Challenging Academia, Media and Research

The worlds of academia, research and media has a rigid notion of who should be heard, what is a scholar and what is considered a valid form of data collection, media production and research. In this section, the poverty, race, disability, youth, migrant and indigenous scholars challenge the rigid concept of the canon, of scholarship itself and who should be heard and recognized.

  • THE MYTH OF OBJECTIVITY: THE REVOLUTION BEGINS WITH  “I”
  • LANGUAGE DOMINATION AND THE ROOTS OF LINGUISTIC PRIVILEGE IN MEDIA , POLICY, RESEARCH AND DATA COLLECTION
  • JOURNALISM AS VOYEURISM: THE PRIVILEGE OF AUTHORSHIP, BY-LINE AND THE ROLE OF WRITER FACILITATION
  • POETRY, HIP HOP AND ART AS MEDIA: EXPANDING OUR NOTIONS OF JOURNALISM AND MEDIA PRODUCTION
  • CHALLENGING ACADEMIA; REDEFINING THE CANON: POVERTY, RACE, DISABILITY, YOUTH, ELDER, MIGRANT AND INDIGENOUS SCHOLARSHIP #101
  • TRASH, DIRT, MESS, CRAZY, STUPID: MEDIA AND ACADEMIA’S EXPLICIT AND IMPLICIT ROLE IN CRIMINALIZING POOR COMMUNITIES OF COLOR
  • RACE AND DISABILITY IN THE MEDIA

Revolutionary Fundraising and Development

How do people with resources (money, endowments, trust funds, et al) by default, get to choose who gets funded? How does the role of hundreds of years of colonization, land theft, imperialization and capitalization play into that privilege? How does the mere fact that some people have money make them default “scholars”? In this section we re-vision poor communities of color as scholars, donor collaborators, co-funders as well as teach new ways for people with privilege to approach truly revolutionary funding and development.

 

Registration and Fees

Leadership, Media and Arts Education for children, youth, families and individuals struggling with poverty (POVERTY SCHOLARS)