[lbo-talk] Occupy University (was MH & DG on university)

[shag carpet bomb]

in grad school, a bunch of us started working on plans to fire up our own 
university. someone had a lead on some old property in the hills of n. 
California. as we looked into it, there have been free and alternatives 
universities offered for decades. locally, we started school for labor 
related themes - but it blew up because CPUSA guy, uh, coulda used some 
lessons in what it takes to be project manager. by which i mean, no project 
manager in her right mind thinks she can *set* deadlines for engineers and 
then tell them when the work needs to be done. lol  anyway, we had courses 
on labor history through film, people's history, intro economics, current 
social problems, union history, labor law, poetry, lit, etc.

The most popular one? Dealing with your boss. People came to the class and 
talked about the problems they had at work, which weren't always directly 
with your boss. The woman running it was genius at using a kind of 
consciousness-raising approach where people bitched about what went on at 
work and then unpacked it in terms of a materialist analysis of what's 
really going on.

At 01:18 AM 2/26/2012, nathan tankus wrote:
>http://university.nycga.net/
>
>gotta plug occupy university. they are 6 steps ahead on this! some
>alternative banking people are developing a course. I would but being
>upstate kills that. I may in the summer. I really encourage you all to
>get involved!
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>-Nathan Tankus
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