This workshop was created out of a need to build and share a common history of struggle towards the liberation of CUNY, public education, and our radical imaginations. By looking back and accessing/analyzing our history we are able to look forward and imagine alternatives and resistance methods to change our current situation-- bring down babylon and the iron-fisted rule of Raab (president of Hunter College) among others...

The people coming together to participate in this workshop have a wide range of skills and interests, but the one thing we all have in common is that we want to transform CUNY. We believe in freedom, in public education and in the rights of the people. Please keep in mind that the participants in this workshop have varying levels of activism experience, some of us are seasoned veterans and some of us are just getting a taste for the radical flavor-- the spice of our lives. However, we are all on equal ground here. This online workshop is created as a space to learn together and to learn from each other. Remember that everyone brings something to the table, we all have something to give and we all are here to exchange ideas, to grow, and to change the world that we live in.

*******GROUND RULES*******

Please introduce yourself in the "Let me introduce myself..." topic.

You must be respectful to all participants in this workshop. If an issue arises, you are invited to deal with it on the forums and involve others in the discussion or you can speak one-on-one with that person-- do what makes you comfortable. No racist, sexist, classist, or homophobic language will not be tolerated.

A separate topic has been created for each reading. We will try to go through 1 reading per week, but feel free to continue posting on previous topics (also, check back on previous topics to see if discussion has continued).

Please try to commit to checking the forums frequently in order to keep the discussion lively.

Please post at least 1 response to each reading (it can be a question posed to the group, a comment, an idea, what impacted you the most, a criticism... or anything at all that comes to mind related to the topic of education activism) AND at least 1 response to another participant's post on each topic.

Please spread the word to other interested activists and potential allies.

If you are going to be involved in campus-based or city-based struggles in the near future, you are invited to discuss how the readings relate to your work or have an open brainstorm for ideas. However, please do not post event announcements on this forum unless it is an event/gathering specifically about CUNY struggles- in which case, post it in the "Announcements" list. If you are posting anything that is not a response of your own (such as a newspaper article or poem by someone else) please make sure that it is related to the topics at hand.

Don't be afraid to ask for terms/words to be defined if you don't know them.

Please post any additional groundrules below...