freeskool@barringtoncollective.org Emails

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Subject: free skool volunteers
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2005 17:10:24 -0700
From: Super Star <chuckier043@hotmail.com>
To: freeskool@barringtoncollective.org

hi, my name is durward, i'm a student in the youth in society program at new 
college of california in san francisco, i ran across the posting on 
indybay.org about the barrington collective free school, and i am very 
interested in helping out.  right now i'm studying how screwed up the public 
school system is and alternative/radical forms of education, including free 
schools, and i'm working with a young person as kind of an "older brother" 
thing, but i don't have a lot of experience working with youth as it stands. 
 i can read all i want about it but without the experience i obviously 
won't go very far with it.  i guess i'd just like to know what kind of help 
you all would need, when your meetings are, how can i plug in, etc.  i hope 
to hear from you soon.
sincerely
durward

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Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 17:27:08 -0700
From: Cheryl Aday <cheryl@meer.net>
To: freeskool@barringtoncollective.org

Dear Comrades,

I am an ESL teacher living in San Francisco, and have recently started 
organizing some other ESL teachers here to start an ESL collective. At this 
point we're still just discussing this project, and nothing concrete has 
been decided yet. To the best of my knowledge there are no other ESL 
collectives in the Bay Area, or perhaps in the entire country (at least not 
that I could find on the internet, or thru NoBAWC), but I saw your website 
and thought we might have something in common or even work together on some 
things. According to your announcements, you'll be meeting at Nabolom 
Bakery this coming Tuesday, and if you have no objection, I'd like to 
attend that meeting to introduce myself and discuss possible areas of 
cooperation. If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact 
me. Good luck!

Sincerely,
Elliot Rubin
Tel. 415-553-8755
email: obige@hotmail.com
(please note this is different from the address from which I'm sending this 
email)

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Subject: Re: [SpAzLiSt] Facilitators and volunteers needed for free skool
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 13:11:58 +0200
From: /-ziah-/ <ziah@keyabou.org>
To: freeskool@barringtoncollective.org

hi  !
I'm very interesting !
I can teach french... after september
I'm french and now I teach french as foreigner langage in Cannes (France),
I also taught elektronik music, little theatre and painting in Africa 
and Romania. I go in Bulgaria and Turkey this summer, and maybe  I go in 
US after.
waitin for news... and more !
byyye!!!!

laëtizia
0033.630.157.710
http://www.keyabou.org

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Subject: skool
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 23:14:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: Heather <heather@technopath.net>
To: freeskool@barringtoncollective.org

Hello

My name is Heather

I'm getting a masters in Special Ed and a BA in anthropology and am
currently and aide in a mild/moldereate disabilities in a SF high school.
I work on adapting curriculum in meaningful ways for students.

I won't be in the state for most of the summer, and will be very bussy
with work and school next semester, but would like to be involved, say
once a week with a math class (my teaching forte) or something.

Let me know what you think and what not

-Heather

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Subject:        Spanish
Date:   Sun, 17 Apr 2005 23:27:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:   Mary Miller <bignerd27@yahoo.com>
To:     freeskool@barringtoncollective.org

Hi!  I got info on the free school on a list serve I belong to.  I'm
interested in learning spanish.  I could offer some general info
sessions on domestic violence.  Could you send me more info? 

Thanks,
Mary

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Subject:        Tinkers Workshop
Date:   Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:31:29 -0700
From:   NC Bertoni <ncbertoni@tinkersworkshop.org>
To:     Tinkers Workshop <people@tinkersworkshop.org>

Greetings to all persons involved in the discussion for freeskool;

    My name is Nick Bertoni I am the founder of the Tinkers workshop and
a member of a three person collective who for the better part of 8 years
have operated and directed the shop. My two fellow directors are Danny
Zolotow and Fran Holland. No one else is authorized to speak for us or
represent us in any way.

    All of that said I would like to say that we have heard that a group
of Barringtonites and others are trying to plan a new free school here
in Berkeley. We at Tinkers Workshop applaud that effort and would like
to be in a position to be helpful towards your goal. We are now in a
very substantial transition right now as we prepare to move to our new
site in the Aquatic Park. This involves substantial physical as well as
planning efforts to ensure a sucessful move. As a result our focus now
is on improving our own organizations ability to sustain itself and we
cannot realistically offer any help towards your effort at this time. We
are hoping to be settled in our new site by the late summer and may be
in a position to collaborate better at that time.
    Members of our collective may be willing to meet with your group to
brainstorm or consider other ideas. This would be best facilated by a
phone (510-644-2577) or e-mail (people@tinkersworkshop.org) contact with
us.We have not authorized any one else to represent us and ask that all
communication is done directly with us   Thank You

                                    Nick Bertoni

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Subject: free school class on liberation
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 10:09:13 -0700
From: Josh Fattal <josh.fattal@gmail.com>
To: freeskool@barringtoncollective.org

Dear Lovely Barrington, 

I would like to teach a course. I am currently facilitating it at
Berkeley's Decal. and this summer I am interested to teach it to a
non-academic group. Its tentatively called "liberation and reality."
Please let me know what the next steps are. Description: :, we take a
level-headed understanding of the current state of affairs, we search
for a personal and social understanding of liberation, and we explore
the avenues for a libratory practice. The topics covered are diverse:
including "american culture", race, class, gender, sexuality, US
empire, spirituality, religion, social movements, hope, violence, and
humanity's destiny. The point of the diversity of topics is to
understand how society acts as an interdependent, coherent whole.
While reading and discussing such an array of topics, the point is not
to develop a comprehensive understanding of each topic, but to uncover
the new questions that our changing world demands that we ask. We try
to ground the abstract and conceptualize reality. We also encourage
the free use of the imagination in exploring a subjective
understanding of "liberation."

Josh Fattal

-------- Original Message --------
Subject:        more info.
Date:   Fri, 20 May 2005 14:40:53 -0700
From:   817718 <binnie@5lowershop.org>
To:     <freeskool@barringtoncollective.org>

That sounds great! I would like to know more. Do you have an info
hand-out, website? I want to help out, and i really wanted to learn
about rope tie-ing too!

keep me posted.
-binnie
415.647.7375
http://www.5lowershop.org
http://www.kabel.us