Logistics

• Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2005
• Location: Nabalom Bakery
• Attendance: Alisha, Anders, Anthony, Erin, John, Kiran, Mike, Zoe

Report Backs

Kiran

Zoe

• called rec and community centers (again) not gotten through to many, but several want more info.
• talked to nick at tinkers. wants the work party. he'll call her when they're ready.
• coworker wants to teach french to kids.

Anthony

• flyered with kiran

• talked to school he works for--> it's not going to work out.

• made letter head and letter for nolo.

• they will be uploaded to the website--> you can use the letterhead and letter to solicit donations of supplies for the skool.

• made flyer for la pena

• checked out tribe dot net--> it's a glorified posting board. but we can have a tribe. it would be like running a website.

• community mental health class is already meeting, don't want to have anything to do with the freeskool. it's closed.

Rusty

• flyered on Saturday. neighborhood is cool.
• went to bc website-- he liked it.

Anders

• flyered with rusty.

Erin

• she's been unmotivated to work on kids' classes by herself
• got one person to confirm a music class for kids.
• her mom wants to do a class on how to qualify to buy your own home, inner workings of mortgage industry.

Mike

• couldn't't find someone to translate a flyer into chinese

Show Up On Time Damnit!

We should show up on time for meetings or push back the start time. We all decided that we don't like to sit around and wait. Zoe has an actual time conflict sometimes.

Decision: Show up at 8pm or face social ridicule.

Timeline Checkup

Revised Timeline:

• April 30: 4pm. neighborhood meeting world grounds
• May 5: 7:30-9:30 la pena meeting
• May 12: teacher, class locations confirmed by 8pm or they won't be on the paper calendar
• May 13: Zoe will ask unknown sources to copy for flyer.

Anthony will see about free copies from unknown source.

Letterhead and Letter for Class Locations

• everyone likes the letter head. it's approved.

Saturday Meeting

• who you are
• why you're here
• what's wrong here
• why it's wrong
• what are alternatives
• what can we do here
• rusty will translate as best he can
• kiran will help
• maybe we'll have a volunteer

Anthony

• what is the barrington collective.
• loose affiliation
• non-hierarchical structure
• no set membership requirements
• varying levels of contribution among members
• network collectives and cooperatives in order to share resources
• do it yourself skillshares
• summer freeskool program
• published two cal disorientation zines

John

• 25 years ago, ca had some of the best schools in nation
• Current state of the Oakland public schools
• budget problem in ousd, california schools have high spending, but low performance
• state took over 2 years ago
• appointed mr ward to be new superintendent.
• democratically elected school board is now subservient to ward
• ward threatens to close down schools.
• last year plan comes out
• 7 school closures
• 7 school restructures: charter or hired/fired issues
• negotiations currently happening
• most affected schools still don't know what's going to happen next year
• adult schools are closing-- 25000 students

Kiran

• History of public education and its uses
• programming obedient workers
• direct descendant of the industrial revolution
• originated in germany
• created by the elite
• unify prussia by engineering public consensus on large issues
• we took it from them
• built to train workers
• started in us in late 1800s, everyone was required to attend except if you could pay for private education. those parents choose the curriculum
• people also fought to get it.
• education equals social mobility
• made to train workers-- but now most of the out-of-high school jobs go to othe countries, so now it mostly filters people to the prison system
• linked to the economy
• a lot of people don't value education in terms of money. very low state funding.
• cultural assimilation of colonized peoples
• like the mission system. native american boarding schools

Anders

• History of the Free School movement
• tolstoy, thoreau had free schools
• utopian people in american who made colonies
• studnet centered learning
• disenchantment with public education system by the people started them
• class accessibility to education
• organized by class conscious people working towards an alternative goal
• modern school movement ferrer in spain
• many are by radical working class immigrants in major industrial centers
• southern,e astern european immigrants
• breakdown of traditional teacher student roles.
• liberatory education. allows people to empower and liberate themselves
• school example.
• run by council-- each student has a vote, same as the staff. self managed by parents teachers and students.
• noncoercive education
• no standardized, externally mandated curriculum.
• hands on learning which leads to understanding of more abstract and hard skills
• development of community through mutual interests that are free (not going to bars)

Ideas and possibilities for the East Bay FreeSkool

• people in the group have very different ideas
• discussion item
• classes that are functional, relate to people's lives, meet their needs, wan tactual concrete suggestions
• things that are not necessarily in schools, but are important skills that people want
• eventual location and actual school program
• summer program, not trying to replace public school
• continuing through the year
• summer experiment
• more locations for neighborhood meetings, more groups, more decentralized, bu network
• for everyone, not just kids, also adults
• long term and short term goals
• network community members
• get people excited about teaching each other.
• including more new peole to help with organizing
• decentralized-- people start doing this themselves outside of any organization

Other

• if things go to long-- mention time limit, can discuss more at end
• if things go worng-- we're not saying yay or nay to anyone. things are fucked up we're bringing up an alternative
• listen to the people there. keep our talk short
• schedule with topics and times bilingual
• kiran will saturday after the meeting plan on hanging out, call zoe with the plans, and erin, and mike

Sol/Fruitvale Meeting

• friday the 6th. 6pm
• 23rd and international

Ed: Was agreed to and cancelled later.

Flyering

Flyering for World Grounds

• kiran-- pass out flyers to my students
• mike can get us copies
• door to door flyering--
• optimal time is 4-6
• friday flyering-- meet at world grounds at 3
• thursday flyering-- meet at world grounds some time
• macarthur east of world grounds is already done
• rusty will divide the neighborhood up and contact zoe, kiran, john
• flyer the telephone poles

Flyering for La Pena

• anthony will do poles up and down shattuck, ashby, alcatraz, adeline
• residential parts of south west Berkeley need to be done
• anthony:long haulla pena
• washington school
• golden gate school
• zoe: bushrod-- 560 59th studio one-- 365 45th mosswood-- 3612 webstergolden gate rec- -- 1075 62nd
• library--- 6501 telegraph-- alisha
• library 55th and san pablo
• tool lending library/ south branch russel and mlk-- alisha
• spaz
• flea market-- alisha will do on sunday
• rusty-- north oaktown
• everyone please go door to door and talk to peeps
• mike is making flyers for this
• if you make quarter sheets, please tell everyone
• if it overflows washington park or bart parking lot or long haul

Flyer for Sol

• anthony or kiran will make bilingual flyer by thursday evening
• if you want it, call us to pick it up
• hit foothill, 12th, residential streets in between 15th and 45th

Ed: Sol meeting was as agreed to and cancelled later.

Classes

Confirmed teachers

• firearm safety-- brent. 3 classes. anders get dates
• esl-- rusty.
• alt ed. us.
• create your own nonprofit. patty. john call her and get date and time.
• buying your own house. erin's mom. erin get date and time. can get nolo book (call anthony if you want it)
• lockpicking. anthony get date and time. from jake.
• music for kids. (guitar or piano) erin get date and time from raphael.
• when asking about classes...ask if they're all ages or not. if not, and it's applicable, ask them if they want to teach a separate kids class.

Maybe Classes

• beer making--- leah or crystal. anthony contact them.
• herbal medicine. kiran
• self defense. rusty and zoe make announcements at dojo.
• beekeeping. zoe get date from boss.
• pgp. get a comp lab with 10 comp. and john will do it.
• security and cryptography. talk to nasa dude.
• backyard gardening. rusty get date from terri.
• grant writing. erin ask casey's mom. (she can get a book)
• yoga. rusty call vanessa. john email bryan.
• computer class. nills-- john email patty to get ahold of him.
• welding. erin.
• comics. anthony.
• people's history of the east bay. zoe and rusty. and anders.
• kids nutrition. erin. talk to neil from canada.
• plant class for kids. rusty ask terri.
• sailing. anders talk to martin.
• bondage. kiran talk to jessi.
• french. zoe as dillan about kids french.
• how to be a business collective. anders hang out with nobawc.

Wanted Classes

• bikes. the cog. anders. zoe- ask dan and mary
• mechanics.
• spanish. kiran cragislist.
• bike trailer making.
• permaculture and sustainability. anders.and rusty.
• carpentry. kiran.
• drugs and the brain. kiran.
• plumbing. table.
• electricity. table
• green building. table
• nutrition. table
• tanning hides. table
• roadkill jerky. table
• raw food. table
• knot tying. table. Maybe Caitland facilitate.
• urban forage.
• midwifery-- kiran
• parenting-- kiran
• kids science-- kiran
• kids math that-s fun-- kiran
• kiran-- email tim about instruments. craigslist ad about instruments.

Locations

(table division for next week) all community centers have been tried, to little avail

here's what we can still try:

• spazport
• spam
• long haul*
• sol
• noodle factory
• liminal
• otherworld
• nimby
• nabalom
• student coops
• fort awesome*
• ashby garden*
• community gardens
• city slickers
• ak press warehouse
• ecology center
• look up coop housing directory
• coffee shops
• such as mama buzz
• world grounds
• cafe med
• peoples park
• other parks
• willard
• mosswood
• lake merrit
• cultural centers in oakland
• (thai, korean)
• mills
• merrit
• cca
• vista
• laney
• alameda
• 924 gilman- erin call. also ask if they have yoga mats

Benefit show

• anthony is bottom lining
• wants help
• need location. doesn't matter where
• need date--- either 20,21,27,28
• need bands
• for show--

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