I've got some practical experience in some things and education in other things. I think I'm a good teacher and if there are ways I can get that stuff to people for free, especially here, I'd love to share it.

I'm thinking of putting together a YouTube channel where I have that teaching, but if I could teach lessons and answer questions in real time for people who want to know, I'd love to do that.

Would I be able to do something like that on CyTube? Any suggestions are welcome.

  • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    At UCLA, where I teach, these same insights are taking a new form. A group of graduate students launched their version of the undercommons in January 2016. Based on the Freedom School model, UCLA’s undercommons holds weekly outdoor meetings featuring activists from groups such as Black Lives Matter, Critical Resistance, and the L.A. Poverty Department. Faculty and students lead discussions. These events have drawn as many as 150 students, and the community continues to grow. The primary organizers—Thabisile Griffin, Marques Vestal, Olufemi O. Taiwo, Sa Whitley, and Shamell Bell—are all doctoral students who see the university as a site of contestation, a place of refuge, and a space for collective work. Their vision is radical and radically ambitious: they are abolitionists committed to dismantling prisons and redirecting their funding to education and the repair of inequality. Their ultimate goal is to create in the present a future that overthrows the logic of neoliberalism.