FREE EVENT!! Mark your calendars and join us for the People's Educational Forum "Claiming and Building Community Spaces: Then, NOW, & Next" hosted by NEIU faculty, students, and educators from the community.
Time: Saturday, April 7, 2018 from 8:30am-3:00pm
Location: The Little Village Lawndale High School, 3120 S. Kostner Ave.
Sponsored by: Goodwin College of Education at Northeastern Illinois University
Register at: https://tinyurl.com/y9258k
Since 2011, Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) has hosted a community educational forum which is organized by NEIU faculty, educators, alumni, and community partners. For the 2018 forum, the People’s Education Movement planning committee hones in on the powerful vision of the youth and educators in our communities. The theme of this year’s forum is Claiming and Building Community Spaces: Then, NOW, & Next.
People's Education Movement Chicago is a collective of community educators, K-12 classroom teachers, students, parents and university professors committed to educational justice in K-20 classrooms using a decolonial and liberatory lens which advocates for the freedom of all people. As a movement rooted in the struggle against global white supremacy, we work in solidarity with the People's Education Movement Los Angeles, and the People's Education Movement Bay Area (California).
One of the common narratives in Chicago is centered on the demise of public entities and the need to fight for these contested spaces. As organizers committed to solidarity work we call to task the continued displacement of families through gentrification, displacement of students through public school closings, increasing rates of incarceration of youth through the unjust prison industrial complex, the dismantling of healthcare/selfcare services, nutritional accessibility and economic opportunities.
In light of these conditions, we, the People’s Education Movement, invite you to join us for a day of solidarity, organizing and action. This year’s theme signals an intentional decision to:
1. Acknowledge the power youth and educators have to reclaim, build and transform public and community spaces.
2. Rethink the role and definition of an educator, highlighting the voice of The People/La Gente/Community Scholars/ Organic Intellectuals that are doing the work.
3. Build sustainable networks across the city so we can make these basic needs accessible to all despite privatization efforts led by elected officials.
These intentions aim to sustain our organized efforts to challenge and resist policies that exploit our communities. And in an effort to build upon last year’s theme, Healing in Education, Resilience in Action, the forum will offer a healing space with community healers providing services to forum participants, provide a space to learn about alternative healing methods, and share tools of engagement that will support communities claiming and building spaces.
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