Continue Reading... Ideas from Unschooling Oppression Conference
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Ideas from Unschooling Oppression Conference

From the organizers of the Unschooling Oppression conference (November 2007, Ottawa): This is what was brainstormed by the breakout groups…

Continue Reading... Matt Hern – Hope is a Participatory Exercise
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Matt Hern – Hope is a Participatory Exercise

Notes from Matt Hern’s talk, “Possibility in the face of probability”, on Nov 10 at the Unschooling Oppression conference (Ottawa…

Continue Reading... Cindy Milstein – Educating For Freedom
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Cindy Milstein – Educating For Freedom

Some notes and the audio from Cindy Milstein’s presentation Nov.8th at the Unschooling Oppression conference (November 2007) Audio (2+hrs, first…

Continue Reading... Survival Strategies for Independent Media: What is our future?
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Survival Strategies for Independent Media: What is our future?

The following ideas were presented by Bob Hackett, Carly Stasko , and Paul D. Boin at the Uncensoring Media Morphosis…

Continue Reading... Building a Local Independent Media Network
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Building a Local Independent Media Network

BUILDING A LOCAL INDEPENDENT MEDIA NETWORK >> the following ideas were presented by myself (Greg Macdougall) as a session at…

Continue Reading... Globalization and Social Movements – João Pedro Stédile of MST
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Globalization and Social Movements – João Pedro Stédile of MST

“Globalization and Social Movements” A talk by João Pedro Stédile, Main Coordinator for the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) of…

Continue Reading... Healthy Roots – notes from a community building conference in Guelph
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Healthy Roots – notes from a community building conference in Guelph

Healthy Roots was a community building conference in the fall of 2003 at the University of Guelph … offering an…

Continue Reading... From The Ground Up – notes
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From The Ground Up – notes

General notes –  From The Ground Up: Building Healthy Communities forum in 2003 (Kitchener ON) compiled from the different speakers’…