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CIO
we believe in people. not institutions, structures. facilitate people learning.
the most uncommon people is the common people.
children in school have not past, present is not worth anything and are taught to prepare for the future.
adults are came out of their experience. their experience in learning. its there, but they may not be analysed it. our job is to understand an analyse their experiences. build on those experiences, may be transform those experience then they have a power that is comfortable with.
you only learn from experience which you learned from.
what we have to do is relate our experiences with theirs.
education – prepare people to fit into those systems where they live. and turn them into nuts and bolts of the system.
you cannot use people that way.
allow pluralism
work together, you will be a better person.
new testament about love
old testament god creates. … ?
Shellie – you live your own life … without fear of punishment or reward
i create my own life
Shellie did like that.
Analysis of society on class basis.
Alexander Hamilton talked about classes. thats when he first time heard class.
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He was invited to be a member of communist party. then 2 years later they said he could not be a communist member by the head of the communist party. reason – you couldn’t be trust worthy
senate intelligence security interrogated by Senator Easton
he asked about people come to highlander. Myles said he will not answer any thing other than himself. not even about wife.
March 22 1968? Nytimes front page. a witness ousted at security hearing.
I believe in laws. but just law. it has a meaning. unjust law.
you cant have democracy in work place when they system is running for the benefits of profit of somebody. instead of benefits of all the people.
decentralization
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May day parade
police on horses separating bystanders and paraders.
Myles was on the side walk.
Cop beat Myles. He was wearing a T shirt with CP written on it. CP means common Presbyterian collage?
Myles mostly has religious background. at that time he was reading Karl Marx.
I dont want to be exploited
change society by understanding
highlander dont Organize people. we had hundred of people who are doing Organizing work joined in highlander. they can Analyse and then organize by themselves. you liberate them and then they train themselves.
economic democracy is necessary with political democracy.
MLK agrees with Myles theoretically, but only in the last he made it practice. To eat a hamburger with white people you should have money to buy it. when he organized garbage workers, he got killed.
in the late 20s 12 hr work day, 8 dollar a week.
Academia – what we know the solutions we have are for the problems, people dont have. we are going to solve their problem by saying they have the problem and we have solution for it.
unlearn what we learned. and learn how to learn for the people. how to relate to their experiences.
quit using jargon and educational terminology. listen to the people. not only words, their emotions, surrounding etc.
identify with people economic struggle, the reality, what they perceive important thing. then can share what we perceive
who is telling things to you. teachers, preachers and politicians. does it work? if it worked you wont be here.
1933 second year of highlander Myles got arrested. strike happened. police came to highlander to check whether he has any connection. Myles goes to striking places and pull people to highlander. after some time they goes back to their places.
one guard said, you are coming here and getting information and going back to teaching.
1937 north Carolina strike. mass picket line.
Jennings ? company
he was working in a news paper.
hours took for troops to reach the place. when troops arrived they pulled all the people and left are some pretty women and men singing and playing guitar. etc. nothing going on. troops are hiding guns etc by embarrassment and be friend with those. troops returned. once they left 1000 people back.
Peaceful picketing for our rights.
Myles was trying to make a union to take a decision. but thing get rough. may loose the strike. strike committee came to his room and asked Myles to tell what they have to do. he said, you run this union. if i take decision then i learn not you. you have to do it. one person insisted Myles to take decision. but he was not accepting. then that person pulled his gun and pointed to Myles and told you son of a bitch make a decision. [what happened next?]
you have to learn to fear.
Lamberton North Carolina.
Company hired 4 people to kill Myles.
every minister, every church wanted he to be leave from the town.
sherif left town, no police, closed post office, close stores. everything was quite. a car cameup.
my last effort to organize. yes you have to be organized. first person coming to the door, i will kill him, 2nd and 3rd too. 4th may kill me. so you decide who comes first. you have family?
Appalachia is a guinea pigs. religious missionary, to teach some manners to mountain folks, then political missionary came, economic people came to save the south buying land and setting up industry, then multinationals came in. we have always somebody coming ans trying to save the region.
highlander folk school
cultural activity to cultivate spirit
Myles’s wife play and sings. she developed drama programs and music program.
song – no more morning
Bourgeoisie blues
Eleanor Roosevelt came to highlander.
strike of tobacco workers. Charleston south Carolina – we shall over come. 10 years it was highlander song. then labour started using it. then went to SNIC.
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highlander is a series of different schools. community school, depression school, industrial union school, labour school, civil right school
no branches. but multiplication
how much conflicts in poor people’s world. use the conflicts to solve issues.
wise against violence.
different type of violence. physical violence. violence of starvation. violence of lack of education. choose lesser form of violence.
the greatest education comes from actions and greatest action is struggle for justice.
conflict is hushed up both sides. blacks afraid to do things because they may get killed. white dont want do it because they dont want to change the structure.
expanding or interpreting the violence in confronting the situation such a way that we can resolve it. we dont resolve the conflict in the lower layer of accommodation. instead the higher layer of justice. when we use conflict to resolve some issue, does not settle something. but resolve it in some higher level.
its not a Peaceful relation between blacks and white. the quickest way to taught southner is not to talk them, instead blacks stand up and asking treat them equal.
Rosa parks did not stand up from the seat making the conflict to come to the surface.
Rosa came to highlander anfter 2 months the bus issue happened. there is no connection. Rosa told that in highlander first time she saw white people she can trust. in highlander everybody is equal.
laws of Tennessee was against treating white and blacks equal. churches are against. local political people are against. but highlander does that. how to integrate.
your home is your castle idea.? one place we do what ever that please.
people used to talk about social equality, but they dont eat together or mingle together. when Myles was in collage he dislike that. do it. i will do it and then talk.
Farmers union
racism is a barrier.
Arkansas/Arcencile governor initiated first investigation on highlander.
they spread 2 million copies of MLK in highlander. MLK at communist training school. agent from governor Georgia took the photo.
MLK was not well known at that time.
trail. raid on the school. 20 people came in.
we are not afraid song the kids sang. just ruled for selling bear without license.
18 charges against highlander
but highlander was not alone. lot of people and press supported it. chatinluther times? mother of NY times.
take advantage of those hearings to educate poeple.
war on poverty program.
occupy land. take it back. thats what this country going. that is american tradition. law and order people dont understand. they can be educated.
gap between rich and poor is widening
because of civil right movement, middle class blacks became prosperous. working class blacks are in worst situation.
2 ways of revolution
when people become desperate then act other is fascism
but the desperate people voted for Reigan. even union people voted.
democracy – people should have control over their own life.
you have to be objective, not subjective. you have to understand the forces that are working. even the beating i never took it personally.
i am an instrument.
they are not lovable. i am not a good guy saying i love all people.
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