The Tennessee Student Solidarity Network will hold a “Justice School” in July to teach individuals as young as 15 how to organize protests and campaigns for “progressive movements.”
The group’s program will be held at an undisclosed location every Sunday from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. beginning July 7 through August 18.
Registration for the program, which is marketed toward individuals aged 15 to 25, closes on June 25.
“Young people need more spaces where we can develop our organizing and campaign skills, and build crucial solidarity with workers,” the Justice School’s registration form says. “If we want to win the local and national fights against gentrification, exploitative bosses, free speech restrictions, and police brutality: we must be grounded in a winning strategy based on the lessons of our history and the needs of our people.”
The group says attendees will be provided the “skills and tools” needed to “create actual changes” in different environments, specifically schools, places of work, and neighborhoods.
In addition to participating in a “campaign” and getting “practical experience on the ground,” attendees will also receive training in “political education around the history of both national and international progressive movements.”
“Students will come away with the skills and tools to lead and win strategic campaigns,” the registration form adds.
The group lists the following topics each weekly class will cover:
Week 1: Theories of Power
Week 2: Patriarchal Racial Capitalism, a history of the development of class society.
Week 3: Successes and failures of US movements, the growth of neoliberalism.
Week 4: Organizing Conversations & Power Mapping
Week 5: Leadership Identification
Week 6: Turning an Issue into a Campaign
Week 7: Case Study: Wins & Failures of the Anti-Apartheid Struggle in South Africa (& youth’s role)
The Tennessee Student Solidarity Network is “incubated” by the statewide group A Luta Sigue, which is a “movement incubator dedicated to supporting the creation and development of autonomous power-building projects and campaigns led by working-class leaders and youth in Tennessee.”
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
We have one mission in the next four years- Demolish the Dept. of Education.
The Hiighlander Folk School (a radical commie training ground) was shut down by TN in the 1970’s. The “School” has reopened up in New Market Tennessee. It needs extinction again.
Get this crap out of this state. I’m tired of this state breeding protestors instead of educating students for life.
Excerpts from Cleon Skousen’s 1958 book, “The Naked Communist”, in which Skousen listed 45 communist goals for America that he identified while an FBI analyst:
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current
Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and
use united force to solve economic, political or social problems.