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Catalyst
Centre (Toronto, ON)
The Catalyst Centre celebrates and promotes innovative learning,
popular education, research and community development to advance positive social
change
Center for Popular Economics
(Amherst, MA)
PO Box 785, Amherst, MA 01004/413-545-0743/cpe@acad.umass.edu
CPE is a collective of political economists whose goal is to put useful tools in
the hands of people fighting for social change. Through workshops and summer
Institutes, CPE aims to demystify economics and give social change advocates a
framework for understanding the economy which provides alternatives to the usual
mainstream and conservative analyses and "facts."
Center
for Popular Education and Participatory Research
(Berkeley, CA)
CPEPR's mission is to promote and support popular education and
participatory research in order to strengthen the participation of everyday
people--especially the poor, youth, immigrants, and people of color--in efforts
for social justice.
Freire
Center (Minneapolis, MN)
The Freire Center does popular education workshops, leadership
development, and action research for liberation and social change.
Headlines
Theatre (Vancouver, BC))
The Headlines Theatre Company produces community specific,
issue-oriented theatre. While we call our community work THEATRE FOR LIVING, it
is based on Brazilian Director Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed.
Institute
for Popular Education, Brecht Forum
(New York, NY)
The program uses popular education methods in classes and
workshops designed to provide activists with basic analytical tools, help them
examine organizing strategies in a larger context, build leadership skills,
deepen awareness of the issues affecting New Yorkers on a daily basis, and
increase their involvement in the political life of the city. [On main page, click
"About Us" to see info on this program.]
Mixed
Company (Toronto, ON)
Mixed Company is a theatrical company that specializes in
"Forum Theatre" techniques. We offer workshops and services to
corporations, community organizations and educational institutions as well as
individuals and groups.
National
Coalition of Alternative and Community Schools
Our mission is to unite and organize a grassroots movement of
learners and learning communities dedicated to participant control, liberation
from all forms of oppression, and the pursuit of freedom.
Pedagogy
and Theater of the Oppressed
(Omaha, NE)
PTO's mission is to challenge oppressive systems by promoting
critical thinking and social justice. We organize an annual meeting that focuses
on the work of liberatory educators, activists, and artists; and community
organizers. Our work is based on the ideologies and works of Paulo Freire and
Augusto Boal.
Praxis/Economic
Justice Project (Chicago,
IL)
The Praxis/Economic Justice program seeks to address economic
justice through the process of education, action, and reflection. The goal of
the program is to develop leadership skills through long and short-term
workshops that will equip participants to analyze their reality and organize and
to take meaningful action for economic justice.
Radical
Education Community
REC was created to foster a more unified community within the
southern peace movement --particularly Texas -- and to encourage better
understanding of the different methods of activism that make up any major social
movement.
The Fourth Dimension
A brief examination of the universe, metaphysics and the possibilites of
four-dimensional space.