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The time has come to return to Fanon. - Homi K Bahba Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you really want them to understand. - Frantz Fanon Rereading Fanon Towards an Education for Liberation Student-led protests against institutionalized injustices are once again resurgent especially in the postcolonial world. These new insurgencies, such as the Black Lives Matter and Black Students for Revolution in North America and Rhodes Must Fall and Fees Must Fall in South Africa, are not merely concerned with disrupting present forms of power. Rather, some of them have committed to creating a long lasting freedom by transforming institutions and transforming ourselves, so that we will no longer submit to any form of subordination. This demand echoes Fanon’s call for a total psychological shift on the part of the oppressed and for insurgencies to reconstruct the people whom the state was to govern as the only way to create genuine long lasting freedom and self-determination. Our event will engage activist campus and community based movements in a debate about the contemporary relevance of Fanon’s call to reconstruct ourselves as we struggle to transform our institutions and create alternate, more humane relations and communities. UIUC Planners Network and the North End Breakfast Club invite you to 02/26, Friday 6-8pm / Keynote by Lou Turner (Former Director of Research & Public Policy for Developing Communities Project), followed by Q&A. 02/27, Saturday 10am-2pm / Local student and social movement’s panel 2-5pm / Lunch and discussion with Dawn Blackman at Church of the Brethren and walk to Randolph Street Community Garden. Program
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The time has come to return to Fanon. - Homi K Bahba

Everything canbe explained to the people, on the singlecondition that you reallywant them to understand. - Frantz Fanon

Rereading Fanon Towards an Education for Liberation

Student-led protests against institutionalized injustices are once again resurgent especially in the postcolonial world. These new insurgencies, such as the Black Lives Matter and Black Students for Revolution in North America and Rhodes Must Fall and Fees Must Fall in South Africa, are not merely concerned with disrupting present forms of power. Rather, some of them have committed to creating a long lasting freedom by transforming institutions and transforming ourselves, so that we will no longer submit to any form of subordination.

This demand echoes Fanon’s call for a total psychological shift on the part of the oppressed and for insurgencies to reconstruct the people whom the state was to govern as the only way to create genuine long lasting freedom and self-determination. Our event will engage activist campus and community based movements in a debate about the contemporary relevance of Fanon’s call to reconstruct ourselves as we struggle to transform our institutions and create alternate, more humane relations and communities.

UIUC Planners Network and the North End Breakfast Club invite you to

02/26, Friday 6-8pm / Keynote by Lou Turner (Former Director of Research & Public Policy for Developing Communities Project), followed by Q&A.

02/27, Saturday 10am-2pm / Local student and social movement’s panel

2-5pm / Lunch and discussion with Dawn Blackman at Church of the Brethren and walk to Randolph Street Community Garden.

Program

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