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OPEN UNIVERSITY SCHEDULE, MARCH 1All workshops will meet at Sproul steps. If the steps become too crowded, the instructors

are welcome to move their workshop (after meeting up) to the grass, lower Sproul, or

another suitable outdoor location.

TIME TITLE INSTRUCTOR DESCRIPTION

9:00am Capitalism: Systemsof Power and

Indoctrination

Dr. MarkMason

Outline of the structure andfunction of capitalist political and

economic power, with notes on thepublic school as a doctrinal

delivery system.

9:00am Oakland Police:

Autonomous ClassEnforcer

Cynthia Morse Explanation of Oakland PDs

history--abuse of POCcommunities, contempt for court-

ordered reforms, current escalation

of abuses, and ties to national andinternational corporations.

10:00am Art is a Hammer:

Spoken Word,Storytelling, and

#SOCIALCHANGE

Josh Healey If politics is the art of what's

possible, let's use art to expandthose possibilities. This is about

re-definition and self-determination. Jon Stewart and

MIA. Join this interactive spokenword workshop as we write,

discuss, and share new creations --and discover how to use our own

stories to reshape the politicalnarrative towards social justice

and solidarity.

10:00am BP Out of UC Dr. Benjamin

Lynch andTaran Singh

Privatization, Global Warming and

building an international anti-racistenvironmental movement.

10:15am From 'studentgovernment' to

'student union': is astudent strike

possible in

California?

PhilippeMarchand

The ASUC views itself as a'student government', the primary

purpose of which is to create aminiature political system. This

discussion/workshop will invite

participants to think about thesteps students, here at Berkeleyand across the UC, could take to

move our student associationstowards a 'union' model, and

whether such a structural shift isworth the effort of existing

informal student movements.

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10:30am Lessons from the

Chilean StudentMovement

Katy Fox-

Hodess

We will examine how Chilean

students were able to organize amass movement for public

education that brought millions outinto the streets and resulted in a

seven month long student strike. Inthe second half of the workshop,

we will consider the implicationsof the Chilean movement for

student organizing in California.

10:30am Language

Environment

Hoda Cox Does the evolution of language

define our environment or respondto cultural need?

11:00am ConstructingAlliances: Gender,

Sexualities, Race

and Space inConvergence

Paola Bacchetta This workshop will consist of adiscussion about the place of

gender, sexualities, race and space

in forming alliances necessary toopen up, sustain, and bringforward the movement as a site of

political action, but also ofstruggle and transformation,

together.

11:00am Stop the

Resegration ofHigher Education

Attorney

Monica Smithand Matt

Williams

Double underrepresented minority

student enrollment now and overturn Prop 209!

11:00am Communist

Manifesto Primerand Discussion

Callie We will be discussing Part I of

the Communist Manifesto(Bourgeois and Proletarians)

11:00am OccupyingDemocracy

Gabriel Hetland An introduction to participatorydemocracy, and specifically

participatory budgeting. I willbriefly speak about participatory

budgeting in Venezuela where I'vedone research, and then discuss

ongoing efforts to bring it toOakland, and possibly to the

academic workers union and/or the

University of California.