Radical approaches to
grassroots activist learning:
Seeds of New World
Growing all Around Us

 
 CHRIS CARLSSON
Executive Director, Shaping San Francisco

Wednesday, May 7 * 12-2pm *  277 Grace Dodge Hall
Teachers College, Columbia University
525 West 120th St. between Broadway and Amsterdam
*Free and Open to the Public*

• How can we develop cooperative practices beyond economic regulation to confront the everyday commodification to which capitalism reduces us all?
• What new social and technological practices are currently emerging at the local level to redefine and challenge global politics?
• How can critical thinking be applied to these under-the-radar initiatives?

Chris Carlsson, executive director of the multimedia history project Shaping San Francisco, is a writer, publisher, editor, and community organizer. For the last twenty-five years his activities have focused on the underlying themes of horizontal communications, organic communities and public space. He has edited four collections of political and historical essays. His most recent book, Nowtopia looks at how pirate programmers, outlaw bicyclists and vacant-lot gardeners are inventing the future today.  Carlsson was one of the original founders and long-time editor of Processed World magazine. He also helped to start the Critical Mass bicycling movement in San Francisco.