2024 Re|Organizing School Details
July 12th – July 25th 2024
Mapping (Local) Resistance in a Global City
Objectives and Context
Grounded in movement history and theory, The Re|Organizing School 2024 will assemble over three weeks with the goal of addressing the current political moment whilst building beyond the moment by Mapping (Local) Resistance in a Global City.
With the intensifying militarization of public space and universities, and the accumulation of capital and power in the hands of a few, we are experiencing a new rise in authoritarianism across the globe and in our own city. There is no clearer example of this than the coordinated crackdown on pro-Palestine protests and Gaza solidarity encampments on university grounds. This is not new, of course: it follows on the massive build up of surveillance, policing, mass criminalization, incarceration, and deportation side by side with the decimation of public goods – health, food, housing, education – that has devastated Black communities and poor neighborhoods over the past four decades. The owners of capital continue to work hand in hand with the state to protect their interests, capture territory and labor, and repress the radical proliferation of alternative lifeways. The reactions to this have been diverse but linked – land-based organizing for food sovereignty, migrant and abolitionist movements, transgender and feminist liberation movements, formations against settler colonialism, racism, gentrification.
How can we proliferate together today?
What alternatives are being built in New York and elsewhere?
How can we re/learn, re/make, re/build and re/organize?
In The Re|Organizing School 2024 we will collectively deploy a range of strategic tools, learning exercises, praxis based methodologies, site specific action research, and assemblies to confront this moment in concrete ways and visualize and build towards alternative futures.
Experiences
Full assembly gatherings
Thematic workshops
Resource mapping
Reflection
Strategic visioning
Field trips
Mutual aid
Celebration
Thematic Tracks
1. Organizing Theory & Community Accountability
Grounding in movement history
Co-learning from movement theory
Sharpening skills and deepening knowledge
Reviewing practices, clearing pathways, and sharing strategies
Fostering relationships as the fabric of movements and communities
2. Cooperative Communities & Solidarity Ecosystems
Creating ecosystems that support interdependence
Building circles of alternative value
World-building and rebuilding efforts
Undermining hyper-individualism of late capitalism
Practicing cooperation and synchronization
The ethos of solidarity and mutual aid runs through the whole ReIOrganizing School.
It is the very means of our coming together.
Concept and Stewardship
The Re|Organizing School is conceived and stewarded by Community Fellows within The New School’s Mellon Initiative for Inclusive Faculty Excellence. Community Fellows have been selected based on their creative, intellectual, and community organizing works and impact without consideration for academic markers of success [i.e. degrees, publications], disrupting the restrictive pathways to participating in an academic institution’s intellectual community. The Community Fellows birthed the Re|Organizing School to re-imagine how The New School can hold space for essential movement building work through the redistribution of resources and access.
Stewardship Team
Kei Williams
DeeArah Wright
Lee Jimenez
Abou Farman
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