Anarchist Free University Minutes for meeting 9/7/09 (7:00pm - 9:00pm)
Present at meeting:
-Possum -Corey -Serit -Christian -Andrew
-held at 481 Manning Ave (Possum’s place)
Agenda:
-course proposals: Andrew, Corey/Christian, Serit
Introduction to Philosophy course
- Andrew Johan proposed his Introduction to Philosophy class
- he is a TA in philosophy at
UofT? and will also run the course he's TAing for at the AFU
- brought a course proposal outlining readings; it was discussed and it was accepted
- goal: to start in 2-3 weeks
- need to find space
Dialectical Thinking
-Christian and Corey explained their course about dialectic and dialetical thinking in the Western philosophical tradition
- will give an introduction to the thinking, examine it at work in Plato's writing, Hegel and Marx
- the goal is to make this type of thinking a living practice and they will discuss situations in peoples' lives and show films that exemplify the ideas
- the course was discussed and it was accepted
Herbal Medicine course
- Serit presented her idea for an herbal medicine course
- she wants to run it in the spring and bring people out to learn how to collect local plants
- would run a few workshops over the course of a few months or maybe over four weeks
- topics would include plants you can eat, things growing in TO, medicinal plants, ideas of herbal medicine
Picnic
- discussed having it the weekend of the 19-20 of September
- Possum said he would contact Ben at Molotov Rag to coordinate with his Anarchist Picnic
- the idea is to have it be a potluck or to ask Food Not Bombs to provide food
meeting adjourned at 9 pm
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CoreyKatz - 18 Sep 2009