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

 

-- CoreyKatz - 18 Sep 2009