Activism can be seriously demanding. In our fight for all that is right we tend to impose heavy demands on ourselves as well as on others: the fight is never-ending, no cause too great, no action too steep. Many of us (aspiring) activists will recognize the constant (inner) call for action, while also at the same time feeling helpless at the excruciating limits of our own activism – it just never seems enough.

This heavy (self-)imposed burden can create unhealthy, unsustainable, toxic, and even outright dangerous situations.

Tonight’s session is inspired by the book ‘Joyful Militancy’. During this session we would like to explore these pitfalls in activism, the demands and the limits. So that we may better protect ourselves against them, and engage in more healthy, communal, sustainable and, above all, joyful ways of activism.

Open to battle-scarred veteran activists, newbies, and anything in between or beyond that. 

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The formal education system affects us all. Not only are we forced to attend schools growing up, but academic research shapes our governments, our news, and how we view the world around us. As much as many of us want to believe in the promise of institutional education, the sad fact is that our schools and universities are undemocratic and elitist. They perpetuate inequalities instead of giving people the tools to fight them. This world is fucked.

Here at Radical Sunday School, though, we know that another world is possible. Everyone should be able to direct their own learning, to grow together with their communities, and to live as though they’re already free. There are countless examples of movements already putting these ideas into practice. This collective is trying to follow in their footsteps, organizing to explore new ways of learning based on principles of autonomy, mutual aid, and egalitarianism.

This is not intended to be a course that you would have to follow all the way through. Jump in and out whenever you like. Sessions will be held every Sunday at Joe's Garage.

Doors open at 17.30, we start sharp at 18.00!