List of Topics for Sunday Meetings

Violence, Pacifism, and beyond non-violence?
Neutrality of technology
Alternatives to Capitalism? Problematizing Anarchy, socialisms
Radical education/libertarian education/pedagogy of the oppressed/alternatives!
Social History: the transition to capitalism
"Action Research": using academia to create social change?
Social History: the witch hunt
"Health for All Now!": Reclaiming the Human Right to Health as tool for radical social change
Innovative communication/teaching/sharing practice of knowledge and experience (from participative sessions to "new" technology, stepping outside the 2hour class slot framework, using theatre, removing the teacher-student power relationship
Nuclear Waste Management: The UK's options (noel)
ParEcon - participatory economics; an overview of an economic model designed with people, not profit, in mind. What does it entail? How would it work? Can we make it a reality? Would we want to if we could? (Matt - mid-february would be good for me.)

List for Workshops

Vegan cooking (could we combine this with some sort of event - food not bombs, vegan info stall, food for next knowledge lab,etc?)
Privacy in electronic communication (GPG) (Ingmar) - done at 2nd knowledgelab
Sexual Health? (a men's health workshop?)
Tree-protesting, practical skills (Noel)
Preparation Session for Visiting Professor Scheme (Martin, Ingmar)
UNIX/LINUX shell scripting
Linux Web hosting

Other Activities

Support group "anonymous capitalists"

UNIVERSITY STREAM: Suggestions for Summer 2006

WORKSHOP "qualitative data analysis: interviews"

furness b32 (IEPPP PG-room): to practice analysis of qualitative data (based on a transcription of ingmar of some interviews with env'tal science/engineering "experts"). if someone wants the transcribed interviews beforehand, send an email to Ingmar.

SESSION on Reflection on the 2nd Knowledgelab and next klabs:

Questions: HOW THE KNOWLEDGE LAB WENT, AND WHERE TO GO FROM HERE

WORKSHOP "Action and Thought Against War in Iran"in connection with the cinematograph

Background information on Iran
Brainstorming

Plans for 2007

I am thinking of Tuesday/Wednesday events on topics like:

Wednesdays: The Anarchist Stream

Tuesdays: The Green Stream

Nuclear Power

AUL/Future Activities

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