greene grants
2008 Greene Grant awarded to:
Education for Liberation Network
Free Minds, Free People: Art for Justice Conference
The Education for Liberation Network is a national coalition of teachers, community activists, artists, youth, researchers and parents. The network provides a space for members to share knowledge and work together to create tools for liberatory education.
Free Minds, Free People Conference in Houston (June 2009) provides a forum for sharing knowledge, experiences and strategies that support the use of education as a tool for liberation by:
- Connecting local community efforts to national education for liberation activities,
- Expanding our network of education liberators by building relationships that cross barriers of geography, race, age, class, gender, sexual orientation, profession and other identities
- Showcasing a broad spectrum of strategies, including arts, popular education, organizing, dialogue and scholarship, and their related impacts.
- Acting as a catalyst for the continued development of a social movement around education for liberation.
"A good education should teach people how to understand and challenge the injustices their communities face."
"Activating imagination is one way of countering boredom—the thinking about things being otherwise, the opening of a space between what is and what might be, the consideration of possible resources for realizing what lies beyond."