Virtual Teach In: "The Freedom to Dream, Learn, and Love"
Join us for a National Day of Action to defend the truth and to protect the freedom to learn. Now is the time to work to build a broad coalition of people to strengthen our democracy and our values of equity, inclusion and social justice. Through collective actions across the country, we will resist restrictions on the freedom to learn, fight the right’s anti-woke disinformation campaigns, and demonstrate majoritarian support for equal in our schools, campuses, and workplaces
Agenda
7:00-7:05pm: Welcome & Land Acknowledgement (Aimee introduces)
7:05-7:10pm: Community Guidelines & Grounding (Aimee introduces Community Guidelines and Marlies Yearby)
7:10-7:15pm: Introductions/Collective Radical Embodied Check Ins (by open mics/videos or chat box)
7:15-7:20pm: Anti Woke Censorship History & Update (Khalil Muhammad)
7:20-7:50pm: 3-5 mins speeches from Professors who use banned Authors & top student presentations
7:50-8:00pm: Collective Freedom Dreaming & Radical Love Visualization with Liberation Journaling
8:00-8:15pm: Breakout Rooms (A 5 min bathroom break if needed, 10 mins to discuss Freedom Dreams, Historian will share back on behalf of the Breakout Room)
8:15-8:30pm: Historian & Audience Reflections
8:30-9:00pm: Q&A & Tying this virtual Teach In to Action! Closing Remarks (Tiffany D. Loftin)
Tyree Boyd-Pates is a multidisciplinary Los Angeles-based author, museum curator, historian, activist, and international public speaker whose museum work centers on the African American experience in the American West.
Angelo Pinto, Esq. is a movement lawyer, senior strategist, and policy guru. He served as lead organizer for the Indigenous Peoples March, the Free Meek Mills Campaign which procured the release of rapper meek Mills, as well as the Restore Heat Campaign at Brooklyn MDC, a federal prison which garnered National attention for not providing heat to incarcerated individuals during the coldest days of winter 2019.
Jason Wozniak is an assistant professor in the Educational Foundations and Policy Studies Department at West Chester University, and is a member and organizer with the Debt Collective.
afā 'aikona (Ams) is an Indigenous settler (Tonga-Oceania), Mama, water steward and writer. Grateful for the bountiful family called Street Dance Activism.
Khalil Gibran Muhammad is the Ford Foundation Professor of History, Race and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. He directs the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project and is the former Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a division of the New York Public Library and the world’s leading library and archive of global black history.
Devon Cunningham is an artist and community healer. A passionate and enthusiastic student of continuous learning and personal growth through traditional therapy, intuitive studies, guidance and nature. Devon co-organizes the 28 day Global Dance Meditation envisioned by Dr. Shamell Bell, provides sound bowl meditations for students at Harvard, Dartmouth, Brown, UCLA, Colgate University, USC to name a few as well as artists and community organizers in LA. She also volunteers for LA City parks and recreational centers teaching inner city children ages 6-13 sound bowl meditation. Devon is also an instructor at the LA County parks and recreational centers and Liberate Yourself located in Los Angeles.
Tiffany D Loftin is a national labor, education, and racial justice organizer. She is the host of How We Get Free and an educator at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
“Sacred”Marlies is a Deep Body Listener, Energy Worker, Certified Kundalini Yoga and Meditation Instructor, Certified Sound Healer, Chakra Balancing practitioner, and Artists, Writer, and Creation Practitioner. Her “In Our Bones Creative Process” has been used for the transformation of cellular and “bone” memory into dance, music, and story, to promote intergenerational healing. “Sacred” known in art circles as Marlies Yearby, has taken these practices, honed over 30 years, to activate participants in their self-healing, and their Journey to self-realization. Through her Deep Body Listening techniques the participants are empowered to own their life experiences through their own gaze and to Journey with clarity inside their authentic-self. “Sacred” has received certifications from the LightWing Center as a Holistic Licensed Practitioner in 2013, NAT/SST Practitioner (Neuro Auricular Technique/Skull Sutures Technique), and Raindrop Practitioner. She also studied and received certifications at the Govardhan School of Yoga. Her certifications include Yoga Sutras Vichar, Chair Yoga, Mudras and additional studies in the practices and teachings of Yoga Nidra, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, and Pranayama. Sacred’s first connection with healing light energy is through her mother who was a seer. This work was honed through the years as a working artist. Her years of listening to the stories and music of dancing bodies, have created a strong foundation to hold and support participants in workshops and retreats, as they discover and explore their own stories. ”Sacred” has shared her gifts at Camille Brown’s “The Gathering” where she presented Dancing Inside the Alchemy of Joy, she led a moving meditation for Shamell Bell’s Street Dance Activism’s 21-day Global Meditation. She was a guest presenter at Friends of Powerhouse’s Mental Health Conference. “Sacred” has been a guest lecturer at both Harvard University and Dartmouth College teaching embodied somatic practices. Through Women Moves, Ms. Yearby has facilitated many workshops supporting women in the discovery of their authentic selves
LROD is from El Paso, TX, and is a recognized choreographer, filmmaker, mask maker, and new media designer. LROD’s mission crosses the borders we carry in co-creative spaces sharing radical tenderness with each moving body. LROD creates inclusive installations, surreal dance-works, and integrates emerging technology with care. LROD has been invited to the Joyce Theater, NYU/Steinhardt, and Jacob’s Pillow to present on advocacy, pedagogy, and technology with movement-based practices and liberatory pedagogies. Currently, LROD is the Interim Head of Dance and Lecturer in Theater, Dance & Media at Harvard University, Artistic Director of Harvard Dance Project, and core artist for Livable Futures.
