Resistance and Revolution in Latin America [Durham, NC]
**This course is in-person only. There is no virtual component. Participants must be age 21+
Full Tuition: $340 — Sliding-scale tuition options are available in the drop-down enrollment menu for you to self-select. To pay in installments, choose to pay with PayPal at check out.
Instructor: Leigh Campoamor | 5 Weeks | Wednesdays January 15 - February 12 | 7:00 - 9:00 PM ET | In-Person | 719 N Mangum St, Durham, NC
“Wake up, humanity! There is no more time,” proclaimed the Honduran revolutionary Berta Cáceres, in her 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize acceptance speech. Less than a year later, Cáceres was assassinated by military hitmen tied to the Honduran government and international financial institutions. After her murder, Cáceres’s followers vowed to carry on her legacy — not only as an indigenous woman and feminist, but also as a revolutionary who dared speak out and organize against the violence of capitalist extraction and the fiction of democracy within such a system.
The story of Berta Cáceres is part of a longer history of social movements in Latin America. In their struggles for justice, these movements challenge narrow understandings of concepts like democracy and development — connecting issues such as labor, indigeneity, gender, and the environment to broader critiques of capitalism. In this course, we will examine the tradition of Latin American social movements and ask: What exactly are the structures of oppression against which social movements organize? What do we mean, concretely, when we talk about colonialism, global capitalism, and Western hegemony? In what ways are place-based social movements also global? And what does it mean for those of us in the global north to be in solidarity with such movements?
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This class will take place in person at Night School Bar in Durham. Night School requires that students refrain from attending in-person classes when sick. For more on our class policies, see our FAQ. Instructors will also follow this policy. If your instructor is sick, class may be moved to online for a session or rescheduled to the week following the final scheduled session at the instructor’s discretion.
Sliding Scale: Night School Bar pays instructors and staff a living wage. We ask that people who make above the living wage threshold for their area strongly consider choosing the full-tuition or mid-level tuition tier in order to support our own living wage program. For Durham, NC, where we are located, the living wage threshold is $49,000 for an individual. All scholarship needs are self-assessed, and we will never request or require proof of need.
Scholarships: We are currently able to offer three full scholarships per class. Our full scholarship tier is a nonrefundable offering, limited to one per student per month. Because our scholarship funding is limited, selecting multiple full scholarships in a single month will result in disenrollment from all classes. If the scholarship tier you need is sold out please email us directly, and we will add you to a waitlist and notify you if additional scholarships become available. Please see our FAQ for more information, including installment plans and refund policy.
**This course is in-person only. There is no virtual component. Participants must be age 21+
Full Tuition: $340 — Sliding-scale tuition options are available in the drop-down enrollment menu for you to self-select. To pay in installments, choose to pay with PayPal at check out.
Instructor: Leigh Campoamor | 5 Weeks | Wednesdays January 15 - February 12 | 7:00 - 9:00 PM ET | In-Person | 719 N Mangum St, Durham, NC
“Wake up, humanity! There is no more time,” proclaimed the Honduran revolutionary Berta Cáceres, in her 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize acceptance speech. Less than a year later, Cáceres was assassinated by military hitmen tied to the Honduran government and international financial institutions. After her murder, Cáceres’s followers vowed to carry on her legacy — not only as an indigenous woman and feminist, but also as a revolutionary who dared speak out and organize against the violence of capitalist extraction and the fiction of democracy within such a system.
The story of Berta Cáceres is part of a longer history of social movements in Latin America. In their struggles for justice, these movements challenge narrow understandings of concepts like democracy and development — connecting issues such as labor, indigeneity, gender, and the environment to broader critiques of capitalism. In this course, we will examine the tradition of Latin American social movements and ask: What exactly are the structures of oppression against which social movements organize? What do we mean, concretely, when we talk about colonialism, global capitalism, and Western hegemony? In what ways are place-based social movements also global? And what does it mean for those of us in the global north to be in solidarity with such movements?
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This class will take place in person at Night School Bar in Durham. Night School requires that students refrain from attending in-person classes when sick. For more on our class policies, see our FAQ. Instructors will also follow this policy. If your instructor is sick, class may be moved to online for a session or rescheduled to the week following the final scheduled session at the instructor’s discretion.
Sliding Scale: Night School Bar pays instructors and staff a living wage. We ask that people who make above the living wage threshold for their area strongly consider choosing the full-tuition or mid-level tuition tier in order to support our own living wage program. For Durham, NC, where we are located, the living wage threshold is $49,000 for an individual. All scholarship needs are self-assessed, and we will never request or require proof of need.
Scholarships: We are currently able to offer three full scholarships per class. Our full scholarship tier is a nonrefundable offering, limited to one per student per month. Because our scholarship funding is limited, selecting multiple full scholarships in a single month will result in disenrollment from all classes. If the scholarship tier you need is sold out please email us directly, and we will add you to a waitlist and notify you if additional scholarships become available. Please see our FAQ for more information, including installment plans and refund policy.
**This course is in-person only. There is no virtual component. Participants must be age 21+
Full Tuition: $340 — Sliding-scale tuition options are available in the drop-down enrollment menu for you to self-select. To pay in installments, choose to pay with PayPal at check out.
Instructor: Leigh Campoamor | 5 Weeks | Wednesdays January 15 - February 12 | 7:00 - 9:00 PM ET | In-Person | 719 N Mangum St, Durham, NC
“Wake up, humanity! There is no more time,” proclaimed the Honduran revolutionary Berta Cáceres, in her 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize acceptance speech. Less than a year later, Cáceres was assassinated by military hitmen tied to the Honduran government and international financial institutions. After her murder, Cáceres’s followers vowed to carry on her legacy — not only as an indigenous woman and feminist, but also as a revolutionary who dared speak out and organize against the violence of capitalist extraction and the fiction of democracy within such a system.
The story of Berta Cáceres is part of a longer history of social movements in Latin America. In their struggles for justice, these movements challenge narrow understandings of concepts like democracy and development — connecting issues such as labor, indigeneity, gender, and the environment to broader critiques of capitalism. In this course, we will examine the tradition of Latin American social movements and ask: What exactly are the structures of oppression against which social movements organize? What do we mean, concretely, when we talk about colonialism, global capitalism, and Western hegemony? In what ways are place-based social movements also global? And what does it mean for those of us in the global north to be in solidarity with such movements?
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This class will take place in person at Night School Bar in Durham. Night School requires that students refrain from attending in-person classes when sick. For more on our class policies, see our FAQ. Instructors will also follow this policy. If your instructor is sick, class may be moved to online for a session or rescheduled to the week following the final scheduled session at the instructor’s discretion.
Sliding Scale: Night School Bar pays instructors and staff a living wage. We ask that people who make above the living wage threshold for their area strongly consider choosing the full-tuition or mid-level tuition tier in order to support our own living wage program. For Durham, NC, where we are located, the living wage threshold is $49,000 for an individual. All scholarship needs are self-assessed, and we will never request or require proof of need.
Scholarships: We are currently able to offer three full scholarships per class. Our full scholarship tier is a nonrefundable offering, limited to one per student per month. Because our scholarship funding is limited, selecting multiple full scholarships in a single month will result in disenrollment from all classes. If the scholarship tier you need is sold out please email us directly, and we will add you to a waitlist and notify you if additional scholarships become available. Please see our FAQ for more information, including installment plans and refund policy.