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Discussing Popular Education and Social Movement Work (w/ Ultra-Red)

Oct 6, 2025
Cristina Sanchez Juarez, Daniela Lieja Quintanar, Tony Carfello, and Don Rhine from the Ultra-Red Collective dive into the transformative power of popular education. They explore their recent trip to Central America, shedding light on historical and contemporary social movements. The guests discuss how tech-driven charter cities threaten communities, the role of memory and art in education, and youth formation programs combating social issues. Their insights reveal essential lessons for tenant organizing in the U.S., emphasizing the importance of communal practices and cultural work.
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INSIGHT

Practice Over Prescription

  • Popular education builds collective knowledge from people's lived experiences instead of top-down expert teaching.
  • It centers the poor and treats everyone as both teacher and learner to drive reflection and action.
INSIGHT

Politics Embedded In Pedagogy

  • Popular education emerged amid debates about development and imperialism in Latin America.
  • It grapples with forming political subjects under extraction and monopoly capital dynamics.
ANECDOTE

Discovering The Alforja Archive

  • Ultra-Red visited Luis Sanabria and the Alforja archive at the University of Costa Rica and reviewed decades of manuals and journals.
  • They learned Alforja began during the Sandinista revolution as a regional crucible for popular education practices.
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