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SOUL Sunday Schools
 
SOUL, the School of Unity and Liberation, is proud to announce that our Sunday School program is BACK!!! We are also proud to announce the introduction of our new Advanced Organizing Trainer, Kali Akuno, who will be coordinating our Sunday School sessions. Kali has been a long time supporter of SOUL. He is back in the Bay to be with us after recent efforts to help build the Gulf Coast Reconstruction Movement in New Orleans. Following our new strategic plan, Kali will also be focusing on building several other projects relation to our overarching "Build the Left" program.

SOUL Sunday Schools started in 1998. This program area has undergone 10 years of growth and development, but SOUL Sunday Schools continue to offer space for intermediate/advanced organizers of color, working class, and queer folks to discuss current issues, develop their political analysis, and learn from current and historical examples of building the left and social movements in order to increase our assessment skills. Sunday Schools also serve as space to bring different trends and ideologies together to discuss movement history, strategy and current movement needs and to bridge current local and national issues to international issues.

Our first new Sunday School session will tackle the critical question of "Barack Obama and the National Question" and will be held on Sunday, May 25th at the East Side Cultural Arts Center located at 2277 International Blvd at 23rd in Oakland (a 10 minute walk from the Fruitvale BART Station / right off the 1 Busline) from 11 am – 3 pm.  Please RSVP to kali@schoolofunityandliberation.org or 510.451.5466 x 307 to let us know if we can expect you and to receive the prep materials for the session! Refreshments will be served. 

Session Reasoning:
The Barack Obama Presidential campaign is challenging many of the standard positions held on the left regarding the role of white supremacy and white national consciousness in determining the politics of the US nation-state project. The fundamental challenge being posed by the Obama campaign and the social phenomenon it represents, is the position that national identity and/or race is either declining in its overall political significance or has been rendered inconsequential by the developments of the past 40 years. 

Session Goals:
This Sunday School session will seek to examine the social and political impact of Obama's strategically "race" neutral campaign on the various movements of national liberation and racial justice in the US (with a particular focus on the Black national question) and their historic contradictions, positions, and demands on the US nation-state project. This interrogation seeks to provide organizers and activists with a general tactical framework to engage the popular forces mobilized by the Obama campaign around issues of national oppression and imperialism.


For more information please contact Kali at kali@schoolofunityandliberation.org or 510.451.5466 x 307.