"Education as Freedom.
Through dialogue,
the teacher-of-the-students and the students-of-the-teacher (terminology)
ceases to exist and a new term emerges:
teacher-student with students-teachers...
The students — no longer docile listeners —
are now critical co-investigators in dialogue with the teacher."
- Paulo Friere
Shake! Mission Statement, Item No.4
To unite the energy of artistic generations
to creatively campaign on issues of race,
power, environment and injustice
I was very happy to finally have Shake! 's first ever Youth Led
professional training session happen. And what a success it was.
Previous Shake participants Adam Cooper, Khadiza Shahid and Selina Nwulu
delivered their sessions with confidence, packed full of useful
information and provocations for in-depth discussion.
What is important about these sessions is that those who attended were professional mentors, educators and facilitators who came along to hear what causes these young people are actively engaged in, why they chose them and how they, as the next generation of activist, can inform the attendees understanding of the subject and their working practice.
Adam gave us amazing insight into our rights as citizens and as a young person when it comes to police stop and search. "Its about power, not so much about getting guns and knives off the street...just remember there is always a mirror question to the one the police ask you, so you can take back your power. For example, 'What's your name? I'm not obliged to answer that, but what's your police number? Where do you live? I'm not obliged to answer that but what's your station?... And it is 100% legal to record the stop and search. Record directly on to Ustream and it's recorded online so can't be deleted, even if they confiscated or smashed phone."
Very very useful stuff.
Click the Shake! Twitter feed screen grabs to enlarge.
What is important about these sessions is that those who attended were professional mentors, educators and facilitators who came along to hear what causes these young people are actively engaged in, why they chose them and how they, as the next generation of activist, can inform the attendees understanding of the subject and their working practice.
Adam gave us amazing insight into our rights as citizens and as a young person when it comes to police stop and search. "Its about power, not so much about getting guns and knives off the street...just remember there is always a mirror question to the one the police ask you, so you can take back your power. For example, 'What's your name? I'm not obliged to answer that, but what's your police number? Where do you live? I'm not obliged to answer that but what's your station?... And it is 100% legal to record the stop and search. Record directly on to Ustream and it's recorded online so can't be deleted, even if they confiscated or smashed phone."
Very very useful stuff.
Click the Shake! Twitter feed screen grabs to enlarge.
