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Monday, September 15, 2008
WHY STUDY MULTIPLE FRAMEWORKS OF LIBERATION?
Perhaps we should be calling PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION by the term PROGRESSIVE STUDY instead. I am studying these various and sundry liberation frameworks and I hope to share that study with others. Of course my current goal is to overcome my excessive ignorance. There is a lot to learn. So from a personal point of view the overall mission of the PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION blogs is to engage in PROGRESSIVE STUDY. That is to say the blogs are about studying various frameworks of liberation and liberty to see what we can find out by studying these ideas and how they manifest themselves in human activity.
I am making a list of the categories of liberation.
What is remarkable is that there are many categories of liberation. Similarly I hope to look at the various frameworks and how they impact so-called Liberty. So when I am saying Liberation I am usually wrapping Liberty as a fraternal twin
of Liberation.
A single category of frameworks often has a mind boggling diversity. How many progressive socialisms or communisms have been advanced or proposed, as frameworks? Hundreds?
Human Rights frameworks generally seem progressive. Many other ideological orientations and many frameworks focus on human rights qua human rights. Much has been accomplished in this area although liberation is more of a growing opportunity rather than a resolved task. Human Rights frameworks are more legitimized in our society than some other liberation frameworks.
When Malcom X was a revolutionary nationalist, he was also a follower and advocate of a particular liberation theology: ie. the framework provided by the Nation of Islam framework.
Malcom X also was also a supporter of the human rights framework and was quite a supporter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as other internationally sanctioned human rights conventions.
So we can see that in the case of Malcom X, that we can understand his political orientation and development better if we take multiple frameworks of liberation into account. Stereotypically Malcom X may be known as a very militant speaker but his support of human rights conventions and preference for genuine democratic political processes are generally overlooked. I am not aware of Malcom X, as a political leader actually pursuing a violent struggle in any particular situation.
In fact, few progressive individuals or groups are influenced by only one liberation framework. If we look at just one aspect of an individual or group ideology we may fail to appreciate the explanatory and guiding influence of embrace of various liberation framework.
So we can think of a multi-framework analysis of an individual politicians life as a potentially useful way to look at individual and group understandings, orientations and direction of motion. Such analyses can be used to understand past behavior or suggest future activities.
We might even think of mathematizing this idea a bit by assigning a particular liberation framework a sequence of linear equations with each equation describing any particular framework concretion, ie. an equation for each distinctive species. Or should each conceptual configuration for a category be defined by one linear equation? Time to get out the math notebook, yee ha!
I am making a list of the categories of liberation.
What is remarkable is that there are many categories of liberation. Similarly I hope to look at the various frameworks and how they impact so-called Liberty. So when I am saying Liberation I am usually wrapping Liberty as a fraternal twin
of Liberation.
A single category of frameworks often has a mind boggling diversity. How many progressive socialisms or communisms have been advanced or proposed, as frameworks? Hundreds?
Human Rights frameworks generally seem progressive. Many other ideological orientations and many frameworks focus on human rights qua human rights. Much has been accomplished in this area although liberation is more of a growing opportunity rather than a resolved task. Human Rights frameworks are more legitimized in our society than some other liberation frameworks.
When Malcom X was a revolutionary nationalist, he was also a follower and advocate of a particular liberation theology: ie. the framework provided by the Nation of Islam framework.
Malcom X also was also a supporter of the human rights framework and was quite a supporter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as other internationally sanctioned human rights conventions.
So we can see that in the case of Malcom X, that we can understand his political orientation and development better if we take multiple frameworks of liberation into account. Stereotypically Malcom X may be known as a very militant speaker but his support of human rights conventions and preference for genuine democratic political processes are generally overlooked. I am not aware of Malcom X, as a political leader actually pursuing a violent struggle in any particular situation.
In fact, few progressive individuals or groups are influenced by only one liberation framework. If we look at just one aspect of an individual or group ideology we may fail to appreciate the explanatory and guiding influence of embrace of various liberation framework.
So we can think of a multi-framework analysis of an individual politicians life as a potentially useful way to look at individual and group understandings, orientations and direction of motion. Such analyses can be used to understand past behavior or suggest future activities.
We might even think of mathematizing this idea a bit by assigning a particular liberation framework a sequence of linear equations with each equation describing any particular framework concretion, ie. an equation for each distinctive species. Or should each conceptual configuration for a category be defined by one linear equation? Time to get out the math notebook, yee ha!
WHAT IS THE IDEA OF PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION ON THIS BLOG?
PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION, what does a term like that mean on this blog? Well, I am hopeful that some reader may eventually help me define such a term. I am clearly trying to put diverse ideological frameworks that I am selecting as "progressive" into the a sack labeled progressive. So a number of ideas are tossed into the same bag. I like them, I like to think they are more-or-less progressive frameworks as well.
Many of these frameworks are interrelated, at least I think various liberty and liberation notions are related. So take feminism or women's liberation. That seems like an obvious dimension of progressive thought and practice. It seems that as long as a feminism or women's liberation can help in liberating women from patriarchal oppression who can say it is anything else? Liberation theology or liberation theologies seems like another set of frameworks that are generally progressive. Abolitionism seems like a progressive framework as well, abolishing slavery that is. So we have mentioned three categories of liberation frameworks already and I guess these things, as different as they are seem intuitively similar and we can imagine them overlapping to some degree as well.
Most feminists oppose slavery, they are in that sense supporters of abolitionism, most of us are in some sense. So there you have the intersection of the set of abolitionisms and the set of feminisms. This is a sort of short hand approach, of course, since the various feminisms and abolitionisms may stray from what most of us regard a progressive values or progressive effects.
Similarly an abolitionist may or may not be a feminist or for womens liberation. Historically we have seen that some who opposed chattel slavery were also very patriarchal. Feminism and abolitionism don't necessarily overlap.
Liberation theologies. They may or may not be feminist in nature. I think of some of the liberation theologies in the Americas and it is difficult to imagine any of them justifying slavery. Liberation theologies often seems to advance the freedom and liberation of women.
Many of these frameworks are interrelated, at least I think various liberty and liberation notions are related. So take feminism or women's liberation. That seems like an obvious dimension of progressive thought and practice. It seems that as long as a feminism or women's liberation can help in liberating women from patriarchal oppression who can say it is anything else? Liberation theology or liberation theologies seems like another set of frameworks that are generally progressive. Abolitionism seems like a progressive framework as well, abolishing slavery that is. So we have mentioned three categories of liberation frameworks already and I guess these things, as different as they are seem intuitively similar and we can imagine them overlapping to some degree as well.
Most feminists oppose slavery, they are in that sense supporters of abolitionism, most of us are in some sense. So there you have the intersection of the set of abolitionisms and the set of feminisms. This is a sort of short hand approach, of course, since the various feminisms and abolitionisms may stray from what most of us regard a progressive values or progressive effects.
Similarly an abolitionist may or may not be a feminist or for womens liberation. Historically we have seen that some who opposed chattel slavery were also very patriarchal. Feminism and abolitionism don't necessarily overlap.
Liberation theologies. They may or may not be feminist in nature. I think of some of the liberation theologies in the Americas and it is difficult to imagine any of them justifying slavery. Liberation theologies often seems to advance the freedom and liberation of women.
Monday, January 14, 2008
Ed Hayes Promised a National Convention and is Delivering a Worksohop
WHAT NATIONAL CONFERENCE?
Minutemen scale back to local workshop!
MCDC; MINUTEMAN GROUPS IN A NUTSHELL
MCDC Minuteman Local Workshop Planned
Minuteman Civil Defense Corp (MCDC) will charge fees for a local workshop after scaling back its plans for February 1st and 2nd Kansas City, Missouri.
The first day is at the historic Uptown Theater and is purportedly open to the public. The second day, they hope to carry on at a secret location. MCDC claims they have security concerns but they have not really been challenged to explain what they are.
This doesn't mean that the event is likely to be anything like the often announced “first only national convention”. Dos Mundos recently referred to the event as a “regional conference” suggesting that expectations are way down. National MCDC refers to the event as a “regional retreat”.
When you think about it, it is something of a retreat. Once and still advertised as a national conference the MCDC event is going to be even smaller than imagined. Yet, somehow even Hispanic media take MCDC claims at face value. A little journalism reveals that they really hype their predictions. So the once ballyhooed national convention was, and still is uncritically reported as going to happen by the local media.
Once Dos Mundos reported there would be an MCDC national convention. They and other journalists should be asking, “Where is the national conference now?” It may not be the the most important or sexy story but it is still the story, a story of faltering efforts and lower expectations. This story of faltering efforts also has the merit of conforming to the facts.
The workshop personnel listed suggests more of a local workshop with the national MinutemanHQ staff pulling triple duty as attendees, trainers and speakers. After firing a dozen or more chapter heads back in the Spring of 2007 Chris Simcox has had a relatively low profile. Simcox has had trouble speaking at a dozen or so public venues across the nation due to protests. He also continues to be engaged in a long term vendetta with his rival and former minuteman ally Jim Gilchrist. Gilchrist organizes under the name www.minutemanproject.com .
[This local KCMO workshop can be seen as an effort by Simcox to rally those MCDC folks who have not defected to the Gilchrist minuteman faction.]
Of course we have no firm idea as to how many folks might be sympathetic to this MCDC event. While anti-immigrant fervor may be a majority view in some isolated areas of the nation I think we can agree that the MCDC view is actually a minority view even within the Anglo or white community.
Only something like twenty five percent of all Americans are disturbed about the current immigration situation. About the same percent are thrilled to have
the kind of immigration we have today. Yet politicians and the corporate media seem to be relatively prone to exaggerate the amount of support anti-immigrant activists have. Of course there are enough unhappy folk to makes fertile ground for groups like MCDC. Groups like MCDC have simple solutions and even simpler explanations for the difficult problems in a stunningly complex and interdependent world.
Minutemen scale back to local workshop!
MCDC; MINUTEMAN GROUPS IN A NUTSHELL
MCDC Minuteman Local Workshop Planned
Minuteman Civil Defense Corp (MCDC) will charge fees for a local workshop after scaling back its plans for February 1st and 2nd Kansas City, Missouri.
The first day is at the historic Uptown Theater and is purportedly open to the public. The second day, they hope to carry on at a secret location. MCDC claims they have security concerns but they have not really been challenged to explain what they are.
This doesn't mean that the event is likely to be anything like the often announced “first only national convention”. Dos Mundos recently referred to the event as a “regional conference” suggesting that expectations are way down. National MCDC refers to the event as a “regional retreat”.
When you think about it, it is something of a retreat. Once and still advertised as a national conference the MCDC event is going to be even smaller than imagined. Yet, somehow even Hispanic media take MCDC claims at face value. A little journalism reveals that they really hype their predictions. So the once ballyhooed national convention was, and still is uncritically reported as going to happen by the local media.
Once Dos Mundos reported there would be an MCDC national convention. They and other journalists should be asking, “Where is the national conference now?” It may not be the the most important or sexy story but it is still the story, a story of faltering efforts and lower expectations. This story of faltering efforts also has the merit of conforming to the facts.
The workshop personnel listed suggests more of a local workshop with the national MinutemanHQ staff pulling triple duty as attendees, trainers and speakers. After firing a dozen or more chapter heads back in the Spring of 2007 Chris Simcox has had a relatively low profile. Simcox has had trouble speaking at a dozen or so public venues across the nation due to protests. He also continues to be engaged in a long term vendetta with his rival and former minuteman ally Jim Gilchrist. Gilchrist organizes under the name www.minutemanproject.com .
[This local KCMO workshop can be seen as an effort by Simcox to rally those MCDC folks who have not defected to the Gilchrist minuteman faction.]
Of course we have no firm idea as to how many folks might be sympathetic to this MCDC event. While anti-immigrant fervor may be a majority view in some isolated areas of the nation I think we can agree that the MCDC view is actually a minority view even within the Anglo or white community.
Only something like twenty five percent of all Americans are disturbed about the current immigration situation. About the same percent are thrilled to have
the kind of immigration we have today. Yet politicians and the corporate media seem to be relatively prone to exaggerate the amount of support anti-immigrant activists have. Of course there are enough unhappy folk to makes fertile ground for groups like MCDC. Groups like MCDC have simple solutions and even simpler explanations for the difficult problems in a stunningly complex and interdependent world.
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