Tag Archives: Popular Education

2024 BANGOR-MARYLAND DELEGATION REFLECTIONS

ABAJO EN ESPAÑOL As we learned about The Current Realities in El Salvador through the Popular Education Model waves of emotions flowed: admiration for the perseverance of the social movement under the State of Exception, anger and frustration at human rights violations—so many innocents detained unjustly, joy and love on reuniting with friends and making new connections in our sister […]

Exploring the Braid of Oppression with Workers Defense Project

(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO)   Last week, the Popular Education team lead a workshop with Workers Defense Project. The workshop’s theme explored what we called the “Braid of Oppression.” The Braid of Oppression is a concept Central American organizers use to understand how colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy are individual forces–or strands–that criss-cross and interact with each […]

Another online workshop with WCSU university

USESSC staff and members of the Popular education working group organized a second online workshop with students from Western Connecticut State University. This workshop aimed to be as participatory as possible on zoom to discuss the root causes of migration, historical background of El Salvador, the economical measures implemented in the country, and U.S. intervention […]

Pop Ed on COVID times / Educación popular en tiempos de COVID

(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO)   Popular education is centered in the process of learning in community with others, in sharing our experiences and growing through the sharing and production of knowledge. We open ourselves up and share freely within the space. We play games, create skits, and form small groups. So how can we recreate this […]

Reflection on Popular Education, Compassion, and Learning // Reflexión sobre la educación popular, compasión y aprendizaje

(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO)   Lily Herakova wrote a version of this reflection in an email to the popular education working group. We found her ideas insightful. Her thought process applies popular education ideology, what she learned in El Salvador, as well as her current realities and experiences to the challenges we are currently facing. We […]

The story of San Jose Las Flores

We currently think of “popular education” as an educational approach that has the purpose of awakening people’s minds, raising awareness and driving their organizational process. During the war, El Salvador had its own popular educators. Their main purpose was sharing with others the basic knowledge they already had. You can learn more about that and […]

Bill and popular education

We’ve been away for a while. Most of our efforts in the past months were dedicated to organizing, executing and evaluating the 2019 Popular Education Workshop, a week-long experience in Cinquera. As we did last year, we chose to ask the participants to share their personal experience. This time, we present you Bill Silvia’s account […]

The popular education workshop in Austin / El taller de educacion popular en Austin

(EN ESPAÑOL ABAJO)  Written by Jacey Anderson / translated by Mario Guevara   On Friday, February 22, Zulma Hernández (CRIPDES-Sur) and Zulma Tobar (USESSC) led a training for the staff of Workers Defense Project (WDP), a Texas non-profit that focuses on migrant worker rights. Twenty young organizers participated as “las Zulmas” (with support form Jacey […]

Austin is having its popular education weekend

Today, Zulma Hernández (from CRIPDES Sur La Libertad), Zulma Tobar (Sister Cities’ staff in El Salvador), Jonathan Falk and Jacey Anderson led a 6-hour PopEd workshop for about 20 members of the staff of Workers Defense Project, a Texas grassroots organization that works with immigrant workers to help them defend their rights. The workshop focused […]