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DESCRIPTION:January 30, 2010\nContact: Alan Kaufman, 415-573-5766 or 
 Akpoem2@aol.com\n\nMatt Gonzalez, Alan Kaufman, Diane Di Prima, Diamond 
 Dave Whittaker, Martin Holden, other stalwarts of the San Francisco 
 alternative scene call to establish a FREE UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO 
 (will next meet Sunday, January 9, 2011 at 10A.M at Viracocha, 998 Valencia 
 Street at 21st Street, the Mission, San Francisco)\n\nIn a first step meant 
 to deliver a blow to the corporate privatization of university education, 
 such stalwarts of the San Francisco scene as attorney and political 
 activist Matt Gonzalez, Outlaw poet Alan Kaufman, Pirate Radio’s Diamond 
 Dave Whittaker, Beat legend and San Francisco Poet Laureate Diane Di Prima, 
 Revolutionary Poets Brigade Chairman Bobby Coleman, and Berkeley University 
 Bookstore founder Martin Holden have joined over two hundred other 
 activists, poets, artists, educators and revolutionaries in an effort to 
 establish a Free University of San Francisco. The Group now have a webpage 
 up (Free University of San Francisco on Facebook).\n\nThe group met on 
 December 19 in the underground theater at Viracocha in the Mission and with 
 over fifty persons in attendance declared the birth of the Free University 
 .\n\nSeated around the table like resistance conspirators, the assembly 
 listened as Alan Kaufman delivered the opening remarks in which he called 
 for the formation of “a university that will make the highest level of 
 education available, completely free, to any individual who wants it, 
 regardless of color, creed, age, gender, nationality, religion or 
 immigration status—a university free of money, taught for free to any who 
 want it.” (Kaufman’s complete remarks can be found at Citizen 
 Journalist Evan Karp’s online newspaper, 
 Litseen.com.)\nhttp://litseen.com/2010/12/22/free-university-an-experiment-in-education-and-culture/\nThe 
 group plan a weekend-long ‘Free University Teach-in’ on February 5th 
 and 6th, during which Diane Diprima, Matt Gonzalez, Alan Kaufman and others 
 will deliver no-cost university-level lectures on a series of topics 
 ranging from DiPrima on 19th Century Visionary Poetry to Gonzalez on 
 Aspects of Arrest Law to Kaufman on the Avant Garde Innovators Jack 
 Kerouac, Jackson Pollack and Thelonious Monk. The lectures will be ongoing 
 from 9-5 of each day and anyone can attend.\n\nOn Sunday, January 9, 2011 
 at 10A.M. the next public planning session of The Free University of San 
 Francisco will take place at Viracocha, 998 Valencia Street at 21st Street, 
 the Mission, San Francisco. Public and members of the press are 
 welcome.\n\n\n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/12/30/18667813.php
SUMMARY:Matt Gonzalez, Alan Kaufman and others forming a FREE UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO
LOCATION:Viracocha, 998 Valencia Street, @21st St., San Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/12/30/18667813.php
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