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DESCRIPTION:Wednesday, 12/12 \n\nAdventures of a Radical Hillbilly\nIn 1932, Myles 
 Horton - at the age of 27 - founded Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, 
 Tennessee. He believed that if everyday people could come together to 
 discuss problems and share their experiences they could solve their 
 problems. He strongly believed in peer education, in\npeople becoming their 
 own experts, doing their own research, testing their ideas by taking 
 action, analyzing their actions, and learning from their 
 experiences.\nHorton began his educational work among his neighbors in 
 Grundy County, Tennessee, with farmers, miners, woodcutters, and mill 
 hands--those who are bypassed by ordinary educational institutions. 
 Highlander was committed to education for social change and to workers' 
 rights to\norganize. \nLater, Horton focused Highlander's resources and 
 programs on school desegregation, voter education, citizenship schools, and 
 the civil rights movement. When the Great Society's War on Poverty came to 
 Appalachia, he had relocated Highlander there under a new name\n(Highlander 
 Research and Education Center) and was already at work among the 
 disenfranchised people in the poorest region of the country.\n1982.  60 
 minutes.  Video.\n\nThe Barefoot College\nThe Barefoot College of 
 Rajasthsan, India, trains "barefoot" teachers, doctors, solar engineers, 
 hand pump mechanics and others.   The non-formal educational process 
 benefits the poorest of the poor who have no alternatives. It's successes 
 in revitalizing communities and teaching by demonstration have been carried 
 to 13 other Indian states, and have raised questions in Western countries 
 about our own educational process in our search for sustainability.  The 
 College, spread over a 60,000 square feet area consisting of residences, a 
 library, dining room, meeting halls, marketing outlets, an open air 
 theatre, solar fabrication workshop, water testing laboratory, an 
 audio-visual unit, handicraft production center, a puppet workshop and 
 theatre, a blacksmith's workshop and a 400,000 liter rain water harvesting 
 tank, was entirely built and supervised by local people.  \n\nNew College 
 Theater, 777 Valencia Street.\n8:00 pm.  A $3-5 donation is 
 requested.\n\nfor a complete list of New College events, 
 see\nwww.newcollege.edu/events\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/2043.php
SUMMARY:new college cinema: The Adventures of a Radical Hillbilly; the Barefoot College
LOCATION:New College Theater\n777 Valencia Stret
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/02/03/2043.php
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