Get some sort of grant or something for 12 months, then travel around to protest sites teaching protesters involved in Social Justice programs Catholic Social theory, anarchism, Logic, some basic elements of English law. I can get Patrick to help me put together some sort of basic legal introduction. The idea is that people who are actively involved in social justice programs should get some sort of fast track into a university degree. They complete four basic modules on the picket line, and when their protest is finished they can sit a test based on them at the University. Id run a syllabus like this - Introduction to Political and Moral philosophy 101 Thomas Hobbes Aquinas John Locke Jean Jaques Rosseau Thomas Moore John Stuart Mills Jeremy Benthem David Hume Kant Proudhon Bakunin Ralph Waldo Emerson Henery David Thoreau Kropotkin Eva Figgs Nancy Holstrom Simone Boudoir Charadin De Teilhard John Rawls Christine Korsgaard Naom Chomsky Peter Singer Break it up into concepts of Good and Evil, sources of normativity, social justice, social contract theory, the Common Good, etcetera. - Teach an introduction to Logic 101 Basic concepts of logic The logic gates Propositional calculus Introduction to predicate logic - Catholic Social Theory The Common Good Preferential Treatment for the poor Social justice Subsidiarity Stewardship of creation Universal purpose of Goods Promotion of Peace Global Solidarity Then for their hot topic they write an essay on the cause they are protesting for while on the picket line. It can be neatly hand written. Then some sort of basic legal introduction. I could get Patrick to help me put it together - an introduction to the different types of law. Civil law, torts, criminal law, examples of legislation. Political rights of assembly. Theres a test on Catholic Social Theory and Philosophy 101 to get into Uni on the social activist card. Even if you had, say 10 or 15 placements a year, imagine what a handful of social activists with law and social work degrees from a Catholic University could do towards changing the world? Thats where youll get some radical change. Not kids who want to become greedy lawyers, kids who have grown up on farms and in the mortgage belt who take off to fight for social causes. Kids who have left high school and gone on to fight for farmers rights or refugee kids being crushed in the system. Spend like a year out there finding them all, a whole generation, traveling from protest to protest and get them into the university education system on their way to some sort of degree before they get lost out there. Who would I go to, to set this kind of thing up?
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 01:05:04 +0000
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