Founding
The year that CFS was founded
What is 2007?
What is the location of CFS?
Identity, Power, and Oppression workshops.
What are programs that are offered?
The organization that founded the freedom schools
What is the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee?
Ages 14-21 and mostly Brown and Black
What is target participants?
CFS has been participating in BLM protests by providing food, water, and rest to protesters in Chicago
What are they working on now/recently?
Inspiration for CFS
What is Mississippi freedom Schools of the Civil Rights Era?
- Social justice strategies trainings
- Social justice youth work trainings
- Community organizing trainings
What are custom trainings/workshops?
"Our programs, resources and trainings invite young people and adult allies to study of the work of past movements, deepen their understanding of current social problems, build new coalitions and develop strategies for change."
What is the mission/approach of CFS?
Tony Alvarado-Rivera
Who is the executive director of CFS?
Education that incorporates the past, present, and experiences and involves critical thinking and reflection to promote understanding of change and power.
What is popular education?
- Promote youth-led social change
- Support development of organizations that are based off of anti-oppression practices
What are goals?
People who understand and build knowledge to support youth-led social change
Who are adult allies?
- Chicago rescinds the cease and desist order
What are CFS milestones?