Coming soon w. Dan S. Wang, Erick Lyle, Andrea Jenkins, Monica Haller, and many more…
Sat, Oct. 1, 2016 ⁄ 12:00–2:00pm
Power Learned from Paul: On Paul Wellstone’s Radical Pedagogy
Please join us at Beyond Repair at 12 PM on Saturday, October 1, 2016, for a release event featuring the Wooden Leg Press reprint of Dan S. Wang’s memoir-essay about Paul Wellstone.
The text was originally written as a letter to a friend, an attempt to describe what he had learned from Paul Wellstone in the classroom. It turned into an essay about political power, political science as experimentation, and the expansive vision of political action that Paul Wellstone embodied.
What did you learn from Paul Wellstone? Were you a student of his? Did you work in his office or for his campaign? Did you know him only through the media? Were you too young to remember much about him?
Join artist, writer, printer, and former student of Paul Wellstone’s, Dan S. Wang for a low key afternoon of conversations of political education in general, and Wang’s in specific as it regards to his understand of Wellstone’s teaching.
“This is not to say that I deny membership in certain groups or communities. Not at all. But the ‘We’re here, too!’ agenda says nearly nothing to me about the real problems and conflicts in the world. The way those then-new orgs (especially in liberal Minnesota) attracted corporate ‘good works’-type funding–and pretty quickly professionalized their staffs–for me was a red flag. It was a good moment for Asian Americans looking for professional opportunities in the arts, but not for Asian American cultural workers whose political agendas overflowed the confines of identity assertion.” an excerpt from Anthony Romero and Dan S. Wang’s forthcoming conversation in print, The Social Practice That is Race