Popular Economics Education
The Popular Economics Education program at UFE supports movement-building for economic justice. The education team designs educational activities that draw on people's lived experiences, then implements them in participatory workshops, which are available for download. You may also request a facilitator to give a workshop at your site.
The educational materials and workshops we provide are tools to expose economic inequality and its cost to society, and they inspire participants to take action to close the growing economic divide. Continue...
Interview with a Popular Educator: Ty dePass (1 of 2)
Q: Ty, what's your story, and how did you get involved in popular education for social change?
Whew! That’s a packed question.
Well, I’m a black man, eldest of seven and raised in Harlem and the South Bronx. I came of age during the social ferment of the 1960s – a time that shaped my understanding of the world as it was, and quickened my hunger to play a part in shaping the world as it might be.
The fight for social justice found me at a young age. I was six-years-old in 1955, when I discovered those photos from Emmett Till’s autopsy and funeral in a magazine in my parent’s livingroom. Till had been brutally beaten and murdered by a group of white men because he was young and foolish, and had broken one of their most sacred cultural taboos: he forgot his “place” in White America.
Those horrifying images brought my childhood to an abrupt end, and I became the black kid who refused to comply.
