Fun while learning
WW kids to visit Southern sites
By Sara
Catalinotto
New York
Workers World Party and the Peoples Video Network are
working with a group of primary-school children who want to
develop their video skills and their understanding of history.
The children range in age from kindergarten to eighth
grade.
They have already been helping out at progressive activities
involving adult relatives. Now they'll have the chance to take
part in educational and recreational activities designed
especially for them.
The first theme to be addressed is the struggle against
slavery in the United States.
Summer camp 2001
Several students, and a few parents and grandparents, from
four cities are preparing to take a 10-day trip to Georgia in
July. The camp format combines fun outings with exposure to
aspects of the struggle against slavery: the establishment of
communities of African descent on islands off Georgia such as
Sapelo, and the collaboration between Native and African
American people in the Seminole wars.
They'll also be learning about the raid on Harper's Ferry in
1859 that involved Black and white abolitionists.
The campers are working from a resource list of books and
videos on this theme and are taking classes in video
production. They plan to make a video about this trip, and also
to work with others on a video re-enactment of the book "A
Voice From Harper's Ferry."
Johnnie Stevens, one of the adults involved, explains, "For
people growing up in the time of the prison-industrial complex,
workfare and globalization, it helps to know that the power of
the people has beaten slavery before!"
Readers with questions, comments or donations toward program
expenses, payable to Workers World, can write to WW/PVN Youth,
55 West 17 Street, fifth floor, New York, NY 10011, or
e-mail
saracat@wwpublish.com.
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