CREATING A REVOLUTIONARY
CULTURAL FRONT

Inspired by work undertaken through Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG), Creating a Revolutionary Cultural Front is a course that examines the cultural interventions across both the history of Palestinian resistance as well as liberatory struggles here at home. Underlying the course is an ethos that views organizing as a pedagogical tool. We study the past to help us intervene in the present in order to alter the future.

A revolutionary cultural front encompasses the tools we need to not only interpret and critique art, literature, and media, but also use them to bring forward new narratives — to change hearts, minds, and beliefs (starting with our own). Juliano Mer Khamis, founder of the Freedom Theatre in Jenin, believed that the Third Intifada would be a cultural intifada. What does that mean? For those of us agitating against the war on Gaza from within the heart of empire, it means first looking to the storied lineage of cultural blocs formed during periods of massive awakening. It means returning power to the people, bringing the war home, acting up.

This five-week course is offered through the School of Making Thinking. A first installment of the course was held in person. A second installment begins in July and will be held online.