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October 17, Saturday; October 18, Sunday: Ice Breaking

Aiswarya, Anupa, Akshay, Kannan, Akhil, Raju, Sruthi

(A friendly not power imposing person or people should handle the sessions)

(2 days)

Day 1: (Start with live session on big blue button)

  • A live session to welcome and explain program
  • Pre-recorded small video/interactive session via video conference explaining tools and process.
  • In the common English session explain how to use BBB, matrix and mailing list (Netiquette can be mentioned here)

Day 2:

  • Build a tree of knowledge wishes!

Introduction: We all know that our society's progress depends on our knowledge. For example, knowledge of making fire was a big step in our society. Another example is natural language. Like that there are different kinds of knowledges that helped us to grow. Today, we are going to do a simple activity in which we build a tree with our knowledge wishes on its leaves. Which means a knowledge that you think it needs to be preserved for the whole society.

Objective: To have a work which has some contribution from each participants. This activity is a light first step towards the feeling of a community.

Description: Participants give their knowledge wish in the BBB shared notes section. The person handling can read out and another artist/person who should share screen and add those words in leaves of a tree with a lot of branches. The leaves can contain one or two or more words which will be a particular knowledge that the person wishes to be preserved for the future of humanity. If someone wishes to say some words to the group it would be nice too which can make more interactions. The final image of the tree can be added to the website as a first output of the camp.

Remarks: Vector image may be better here for the consistency of images in the website. A person who is skilled in Inkscape could help here.

(5 days)

On the idea of controls in the current society

Day 1:

Make groups according to language preferences

Introduction: pre-recorded video

Note: Please don't add new topics because the already given topics are heavy. So the day they present we don't want their brain to explode ;)

Description: Divide the whole team into groups (5 members) and assign one of the below topics for each to read, research and discuss on the given block of paragraph/quotes/video. There should be at-least one organizer assigned to each team who can be with them in the process. Then on the fifth day they have to present at-least one concept from the reading material in any form: it can be a small video, just express each one in the group, a short poem, a painting etc. Only rule is everyone in the group should participate in the creation. The day they present their work/ideas, there can also be a discussion between the groups to add their experience on the topic (moderator should not be biased on any topic and should be capable of initiating questions).

  1. Chennai Poromboke Paadal - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82jFyeV5AHM

  2. “Behind Winston’s back the voice from the telescreen was still babbling away about pig-iron and the overfulfilment of the Ninth Three-Year Plan. The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live — did live, from habit that became instinct — in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”- From 1984 by George Orwell

(https://archive.org/details/Orwell1984preywo/mode/2up)

Related readings:

  1. Even if I were to live in a place where I would have to experience much worse sufferings than those of a hellish life, I would consider it a pleasanter life than this mean, caste-ridden existence, if only I were respected as a man there.- Periyar E. V. Ramaswamy

Related readings:

  1. Part of transcription from Nero’s Guests (P. Sainath: Inequality and India’s Agrarian Crisis)- https://vimeo.com/22060541-:

Here the fastest growing media in the world... a politically free media but imprisoned by profit.

Lakme india fashion week was functioning in Mumbai and you have 512 correspondents covering the event. After the fashion week, that year, the girls were displaying cotton garments in Mumbai. One hours flight away, in Vidharbha, the men and women who grew that cotton is suiciding at a rate of 6-8 each day.

What is the Agararian crisis? 5 words, the drive towards corporate farming; How this Agrarian crisis become operationalised? 5 words, predatory commercialisation of the country-side; What did it achieve? The biggest displacement in Indian history.

What you have done in the period of last 20 years, is to reduce every form of human values to exchange value. So what are you doing? It's not profitable so they shouldn't be in agriculture.

In the last 15 years, the fastest growing sector in this country is not IT, it is not software, it is Inequality. It has grown faster than at any time in our history since the time of the colonial raj.

Related readings:

  1. Masculine by Nayyriah Waheed :

    there has been so many times

    i have seen a man wanting to weep

    but

    instead

    beat his heart until it was unconscious

Poem by Rupi kaur:

when it came to listening

my mother taught me silence

if you are drowning their voice with yours

how will you hear them she asked

when it came to speaking

she said do it with commitment

every word you say

is your own responsibility

when it came to being

she said be tender and tough at once

you need to be vulnerable to live fully

but rough enough to survive it all

when it came to choosing

she asked me to be thankful

for the choices i had that

she never had the privilege of making

– lessons from mumma

Related readings:

  1. “In 1951 Dec 20th, Nehru, while campaigning for the first democratic elections in India, took a short break to address a UNESCO symposium in Delhi. Although he believed democracy was the best form of governance, while speaking at the symposium he wondered loud... the quality of men who are selected by these modern democratic methods of adult franchise gradually deteriorates because of lack of thinking and the noise of propaganda....He[the voter] reacts to sound and to the din, he reacts to repetition and he produces either a dictator or a dumb politician who is insensitive. Such a politician can stand all the din in the world and still remain standing on his two feet and, therefore, he gets selected in the end because the others have collapsed because of the din. -Quoted from India After Gandhi, page 157.” ― Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy