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Teach In – Nonstop History and Antioch College – December 4th, 2014

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Statement of Intent from the Antioch Student Union for the Teach-In:

1. To illuminate the history surrounding the causes of Antioch College’s closure.
2. Through this analysis, to construct a counter-narrative to the simplistic “toxic culture” understanding of Antioch College prior and after its closure.
3. To clearly identify the chief challenges and successes of Antioch’s predecessor institutions and build a history that incorporates the complex realities of the Old Antioch and the Nonstop Institute.
4. To deliberately link the mission of Old Antioch and its successor institution Nonstop to the mission of Antioch Student Union: to empower students of marginalized identities by creating a community in which their voices are amplified by the collective support of the student body.

Video of Presentations from Teach-In

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PDF of transcript of the presentations

Q & A session

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PDF of Transcript of Q & A session

Antioch College to host Black History Month events

In honor of Black History Month, Antioch College will host several events focused on contemporary African American issues.

The first is a screening of the film “Life and Debt” this Saturday, Feb. 7, at 9:30 p.m. at the Coretta Scott King Center on campus. The 2001 documentary directed by Stephanie Black examines the economic and social issues that the International Monetary Fund’s economic policies have created in Jamaica. The narrative, told through the perspective of the island’s inhabitants, is based on the essay “A Small Place” by Jamaica Kincaid.

Shifting to a more local focus, on Tuesday, Feb. 10, the CSK Center will host a letter writing campaign to the U.S. Department of Justice whose attorneys are considering civil rights charges against the Beavercreek police officer who shot and killed John Crawford at a Walmart last August. The campaign is co-sponsored by Black Lives Matter Greene County and will take place from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Participants are also invited to join a sit-in at the Dayton U.S. Attorney’s office Thursday, Feb. 12, from 4–6 p.m. to deliver the letters and encourage investigating attorney Carter M. Stewart to file charges against the police officer. The attorney’s office is located in the Dayton Federal Building at 200 W. 2nd St. #602 in downtown Dayton. For those who can’t attend either event, letters can be emailed to lettersforcrawford@gmail.com.

On the evening of the sit-in, Feb. 12, Antioch College will host a presentation by multidisciplinary artist Chaun Webster, founder of Free Poet’s Press, a small publishing outfit dedicated to empowering Black and Brown artists. Through the press Webster has published collections such as “Haicoup: A Fieldguide in Guerrilla (Po)ethics” and “Ob-seen Diction.” Webster also co-founded and co-owns Ancestry Books, a Minneapolis-based literature exchange for indigenous authors and authors of color. The event, which begins at 7:30 p.m. at the CSK Center, is sponsored by Global Seminar on Education, the Writing Institute and the CSKC.

See transformation of Antioch College

Over the last four years since its re-opening, Antioch College has undergone dramatic changes, much of it to the campus itself. The college recently posted a video detailing the progress of the renovation to its physical infrastructure. Watch below to see how the campus has been transformed since the first class of the newly-independent Antioch College began classes.