Speaker 1: Also media, welcome to Dick It appan here a podcast,
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Speaker 1: language teacher and anarchist builtins and read Angles, who's a
Speaker 1: bus driver and an anarchist member of the Center for
Speaker 1: Spesifical Studies. Yeah, both of you, welcome to the show.
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Speaker 1: of wonderful, we are here to talk about a I
Speaker 1: guess putting things back together project, which is miltant Kindergarten.
Speaker 1: And I guess I guess we should start with talking
Speaker 1: about what bulletin in kindergarten is and what it isn't
Speaker 1: in terms of like, it's not we're teaching we're teaching
Speaker 1: small children how to take apart buildings.
Speaker 3: Yes, so Milton Kindergarten is a multi month study of
Speaker 3: a text, and in that way, you know, we call
Speaker 3: it a seminar' But it's not that much different than
Speaker 3: reading group or study circle or any of those kinds
Speaker 3: of things. Essentially, what we're doing is we're using one
Speaker 3: text to revisit and have conversations with different people that
Speaker 3: are at various you know, points in a path of radicalization.
Speaker 3: We're you know, distinctly trying to spread the word about
Speaker 3: the importance and necessity of militancy in our movements, but
Speaker 3: also teach people about a specifismo, which is an anarchist
Speaker 3: current that comes out of Latin America. But it's also like,
Speaker 3: you know, in in the socialist movement, anarchists can often
Speaker 3: be characterized by stereotypes that come from Marxists, and that
Speaker 3: in the libertarian and anarchist movement, any kind of mass anarchism,
Speaker 3: any kind of class struggle anarchism can also be characterized
Speaker 3: by you know, individualists and insurrectionists. And so we mean
Speaker 3: to you know, not convert people to a certain current
Speaker 3: of anarchism. We see this as a kind of grouping
Speaker 3: of tendency, So all the participants come from different ideologies.
Speaker 3: This is just a reading group, so you've got to
Speaker 3: apply this stuff, you know, outside of this. This isn't
Speaker 3: some kind of be all and dull solution. We're not,
Speaker 3: you know, educationalists thinking that this is going to be
Speaker 3: the first step in some like process that we're just
Speaker 3: already on. But at the same time, we think that
Speaker 3: educational space needs to be defended. That's why this is
Speaker 3: the third militant kindergarten. So yeah, maybe I'll let Read
Speaker 3: talk about some of the ones and how we've gotten here,
Speaker 3: and yeah, kindergarten up to now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, I think that's a good explanation. The group
Speaker 2: basically started off in the wonderful, amazing, complicated year twenty twenty,
Speaker 2: in the wake of the uprising over the summer. Both
Speaker 2: of us live in a relatively small town with maybe
Speaker 2: an outsized hundreds above its weight in terms of like
Speaker 2: activism and anarchism. There's probably more anarchist tendencies here than
Speaker 2: there are anarchists, and something that we saw in the
Speaker 2: wake of the height of the uprising was one a
Speaker 2: huge amount of burnout that people weren't really addressing. The
Speaker 2: solution to burnout that we saw being proposed was just
Speaker 2: do it again, more harder, And we also saw the
Speaker 2: burnout as kind of coming from a lack of strategy
Speaker 2: and organization on the ground, people sort of repeating tactics
Speaker 2: because that's what you do, and that's what we were doing,
Speaker 2: so we're just going to try to keep doing it.
Speaker 2: And both of us were unable to participate in the
Speaker 2: more aggressive street actions that were going on at the time,
Speaker 2: so we decided we individually needed to study and get
Speaker 2: better at our understanding of strategy an organization and try
Speaker 2: to rethink like some of the problems that had occurred
Speaker 2: and how to move on from there, and also to
Speaker 2: provide us, for people who are more active in different places,
Speaker 2: the chance to meet together and reflect in a non
Speaker 2: non urgent space where you could just like pause and
Speaker 2: learn and discuss the topic. So we were, yeah, we
Speaker 2: hit upon We're both kind of simultaneously interested in the
Speaker 2: Spesso seasmal current from Latin America, so we both just
Speaker 2: kind of decided, yeah, we want to read some of
Speaker 2: these texts and we quickly came upon social anarchism and
Speaker 2: organization and we thought, like, wow, this is a really
Speaker 2: comprehensive introduction not only to this tendency but also to
Speaker 2: anarchism and social anarchism broadly. Like it really covers just
Speaker 2: the basic principles and theory up to history and organizational theory, strategy, tactics,
Speaker 2: ideology in a much higher, morephisticated and like I guess,
Speaker 2: like modernized way then many other previous documents we'd read.
Speaker 2: It's like, if you took the platform, you know, the
Speaker 2: Macknivist platform.
Speaker 1: We should explain what that is because people are not
Speaker 1: going to yeah, okay, going back.
Speaker 2: So's it's the organizational platform of the Anarchist Federation of
Speaker 2: Riodaian hero which is basically their foundational document, and it's
Speaker 2: a very comprehensive look at the kind of theory and
Speaker 2: strategy and work that goes behind goes on behind founding
Speaker 2: an organization. Like that, it's similar to the anarchist platform
Speaker 2: written by X the Macknivist in exile in Paris, the
Speaker 2: Ukrainian anarchists in exile after the the Revolution in Russia.
Speaker 2: They wrote this platform saying anarchists should maybe be somewhat
Speaker 2: organized and unified in their tactics and their strategies and
Speaker 2: received a whole bunch of pushback from it, but founded
Speaker 2: the sort of the platform. It's current of anarchism. But really,
Speaker 2: when you go back to the platform, there's not a
Speaker 2: ton there. It's more of a document for organizing a
Speaker 2: like a military force in a already ongoing revolution, whereas
Speaker 2: what we found in Social Anarchism and Organization is a
Speaker 2: much more road kind of introduction to social anarchist organization
Speaker 2: that is more widely applicable to a variety of situations.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, Okay, so we've covered a spacifismo
Speaker 1: on here with Andrew once. I think we've talked about
Speaker 1: it a little bit in some other episodes. But yeah,
Speaker 1: do we want to get in to what about A
Speaker 1: SPECIFIESMO was sort of different from older kinds of like
Speaker 1: well just like other anarchist tendencies and other sort of
Speaker 1: kinds of platformism, and talk a little bit about how
Speaker 1: it sort of came about because it's one of the
Speaker 1: tendencies I guess that some people adopted in the US,
Speaker 1: but I don't. I don't think it's as famous as
Speaker 1: a lot of other tendencies here.
Speaker 3: Yes, so you know, a lot of the motivation behind
Speaker 3: organizing the center for us Specifismo studies this came after
Speaker 3: us studying this text a few times locally, we decided
Speaker 3: to formalize this into militant Kindergarten. And a lot of
Speaker 3: that came from the need to articulate what is a
Speaker 3: specifismo in English, because a lot of the resources, a
Speaker 3: lot of the ideas and writings come from Latin America,
Speaker 3: and so they're written in Spanish. A lot of the
Speaker 3: theory has been developed in Spanish. Especifismo originally comes from
Speaker 3: the Anarchist Federation of Uruguay in the nineteen sixties. They
Speaker 3: began to articulate a kind of organizational strategy that imagined
Speaker 3: what the way we've described it is kind of two
Speaker 3: rails for a train, and this train is bringing this
Speaker 3: revolutionary rupture. So these two rails are the social level,
Speaker 3: which includes all kinds of class struggle. This is class
Speaker 3: struggle against domination, exploitation, and oppression. And that the other
Speaker 3: rail is the political organization.
Speaker 4: And so this is.
Speaker 3: The anarchist principles and ideologies that yeah, I think we
Speaker 3: share probably pretty broadly with most all anarchist currents, at
Speaker 3: least you know, coming out of the socialist movement. But
Speaker 3: when it comes to the way to balance these and
Speaker 3: to keep them both working towards the same ends, we
Speaker 3: see a need to keep them theoretically distinct. And so
Speaker 3: a lot of what we've done at the Center for
Speaker 3: Specifiesmo Studies is try to articulate these ideas in English
Speaker 3: so that we can start to develop what that means
Speaker 3: here and not just sort of translate or take a
Speaker 3: translation and sort of try to input an idea into
Speaker 3: our own context. So, like you said, like I think
Speaker 3: that some of the we we could take for example,
Speaker 3: the Black Rose Rosa Neegra Anarchist Federation in the US,
Speaker 3: that's the largest organization of a specifict anarchists in North America.
Speaker 3: They are distinctly influenced by this current. They have sister
Speaker 3: organizations in Latin America, but they're just one kind of
Speaker 3: organization that's that's kind of known on a national level.
Speaker 3: And as far as planting its, you know, ideas in
Speaker 3: North America, we're definitely still doing that work. So a
Speaker 3: lot of what we've done is also developed second secondary resources.
Speaker 3: This includes like audio versions of this text, but also
Speaker 3: like things we've produced through our study and through these
Speaker 3: discussions that come out of kindergarten. So last year, for example,
Speaker 3: we made a minizine. There was like a kind of
Speaker 3: working group that worked on a mini zine to define
Speaker 3: some basic terms and make something really really really basic
Speaker 3: in introductory to a specifismo. We also I've written a
Speaker 3: few pamphlets, one of which is how do you say
Speaker 3: a specifismo in English?
Speaker 4: And so that is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly trying to address this idea. And you know,
Speaker 3: some people they hear a specifismo and they're like, oh,
Speaker 3: that's you know, exotic and cool and like new, and
Speaker 3: that's a reason to be attracted to it. But then
Speaker 3: you know other people might hear that and they have
Speaker 3: kind of other reactions where they sort of try to
Speaker 3: put it into a really specific box. I mean, what
Speaker 3: our understanding is is that it's important to be able
Speaker 3: to acknowledge what current you're kind of plugging into where
Speaker 3: your ideas are coming from. It takes a lot of
Speaker 3: pressure off of us to not feel like we're inventing
Speaker 3: everything and we're supposed to be coming up with like
Speaker 3: the most perfect, cool ideas, but it's also a humbling
Speaker 3: experience of like, yeah, we know about this because other
Speaker 3: people have done this militancy before us to make these
Speaker 3: things available for us to have preserved these ideas.
Speaker 4: That's the political level of the two rails.
Speaker 3: Right, So that's that is preserving this so that it
Speaker 3: is possible to say I have this opinion about a
Speaker 3: specifismo and it relates to my context in this way
Speaker 3: or likewise that it doesn't you know, if we don't
Speaker 3: have anyone doing that militancy to preserve those ideas, then
Speaker 3: it's actually not even up to people to be able
Speaker 3: to pick them up and use them the way that
Speaker 3: they see fit.
Speaker 1: One of the sort of barriers is, I think kind
Speaker 1: of when you're alluding to of like specifiesmo as a
Speaker 1: tendency in the US, is that it wasn't like, it
Speaker 1: wasn't really it wasn't developed in the American context, and
Speaker 1: that has different sort of you know that that that
Speaker 1: that that that has sort of like a range of
Speaker 1: different effect x. And one of the things that I
Speaker 1: think is very interesting about it that I think is
Speaker 1: definitely a product of the context that it was developed
Speaker 1: in is the strategy of social insertion. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: was wondering if you could talk a bit about social
Speaker 1: insertion and how you see that working in the US
Speaker 1: and how sort of like, how do we think about
Speaker 1: this sort of in the wake of twenty twenty and
Speaker 1: the kind of restructuring of what is sort of happening
Speaker 1: is out of social movements in the US.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the twenty twenty lesson is very important
Speaker 2: for thinking about social insertions for anyone who doesn't know,
Speaker 2: it's just the practice of anarchists who are organized in
Speaker 2: the same organization being present in social movements within them,
Speaker 2: supporting them, trying to help them achieve their own goals
Speaker 2: rather than take them over, or something like you would
Speaker 2: see in maybe a entryism from Trackeeasts or something. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I think one of the major problems that we ran
Speaker 2: into when we started reading this stuff is like social
Speaker 2: insertion requires there to even be social movements.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was an issue in the US for a
Speaker 1: long time because we didn't really have social movements in
Speaker 1: the way that like Latin America does.
Speaker 2: Right, or when we do, they're like extremely spontaneous or
Speaker 2: kind of chaotic, or they're also there they could be
Speaker 2: extremely co opted or managed by a political party, Democrats,
Speaker 2: some socialist group, Republicans, whoever. And so that's kind of
Speaker 2: one of our major sort of projects of theoretical translation
Speaker 2: into North Americas. You can't just plug this into North
Speaker 2: America and say, Okay, we're going to go join ex
Speaker 2: social movements to achieve these goals and obtain this amount
Speaker 2: of influence there and some we really have to start.
Speaker 2: I think what is useful about that problem is that
Speaker 2: it forces us to start really trying to theorize what
Speaker 2: actually is happening here, what social movement actually is there,
Speaker 2: And that leads us to start thinking about things more literally,
Speaker 2: like movement. What does it mean to be moving? What
Speaker 2: is the role of anarchists in movements? So we can
Speaker 2: think of the idea that we've developed is the idea
Speaker 2: of anarchists who are organized as anarchists, the role of
Speaker 2: them in movement is to actually literally be moving between
Speaker 2: different kinds of spaces, different movements, and starting through their
Speaker 2: movement to generate a kind of flow of people and
Speaker 2: of ideas and energy and momentum, acting as a small
Speaker 2: motor within a big, a big system, if you will,
Speaker 2: not striving it, but getting things going. And so I
Speaker 2: think that's kind of more the level that we're here
Speaker 2: in the US is we still need to just theorize
Speaker 2: what is out there and how can we help it,
Speaker 2: How can we plug into it, How can we start
Speaker 2: getting things moving in a direction that is actually going
Speaker 2: to meet the needs of these movements or these movements
Speaker 2: that aren't yet articulated. Well, you know, you see this
Speaker 2: with like the rise of tenant unions and tenant organizing,
Speaker 2: still in a very like nascent stage, but people are
Speaker 2: seeing that need and they're starting to get that moving
Speaker 2: from a variety of socialist tendencies. And I think, yeah,
Speaker 2: the idea is important in this context because we have
Speaker 2: to we have to be finding these spaces, we have
Speaker 2: to be moving to them, and we have to be
Speaker 2: returning to our own spaces to be able to actually
Speaker 2: understand what we're encountering out there and figure out how
Speaker 2: to suss course or move to something else or that
Speaker 2: to a new situation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like maybe similar to read said, they're this idea
Speaker 3: that the politics need to be moving, that anarchism needs
Speaker 3: to be a movement, and that in that way, like
Speaker 3: we can't allow our ideas to be stuck in certain
Speaker 3: you know, just stations or organizations or spaces that are
Speaker 3: friendly or that.
Speaker 4: We're really familiar with.
Speaker 3: We need to be able to engage those ideas in
Speaker 3: the relevant spaces where we do live. That looks really
Speaker 3: different in different parts across the US and North America.
Speaker 3: So the idea that you know, we would be able
Speaker 3: to just simply take one thing and apply it across
Speaker 3: the board would also, like yeah, be really limited here.
Speaker 3: And so I think a lot of what we're we're well,
Speaker 3: a lot of what we've seen in terms of the
Speaker 3: utility of a specificismo as a as an influential current
Speaker 3: in the politics in leftist politics in North America. Is
Speaker 3: this theoretical aspect and how we can see both like
Speaker 3: we learn more about social movements, more about the necessity
Speaker 3: of them being popular, more about popular power, and at
Speaker 3: the same time as in doing that, that shows us
Speaker 3: more about what is political unity, what is uh, you know,
Speaker 3: unity of strategy, what is unity of theory, what is
Speaker 3: a unity of commitment? And that those things we want
Speaker 3: to as we keep learning about them individually. That goes
Speaker 3: back to this trained idea of their being to rails
Speaker 3: is we need them to be on independent cycles. You know,
Speaker 3: we know that that social movements don't last forever, that
Speaker 3: mobilizations and uh, you know, insurrections will fade away, that
Speaker 3: there are ebbs and flows of the engagement, and that
Speaker 3: when we're talking about a massive popular level, we should
Speaker 3: expect that even more right, plenty of people will only
Speaker 3: even if they're engaging militantly, only be engaging militantly with
Speaker 3: social movements, not with political ideas, not with political organization.
Speaker 3: And so the idea that something needs to endure someone
Speaker 3: even needs to be able to tell the story from
Speaker 3: the last time that things got spicy, so that we
Speaker 3: understand even what happened without even necessarily having the the
Speaker 3: critique or the analysis, even just simply the retelling is
Speaker 3: something that is grossly missing from our struggles in North America.
Speaker 3: And so that's where we see like there being a
Speaker 3: complete absence of political organizing, and especially when we think
Speaker 3: about being on an entirely different cycle. So that kind
Speaker 3: of goes back to kindergarten being an annual thing, and
Speaker 3: you know where we live, like in the winter, there's
Speaker 3: not a lot you can do, and so it kind
Speaker 3: of made sense to develop a seasonal pattern of this,
Speaker 3: right where like exactly as things are dying down. It's
Speaker 3: kind of like, well, the people who do still have capacity,
Speaker 3: the people who are still attempting to be active, how
Speaker 3: can we keep that little bit of movement moving and going.
Speaker 3: The idea of the metaphor of a small engine, a
Speaker 3: small motor is often used in a specifiesmo and that
Speaker 3: that's what the political level is trying to be. Is
Speaker 3: a small motor just assisting in something larger that's happening,
Speaker 3: but it needs to be connected to something larger that's happening.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think a key part of this for
Speaker 2: us that we've found is that in our context there
Speaker 2: exists sort of these two levels. To some extent, there
Speaker 2: are political organizations and there are social movements. But what
Speaker 2: is often missing, Like we were struggling with this, trying
Speaker 2: to find the way into one or the other, and
Speaker 2: what we discovered is that like this kind of educational
Speaker 2: tendency of really open, really educational, really discussion based learning
Speaker 2: kind of starts to generate that movement between the two.
Speaker 2: Like by having this space open to beginners and experts,
Speaker 2: so to speak, you're able to actually get more movement
Speaker 2: opened between the two. So it opens up political organizations,
Speaker 2: people who have not participated in that before don't have
Speaker 2: a way into it. And it opens up social movement
Speaker 2: to people who may be politicized but are not organized
Speaker 2: in some sort of social and it starts to mix
Speaker 2: everything together in this learning space where we can build
Speaker 2: trust as a learning commun unity and assisting each other
Speaker 2: in connecting these kind of two necessary levels of organization.
Speaker 1: I've been thinking a lot about how you were talking
Speaker 1: about how we don't have any kind of organizational continuity
Speaker 1: between movements and the kind of disorganization and the loss
Speaker 1: of just memory that happens with that, And I think
Speaker 1: it's one of these weird things because you can find
Speaker 1: people who've been in like all of these movements, but
Speaker 1: if you're relying on just you know, okay, well you
Speaker 1: could you can get the story of what really happened
Speaker 1: in Occupy Oakland if you know exactly like the right
Speaker 1: for people and you can't like you can't say their
Speaker 1: names because like you know, and I mean this has
Speaker 1: always sort of been a problem with parts of social
Speaker 1: movements because I mean, there's stuff that necessarily has to
Speaker 1: be clandestine, like you know, and there's reasons for op
Speaker 1: racial security, but also just means the stuff gets lost.
Speaker 1: And yeah, I think having having a like having a
Speaker 1: thing that goes as a way to transmit got a
Speaker 1: thing that goes. Wow, incredibly technical language, you know, but
Speaker 1: having having an organization that can act as a bridge
Speaker 1: between these sort of moments and also is able to
Speaker 1: sort of you know, a lot of people's spaces for discussions,
Speaker 1: for reflection, for learning. That's also sort of a bridge
Speaker 1: between like a like I don't know, I guess like
Speaker 1: capital p political organization, and the social stuff is it's
Speaker 1: it's a really interesting idea, And yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I think I don't know. I think I think this
Speaker 1: is like, this is a very cool project, and yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to seeing what else comes out of
Speaker 1: it as the new session sort of approaches.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think what you're just saying about, like, how
Speaker 2: do you learn about what happened to occupy Oakland without
Speaker 2: having to go through like three layers of signal chats
Speaker 2: or something to find the right person to learn from
Speaker 2: anonymously being a preface with allegedly this happens is a
Speaker 2: real problem that we've thought about. Like, I think a
Speaker 2: big thing for us that we've found is a role
Speaker 2: that we can play, is that there is a need
Speaker 2: out there for there to be some sort of we
Speaker 2: call it mask off anarchism, like there needs to be
Speaker 2: a public facing, approachable space where you can actually just
Speaker 2: learn about stuff. And yeah, there is definitely a need
Speaker 2: for operational security culture or for clandestine things so that
Speaker 2: those things don't need to be everything for those who
Speaker 2: even exist. You need levels that are more open to people.
Speaker 2: Otherwise those things just become increasingly lost. They go down
Speaker 2: the memory hole, as they say, or the Latin American
Speaker 2: groups like to talk about anarchism becoming ghetto wised further
Speaker 2: and further, like separated from mainstream society and there's no
Speaker 2: ways in unless you, like, you know, a guy. So
Speaker 2: that was something that was a problem we were encountering
Speaker 2: and something that like from our particular circumstances, we felt
Speaker 2: like we could provide and maybe start and modeling for
Speaker 2: people as a group.
Speaker 3: I think also, like you mentioned there like this idea
Speaker 3: of memory and what what Black Rose has referred to
Speaker 3: in their program as muscle memory. Like for our organizations,
Speaker 3: this idea that like I mean, organizing seems so mysterious
Speaker 3: to us because we don't have this like kind of
Speaker 3: active like living memory of how to do that. It's
Speaker 3: not just a thing we do by second nature or
Speaker 3: like without without really needing a lot of work. And
Speaker 3: so I think in that sense, like we could also
Speaker 3: think of there being two kinds of struggles going on,
Speaker 3: where like on the so the struggle is the class struggle,
Speaker 3: and the antagonists are the dominant people in society. It
Speaker 3: is the ruling class, it is the status quo, it
Speaker 3: is the capitalist system. But on the political level there's
Speaker 3: also struggle because it's not about everybody you know, just
Speaker 3: being one uniform block. It is about that struggle though,
Speaker 3: not being trying to topple each other, but instead trying
Speaker 3: to develop and create unity.
Speaker 4: It's not find unity.
Speaker 3: It's not a look for the people you have the
Speaker 3: most consensus with, because that in itself is even really
Speaker 3: limiting that we need to be able to form new agreement.
Speaker 3: We need to be able to find and struggle for
Speaker 3: that unity with people who aren't trying to just aim
Speaker 3: for a divisive end.
Speaker 4: That there needs to be an antagonist on.
Speaker 3: The social level, but on the political level, the goal
Speaker 3: is unity. It's not it's not struggle for the sake
Speaker 3: of taking down the opponent. And so in that sense,
Speaker 3: like something else that we do in Militant Kindergarten and
Speaker 3: in the Center for Us BECIFIESMO Studies is not just
Speaker 3: try to do a reading, but try to produce a reading.
Speaker 3: Try to leave behind some kind of trace of our reading.
Speaker 3: That that's an important aspect of this.
Speaker 4: So all of our.
Speaker 3: Sessions we take thorough notes, and those notes are available
Speaker 3: to all the participants.
Speaker 4: People can go back.
Speaker 3: Through it later to look at what was said if
Speaker 3: they missed a session, or if they'd like to follow
Speaker 3: along with those as they as the conversation goes to
Speaker 3: help add you know, other aspects of support. Then what
Speaker 3: we do is we have a whole other team that
Speaker 3: goes through those notes afterward and produces a kind of
Speaker 3: internal journalistic writeup of what happened in that meeting. And
Speaker 3: so we will also be releasing those this year as
Speaker 3: part of our kind of monthly publishing that we'll be.
Speaker 1: Doing so for people who are interested in this, When
Speaker 1: is it happening and how do you get involved?
Speaker 2: It starts on January thirteenth and it runs till April
Speaker 2: twentieth of next year, twenty twenty four, and we're going
Speaker 2: to be holding the sessions on Saturday two to four
Speaker 2: pm in Pacific time in US, which is not the
Speaker 2: greatest time for everybody, but it's where most of us
Speaker 2: are based, kind of on the edge of time here
Speaker 2: on the West Coast, and the best way to get
Speaker 2: involved is to just send us an email. We have
Speaker 2: an email specifies most studies at gmail dot com, and
Speaker 2: that's the way to sort of start the enrolling process.
Speaker 2: You just need to take the one on steps, send
Speaker 2: us an email and we'll get you signed up in
Speaker 2: all the materials and zoom link and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and we'll put the email in the description. You
Speaker 1: have probably links to the website too, I think. On
Speaker 1: that note, unless you have anything else that you want
Speaker 1: to say or plug.
Speaker 4: No, I think that's it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, good Brett. I would like to see people there.
Speaker 2: It's going to be an interesting year. I can guarantee that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we're yeah, like the literal year twenty twenty four. Who
Speaker 2: knows what's going to happen, and even kindergarten is going
Speaker 2: to be pretty interesting. We've had a lot more people
Speaker 2: contacting us than last year, so it's going to be
Speaker 2: a pretty big and diverse group. So it'll be interesting
Speaker 2: to see kind of what everybody's able to produce out
Speaker 2: of that gathering and learning space.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, maybe another thing just to say real quick,
Speaker 3: is just that even if somebody doesn't feel like they
Speaker 3: could make the time, it's still worth reaching out to us.
Speaker 3: We you know, will be developing other seminars and things
Speaker 3: in the future. And if you don't think that you'd
Speaker 3: be able to make to all the sessions, like, don't
Speaker 3: worry about that either. That's part of why we do
Speaker 3: this every year is that we expect that, you know,
Speaker 3: working people without a lot of time will need more
Speaker 3: than one year to you know, get all this information.
Speaker 3: So we expect people to need to kind of be
Speaker 3: cobbling together a few sessions here and there for several times.
Speaker 3: And yeah, you're definitely welcome to do that, and shouldn't
Speaker 3: feel as if it's like a kind of start and
Speaker 3: then you're stuck and afraid to start.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, it's a sort of an endurance study group.
Speaker 2: So yeah, we don't want anyone burning themselves out. Just
Speaker 2: do what you can start together and together.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds like it's going to be a great program,
Speaker 1: And yeah, excited to see what comes out of it,
Speaker 1: and yeah, if you want, if if you want to
Speaker 1: get your theoretical stuff in before fighting season presumably starts
Speaker 1: again around the election. Yeah, now is the time. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be really chaotic for the next like long time.
Speaker 1: So this is this is your opportunity now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll need some good ideas to arm ourselves with. Yeah,
Speaker 2: this one it's gonna be rough. Yep.
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