All Star First Teach-in of The Free University | Mission

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The Historic First Teach-in of The Free University Of San Francisco, featuring: Matt Gonzalez, Alan Kaufman, Diane Di Prima, and Bobby Coleman.

Sat., 9:30-11:30 AM “Criminal Procedure and Sentencing”
Instructor: Matt Gonzalez is an attorney and former president of San Francisco County’s Board of Supervisors.

Sat. 11:30-1:30 “Jack Kerouac, Thelonious Monk and Jackson Pollack”
Instructor: Alan Kaufman is author of Matches (Little, Brown), Jew Boy (Fromm/FSG) and editor of ‘The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry’ and ‘The Outlaw Bible of American Literature/co-edited with Barney Rosset (Basic Books/Perseus)

Sat., 2-4 PM “19th Century Visionary Poetry”
Instructor: Diane Di Prima is the Poet Laureate of San Francisco and a Beat legend.
She is the author of 43 books of poetry and prose, including Pieces of a Song (City Lights) and her memoir, “Recollections of My Life as a Woman” (Viking/Penguin).

Sat. 2-4PM “San Francisco Labor History and the Great Strike of 1934”
Instructor: Bobby Coleman is an attorney and co-founder of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade.

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