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The Public School Los Angeles is a space for radical communal self-education. It is free and open to everyone to propose classes, teach, or participate. Yes! No.

How do I propose a class? Can anyone propose a class? Anyone can propose a class. Simply post a comment on the page describing the class you'd like to host, teach, or see started. If there is enough interest in it and a committee member can host it, we will begin the scheduling process. How do I make a class someone else posted happen? Be sure to like (or LOVE) the comment on this page. Additionally, if you can help teach part of it, have a specific interest you'd like to see addressed, or have questions about the class, be sure to post those in the reply as well. The more activity and discussion, the more we'll know there's interest in seeing the class happen. Who is the committee? How do you decide which classes actually happen? The committee is a collection of anywhere between 3 and 10 individuals who work on a volunteer basis to host classes. We most often host classes that have a strong appeal to users of this page. What types of classes do you host? We tend to focus on reading groups, often around philosophical, political, and artistic concerns. However, there is no limit to what you can propose. In the past we have hosted walking tours of radical Los Angeles, learned about indigenous plants, had "fu**ed up drawing classes" and more. If you want to see it, just propose it! Can I get any credit for this? This is self-education, outside of all public and private educational structures. You decide the curriculum, you decide how to teach and how to learn. Do classes cost money? Do teachers get paid? All classes are free. Teachers may not accept payment. You may however make donations to the Public School to help offset upkeep costs. What if I have another question or want to talk about a class to the committee directly? Just email the Facebook account and we'll get back to you, usually within 24 hours.

08/19/2026

This Sunday, we finish reading Dekeyser’s book Techno-Negativity by moving into the present with Part 3!

See you at Tilt DTLA 10-12. Dm if you need a pdf.

08/09/2026

Since the emergence of Occupy Wall Street, social movements have regularly taken on a territorial form. From protest to prefiguration to coordination, the stable space of the encampment, the hub, and so on have been places of articulation and contradiction. How can we see the strengths and limits of the social movements of our times in the spaces they create? How did last year’s territorial community self defense efforts compare to the imagined spaces of autonomy in the encampment and occupation?

Session two of the After the Ice Age? study group approaches these questions and more, guided by a few short texts reflecting on four moments in the last 15 years: Occupy, the George Floyd Uprising, the campus encampments, and last year’s community defense mobilizations. Reading can be found at bit.ly/afterice

Wednesday August 19th @ 7pm
3182 W 8th St Los Angeles CA

Newcomers welcome!

07/23/2026

Logistics reading group: Next meeting: Saturday 7/25
3pm at Verdugo Bar -
Inland Shift Chapters 7-Conclusion

and a related essay from Kim Moody: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/workorgalaboglob.13.1.0079

If you haven’t joined for the rest of Inland Shift you’re still very welcome! Conclusion and the essay will probably give you everything you need.

07/20/2026

Unhappy hour returns today, Monday, July 20th, after a break!

07/15/2026

Our Sunday reading group continues this weekend: we start Sophie Lewis’s Enemy Feminisms, a survey of TERFs, Girl Bosses, policewomen, and other feminisms who work to make liberation impossible for the rest of us!

The book is easy to find online. We will read the intro and first two chapter.

See you at the DTLA Tilt on Main on Sunday!

07/13/2026

Part 2 of our discussion of *Inland Shift: Race, Space and Capital in Southern California* by Juan DeLara will be Saturday 7/18 at 3pm at the Glassell Park Community Garden.

We’ll be talking about Chapters 4-6. DM us for a PDF. Everyone is welcome.

07/03/2026

What does one year of struggle against the deportation machine teach us about the prospects for immigrant rights and liberation? How do the practices created across the country in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Minneapolis gesture at necessary forms emancipation might take in the future? What new directions are the deportation machine and the struggles against and within it taking?

Join us for a study series looking at the past year, drawing out how it compares to movements of the past and what form its future might take. We’ll be starting with a discussion of “On DHS, or Defeating Homeland Security: The Movement Against Deportations in the US, 2025-2026” by Julian Francis Park recently published in the Brooklyn Rail. Link to essay in bio.

3182 w 8th street Los Angeles
Wednesday July 15th @ 6pm

06/26/2026

Saturday, June 27
3 pm
at the Glassel Park Community Garden

Our logistics reading group will meet to discuss ch. 1-3 of *Inland Shift: Race, Space and Capital in Southern California* by Juan De Lara.

The text is available online or DM us for a PDF

All are welcome

05/28/2026

Saturday, May 30
3 p.m.
at the Glassel Park Community Garden

We’ll be discussing the introduction, Ch. 1 & Ch. 6 of *Cartographies of the Absolute* by Alberto Toscano and Jeff Kinkle

All are welcome

05/22/2026

radically unhappy? so are we! unhappy hour continues monday may 25

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