A School for the People, A School of Thought and Teachers of Teachers

The Saturday Free School recognizes the failure of universities to create knowledge for the people. We see a need for spaces outside these institutions which can create knowledge that is scientific and tied to revolutionary practice.

We meet every Saturday to discuss social movements, politics, and the path ahead for humanity. We are grounded in the thinking and practice of figures such as James Baldwin, W.E.B. Du Bois and Martin Luther King Jr. We have studied the works of revolutionaries such as Fidel Castro, Angela Davis, Howard Thurman, Huey P. Newton, Lenin, Kwame Nkrumah, Henry Winston, among others.

We organize events, symposiums and celebrations for the political education of the people of Philadelphia.

We meet every Saturday at 10:30AM. Our discussions are available online by livestream on Facebook and Youtube.

All are welcome to attend and participate. 

​Past discussions can be listened to on Spotify and watched on Facebook.
Additional lectures, event recordings and interviews can be found on our Youtube. 

If you would like to be on our email list or contact us, please email freeschoolmedi@gmail.com.
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Past Events

Panel discussion with Reverend James Lawson at our event "A Single Garment of Destiny" as a part of the Year of Gandhi.

The Sanctuary at the Church of the Advocate, where we have held many of our conferences.

Lily Yeh viewing an exhibition linking China's Long March to other world freedom movements through art and literature at our event "The Artist, The Philosopher and The Black Panther".