Our Popular Education Program is rooted in the belief that those who are impacted by decision–making need to be at the table where those decisions are being made. We need to learn how to face and change impediments to their participation. We also believe that it is important to learn how to effectively and creatively be at the decision-making table, so that decisions can be made that are just. Therefore, for RMM, it is not only about participating in the system, it is about learning to change unjust systems and structures.
Programs
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Through the Rural Academy of the People (RAP), RMM offers a variety of adult education programs through our Centers and online that are initiated and designed by rural, grass-roots leaders. A key focus lies in supporting people as they create their own cooperatives.
RMM offers regular opportunities for ally groups to visit our Centers, meet with our people and explore our programs.
RMM is honored to host the annual Rural Women’s Assembly, which welcomes more than 200 rural women and their allies from across New York.
Each year, we welcome artists in residence, as we are intent on incorporating the arts into all of our programs and our centers.
An opportunity for university students to immerse themselves into the life of RMM!
Cociendo Culturas is an emerging sewing cooperative that works hand-in-hand with the Bags For Justice Cooperative as well as on other projects.
RMM is partnering with farmworkers as they build their own growing cooperative.
RMM brings together faith leaders, both ordained and lay people, to explore the removal of walls that divide us as we work toward social transformation. The Cohorts, both in person and virtual, depend upon the participants sharing their experiences with one another.