VOL’s Community Self-Reliance School is a nine week intensive, online program that supports people who are interested in creating their own community self-reliance projects as well as those who are already involved in community self-reliance and want to deepen their work.

In this six week class we’ll explore the current state of the world as an inevitable outcome of an economic, political, and cultural system that is built on brutality, social control, and extraction from nature. Through reading and discussions we’ll explore the global dynamics of the economy, how profit is made, the role of social control and nature in creating profit, and the role of social movements in shaping the economy.