PRAXIS
A Phrontistery for Black Revolutionaries
HOW TO QUALIFY FOR PRAXIS:
Step 1: Application
Deadline: Jan. 1 - Jan. 31, 2021
Our process begins with a comprehensive application that analyzes lived experience, assesses skill level, checks for value alignment and indicates readiness to join 400+1's next cohort off vanguard members.
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Applications will be accepted until January 31st at 11:59 p.m. PST. Accepted applicants will be contacted to schedule an interview within a week of submission.
Step 2: Interview
Deadline: Feb. 1 - Feb. 28, 2021
400+1 will arrange for accepted applicants to meet and interview with Ministers of Cohesion. This allows us to share space, determine energetic compatibility and begin the process of forming intentional community. Interviews will be conducted at 400+1 headquarters over the course of three days.
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Travel and lodging will be covered in full by 400+1.
Step 3: Orientation
Deadline: March - March 31, 2021
400+1's Ministers of Cohesion will guide new members through a month long orientation. Orientations are quartered and facilitated weekly to ensure complete comprehension of and enthusiastic consent for the process that follows.
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All orientations must be completed by March 31st, 2021.
Step 4: Disruption Container Participation
Deadline: April 1 - April 15, 2021
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400+1 uses disruption as a radicalization and value alignment tool that leverages sensory experience in pursuit of authentic interrogation. New members will have the opportunity to attend a virtual disruption container to prepare for study group participation.
Step 5: Study Groups
Deadline: April 15 - July 15, 2021
Study groups are remote, occur weekly, and last for three months. Participants are provided with pdf or printed versions of materials.
Upcoming study groups will focus on 400+1's politic for the first month, application of that politic to 400+1's movement theory in the second month, and evaluation of individual placement for the third and final month.
Step 6: Disruption Container Facilitation
Deadline: July 15 - October 15, 2021
Matriculation participants will design, host, and facilitate full day disruption containers in cities in their home cities. Container themes should coincide with newly acquired knowledge from study group stage.
Our disruption containers are an attempt to interrupt harmful social conditioning that inhibit the capacity to lean into revolutionary politics and culture. They are also an opportunity to dive, emotionally and physically, into the concepts we cover in our study groups.
Disruption container participants are encouraged to invite their friends, families, and communities.
Step 7: Retreats
Deadline: October 15 - December 30, 2020
During retreat stage, new members practice placement specific strategies in physical space with one another. Members are evaluated for comprehension of 400+1's movement theory, understanding of collective responsibilities, general compatibility, and commitment.
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At this stage, the question is "where will we go together" and new members simply focus on imagining!
FINAL STEP:
PRAXIS
Beginning in January 2022
Finally, new members are graduated to Praxis: A Phrontistery for Black Revolutionaries, a four phase project that includes a 3 year traveling residency and a 4 year residential experience. Individuals and families who commit to praxis are supported with free housing, subsidized meals, and a basic income program.
Phase Two | Jan.-Dec. 2022
On Gang: Vanguardism, Charismatic Leadership, and Revolution in the Global South
Phase Three | Jan. - Dec. 2023
Studying the Opps: Victories and Losses of the Imperialist Machine
Phase Four | Jan. 2024 - Spring 2028

