Governing From Below

recording of session 1, Sept. 3, 2026

“Unions & Universities”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpF9nYtvEo0

Homework for Session 1, Sept. 3, 2026

“Unions & Universities”

Required:

1. Watch “Survive and Organize: Preserving Nicaragua's Revolution during the Neoliberal Years” webinar with Co-Foreign Minister of Nicaragua Valdrack Jaentschke.

2. Read “The Neoliberal Years” from FSLN Compendium

3. Read “Daniel Ortega: The Heroic Years of the 1990s”

4. Read “Summary of the Struggle for 6% Student Movement”

Optional:

1. Watch Documentary “The 16 Years They Stole From Us” [in Spanish, put on English subtitles in YouTube]

recording of session 2, Sept. 10, 2026

“Women’s & Peasants’ Movements”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTqHXI2cy8s

Homework for Session 2, Sept. 10, 2026

“Women’s & Peasants’ movements”

Required:

1. Read “Foundation Among Women Summary” 1 pg

2. Read: “ATC Organizational Profile” 1 pg

3. Read: Speech By Edgardo Garcia “Marcha por la Vida” 25 March 1999

4. Read: “Peasants in the Universities” Peasant Sit-In 1995

recording of session 3, Sept. 17, 2026

“Communal movement & Sandinista Media”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwE7NvEvKhE

Homework for Session 3, Sept. 17, 2026

“Communal Movement & Sandinista Media”

Required:

1. Read: “Historic Program of FSLN”

2. Read: “Overview Sandinista Media During the Neoliberal Years”

3. Read: “Communal Movement in Nicaragua”

recording of session 4, Sept. 24, 2026

“International solidarity & Reconciliation and national unity”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zqWn4d2rCc

Homework for Session 4, Sept. 24, 2026

“International solidarity & reconciliation & national unity”

Required:

1. Watch: “From Contra Commander to Sandinista”

2. Read: “Solidarity From 1990—2007” in Nicaragua Now Issue No. 10 pp.8-10.

Optional:

1. Read: “Peace and Reconciliation in Nicaragua” by Susan Lagos in The Revolution Won’t Be Stopped pp.52-57.

2. Read: “2003 Stop Water Privatization”

3. Read: “1992 Vision Endures Report”