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| Okay! So I'm making a blog focusing on radical pedagogy to act as a resource to teachers who are committed to bringing social justice into the classroom. HOWEVER, I don't know a lot of online resources dealing with that... suggestions?
http://exploringradicalpedagogy.blogspot.com/ is the blog I mean, in case anyone cares. :)
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|  What do these groups/ artists have in common besides legendary lyrical prowess? They will all be on tour this summer with the ROCK THE BELLS TOUR! Also appearing will be: Immortal Technique Raekwon, NAS, Dead Prez, Method Man, Red Man, Pharcyde, Rakim, and many others. And yep not a female in the bunch. Not a one. I am willing to brave just about anything including August Miami heat to see Tribe and Dela on the same stage. It's an old school dream come true! The site http://www.guerillaunion.com/rockthebells/check it peeps. | |
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|  Emru Townsend needs our help. He has Acute Myelogenous Leukemia, and he and his family are hoping a compatible bone marrow donor registers in the unrelated database. Please consider cross-posting. The person who is most likely to match Emru is someone with the same or similar ethnic background. In the US, if you are one of the white patients and in need of a bone marrow transplant, 85 percent find a suitable donor. For black patients, that number falls to 60 percent. In Canada, if you are one of the white patients and in need of a bone marrow transplant, 75 percent find a suitable donor. For everyone else, that number tumbles to 10-30% percent (I have not been able to find a breakdown by ethnicity for the latter group). This includes people who receive transplants involving an international donor. There are 500,000 registrants who identified as African-American in the US and if you think that this is large number of people, you are WRONG. They consider it a shortage. Because of the complexity of matching, hundreds of thousands of people are needed worldwide to find someone who is Emru's genetic twin in terms of their bone marrow. None of the 11 million people already in the worldwide database match Emru. He just needs to find one match somewhere who is registered. If 30,000 people of African Caribbean descent registered in Canada, it would be a SHORTAGE. In Canada as of March 31, 2008, there are only 1633 black people registered as unrelated potential donors.
Heal Emru.
( Break these four myths about bone marrow donation and registration. It is the first step to saving lives. )If you have any questions or would like to know how you can help, PLEASE ask me. You can use comments, go to my Livejournal profile, or send me a message. This is my brother, but we have already met others in the same situation and know there are many others who we will never meet. Please tell others, especially if they are of African descent, moreso if they are from the Caribbean, because there are no registries in these countries, and tend to have more difficult typing, and further limiting the donor pool for all people of African descent. | |
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| ...or is this just lip service? (Washington) Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton did something Wednesday night that she almost never does. She apologized. And once she started, she didn't seem able to stop. Earlier in the day, Hillary Clinton supporter and fundraiser Geraldine Ferraro gave up her honorary position with Clinton's campaign after she said in an interview last week that Obama would not have made it this far if he were white. Obama said Ferraro's remarks were "ridiculous" and "wrong-headed." http://www.365gay.com/Newscon08/03/031308clin.htm | |
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| "He's a guy who had two handicaps: his blindness and his race. And he never made excuses for it," said civil rights leader Al Sharpton, a longtime friend. "He's the guy who has said, 'I have been in a minority group and a minority within a minority group. And I can make it, so don't give me no excuses.'"You know, perhaps I'm overreacting (and it's possible, I've been feeling militant lately) and I understand the intent behind the statement...but personally, I find it rather distasteful for Rev. Sharpton to refer to being black as a handicap and equate to a physical disability. Am I alone on this? ( Full Article: Paterson May Be First Blind NY Governor ) | |
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| Did anyone watch Oprah show's yesterday featuring freegans? If you didn't, you can click here for a brief synopsis. I was actually shocked by the majority's response to freeganism and dumpster diving especially with recent advertisements promoting the new "Going Green" phenomenon. Why are people so opposed to reducing overconsumption? Is anyone here a freegan? I ask because during last night's segment on Oprah, I did not see any of "us" featured as part of this movement. Also, I wrote an entry on my journal if you want to read it. X-POSTED | |
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| There is an African American graphic artist here in Massachusetts who is doing online fundraising for Obama. I guess she is doing events aimed at other artists as well as general fundraising. I saw an exhibit of her photos of African American women and it was great. Anyway here is her link.: http://my.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/main/Wilda | |
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| Does anyone have any old photos of their grandparent in front of their house, garden or farm? Formal poses with children are very nice too.
I have a few from the jewish half of my family....but none from the other...I think my uncle got most of those and never shared them with my folks. Family feuds just SUCK | |
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| does anyone else think that is a joke? - Mood:peaceful
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| I've seen a couple of places that Hillary is trying to re-do the campaign rules and get the Florida and Michigan votes. We have to wreck her flow. Sign this petition to have the Clintons release their tax return and pass it around. I want to get 1 millions signatures before the debate Thursday. http://www.petitiononline.com/hclinton/petition.htmlThanks EDIT: Wow! There are over 400 members in this group and I only have a total of 57 signatures???!!!! What are ya'll afraid of? Speak up or this country will be run by pigs!!! | |
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| Recently, my husband was in the hospital for a long period. Day after day, I stared into the hundreds of faces going back and forth down the hospital hallways. What struck me as I watched the many, many employees come and go was how stratified the culture of that big city hospital seems. It looks as though there is a rigid hierarchy based on class and race. People from the same groups staff the positions in the different areas of work. I’m not naïve. I know this happens in other settings not just the workplace. But at the hospital, it seems so rigid as to underscore the institutional nature of it.
I guess I was prompted to think about it by a column I had just read in Teaching Tolerance titled “Why Do They Always Do Outside Work?” (Teaching Tolerance magazine, number 32, Fall 2007) In it African American author Dana Williams talks about her son’s perception of Hispanic immigrants. He thought they all worked outside. She explained to him that the job market for people with language barriers and minimum education is often made up of manual labor positions, i.e. “outside work.” That also explains in part what is going on at the hospital. I might not have thought anything else about it except that then I read another column, this one in The Boston Globe. It was by business columnist Steve Bailey and was called “Immigration and race“(Boston Globe/Business, 2/8/08). He was talking about “the negative economic consequences of immigration on the employment rate and wages in the African-American community.” He argued that Hillary Clinton was telling “difficult truths” when she said, “I believe…that in many parts of our country, because of employers who exploit undocumented workers and drive down wages, there are job losses.” He intimated that Barack Obama was being less truthful when he said, I think to suggest somehow that the problem we’re seeing in inner-city unemployment…is attributable to immigrants…is a case of scapegoating…”
To me both statements are true and that is what I was seeing at the hospital. The institutionalized exploitation of both American born people of color and immigrants through wage manipulation and unequal educational opportunities. And I think that this is the point that white people ignore when they give the “American dream”, access to all speech.
So I wonder if it looks the same way in other hospitals in the country or is it unique to Boston where I live. (This place has a problem with the polarization of groups in general) I’d like to know what people in other parts of the country observe especially folks who work in hospitals. | |
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| Just last night, my mom and I were talking about people comparing Sen. Obama to President Kennedy and his Brother Sen. Bobby Kennedy and today comes the endorsement from the family. I also watched an interesting round table discussion over the weekend where a group of Black women discussed Senators Clinton & Obama, it was interesting to me that they seemed not to view him as a way to get one of "us" in The Office, but rather a way to finally begin to truly transcend racially divisiveness and to celebrate the multicultural nature of America. More of a way to heal than a way to finally "get what's coming to us." Most of the people I know that are excited about Senator Obama don't even talk about his race, they talk about his ideas, his energy, his charisma and when it does come up, it's one characteristic among many and not a central issue. I was just curious as to whether or not any of you had some thoughts on the subject and whether you'd experienced a similar impression. ( News Article:Sen. Kennedy Backs Obama for President ) | |
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| If you, as an individual Black voter, are voting for this man without knowing the answers to these questions then you are not merely giving away your vote; you are selling out. You are not voting for the good of the race, for the good of South Carolina, for the good of your children. You are voting because of pigmentation, not policy articulation. You are voting because it makes YOU feel good to have a viable Black candidate. You are voting because YOU want to see a Black man sitting in the Oval Office. It matters not whether or not this is the right Black man, it only matters that it is A Black man.http://campaignconsultant.blogspot.com/2008/01/are-south-carolinian-blacks-selling-out.html | |
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| Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness Washington, DC March 20-23, 2008 www.SplitThisRock.org info@splitthisrock.org Split This Rock Poetry Festival calls poets to a greater role in public life and fosters a national network of activist poets. Building the audience for poetry of provocation and witness from our home in the nation's capital, we celebrate poetic diversity and the transformative power of the imagination. Featuring readings, workshops, panels, contests, walking tours, film, parties, and activism! See the website for the incredible line-up of poets, including Lucille Clifton, Mark Doty, Martín Espada, Sam Hamill, Galway Kinnell, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sonia Sanchez, and many more. Split This Rock is cosponsored by DC Poets Against the War, Sol & Soul, Busboys and Poets, and the Institute for Policy Studies. www.SplitThisRock.org Poetry Contest – January 15 Deadline: The contest benefits Split This Rock Poetry Festival. $1,000 awarded for poems of provocation & witness; Kyle G. Dargan will judge. $500 for 1st, $300 for 2 nd, and $200 for 3rd place. 1st place winner will read the winning poem at the festival. The poem will also be published on the festival website at www.SplitThisRock.org. All winners receive free festival admission. $20 entry fee benefits the festival. Postmark Deadline: January 15, 2008. Guidelines for entry: http://splitthisrock.org/contests.html. Call for Poetry Films – January 30 Deadline: Seeking artistic, experimental, and challenging interpretations of poetry that explore critical social issues. Films up to 15 minutes. Entry fee: $15. Selected films and videos will be screened during the festival's film program. For full guidelines and required entry form: http://splitthisrock.org/film.html Support Split This Rock, the historic gathering of activist poets: Every dollar you give is tax-deductible through our fiscal sponsor, the Institute for Policy Studies. Just click here: https://secure.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/IPS/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=1120 and be sure to designate "Split This Rock" as the project you'd like to support. Or send a check payable to "IPS/Split This Rock" to: IPS, 1112 16 th Street, NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20036. Many thanks! Your contribution will make a tremendous difference. | |
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| Recently, I was in a supermarket parking lot and I saw two African-American young men in “gansta” wear pass an Asian man who was pushing a shopping cart of recycling bottles. The 51 yr old me wanted to tell them; That guy probably has a nice home, paid bills and is using those bottles to send his kids to med school and isn’t too proud to do it! What are you all doing besides swaggering? Then I remembered, in my bones, the unique fight of resistance we African Americans have to wage everyday. Those “do” rags are a symbol of resistance to the ongoing battle against us. How else are those young men to show dignity and resistance given the institutionalized cycle of lack of positive male role models due to incarceration due to lack of job opportunities, due to inadequate education. How else? This started me thinking about some things I have been reading lately. First, I thought about evamarie85’s August post to “Black Intellects” about her grandmother’s book “When We Were Colored…” If stories of “the only” struggles aren’t examples of resistance then I don’t know what is. On October 19 2006, Harvard Divinity School hosted James Cone, Charles A. Briggs Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, to present the 2006 Ingersoll Lecture. His subject was the cross and the lynching tree. “The lynching tree is a metaphor for race in America, a symbol of America's crucifixion of black people… Jesus did not want to die on the cross, and blacks did not want to swing from the lynching tree. But the evil forces of the Roman State and white supremacy in America willed it. Yet God took the evil of the cross and the lynching tree… and transformed both into the triumphant beauty of the divine.” The key word here is triumphant because both the cross and the lynching tree are symbols of a resistance that is triumphant over that which seeks to overcome. So those young men in the parking lot were in fact practicing the triumph of resistance. In her book “The Skin We’re In”, Dr. Janie Ward discusses resistance and the ways in which African American parents teach strategies for healthy resistance to our children. She states, “As African Americans, we have a history of resistance that is long, strong and extraordinary. All along we have struggled to maintain hope, ward off internalizing our conferred inferior status, maintain a sense of self and build upon our individual and collective strength.” I recently finished Fulani Davis’ novel “1959” which also deals with collective active resistance. The story takes deals with the desegregation struggle and the effect of the community’s values on its children. Fortunately, for me all these sources reminded me that I need to check myself when I look at some of our young people and want to judge them from inside the “race uplift” box. As Dr. Ward stated, “Resistance doesn’t just mean finding a voice; it also involves, for some, an internal reformulation of self, an effort in adulthood to define the self in one’s own terms.” I need to remember that our youth are fighting for their lives and ask myself what I am doing to help them. | |
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