March on Detroit: the right to water

July 21, 2014 by eagle

It is outrageous that General Motors and two sports arenas have not paid their bills…and yet, their water has not been turned off.

It is outrageous that children are being taken away from their parents when their water is shut off.

As a response to this–what about drilling for wells? There are probably laws against that, but I say go for it. It will be hard, but at least one has access to water.

Meanwhile, General Motors and the city’s two sports arenas, which owe millions in unpaid water bills, have not had their water turned off. – See more at: http://www.progressive.org/news/2014/07/187784/water-rights-march-detroit#sthash.87CJMFVo.dpuf

Farewell to Teaching

July 21, 2014 by eagle

I hope that you will keep the door open to teaching. We need teachers that care about what they’re teaching their students and aren’t just there for the paycheck.
I was dismayed when I started my college career at 34–the classes were mostly lectures with very little debate or exchange of ideas and viewpoints. Those open discussions expand an education beyond the confines of a textbook. In the few classes I had where debates were allowed, i found it thought-provoking for both sides.

Voices from the Margins

Carol A. Hand

This post is a farewell to a vocation I have loved – teaching. I awoke this morning with a clear answer to a question I have been pondering for several weeks, “Should I resign from teaching, perhaps this time with no intention of ever returning?”

Yes, it’s time. Although I love working with students, the context of teaching at the post high school level has increasingly provided too little space for liberatory praxis.

Photo Credit: Graduate Celebration – 2009

It’s the structure of education, not the students, that has been the determining factor for my decision. During my brief time as an adjunct for a private college, I have witnessed the transformation of a program originally based on emphasizing critical thinking and experiential learning based on social justice to a “feeder” program preparing students for a clinical master’s degree. The transition didn’t occur over night, but…

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Not everyone is outraged by San Francisco’s most obnoxious billboard (Spoiler: Libertarians)

July 21, 2014 by eagle

…”Especially if you’re a well-paid white dude who doesn’t have to live in San Francisco, let alone work a minimum wage job (which seems to be the common theme amongst those loudly cheering the billboard for reflecting “reality.”)”

WORD. It’s always amazing to me that those who are making good money look down their noses at others who want the same. Hell, not even the same–but enough to feed their families, pay the rent, and take care of the average stuff in order to live.

Israel bombs another hospital

July 21, 2014 by eagle

Report on DemocracyNow!

They are deliberately bombing hospitals. Stunning example of callous indifference.

And they bombed peaceful civilians that have nothing to do with Hamas at prayer time in the evening–I don’t think this was by accident. A religious prejudice, it would seem.

I was watching NBC news last night, and the reporter, that was taken out of Gaza, but is now returned, showed EMTs losing it–they are used to see blood and bodies, but even they cannot stand what it happening. There was utter chaos in the hospital with injured people being turned away because they have no room for any more.

This has to stop. Has to stop. Now.

Not only do hedge fund managers want to profit off of schools…

July 21, 2014 by eagle

…they also want to profit off of the misery they caused by the housing collapse…to rent out single family homes, at astronomical prices, no doubt.

Does anybody else smell a rat??

Did these scumbags create the crisis of credit default swaps so that people would lose their homes, and then the Wall Street banksters could snap up properties at bargain basement prices…?

It certainly looks that way to me.