I just attended an event hosted by an organization called the New Politics Institute featuring Markos Moulitsas and Joe Trippi. Although both Moulitsas and Trippi focused a bit too much on the Ohio special election, talking about how it had “proved” the power of the new medium, overall it was a good event by an […]
Free Concert September 24
This graphic was produced by Mike Flugennock to use to promote a free concert to be held at the Washington Monument on September 24, sponsored by United for Peace and Justice called Operation Ceasefire. According to the flyer (see it on Flickr), the concert will feature the Thievery Corporation, Anti-Flag, Le Tigre, Bouncing Souls, Wayne […]
Mayor Hieftje To Teach Course
I just heard about this course being offered in the fall at U-M: Local Government: Opportunity for Activism PUBPOL 756 Instructor: Mayor John Hieftje Tuesdays/Thursdays 2:00 – 3:30 473 Lorch Hall What goes on in city government is in many ways more important to our lives than what happens in Washington. This course goes beyond […]
Ann Arbor Ward 2 Voters: Vote For Eugene Kang!
U-M undergrad and candidate for City Council in Ward 2 (contains the Hill Dorms and Northeast Ann Arbor) Eugene Kang’s primary election is today. If you are a registered Ward 2 voter, go vote for Eugene! > See Eugene’s official website > See results as they are reported Some campaign lit I had posted earlier […]
Student Voting Rights
I feel like I’ve been really testing the adage “it’s better late than neverâ€? on this blog lately. Anyway, I was recently reminded of a group that I vaguely knew about that did a lot of great work during the 2004 election – the Student Voting Rights Campaign. With Eugene Kang running in Ann Arbor […]
What They’re Worth
The WaPo on some notable members of the House and Senate. Look up how much the pols are worth on Opensecrets. —–
Paulo Freire on ‘the Word’
Not sure why I’ve been thinking about this recently. This is the first few paragraphs of chapter three of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed: As we attempt to analyze dialogue as a human phenomenon, we discover something which is the essence of dialogue itself: the word. But the word is more than just an […]