Bill Bigelow

bill [at] rethinkingschools.org (Bill Bigelow )is the curriculum editor of Rethinking Schools magazine and co-director of the online Zinn Education Project.

Teaching Against War, for Humanity

 

Wars? What wars? On the eve of the U.S. midterm elections, WikiLeaks released the largest cache of classified war documents in history, covering years of U.S. conduct in Iraq. And, as Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman pointed out, “It barely warranted a mention on the agenda-setting Sunday talk shows.” As columnist Gary Younge commented in The Nation, “The American people, it seems, are bored with war. Like a reality show that’s gone on too long, it ceases to shock, shame, or even interest.”