Living the Lesson
Volume: 28
Number: 1
Not MLK’s Morality I find Obama’s escalation of the war in Afghanistan reprehensible and at odds with the praise given in the article “Reviewing the Obama Presidency” (WIN, Fall 2010). How does one account for his “routine expression of personal nonviolence”? Does an expression of nonviolence stop at the U.S. borders? Or as Remick and…
Peace activists in Oklahoma don’t often expect to find themselves in the middle of an international story, much less one involving war crimes, global diplomacy, and a GI suspected of leaking a record number of classified documents. But that’s what happened when Oklahoma native Bradley Manning was arrested on suspicion of leaking the “Collateral…
Singing Solo, But Not Alone ‘To Everything There Is a Season’: Pete Seeger and the Power of Song By Allan M. Winkler Oxford University Press, 2009, 256 pages, $23.95 From a gangly 20-year-old to a still-skinny nonagenarian, Pete Seeger has always been a phenomenon. Allan Winkler’s detailed yet accessible book places Seeger’s long life and…
What the Massacre Means Midnight on the Mavi Marmara: The Attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and How It Changed the Course of the Israel/Palestine Conflict Edited by Moustafa Bayoumi OR Books, 2010, 256 pages, $16 On May 31, 2010, Israeli commandos boarded ships that were attempting to break Israel’s crippling blockade of Gaza. On…
Photos by Jason Masten When budget cuts threatened the program that provides transportation for New York City schoolchildren, Urban Youth Collaborative organized students to fight back. Without the student MetroCard program, which provides free public transportation to and from school, New York City K–12 students living in zones where the schools are severely overcrowded and…
Photos by Colin M. Lenton Singing during a different era, Gil Scott-Heron claimed that “the revolution will not be televised,” but in the case of Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools, or the Rethinkers, the revolution is being televised. The Rethinkers, a group of motivated middle-school students from New Orleans, are creating their own revolution within…
And the New American Revolution Though we may not like to admit it, the U.S. commitment to publicly supported teachers and students is coming to an abrupt end. The global corporate penchant for privatization, commoditization, and enclosure is having chilling effects on policies that scholar Henry Giroux suggests “seek nothing less than the total destruction…
By VAMOS Unidos Youth This past year saw immigrant youth mobilize in the United States with new strength and boldness, as undocumented young people led actions against deportations and “came out” publicly about their status. Much of this work centered on passing the DREAM Act, which would have paved the way for immigrant youth to…
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…
Student Activists Say “No!” This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to…
Teaching Culture & Resistance By the Palestine Education Project The same ground you walk on, we do too… These words, excerpted from a poem by Tyeema translated into Arabic for a mural now hanging in Balata Refugee Camp in Nablus, speak to a journey students and teachers have been making in Brooklyn for the past three…
As we go to press with this issue, student protesters at the University of Puerto Rico are standing their ground despite excessive force and abuse by police riot squads. The administration claims to be “keeping order” following a creative and peaceful action by students challenging a burdensome new fee, in addition to already climbing tuition….
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