Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid JONATHAN KOZOL / Harper's Magazine v.311, n.1864 1sep2005: "I asked her if she thought America truly did not 'have room' for her or other children of her race. 'Think of it this way,' said a sixteen-year-old girl sitting beside her. 'If people in New York woke up one day and learned that we were gone, that we had simply died or left for somewhere else, how would they feel?'
'How do you think they'd feel?' I asked.
'I think they'd he relieved,' this very solemn girl replied."
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Solidarity Economics: "The term “solidarity economy” is the English translation of economia solidária (Portuguese), economía solidaria (Spanish), and economie solidaire (French). I first encountered it at the second World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil (January 2002). Broadly defined, it names a grassroots form of cooperative economics that is working throughout the world (predominately in Spanish, Portuguese, and French-speaking countries) to connect thousands of local alternatives together to create large-scale, viable, and creative networks of resistance to the profit-centered economy. I believe that the concept of “solidarity economy” offers our movements here in the U.S. a powerful, connective tool with which to link together—horizontally and autonomously—many of the alternative practices of cooperation, mutual aid, reciprocity, and generosity that already exist in our midst. Such ongoing connections can form the basis for larger, long-term movements that cultivate spaces of hope and freedom and de-link our lives and communities from the economy of Empire."
posted by geoff on 11/16/2005 03:51:06 PM
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Salon.com Life | Love under lock and key: "In debates about America's swelling prison system, a shadow population often remains unmentioned: the children of the convicted. But in a new book, 'All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated,' journalist and activist Nell Bernstein lifts the cloak of invisibility from prisoners' families -- and challenges the criminal justice system to stop punishing kids for their parents' crimes."
posted by geoff on 11/16/2005 03:31:14 PM
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Nick's scanner is a CanoScan LiDE 20/LiDE30 which is supported under linux.
posted by geoff on 11/15/2005 09:32:00 PM
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