When Schools Become Dead Zones of the Imagination: a Critical Pedagogy Manifesto Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: Rather than create autonomous, critical and civically engaged students, the un-reformers kill the imagination while depoliticizing all vestiges of teaching and learning. Read the Article The Labor Movement Will Be Televised: Strength in Union Examines Past, Present, Future of US Labor Movement Candice Bernd, Truthout: A new made-for-television documentary series will air five one-hour episodes covering the history of the labor movement from the battle with the Pinkertons to the Homestead Strike to the Haymarket Riot and beyond to examine issues like globalization and the future of the labor movement. Read the Article Paul Krugman | When a Political Party Goes Off the Deep End Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: The GOP is about to reap a whirlwind from its political base because it hasn't been able to face the fact that it has lost the war over the shape of American society. Read the Article What Do You Do When You No Longer Need Your Slaves? The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: Turning unemployed Americans into very profitable prisoners is a booming business. Read the Article Ladydrawers: Fast Fashion Anne Elizabeth Moore and Julia Gfrorer, Truthout: Today's Ladydrawers strip kicks off a yearlong investigation into women's international labor, primarily through the global garment and sex trades. Of course, it starts with fashion - not only the largest employer of women worldwide but one of most significant ways through which sexuality is expressed in the US and around the world. Read the Comic Who Needs a Peace Process When You Can Have a Prawer Plan? Anna Lekas Miller, Truthout: What kind of peace "process" ignores the massive Israeli settlement of the West Bank and the Prawer Plan to dispossess Palestinian Bedouin of 99 percent of their native land? Read the Article The Police State Mindset in Our Public Schools John W. Whitehead, The Rutherford Institute: Instead of making schools safer, we've simply managed to make them more authoritarian. Read the Article The Secret History of GI Joe, Barbie, Joe, Darth Vadar and Making War in Children's Culture Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: GI Joe, like much else in his era, was hardly what he seemed. Read the Article On the News With Thom Hartmann: Another Key Provision of Obamacare Meant to Protect Consumers Is Being Delayed, and More In today's On the News segment: The Obama administration is holding off on instituting out-of-pocket expense limits; North Carolina's Republican Gov. Pat McCrory signed our nation's most restrictive voter ID law on Monday; California became the first state in our nation to provide legal protections to transgender students; and more. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript Memo from Oslo: If Peace Is Prized, a Nobel for Bradley Manning Norman Solomon, Norman Solomon's Blog: "Bradley Manning lifted a shroud and illuminated terrible actions of the USA's warfare state. He chose courage on behalf of humanity. He refused to just follow orders." Read the Article The US Has Lowest Minimum Wage and Most Young People Without Jobs Among Wealthiest Countries Jaisal Noor, The Real News Network: Over 100 economists have signed a petition demanding a raise to the minimum wage. Noor speaks with Robert Pollin, Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Watch the Video |
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