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NOBODY’S RECRUITS: BACK TO SCHOOL
As the economy erodes and hard-pressed states like California institute draconian cuts in funding to public education, we have to ask ourselves what kind of education a child in a class of 40 or 50...
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NOBODY’S RECRUITS: DATA MINING
A now infamous provision of the education bill No Child Left Behind required schools to provide private information like student addresses and phone numbers to military recruiters, or lose federal...
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Why I started Under the Hood in Killeen, TX
By Cindy Thomas In 2005 my husband was severely wounded in Iraq and the Army labeled him “undeployable.” But, in 2007, they deployed him again. That is when I began to realize that I could no longer...
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Things I Do and Do Not Remember on Memorial Day 2010
By Janet Weil “…the first memorial day was observed by formerly enslaved black people … in Charleston, South Carolina. The race course had been used as a temporary Confederate prison camp for captured...
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Social Formations: Getting down, dirty, and deep for justice in Detroit
Reflections on the 2010 US Social Forum from a Pinker Whew! What an action-packed week it’s been! I’m sitting at my friend’s kitchen table in Madison, Wisconsin and I think it’s the first time I’ve...
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Inspiration for Your Friday
by Janet Weil “Does my sassiness upset you?” – Maya Angelou (1928 – 2014) This past week was punctuated, for me as for many people, by the news of two very different sorts of deaths. The natural...
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