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t r u t h o u t | Living in a Culture of Cruelty: Democracy as Spectacle
In pointing to a culture of cruelty, I am not employing a form of left moralism that collapses matters of power and politics into the discourse of character. On the contrary, I think the notion of a culture of cruelty is useful in thinking through the convergence of everyday life and politics, of considering material relations of power - the disciplining of the body as an object of control - on the one hand, and the production of cultural meaning, especially the co-optation of popular culture to sanction official violence, on the other. The culture of cruelty is important for thinking through how life and death now converge in ways that fundamentally transform how we understand and imagine politics in the current historical moment - a moment when the most vital of safety nets, health care reform, is being undermined by right-wing
Economist's View: "The Power Elite"
Mills offers a sort of middle-level sociology of power in America. He believes that power in the America of the 1950s centers in the economic, political, and military domains -- corporations, the state, and the military are all organized around networks of influence at the top of which stands a relatively small number of extremely powerful people. (It seems that Mills's description of the military is less apt today; perhaps not surprising, given that Mills was writing in the middle of the Cold War.) Power is defined as the ability to achieve what one wants over the opposition of others; and the levers of power are the great institutions in society -- corporations, political institutions, and the military. And the thesis is that a relatively compact group of people exercise hegemony in each of these areas. Moreover, power leads often to wealth, in that power permits firms and individuals to gain access to society's wealth. So a power elite is often also an economic elite.
t r u t h o u t | "Argentina: Turning Around" - an Interview With Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young
Drawing from diverse interviews and incredible footage, the film offers an inside look at the victories and challenges of Argentina's neighborhood assemblies, protest movements and worker-run factories.
Truthdig - Reports - The Age of Paine
“We have it in our power to begin the world over again,” wrote Thomas Paine in “Common Sense,” the revolutionary pamphlet published in January 1776. Ronald Reagan quoted those words on July 17, 1980, when he addressed the Republican National Convention and accepted his party’s presidential nomination. Reagan led a coalition of corporate oligarchs, imperial crusaders and Christian fundamentalists to power, and to this day Reaganism remains the official gospel of the old guard in the Republican Party. The republican and social democratic ideals of Paine are long lost to many modern partisan Republicans and Democrats, but many memorable phrases of Paine still fill the mouths of career politicians.
t r u t h o u t | Conversation With Henry Giroux: Let Us Make Haste While We Can (Part II)
Henry Giroux: I think public education and higher education are now suffering from two kinds of crisis: A "legitimation" crisis, and a "political" crisis.
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This is a generation
no longer at risk; they are the risk. This is a generation we no longer invest
in, because it constitutes a long-term investment. And, as I write in my new
book, this is a generation now characterized as "suspects."
Torturing Democracy
Documentary film about "enhance interrogation" as practiced by the US under the Bush admin. -shown on Bill Moyer's Journal 5-29-09
ASCD Inservice: My Back Pages: Reflections of a Sixth Grade
n 1954, Elizabeth Johnson, 6th grade supervisor in a Kalamazoo, Mich., school, sought to empower her students and encourage critical thinking, reflection, and cooperation. [Hoffman - shared]
Howard Zinn's Havens Center lecture shown on Democracy Now | Havens Center
full video of Dr. Zinn's lecture, produced by On the Earth Productions and shown on Democracy Now on November 23, 2006.
Lost Worlds: Is Another World Possible? - CommonDreams.org
“There is no alternative,” said Thatcher. “History has ended,” said Fukuyama.
Bridging Differences: The Collapse of the Annenberg Challenge
Instead of moving toward more direct voice “from the field” the Bloomberg Mayoral Plan insures as few intermediaries or dissident voices and as little public review as possible.
YDS > About YDS > Toward a Democratic Socialism
democratic socialists work towards a society characterized by equality, solidarity, and participation... orchestrated from below in the workplaces, neighborhoods, and schools of civil society.
Tomgram: Rick Shenkman, American Stupidity
But what does it mean exactly to say that American voters are stupid? About this there is unfortunately no consensus.
FPSPI
FPSPI features curricular and co-curricular competitive, as well as non-competitive, activities in creative problem solving.
Center for Civic Education Project Citizen: Students Making A Difference
Project Citizen is a civic education program that engages students in cooperative learning activities.... as a class, students learn to interact with their government and community leaders
Classroom Resources | AFT Peace and Justice Caucus
links to peace and justice curriculum ideas
Center for Civic Education Introduction
Entire classes of students or members of youth or adult organizations work cooperatively to identify a public policy problem in their community.
It's Time to Reboot America. | Rebooting America
How can we leverage the exponential power of many-to-many deliberation for the common good?
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