The winners of the digital revolution include hairdressers, plumbers, care and service workers and professions that have something to do with creativity and responsibility (1). It's starting to work in my head. If that is the case, then it is fair to ask whether we still need compulsory education. Why should we all be forced to go to school and learn things that we don't need in our lives?
Wétiko could be cured. The afflicted man was given warmth, contact and enough to eat; he was given services to the sick and the elderly and to be with children, always in the midst of the community. And at some point he knew again what life was about and who he actually was: part of a social fabric, child of the earth.
New Deal means The Courage to Conflict (tags)
What we can learn from Roosevelt's reform policies of the 1930s today From 1929 onwards, as in many other capitalist countries, the US economy plunged into disaster. Between 1929 and 1933, GDP halved and unemployment rose eightfold to 12.8 million.
Donald Trump is an International Law Breaker (tags)
Trump slips into `endless war' cycle or endless quagmire. The one thing we learn from history is that we don't learn from history (Albert Einstein).
Palestine Advocacy Day 2017 (tags)
two-day intensive training provided by legislative affairs experts
Dennis Mahon and Auntie Racist (tags)
All about free speech and the consequences thereof.
As the people learn of the murderous and criminal minds that dominate all fbi operations, that dirty agency ceases to exist.
Open Letter to LA indymedia re hardly any more comments (tags)
changes to keep out the riff-raff repeaters were made here at la.indy.media and notice the lack of effort most will make to jump the hurdles and whatallittakes to respond, even if we want to we seem to say "why bother if it takes that much More effort ?"
Spring-Break-March Delegation to Venezuela: The Revolution Continues! (tags)
While the mainstream media speculates about the future of the Bolivarian Revolution since the passing of Hugo Chavez, for the Venezuelan popular sectors, there is no turning back to a state of marginalization and exclusion. Come learn about the process currently transpiring in Venezuela as the people, faithful to the legacy of Chavez, deepen and further radicalize their struggle in defense of the Bolivarian Revolution. Come learn, connect, and show your solidarity at this critical moment for the Venezuelan process.
Loretta Lynch for AG: Holder 2.0? (tags)
DOJ
You Could Learn a lot from the Scapegoated (tags)
Those undergoing the worst attacks by all manner of overt and covert domestic warfare have a lot to teach, especially as one notes how intense the spooks work on some of their forums.
Javascript / General Programming Class Forming (tags)
Forming a local JS/general programming class. If you're interested, send an email.
Licenses for All! • Townhall (tags)
Licenses for All Townhall Meeting Stop Deportations Saturday, August 18, 2012 12:30pm until 2:30pm Please come and learn about the campaign to pass a new law: driver’s licenses for all. Defend our rights & stop the car impounds. LAPD, Sheriff Baca stop cooperationg with ICE! Also come and learn about immigrant rights & the struggle for legalization. Free T-shirts for first 10 people. Where: Benjamin Franklin Library 2200 East 1st. Street & Chicago St. LA, CA 90033 Centro CSO: (Community Service Organization) and Southern California Immigration Coalition www.csosite.org www.immigrationcoalition.org www.facebook.com/Centro CSO
GMO labeling Signature Gathering Training (tags)
Learn how to effectively educate and recruit supporters to the cause of labeling Genetically Modified Organisms in the state of California.
Education of the Homo Oeconomicus (tags)
The school system should not only produce students with a narrowed economic view. Society consists of more than the sum of benefit-maximizing individuals.An economic system with fewer income differences, regulated financial markets and welfare state brings greater stability.
Feminist Year in Review (tags)
Learn how Radical Women trains and chooses its leadership and decides its political priorities and explore how you can get involved.
Abolish Teenage Sexual Abstinence (tags)
The truth about the destructive effects of teenage sexual abstinence has been suppressed for more than 100 years. Religions have promoted unhealthy attitudes toward sexuality for thousands of years. The truth must be heard, and honest dialogue encouraged.
Have you heard of Building 7? (tags)
A group of 9/11 family members have produced a TV ad campaign called “BuildingWhat?” to raise awareness of the collapse of this building.
Peace through Education (video) (tags)
This is a video for anyone who’s struggling for a better education, especially immigrant students. I’ll go toe to toe with Glen Beck to see who knows what about life any day.
Community Centers as a New Beginning (tags)
With $1 billion, the US could build 4000 community centers at a quarter-million dollars each. The network of community centers in Vancouver Canada could be our model. Public spirit could arise to counter the exploding inequality.
"Guerilla Gardening and Learn to Grow Your Own Urban Food" @ L.A. Greens for Earth Day (tags)
Celebrate Earth Day with L.A. Greens: Vegetarian potluck and 3 guest speakers: "Guerilla Gardening and Learn to Grow Your Own Urban Food." Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at 7pm, Peace Center, 8124 W. Third St., Los Angeles
Signatures Gathered for Human Rights Education (tags)
Youth for Human Rights Florida collected approximately 1,000 petition signatures over the weekend as part of a three-day human rights “Signathon”, with the purpose to get the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights taught in Florida classrooms of elementary, middle and senior high schools.
Dr. Arthur Becker-Weidman and the "Homework Problem" (tags)
Dr. Arthur Becker-Weidman, founder of the Center for Family Development, shares some insights on a common problem: homework!
The UD Shuffle | Notice (tags)
If you have been sued in unlawful detainer you will be forced to learn a dance called the UD Shuffle. It’s not romantic or fun. It’s fast and furious and there are a lot of steps to learn.
Humans are unworthy of existence (tags)
Selfish. Greedy. Ignorant in every way.
Harassed by Mann Bracken? (tags)
Mann Bracken used to force people into arbitration. Guess what, they owned the arbitrators! Learn your rights and fight back, you may be due a refund!
Debt Collection Arbitration Scam EXPOSED (tags)
Collection Agencies and Arbitrator's have not been at arm's length, producing unfavorable results for consumers. Learn your rights! You may be eligible for a refund or to participate in a class action lawsuit.
Public School is Poison for our Children (tags)
School cuts are destroying projects that are an antidote to school, schools have been limiting our children's rights and school can't teach our children but force them to memorize which we won't remember later.
People's Assembly for Popular Education & Liberation: Summer School Program Update (tags)
With LAUSD cuts to summer school programs already in effect, a community of activists, teachers, parents and concerned citizens have held summer school for grades K-12 in front of LAUSD's Administrative Headquarters at 333 South Beaudry Street. While attendance was small, and kept that way for symbolic purposes, we are ready to move to a different location, one that will accommodate more students and parents. But we need your help!
Very important, because in each heart, this Love is powerful. But this Love is also as powerful as it is disregarded. So, we are trying to make you know it better, feel it better.
Former S&L Regulator: Absolutely A Banking Bailout Coverup (tags)
This Bill Moyers interview is going viral so fast, I can’t even keep up with it. And for a very good reason - former S&L regulator Bill Black explains exactly why the current banking bailout is a mistake. Hat-tip to Crooks & Liars for content!
GRant Writing Workshop for Activists and Artists Apr 22 (tags)
This is a low-cost community-friendly grant writing workshop. Come and learn some skills to help fund your activist and art projects.
All God's Children Are Psychic (tags)
all psychic matters have been repressed viciously and deemed "evil" or "sinful" by those who sought to maintain control over their "brothers." Such persecution led to secrecy
Kindergartners Learn “Little” Wars are OK in Glendale, CA (tags)
Mountain Ave. Elementary kindergarten teacher Ashley Sparks helps children learn the difference between wars and "little" wars (Glendale Unified School District, California).
An Alternative to Capitalism? (tags)
"Have we become gluttons for punishment? My college professor once said, We can get used to hanging if we live long enough!"
BUSTAN's Ramadan/Rosh HaShana Event (tags)
you know about wars in the middle east and their impact on land, resources, and people. but not much is known about green efforts to make peace.
Open Skill Sharing Community! (tags)
laskillshare.freehosting.net -- an opportunity for all LA dwellers to offer eachother their skills and learn new ones.
LA Indymedia Workshop June 28th at the LA Social Forum (tags)
What is alternative media and how is it important in the current political and social condition? How can the Indymedia network find new outlets and reach a larger audience?
Join Robina Suwol at Whole Children, Whole Planet Expo 2008 (tags)
Two-Day Event Features Exhibits, Special Events and Family Fun! Three Stages, Natural Foods, Celebrities, Experts and Interactive Performances
Father confessed to murder of his children by throwing them over the Dauphin Island Bridge (tags)
This senseless tragedy is hard for most people to process.
Join Robina Suwol of California Safe Schools (tags)
Green California Schools Summit December 4-6, 2007 Pasadena Conference Center Pasadena, CA
Sign the Petition to Save Hawaii! (tags)
This is a petition to help stop the rampant destruction and radioactive contamination of the Hawaiian Islands by the US military! Please take just one moment to oppose the military's degradation of Hawaiian ecoystems and public health!
Motion for Remand : Denied (tags)
Getting behind the scene of a sting operation
Lying into "Humanitarian" Wars (tags)
The worst lie of all is that we are not waging war but only taking "humanitarian peacekeeping measures" in Orwellian newspeak.. The great chance is that a generation will rise up that doesn't need to enter history through the battlefield.
How the State of Education Has Changed Over Time in (tags)
I think, when the school opens this June, it’s high time to send our officials back to school so that they would learn first hand the real sad state of our educational system. #
The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (tags)
If you are worried about high gas prices and local food supplies, and want to know what the speeding Hummer of our economy might look like when it grinds to a halt, come and see the film on Friday.
MUST SEE -- 911 truth video HOT OFF THE NET (tags)
911 truth: Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime new SHOCKING documentary released 8 may 2006 !!!
ANOTHER FACE TO THE IMMIGRATION DISCUSSION (tags)
I have been inundated lately with a flood of articles analyzing the pros and cons of the various immigration bills, the impact of immigration on our social structures, the changing face of the color of our population, etc. I think there is something seriously missing in almost the entire discussion and analysis about immigrants; and that is the fact that the majority of them are misplaced people.
America's KGB doesn't read papers & won't learn from history (tags)
America's new KGB--King George Bush--once bragged about not reading newspapers, now refuses to learn from the past. POTUS 43(Pretzeldent of the U.S.), in his SOTU(sad state of the union) rant, now tries to weasel out of his Iraq debacle by derisively rejecting 'Monday morning QBacking.'
Raise the CA Minimum Wage Initiative--training Jan. 23 (tags)
Join in the statewide coalition to raise the minimum wage to $7.75 with an annual cost-of-living-increase.
May 25- Learn more about travel to Palestine (tags)
IWitness Palestine invites you to learn more about how you can travel to Palestine. Past participants with such groups as Christian Peacemakers Team, Project Hope, the International Solidarity Movement, Fellowship Of Reconcilliation, and others will discuss their experiences and plans for the summer.
May 25- Learn more about travel to Palestine (tags)
IWitness Palestine invites you to learn more about how you can travel to Palestine. Past participants with such groups as Christian Peacemakers Team, Project Hope, the International Solidarity Movement, Fellowship Of Reconcilliation, and others will discuss their experiences and plans for the summer.
This is an article about the screaming that goes on in a war zone and the screaming that continues, late at night, long after it has ended.
Cuba Comes to Los Angeles (tags)
What can we learn from a communist state considered by many to be a "third-world" society? Plenty! Because of their response to the dire situation imposed upon them by the Embargo, the Cubans have been praised for being the number one country in the world for their sustainable practices by the United Nations.
Monty Python on Post-Modern Bush (tags)
This Monty Python letter could cheer us in this murky world of denial and myopia. Pyro-maniacs make poor firefighters. Wolves in sheeps' clothing make poor leaders. Enron lawyers (eg Gonzales) make poor Attorney Generals.
CALIFORNIA PARENTS GAIN RIGHT TO KNOW - 1-888-NO-POISON (tags)
Learn about the problems with pesticides and safer options from the School Pesticide Reform Coalition at http://www.nopoison.org or at 1-888-NO-POISON.
Tactics for not allowing tyranny to smash us! (tags)
With Legalization of 'COINTELPRO'-styled official attack, challengers to status-quo must adopt the techniques of a *resistance of consciousness* and *mass-jiu-jitsu*, or continue to be completely dominated.
Sat.Jun26 3pm Event - MALDEF& Music - Defend Immigrants Rights (tags)
Reception for photo exhibit features speaker from MALDEF, music by Domingo Siete, poetry from EnDependence. Images from the Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride by Peter Holderness. Event to benefit Border Action in Arizona: New American Freedom Summer.
Rat & Bullies to Make Its California Debut at DancesWithFilms (tags)
A powerful and evocative epic documentary film chronicles the causes and consequences of bullycide.
Natural Building and Deep Ecology Training in Tennessee (tags)
The Sequatchie Valley Institute at Moonshadow, a non-profit organization, will host its 3rd annual Natural Building Workshop June 18th-27th. Learn how to build a natural, affordable, long-lasting, beautiful home with materials from the land. Particpants will learn through hands-on workshops using cob, adobe, timber-framing, and more. The workshop cost is $650 with work trade and scholarships available. Limited space is available and you must register to attend. For more information, please contact SVI at (423) 949-5922, or email efactivist@yahoo.com. More information is available on the web at www.svionline.org.
Learn Adobe Photoshop and digital image editing (tags)
Class available on Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and digital image editing
Neocons: Learning Disabled (tags)
The Bush administration, I fear, is severely learning-disabled.
Peak Oil, a plea to learn about it, teach, and press for responsible leadership (tags)
Post-peak oil production, or “Peak Oil” is possibly the most important issue of our time. The decline of oil production and the increase in demand is at or near a very critical threshold. It will shake the foundations of human life on planet Earth
And Now for Something Completely Different (tags)
We all need a little levity break from time to time. As opposed to levitation break.
Spook Alert: Ahhnold's Going Down, Ya' Losers! (tags)
Despite the best and most insidious efforts of the right-wing, the pro-republican news media, and their agents, the surveillance spooks on the IMC, California voters are smarter than the average pro-Ahhnold-supporting moron whose mentality is shaped by CNN, FuxNEws and terminator movies, and he will go down. Sorry, losers...
Ethnocentrism or just ehnicity?
Protesters Should Love WTO (tags)
Why the anti-globalization movement should try to disrupt the work of the World Trade Organization is a mystery to me. Instead, they should learn to love corporations like McDonald's.
"We must learn to be practical."
You Are an Arab; Imagine That (tags)
You watch thousands of right wing missionaries flooding the weakened Iraq, vowing to convert your people to a religion that is not theirs. Others call your prophet a “devil” and your religion “evil” and demand that your school curriculum change to fit the agenda of some think-tank 15,000 miles away from your home, alien to your culture, language and heritage.
Street Medic Training from Black Cross Health Collective: Santa Barbara, May 10-11 (tags)
Come to a free training in street medic skills in Santa Barbara on May 10-11. Come learn how to protect your health and safety and take care of yourself, your friends, and other activists at protests. Comoe learn how to teach these skills! Basic Medic Training is May 10th, and Extended Training May 11. Housing may be arranged for out of town activists!
Reportback on the Korean People's Struggle (tags)
Reportback on the Korean People's Struggle for liberation, justice, and democracy. Come support the struggle of oppressed nations.
Reportback on the Koren People's Struggle (tags)
Reportback on the Korean People's Struggle for liberation, justice, and Reunification
ADDICTED TO WAR: Why the U.S. Can't Kick Militarism by Joel Andreas (tags)
ADDICTED TO WAR takes on the most active, powerful and destructive military in the world. Hard-hitting, carefully documented, and heavily illustrated, it reveals why the U.S. has been involved in more wars in recent years than any other country. Read ADDICTED TO WAR to find out who benefits from these military adventures, who pays and who dies.
January Calander of Events for the A-Occasions Info Shop (tags)
calander of events happening at the A-Occasions info shop/community space in Long Beach CA.
I pulled this from the NY-IMC, and though I think Zizek has issues as well, i really enjoyed reading this little critique of Chomsky. His cult of personality is a little much. I really enjoyed another theory book called- The End of Education by William Spanos. Writen by a much less known theorist (another reason to dislike zizek and Chomsky) this book goes into detail about some of what zizek says-while talking about 60s political movements and their "failure of the radical moment."
NetActivists: Dodge the Press Blackout (tags)
NetActivists can duplicate websites to preserve freedom of speech.
Beyond War.
scapegoats are easy. the truth is hard. (tags)
contrary to what many greens and dems will tell you, there's no one reason gore couldn't/didn't win. scapegoats are easy. the truth is hard. there's a constellation of reasons king george is now leading (and i use that term loosely) the country. and it's going to take a constellation of solutions to get him out.
Reflections on The Green Party Event at the Knitting Factory (tags)
"what galled me was this bashing and whining and bitching and moaning the greens were doing about democrats baiting them and slamming doors in their faces during neighborhood walk-abouts. that's bad behavior from anyone and the greens are right to be pissed about it. but, that's exactly what they were doing at the benefit -- bashing me and, figuratively any way, slamming the door in my face." CAN WE LEARN?
Students At Locke High Demand An Education (tags)
This is the second in a series of articles about Locke High School in South Central Los Angeles, where humiliating random searches are carried out against the students on a daily basis and where a teacher was fired for standing up for her students.
Locke High Teacher Speaks Out (tags)
Safety means protecting what you value from harm. How is it possible to create any form of safety at schools, which do not value their community members enough to treat their children with respect?
LEARN SPANISH WHILE SUPPORTING ACTIVISM (tags)
Activists to Host Language Learning Expedition to Guatemala
Youth Organizing Communitites met on June 2nd and the 3rd. The purpose of the media camp was to learn, share, and practice training skills in order to mainpulate and use independent media.
Senegalese Government One of First to Ban Female Genital Mutilation (tags)
The practice of cutting off young girls private genital areas is not restricted only to Africa. However, it has the most sufferers and deaths there. Please take 5 minutes to read this.