Dear Friends,
We focus once again this week on the Rouge Forum Conference in Detroit, March 1 to 4, at Wayne State University. This will be the key gathering of educational activists in the US this year, bringing together test resisters, anti-war activists, community activists, literacy and social studies specialists, students, parents, profs, and k12 educators. We expect participants from the UK, Japan, China, South Africa, Canada, and even Brooklyn.
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Among the presenters: Patrick Shannon, Susan Ohanian, George Schmidt, Dave Hill, Steven Strauss, Adam Renner, and many others.
As we have had five requests to extend the due date for proposals, we will accept proposals until Saturday morning, January 20, as the review committee must meet and make decisions, as well as the schedule, then. We continue to ask for donations, but no one will be turned away for fees. Many thanks to those who have donated already.
This link represents some of the work that members of the Rouge Forum are initiating for strategic planning in San Diego. The template could be used nearly anywhere.
On this Martin Luther King Holiday, we highlight his speech, “Beyond Vietnam—A Time to Break the Silence,” one speech that it is hard to turn into its own opposite, even though many of the MLK celebrations reflect everything that King set out to oppose, as in the militarized march led by the JROTC in San Diego.
We also recommend the film, Deacons For Defense, as a collateral discussion piece.
Here is Professor Michael Klare, author of Resource Wars, on Energo-Fascism.
This article is but one of many incisive pieces linked to the No Blood For Oil web page, a remarkable resource for educators.
We note with great sadness the death of South African writer, intellectual, and activist, Jimmy Seephe, a dear friend. We will have an appreciation of his life next week.
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