Dear Friends,
Our conference bringing together some of the most prominent thinkers and activists in the anti-war, whole schooling, inclusive education, and critical pedagogy movements in North America is set for March 1 to 4. Please note that we need your help in preparing for the conference, especially by circulating the conference agenda to friends and colleagues, and by thinking carefully about just what our social situation is, and what you hope to do about it. Justice demands organization–and you. Nobody will save us but us.
The Rouge Forum No Blood For Oil page is fully updated. It is a remarkable collection of key articles related to the empire’s wars, since 2001, of good use to educators and students.
Take note of the Rouge Forum flyer on John Yoo, author of the Bush “Torture Memos,” as well as the effort to illegally wiretap US citizens. The flyer is being well received as John Yoo, fascist, tracks his excuses around California.
Note, too, this article by Pulitzer Prize winning reporters on SAIC, which demonstrates a key thesis put forward by some Rouge Forum members: the government is a weapon, and executive committee, of the rich. Ask, “what would this mean for government schools?”
Chalmers Johnson’s new book, “Nemesis,” is out now, and highly recommended. Here is a link to a piece Johnson wrote for Tomdispatch
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This link demonstrates the kind of strategic planning we are trying to do in San Diego, with our peace and justice group, which includes a relatively small but active number of educators and students.
I am wondering if other groups are trying to do this kind of work. One thing the local San Diego coalition has achieved is a remarkable drop in high school military recruitment, with a persistent campaign to counter recruiters’ lies, to drive them off high school campuses, and to deny the military warm bodies eager to go off to fight what are really the enemies of their enemies.
Counterpunch recently carried an article, “Cut the Schools-To-War Pipeline” linked here.
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