Critical Theories in Education
I know I ripped his concert in Vancouver last summer pretty hard, but that doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate “The Boss.” By way of the Rock and Rap Confidential listserv: New Bruce Springsteen Recording! Click on the link below to hear Bruce Springsteen’s version of “How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live?” […]
The RIAA continues it’s attack on music lovers, this time suing a family in Georgia for file-sharing, even though they don’t own a computer. Hmmm… From the Rockmart [GA] Journal Local family sued by record companies 04/22/06 By LOWELL VICKERS A Rockmart family is being sued for illegal music file sharing, despite the fact that […]
Robert Jensen and Robert Wosnitzer’s ZNet commentary on the Oscar-winning best picture “Crash,” make an insightful argument about the film’s misdiagnosis of America’s race problem. The core problem is not racial intolerance, but rather white supremacy. ZNet Commentary Crash March 24, 2006 By Robert Jensen and Robert Wosnitzer “Crash” is a white-supremacist movie. The Oscar-winning […]
In the latest issue of the ASA sponsored journal Contexts, the editors compile a list of “essential protest songs.” There are 14 songs on the list including standards as “We Shall Overcome,” Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin’ ” and the 1930s union anthem “Which Side Are You On?” You can listen to a […]
The Pirate Bay: Here to Stay? From wired.com By Ann Harrison 02:00 AM Mar, 13, 2006 EST Last month, the Motion Picture Association of America announced one of its boldest sorties yet against online piracy: a barrage of seven federal lawsuits against some of the highest-profile BitTorrent sites, Usenet hosts and peer-to-peer services. Among the […]
WHOLE SCHOOLING Changing the World One School at a Time! Portland, Oregon May 12 -13, 2006 The Annual Whole Schooling Conference this year is being co-sponsored with the Parkrose School District in Portland, a district working to implement the Six Principles of Whole Schooling including movement to become a fully inclusive district. The conference will […]
From Dave Marsh’s Rock and Rap Confidential In the notoriously corrupt state government of West Virginia, someone has finally made good use of stolen taxpayer money…. W.Va. Capitol Housed Piracy Studio By LAWRENCE MESSINA ASSOCIATED PRESS CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – Tucked away in the basement of West Virginia’s gold-domed Capitol, state officials say, an office […]
The December 26, 2005 issue of The Nation includes an excellent series of article on US torture complex including Moustafa Bayoumi’s “Disco Inferno”, which examines the history of “torture music” and its use by US miliatary and intelligence agents in Iraq. Bayoumi argues that: The calculated use of American music in interrogations is less about […]
Today’s Vancouver Sun published an article by religion and ethics writer Douglas Todd on the “multicultural Christmas” celebrations at Sir Richard McBride Elementary and how students there “balance” their own ethnicity with diverse (sometimes new) cultural traditions. McBride, on Vancouver’s eastside, is my son’s school and his good buddy Codie Schultheis has some insightful comments […]
Here are three good articles on Bush Administration’s propaganda war aimed at Americans and Iraqis: Meet John Rendon, Bush’s general in the propaganda war, courtesy of Rolling Stone: The Man Who Sold the War And The New York Times (Sunday, December 11) ran a long story on Bush administration’s propaganda war in Iraq, which is […]
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