Critical Theories in Education
Neil Young, Chrome Dreams II—Neil’s sequel to an album that doesn’t exits. Thanks Perry. The Budos Band, The Budos Band II—FUNKY, FUNKY, FUNKY. Old school funk and R&B from Staten Island crew in the Dap-King circle. Easy Star All-Stars, Radiodread—Had my doubts about this reggae cover of Radiohead’s OK Computer, but the guys at High […]
SDS – UBC is hosting a Week of Resistance! We’ll be discussing the privatization and commodification of education with an anti-military, anti-gentrification and direct-action bent! Join us if you’re a student activist, a wanna-be student activist or simply intrigued by student activism and open to learn more about it! This conference is open to everyone […]
Even though I did post a best of 2007 entry a couple of weeks (BTW I think I’ve already changed my mind on many picks as I am just now catching up on my late 2007 CDs/MP3s), thought I’d fill you in on what I was buying and listening to the final quarter of the […]
I was worshiping at the altar of Robert Pollard/Guided by Voices for most of the year—even reading books about the GbV album “Bee Thousand” and the heavily GbV influenced, indie rock memoir, Perfect From Now On: How Indie Rock Saved My Life (by John Sellers)—but I did manage to work in other listening this year. […]
Rouge Forum Conference, 2008 Education: Reform or Revolution? Bellarmine University, Louisville, KY The Rouge Forum is a group of educators, students, and parents seeking a democratic society. We are concerned about questions like these: How can we teach against racism, national chauvinism and sexism in an increasingly authoritarian and undemocratic society? How can we gain […]
Got to catch up with my listening posts. Here’s what I’ve been purchasing and listening to the past few months. JULY America, Here & Now—Yes, I know. I won’t tell you who sent this to me (but he lives on the “Edge of the Continent,” uses Pando all the time, and is a well-known social […]
Via RockRap.com: Victorious RIAA defendant gets attorneys’ fees, turns to class-action plans By Eric Bangeman | Published: September 24, 2007 – 09:39AM CT from Ars Technica Calling the RIAA’s case unjustified “as a reasonable exploration of the boundaries of copyright law,” a federal magistrate judge late last week awarded former RIAA defendant Tanya Andersen attorneys’ […]
The Chronicle News Blog: Antipiracy Lawsuits, Four Years Later Next month will mark the fourth anniversary of the Recording Industry Association of America’s legal campaign against music piracy, an effort that has seen plenty of college students slapped with thousand-dollar lawsuits. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group that has opposed the industry group in court […]
RIP Elvis Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) In an op-ed published a few days ago in The New York Times, Peter Guralnick examines how Elvis got turned into a racist and why that myth persists despite the lack of evidence to support it. Guralnick wrote a two volume bio of Presley as […]
Another example of how the mainstream media (doesn’t) work. Pilger includes a great quote from Jim Petras: “The great crimes against most of humanity”, wrote the American cultural critic James Petras, “are justified by a corrosive debasement of language and thought . . . [that] have fabricated a linguistic world of terror, of demons and […]
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