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[Video] Trailer for Schooling the World: The White Man’s Last Burden
YOU.MUST.LEARN! Check it…
A clip from the film Schooling the World: The White Man’s Last Burden showing the dark history of the use of “education” to dominate and destroy traditional cultures. To find out more about the film, please visit schoolingtheworld.org.
Related:
– Wab Kinew, musician and CBC Winnipeg host speaks on the tragedy of the Native American residential schools on the George Stromboulopoulos show.
– American Indian Boarding Schools Haunt Many. [NPR]
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[News] Ohio Woman Jailed for Sending her Kids to a Better School!
This story is from a little while ago but I had to post it still. This is f-cking outrageous:
“If you lived in a crime-ridden neighborhood where your home was broken into a dozen times and the school your children were zoned to was low-performing, wouldn’t you take drastic measures to ensure they got a quality education?
That’s exactly what Kelley Williams-Bolar did, pulling her 12- and 16-year-old daughters out of the decrepit school they attended in Akron, Ohio, and enrolling them in a suburban district where her father lived.
Williams-Bolar used her father’s address, where she alleges she lived part-time. Yet the Copely-Fairlawn School District felt she was lying about being a resident, and hired a private eye to follow her, videotaping Williams-Bolar leaving her public housing home and dropping her children off at the suburban school.
They confronted Williams-Bolar, demanded that she repay the district $30,000, saying she didn’t have the right to have her daughters in the district since she wasn’t a taxpayer.
When she refused, Williams-Bolar was indicted on two felony charges, found guilty and sentenced to 10 days in prison. Because of the felonies on her record, the aspiring schoolteacher will never be able to enter the classroom.”
Click HERE to read the rest of the article.
Related:
Read more via WEWS NewsChannel5 Cleveland.
[via the homie, Rene]
Join the League of Young Voters Education Fund for President Obama’s State of the Union Address TONIGHT!
League of Young Voters Education Fund (LYVEF) and AllHipHop.com announce their official partnership for the first annual “State of the Union 2011: Roadmap to Progress” viewing party and panel discussion event on January 25, 2011.
The LYVEF and AllHipHop.com will host exclusive conversations with leading voices from music and politics following President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address. Using the power of hip-hop, LYVEF and AllHipHop.com will chat with political figures from the nation’s largest youth organizations, including Rock The Vote, as well as media experts to address the needs and interests of the nation’s young voters.
“State of the Union 2011: Roadmap to Progress” will feature a viewing of President Obama’s third State of the Union address before Congress, followed by three 20-minute panel discussions. AllHipHop.com and LYVEF will provide simplified explanations of how each subject matter discussed in the address directly impacts our young voter’s lives, including health care, war in the Middle East, gun control, economic policies and more.
“State of the Union 2011: Roadmap to Progress” will broadcast live. Join the conversation with the best and brightest in music and politics by watching live via Ustream at www.youngvoterlive.com at 8pm EST. Viewer questions will be taken live from Ustream, Facebook and Twitter and posed to panelists and attendees so be sure to chime in!
Hit the jump to check out the trailer.
Introducing the Petroleum Empire Media Group (P.E.M.G.) Collective
P.E.M.G. is a collective of high school-aged MC’s mentored by the social activist, NYOil formerly known as Kool Kim, of the progressive 90’s hip hop group UMC’s. I dig what they’re about. Check the 6-video playlist above including five videos from their weekkly cypher sessions and one of an appearance at ‘Live @ Best Buy’ last month ….
Watch more video from P.E.M.G. HERE.
[spotted via Grandgood]
Immigration Reform Deferred Yet Again – The DREAM Act Dies in the Senate –
So Latinos are less important than gays is one way to look at this sad news, maybe?
“The weeks of rallies, hunger strikes and sit-ins and the thousands of phone calls placed to Senate offices didn’t pay off for immigration activists.
The decade-old DREAM Act once again failed to break a filibuster in the Senate on Saturday morning, effectively killing the bill this year and shutting the door on what perhaps was the last chance for pro-immigration reform legislation until at least the 2012 election.
Senate Democrats came up five votes short of the 60 needed to advance the House-passed bill, which would provide a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants brought to the country as children if they attend college or join the military for two years.
The 55-41 vote was mostly along party lines, though a handful of Democrats — perhaps fearful of their 2012 election outlook — also voted against the DREAM Act.”
Read the full article at Politico.
Was Fox News pieces like this, “DREAM Act or Nightmare?” part of the reason?
More:
President Obama on the DREAM Act: “My Administration Will Not Give Up” [The White House Blog]