New Article: Focus East Portland: City Pushes Neighborhood-Sized Projects
Check out my new piece on Richard Heinberg’s speech as a part of the East Portland Area Project. Focus East Portland: City Pushes Neighborhood-Sized Projects.
Month: October 2011
Offensive Halloween Costume Ideas: Why Should White People Have All the Fun?
Racist costumes have become a hallmark of Halloween, especially on college campuses. Not long ago, I even remember running across an “Crips and Bloods Party” in my Facebook news feed. Students at Ohio University have chosen to start a campaign with posters saying, “This is not who I am and it is not okay.” However, …
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Unreleased: Assassination and We Cheered
Author’s note: I originally wrote this following the killing of Osama bin Laden. Since, we’ve seen the assassinations of many others, including Anwar al-Awlaki, his 16 year old son and most recently Muammar Gaddafi. I find it interesting that so many in the US cheered on the images of Gaddafi’s bloody corpse not even a …
Recap of the Teaching with Purpose Conference 2011
Check out my recap of the Teaching with Purpose Conference 2011. If you’re in the Portland area, and an educator, parent, community member or simply a person, try and attend next year. Don’t miss out on the innovations that could revolutionize education. Education Expert Augusta Mann: Black Students Need the Five R’s.
The 66 Percent
Protesters in the Occupy movement have chanted they are the “99%” but it’s hard to ignore the fact that the majority of protesters are white. Many wonder why more people of color aren’t showing up to the protests, considering the disproportionate effect the financial crisis has had on them. In the case of Portland, look …
Black + Math = Revolution
I like to think I started putting limitations on my dreams when I quit playing basketball before my senior year of high school. Truth be told, I built a ceiling for myself months earlier when I got Ds in both Physics and Pre-Calculus. I wasn’t necessarily a superstar in math and science but I was …
New Article: Augusta Mann headlines Teaching with Purpose conference
Check out my new article in the Skanner on the Teaching with Purpose Conference here.
Currency as Religion
One image that stuck with me from Occupy Portland was a man burning a dollar bill. There couldn’t be a more apt protest technique than destroying the tool which allows bankers to control the people. It says “In God We Trust” on the dollar (The phrase has been on coins since 1864 and paper money …
The War vs. Us All
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwMknGllKaw&w=420&h=315] Andy Rooney left “60 Minutes” this past Sunday. The nation is in need of a seasoned journalist to provide a weekly dose of context. What an opportune time to free award winning journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, the most famous death row inmate in the world. Abu-Jamal symbolizes the struggle of the under served in …
An Open Letter to B-Murder
Dear President Obama, I am concerned that your disregard for civil liberties and due process is putting US citizens in danger. Yesterday you finally succeeded in the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen. You authorized his assassination without charges or concrete evidence. Although al-Awlaki made incendiary Youtube videos and had contact with people who …