[RSCT] Fw: September Peacework: Taking Our Activism to School - free copies available

[Monty Neill]

The September issue of Peacework focues on education activism, providing a rich set of resources for parents, educators, students and other activists. FairTest's Monty Neill's lead article focuses on overhauling federal law. Issue contents are summarized below. You can read articles on the web at http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/. 
 

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September Peacework 

 

TAKING OUR ACTIVISM TO SCHOOL

 

Beyond "No Child Left Behind"

By Monty Neill

The country must change the conversation from passing tests to teaching and learning.

 

New Life for High School Civics: Youth Organizers Campaign Successfully for Better Classes

By Courtney Clemente

"We set up meetings with people we felt like were allies, and invited them to our hearing. It's hard to say no to a group of kids wanting to learn, wanting to make a difference."

 

Focusing on the Children: Early Childhood Programs in Conflicts Around the World (review)

By Barbara Price

The effects conflict has on children and families are common around the world, as are the key challenges for early educators working amidst the conflicts.

 

Homeschooling Leaves Home: A Resource Center for Teens Who Choose to Leave School

By Susannah Sheffer

But doesn't homeschooling mean parents teaching their own kids at home? What does a center like this have to do with homeschooling?

 

The Joys and Challenges of Public Schools: An Activist Roundtable

By Kathleen Kelly, Curtis Gomez, Lisa Graustein, and James Noonan

"In order to fix our schools, we all need to start taking responsibility for the racism, poverty, and violence that are what's really undercutting them."

 

Countering Military Recruitment in Schools

By Sam Diener

After a long campaign, the San Francisco School Board finally voted in 2006 to phase out JROTC from the district.

 

 

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Caucasus Burning

By Thomas de Waal

When President George W. Bush stood on Freedom Square in Tbilisi in May 2005 and told Georgians, "The path of freedom you have chosen is not easy, but you will not travel it alone," they believed it meant something.

 

A People and a Poet: The Voice of Mahmoud Darwish

By Ibtisam Barakat

In the absence of home, Darwish turned language into a spacious tent - for us and for all who needed a home. 

 

Well Beyond Abu Ghraib: Expert Testimony on the Effects of US Torture Policy

By Deborah Pearlstein

As of 2006  there had been more than 330 cases in which US Military and civilian personnel were credibly alleged to have abused or killed detainees.

 

A Quaker Minute Against Torture

By the New York Yearly Meeting of Friends

We call on the United States to end immediately the use of torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment of prisoners and detainees.

 

 

AND A FEW SHORT TAKES:

 

A Maine Activist Walks in Solidarity with the Undocumented

 

First Anniversary of the US Social Forum

 

Human Rights Workers Sail Jubilantly into Gaza

 

"Bits & Peaces" (events, opportunities, gatherings, campaigns, and resources)

 
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