[RSCT] Teaching About the Wars -- a call for help

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Dear Rethinking Schools friends,

Our booklet, "Whose Wars? Teaching About the Iraq War and the War on 
Terrorism," is almost out of print. Rather than simply reprint this, we've decided to 
create a web-based publication that we'll be able to update as new articles 
and resources become available -- for example, see Ian McFeat's fine piece, 
"Afghanistan's Ghosts: Activities provide background for teaching 'The Kite 
Runner' and the 'good war,'" included in the fall issue of Rethinking Schools, 
coming out in early October.

Jody Sokolower, former Berkeley High School teacher who has written several 
excellent articles for RS, has agreed to coordinate our new project. Her note 
below describes our "wish list" of articles and resources we'd like to make 
available. Please contact Jody at soksha at igc.org with ideas and proposals.

Bill Bigelow
Rethinking Schools

I have agreed to edit an online collection of curricula aimed at supporting 
teachers who want to engage their students in learning and critical thinking 
about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and about US military strategy in 
general.

Do you have curricula and/or resources to submit for consideration? I am 
looking for the following:

Background information (particularly if it is student-ready) on the following 
topics:
•    Recent history of US/Iraq relations
•    History and significance of oil 
•    History of war resisters and conscientious objectors
•    Contradictions re: rights of women (including lesbians) and gay men in 
the military

Curricula on the following topics:
•    Multiple voices of Iraqi people
•    Multiple voices of Afghani people
•    Multiple voices of US soldiers
•    Women in the military
•    Lesbians and gay men in the military
•    Iraq section of Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine

Curricula on the following videos:
•    In the Valley of Elah
•    Hell No, We Won’t Go
•    Control Room

Modifications, updates and/or experiences with Rethinking Schools curricula 
on these topics (from Whose Wars? or from the magazine)

Anything else that seems relevant and important.

Please let me know as soon as possible if you have material to submit. Don’t 
hesitate to contact me if you have questions.

Thanks and take care,
Jody Sokolower for Rethinking Schools
soksha at igc.org


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