Archive for March, 2010

Sabbaticals for Organizers of Color

31, Mar 2010

The Center for Social Inclusion, which works to unite public policy research and grassroots advocacy to transform structural inequity and exclusion into structural fairness and inclusion, has opened applications for sabbaticals for organizers of color. The Center for Social Inclusion recognizes that working for social change usually means long hours at low pay with few [...]

“Imagine 2042″ Seeks Views on Race

30, Mar 2010

“Imagine that the year is 2042 and that surely, dramatically, and transformatively, the racial landscape of the United States has changed over the course of the century. The long-forecast end of the United States as a white-majority country in that year may or may not be an important part of the story. Race still matters, [...]

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-28

28, Mar 2010

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-03-21 http://bit.ly/b0R4Fs # Indigenous Struggles in the Americas: Interview with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz http://bit.ly/bcRtWm # Book Review: Enlightened Sexism by Susan J. Douglas http://bit.ly/c6m08l # The feds turn to social networks http://bit.ly/aHgtvv # Arundhati Roy’s Naxalite Story is Out http://bit.ly/9qLAE9 # Latinos and blacks should be angry over TX Board of Education's [...]

Liberation Ink Design Contest Ongoing

27, Mar 2010

Worker-run print shop Liberation Ink is creating a t-shirt, based on a design chosen from an ongoing contest, honoring the 2010 US Social Forum. The winning design will be sold to help community organizations fund raise so they can attend the Forum. And, this t-shirt is being designed by you. Prospective designers are invited to [...]

Interview: Industry Incursion in Edu

26, Mar 2010

Professor Anthony Nocella just co-edited an intriguing new book called Academic Repression: Reflections on the Academic-Industrial Complex. In it, a constellation of activist academics, including Bill Ayers and Ward Churchill, comment on the rise of McCarthyism in higher education. A recent report on right-wring conspiracy attacks against Professor Frances Fox Piven highlight efforts by the [...]


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