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So I've been, as a few of you may know, I have been teaching at the Juvenile Detention Center here in VA. I've recently learned that one of my kids, one of the ones who always seemed genuinely "hard" to me as opposed to putting on a facade, is doing his Juvie Hall time for a physical conflict...

I invited Komplex, this DC hip hop poet, to do a poetry with my students. They loved him and so did I. Check him out! :yes: http://mrkeeponmoving.com

Forward to Lou Dobbs stat! :D My NATIVE COSTUME by Martin Espada When you come to visit, said a teacher from the suburban school, don’t forget to wear your native costume. But I’m a lawyer, I said. My native costume is a pinstriped suit. You know, the teacher said, a Puerto Rican costume...

Don't let the kids watch this. They could hurt themselves laughing and not have insurance. :wink: http://www.comedycentral.com/shows/the_daily_show/index.jhtml

Durante la reunión, se vivieron momentos de tensión, debido a que los indígenas recordaron promesas incumplidas de las autoridades, mientras que Fogel cuestionó a los nativos que tienen tierras y abandonaron por división. During the meeting, there were tense moments, during which the...

1. Cane looks like it could be fun. 2. Could Jimmy Smits be hotter? I don't really see how. :D :combust: That is all, thank you. :wink:

Awesome student protest against high school girls being asked by security guards if they have their periods or not. (Yes, you read that right.) http://feministing.com/archives/007817.html#comments

I'm listening to it on CNN as I type.... Wow....

What wonderful news to come home to last night! :) Congrats to him and all across the world who came together to support him.

So I got that GPS car map "you'll never get lost again" thing for my birthday and :heart: wow, I think this could be a serious long term thing. :flirt: (Of course, this means I'm being monitored by the CIA, for sure, but hey....) :D

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=3271179&version=4&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=1.1.1 So did the Grand Psycho of the KKK just publicly issue a death threat against a US Senator, or am I missing something? :mad: :|

Hola, Guten abend hi and hello! So I am trying to cut and paste this chart into my paper for class (a Word .doc) and the chart won't seem to want to copy for me. ARGH. I've got the PDF's "select tool" selected. Any notions? :eyebrow:

Did you know it was originally a peace holiday? Julia Ward Howe's original Mother's Day Proclimation (she was an early feminist and abolitionist): Let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel. Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate...

Was RFK hot on the trail of his brother's killer? From Salon.com- "Brothers" The exclusive story of Robert F. Kennedy's secret search for the truth about John F. Kennedy's assassination. From the new book by Salon's founder and former editor in chief. By David Talbot May. 02, 2007 | One of...

:( A true giant is gone. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/books/12vonnegut.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin urt Vonnegut, Counterculture’s Novelist, Dies By DINITIA SMITH Published: April 12, 2007 Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like...

You cannot make this shit up. This guy should never sit on a bench again. http://feministing.com/archives/006813.html#comments Thoughts?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/02/world/middleeast/02qaeda.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=world&pagewanted=print April 2, 2007 Qaeda Is Seen as Restoring Leadership By MARK MAZZETTI WASHINGTON, April 1 — As Al Qaeda rebuilds in Pakistan’s tribal areas, a new generation of leaders has emerged under...

Anyone have pics please? :D

Anyone watching?

I thought this was one hell of an article. I know much of the "Lebanon talk" has already happened, but I figured there might be some here who would enjoy (is that the right word?) this piece as much as I did. Watching Beirut die We went to Beirut to film a TV show about the city's newly...

This is, of course, a country (if I can call it that) which has been at war with itself for, what, like 40 years? And one of the main reasons that I am amazed when I hear some folks try to argue that colonial imperialism may have sucked, sure, but doesn't really have much to do with what's...

So, hola! :wink: Coming to you live from Paraguay. I am (finally! :hyper: ) completing my field research in the "villa miseria" (ie, shanty towns), studying how land privatization has impacted the indigenous peoples here for my PhD. What bascially occurs is that you have to have legal...

What do you think? http://www.newleftreview.net/NLR26001.shtml