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The (Un)Common Core
Well, the joke’s on us. It turns out that when you parcel off public education to technocratic billionaires, they write themselves into the history books. This is from the draft Common Core assessments...
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View ArticleLawrence Lessig on How to End Corruption & Restore the Republic
Professor Lawrence Lessig, of Harvard Law School, has a plan to end political corruption in the U.S. What do you think?
View ArticleVICTORY! Bloomberg will Have to Give Over Cathie Black Emails
UPDATE: You can get some context on the whole fiasco here, and RSVP to the Cathie Black Email Reading Party here! This morning, independent journalist Sergio Hernandez reports that: “New York’s highest...
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The Cathie Black Fiasco: Lessons for Confronting Entrenched Power
Nearly 3 years have passed since that quiet afternoon in November 2010 when I glanced at my phone to see the newsflash: SCHOOLS CHANCELLOR JOEL KLEIN STEPPING DOWN. BLOOMBERG TO APPOINT CATHLEEN P....
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On Free Education and Peter Cooper’s Gift of Self-Help
And wisest he in this whole wide land Of hoarding till bent and gray; For all you can hold in your cold dead hand Is what you have given away. -Joaquin Miller I’m scaling the wide road leading up...
View Article“We did nothing technically illegal”
The next time they tell you the financial crisis was not fraud… call <bullshit>. Bank Secrecy Act violations; Money laundering for drug cartels; Violations of sanction orders against Cuba, Iran,...
View ArticleMy Trip to the 2013 OECD Forum on Jobs, Equality & Trust
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View ArticleOn The Streets of Istanbul
There’s something happening here. It’s unpredictable. It’s chaotic. It’s raw and imperfect. It’s growing. About to board a flight from Paris to NYC – I was repping Occupy Wall Street at the OECD Forum...
View ArticleCommunity Non-profits Come Together to Paint a School’s Legacy
This summer, Brooklyn-based non-profit Bailey’s Cafe – in partnership with our Paul Robeson Freedom School and the Church of St. Luke & St. Matthew – will embark on a community mural project to...
View Article99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film
As the two-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street nears, I have to admit I’m getting excited about the launch of this film. I’ve heard murmurings of it, like some hot reviews from Sundance, and I see...
View ArticleOde to a Shuttered School
Akeem Pearce, 2012 150 Albany Ave is where we spent our past Last of our childhood went by so fast The place where we chased dreams all through our teens We would sit in English class and day dream...
View ArticleOccupy Sandy Submits Public Comments to NYC Plan
This is Occupy Sandy’s response to New York City’s most recent Community Development Block Grants Disaster Recovery (CDBG-GR) plan. The comments were submitted to the city last night on behalf of...
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Farewell to the Concrete Jungle
“Not all those who wander are lost.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring The Arrival The view from my 1st Brooklyn apartment In those first sleepless nights, the smells of the Gowanus Canal...
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Letter to a Stranger
The Nehalem River (Photo: Justin Wedes) Dear Stranger, There’s a light rain in the river bay today. I can see it out the window of this doublewide trailer perched on the hill. You sit on the road...
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Dispatch from Detroit #1, On Blight
This is the first in a series of reflections on life in the shell of a once-great metropolis that is searching again for greatness. I share stories of the people I meet between the burned-out...
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Why We the People Must Stand with Detroit
A young Detroiter at a Freedom Friday protest against city water shutoffs. It is time for we the people to stand with Detroit. The work has already started. Detroit is rebuilding community from the...
View ArticleDetroit Water – A Movement Grows
Sign up to join the Brigade at DetroitWaterBrigade.org FOLLOW US on social media here: Facebook.com/waterbrigade Twitter.com/DETWaterBrigade Video by Stephen McGee Films
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Why I Closed the #TweetBoat
Photo: @Tw1tt3rart En tren con destino errado se va más lento que andando a pie / On a train headed the wrong way one moves more slowly than by foot -Jorge Drexler Below I explain why I temporarily...
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Towards a Politics of Love Over a Politics of Fear
“We can’t bombard the people with more fear. They are frightened. They are terrorized” -Gael García Bernal, ‘No’ In the 2012 Chilean drama ‘No’ by Pablo Larraín, Gael García Bernal plays René...
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