Poor student needs help getting from Los Angeles to the meetings. If anyone from LA would like to be a good Samaritan and give him a ride it would be greatly appreciated. You will be rewarded with good conversation and peaceful dreams.

Contact
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The Security Guard
A Poem by Theresa Wolfwood
in Memory of Hiroshima

It's Devastating
A Poem by Rebecca McLaren (UWP)

A Joint Declaration on Collaborative Sites
by Olivier Urbain and Jeanne Curran
Transcend Art and Peace Site
Dear Habermas Site

ASA presentation schedule
And ASA Dear Habermas Presentation
for August in Anaheim

Caliifornia State University, Dominguez Hills
University of Wisconsin, Parkside
Latest Update: August 8, 2001
jeannecurran@habermas.org
takata@uwp.edu

Table of Contents: What's New?

for the Week of August 6, 2001?

Teaching Essays
In Other Languages
Art and the Imaginary
Collaborative Writing Journal
Conflicts Around the World
Scholastic Resources
Lagniappe! You Gotta Read This!
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
Gallery
Resource Pages:
. . . Criminology and Aging and Peacemaking
. . . and Theory and Women and Social Justice
Syllabi
Kids' Homepage
What people are saying about Dear Habermas
Who To Take

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Teaching Essays

Teaching and Review Essay Index

New This Week:

Genocide

• Auschwitz-Birkenau: Bearing Witness Retreat November 5-9, 2001. On the Peacemaker Community Site "a global, interfaith community training, empowering and connecting peacemakers around the world" - In eight languages.

Knowingness

• Knowingness and Judicial Temperament Some definitions and discussion on judicial temperament and unstated assumptions.

Incarceration and Criminal Justice

• US Becomes History's Biggest Jailer This appeared on the libertarian website, Advocates for Self-government. Don't know what libertarian is? Visit our file on left/right perspectives.

• A Health Danger From a Needle Becomes a Scourge Behind Bars By David Rohde. New York Times. p.A1. August 6, 2001. backup backup2 Let's talk about this in terms of responsibility. Whose? For what? And notice how the libertarians often do not agree with the religious right wing. So are they center or right or where? Perhaps it's time to stop attempting to place people in a stable position on the political spectrum and begin focussing on the substantive arguments in each social justice issue.

Labor Relations

• Labor Relations by Paul Johnston. A PSN post. Well written. Gives you a sense of how the unions are losing ground to the labor exploitation aspects of late capitalism.

• Sociology's Role in Labor's Learning Process by Paul Johnston. Well done argument. References to theory you should recognize. And right on. Well worth your time. jeanne

• McJobs PSN alert to material from ZNet on teenage jobs. Left perspective. Essay will go up soon. jeanne

• Santa Monica OKs 'Living Wage' Law Los Angeles Times. Includes text of ordinance. May 24, 2001.

• Worker Justice by Councilmember Kevin McKeown of Santa Monica. On the living wage law.

• Minimum Wage Talking Points Minimum wage law in Santa Monica.

• Minimum Wage Hike to Destroy More Jobs Libertarian Site. Article reflects standard libertarian position on minimum wage.

Left/Right Perspective

• Where Do You Fit In the Political Spectrum? A libertarian site, with self-test quiz. Try it!

Problematizing Education

• Problematizing the Teaching of Writing By Mindy Cardozo.

  Almost Always Deceived: Revolutionary Praxis and Reinventions of Need March 29-31, 2001. University of Florida. Conference Schedule at which Cardozo's paper was presented.

• Problematizing Robin Hood Journal entry by Angela Boyd, CSUDH.
  
  Milk 20 Cents: Robin Hood

  • Problematizing Robin Hood 2 Journal entry by Rebecca Mc Laughlin.

• Problematizing Political Correctness Journal Entry by K. Phelan.

• Does internet create democracy? by Alinta Thornton. One of our primary concerns with education is that it is requisite to public discourse in a civil society. Alinta Thornton discusses the possibility that the Internet offers one way to build the requisite discourse skills. Link provided by RDB on the HABERMAS list.

Social Work in Late Capitalism

• Social Work in a Private World Chapter One in Robert Fisher and Howard Karger, Social Work in a Private World (working title) Longmans. 1996. Copyright.

  The view from Peckham "Describes the human cost of one South London urban regeneration scheme."

Sociologists and Others You Should Know

• Marx

• Contemporary Marxist Material

  • Marxism: Socialism from Below by David McNally. The Australian National University. Canberra. Available online.

    "Tracing the fate of revolutionary socialism through the past 100 years, David McNally shows that there are two currents in the socialist tradition. One is . . . . is socialism from below, the living tradition of workers' struggle which has been hidden in the years of compromise and betrayal . . . . [H]umanity stands in desperate need of this tradition, of a transformation of the world order from below."
    from the back cover of Socialism from Below

Edward Said

Interview with Said in the International Socialist Review, Issue 18, June/July, 2001.

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In Other Languages

• El Proyecto de Ciudadanía English and Spanish. Site contains information on citizenship, immigration, and articles in progress.

• CERIS Centre d'excellence conjoint pour la recherche en immigration et en intégration (CERIS). Joint Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Settlement (CERIS). French and English.

• znet en espanol Left perspective.

• Instituto Nacional de la Nutricion Salvador Zubiran México D.F., México. "Estas páginas contienen información para el público en general sobre temas de prevención de la salud y sobre enfermedades." Site still under construction, especially English version. If links don't work the first time, try again. Site uses JavaScript.

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Art and the Imaginary

Sculpture

• Mobiles / Kinetic Sculpture
  by Matthew Brand. Link added August 28, 1999. Checked August 5, 2001.
• Mobiles / Kinetic Sculpture: Artificial Artists
  by Matthew Brand. Link added August 28, 1999. Checked August 5, 2001.

Painting

• Mother and Child Lucebert, 1961. Stedelijk Museum. Amsterdam. Link to archives, then to The Presentation (third from last on the list), then to artworks. Then scroll all the way to the right.

Art as Expanding the Imaginary

• Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence In The Washington Post. Exhibit opens today at the Phillips Collection in Washington. Eigth paintings online.
• The Phillips Collection Three Jacob Lawrence paintings online.

• Art in Africa Online University of Iowa Art and Art History Department.

• Impressionists in Cyberspace, Digital but Diverse By Matthew Mirapaul. New York Times August 6, 2001. (www.babel.uk.net and www.atavar.com/sciis: both of these sites crashed my browser, so don't try them out at home! They're here for our future use, once the bugs are out.)

• Beadwork in the ZULU cultural tradition. About halfway down the file you'll find a table of the meaning of colors in the Zulu beadwork.

Art as Healing

• Free Arts for Abused Children Started in Malibu. Active in Los Angeles and Orange Counties. Volunteer internships available.
• Notes on returning from Auschwitz, 12/1/96 by Peter Cunningham. Extensive collection of photos.
• Peace Forum of KIDS' 1000 Cranes PROJECT

Poets We Share

• Ritalin By Michael Gates.

Artists You Should Know

• Basquiat

Art You Should Know

• Chris Witcombe's Art History Resources Site: Africa

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Collaborative Writing Journal

Current work in progress on teaching and review essays
by jeanne, Susan, Pat, et alia.

New additions this week:

• Fromm and Critical Criminology Entry by jeanne. Notes on a review of the book on Fromm and Critical Criminology, with an emphasis on the sometimes multiple perspectives of authors and reviewers, and the difficulty of hearing each other in good faith.

• Knowingness and Judicial Temperament Some definitions and discussion on judicial temperament and unstated assumptions. Notes for essay just begun. jeanne

• Leopold's Colony: The Congo Notes on jeanne's reading of King Leopold's Ghost.

• Responsibility for Cultural Fare Deploring the culture of young people everywhere. The world seems pretty much the same or "Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose." Montaigne.

• Problematizing Alimony Notes on an article by Sandy Banks.

• Problematizing Robin Hood Journal entry by Angela Boyd.

  • Problematizing Robin Hood 2 Journal entry by Rebecca Mc Laughlin.

• Problematizing the Personal Journal entry by Rebecca McLaughlin.

• Problematizing Political Correctness Journal Entry by K. Phelan.

• Problematizing the Past: Joseph Conrad, Africa, and Postcolonialism Journal entry by jeanne/

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Conflicts Around the World:

• Present Danger

  • Africans face murder... PSN post on August 6, 2001, by Rodney Coates. Happening on border between Turkey and Greece.

    • Human Rights Association of Turkey Link to the July 26 posting on African Migrants and Refugees Face Imminent Death in the Border Zone.
    • I must be invisible by rodney d. coates. (1998) The professor who posted this message to PSN is the one whose poem we shared last week. There's a voice recording so you can hear him read the poem.

• Long-Term Effects

  • Great Expectations By Catherine Hausman and Victoria Goldman. New York Times article. "For bright young illegal immigrants, a dream of college is at best uncertain."

• History

  • Leopold's Colony: The Congo Notes on jeanne's reading of King Leopold's Ghost. "The very first thing I want to tell you about this book is that it gives you a breath-taking sense of how silence is imposed on exploited peoples . . . ."

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Scholastic Resources:

• On Site Resources:

  • Old File of Scholastic References Still useful. Most links should work.
  • New Scholastic Resources Essay Index file turning out to take most of our old links. You should be able to find things more easily now. All this is under construction, so please be patient. There are smaller and shorter indexes, like Index to Essays on Responsiblity, Index to Essays on Religion, etc.
  • Index to Resources and Teaching Essays on Responsibility
  • Index to Resources and Teaching Essays on Race
  • Index to Resources and Teaching Essays on Criminology
  • Index to Resources and Teaching Essays on Violence

• Resources External to Site:

  • Organisations and Institutes concerned with peace and conflict Version 3: July 2001. Link provided by Ian Harris of PEC list.
  • INCORE's Information Bank in Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity on the Internet Link provided by Ian Harris of PEC list.
  • Directory of Organizations for Conflict Prevention in Asia and the Pacific Link provided by Ian Harris of PEC list.
  • Poverty Magazine: Online Articles
  • Free the ChildrenChild Labor, Child Poverty, Children in War
  • Study Web

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Lagniappe!

You Gotta Read This

• McJobs Christopher Shumway alerts us to an article on ZNet about teenagers and jobs.

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Jobs and Job-Training:

• McJobs Christopher Shumway alerts us to an article on ZNet about teenagers and jobs. So far I just have linked to the McJobs article, but we'll talk about what this means to young people soon. jeanne

• Teens@Work What Working Teens --and their Parents--Should Know About Health and Safety on the Job. Wichita-Hutchinson Labor Federation of Central Kansas, AFL-CIO.

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Gallery

• Site Manual: This is not a book.

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  Color, Gender and Me . . . and if I add God, too?

• Woman

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Kids' Site

• Poetry and Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright Teachers' Resources, PBS. Resources for classroom. Haiku gallery. Bibliography. Web links. Older students should be able to use this material on their own.
• Children's Books that Explore Poverty A Bibliography by Dr. Ava L. McCall, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh.
• Peace Forum of KIDS' 1000 Cranes PROJECT
  • The British Origami Society Animation of a crane being folded. Go to Practice. Then go to Links. Then type in crane at the keyword search and click the Search button. Then link to Dennis interactive, the second link listed when I did it. Push the replay button and watch the crane folding again. Or move your cursor over the crane and cause it to fly! jeanne

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What people are saying about

Dear Habermas

• Nobody's said anything recently. :-(( jeanne

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Who To Take?

• Transforming Campus Discourse: The Importance of Sharing the Good Stuff

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