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Organizing Against Climate Catastrophe

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Paul and Lara Messersmith-Glavin, from the Institute for Anarchist Studies, will present Organizing Against Climate Catastrophe.

Lara and Paul Messersmith-Glavin will discuss the lessons from a recent grassroots organizing effort in North Portland that canvased a neighborhood to determine people’s understanding of their own power to do something about climate change.  In discussing and thinking together, residents began to realize that the climate change crisis offers the opportunity to build
a different kind of society.

Lara and Paul are board members of the Institute for Anarchist Studies, editors of the journal Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, and community organizers in Portland, Oregon.

Co-sponsored by the Anarres Project for Alternative Futures, Corvallis 350.org, Center for Civic Engagement, and Student Sustainability Initiative.

Super Bowl Fury: “Speak English!”

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In a blog post for Education Week, teacher Justin Minkel wrote:

The most contentious blunder to come out of the Super Bowl was not that first comic snap that arced past a bewildered Peyton Manning.  It wasn’t the two tipped interceptions that followed that slip-up, or Joe Namath’s fur-coated Macklemore impression during the coin toss that proceeded it.

It was the audacity of Coke’s claim that there are people in the world who speak languages that aren’t English, and that some of those people might love America.

The article, Super Bowl Fury: “Speak English!“,  continues with a discussion of the “damaging consequences to kids” of language loss and English-only laws, including what teachers can do to help prevent language loss.

Promote Social Justice Discussion with Interactive Visuals

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Last term with an introduction to social justice, some students in my course used Thinglink and Storybird to explore the integration of visual technologies and social justice in the K-12 classroom.  Move your mouse over the Thinglink picture below, and follow the links to see their creations and learn more.  Imagine the potential!

https://www.thinglink.com/scene/405135865224888321#tlsite

Posted by Cheridy Aduviri