Dr. Crazy has made an excellent argument for tenure based upon its benefit to institutions and to students. Meanwhile, the AAUP is calling for the conversion of non tenure lines to tenure lines, and I agree. They say in part: By far the best stabilization practices are those that include the rigorous professional peer scrutiny … More Academic Mondays: Conversion to Tenure
Our comrade Slavoj, courtesy of Jennifer. I am in Brazil, where the wavelets lap. It is another planet and very relaxing in its third world, ascetic way. I think I fit in in South America a lot better than I do in the U.S. I should possibly move. Axé.
We also have in Louisiana several privatized prisons. At one of them, in the parish where my ancestor had some of his cotton land, there was a strike recently and I would like to know what happened. The Changeseeker offers some context. Axé.
I am not convinced it matters any more that politicians have our support, so my correspondence with Presidents is now utterly postmodern. Dear Mr. President, Due to your plans for Afghanistan and renewal of the Patriot Act, I have removed all remnants of November 2008 materials from all of my premises. I have disassociated myself … More My Letter to Barack
Education is also pleasurable. “The Pilgrims (who did not even call themselves pilgrims) did not come here seeking religious freedom; they already had that in Holland. They came here as part of a commercial venture. They introduced sexism, racism, anti-lesbian and gay bigotry, jails, and the class system to these shores. One of the very … More Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: United Native Americans of New England
We have not sung in some time, but now we are singing Revolution Rock. After twelve years of oppression I told the M.A.’s I had had it, I would no longer test from a commercial testing bank, I would make my own examinations and peg them to national standards. I said I was sure I … More Revolution Rock
This is October 12 and I have forgotten to mention it in two classes so far. Today in Guatemalan protests against the putative heroism of Columbus and the Hispanization of America (which is colonization, Europeanization, whitening) one Native person has been killed so far that I know of. Imer Boror, aged 19, was killed by … More Día de la Dignidad y Resistencia de los Pueblos Indígenas
In the seventies when I was a child, that is to say an undergraduate, we would sometimes go to the airport in San Francisco to greet and orient prisoners just released from jails located in countries further south. At solidarity meetings I would later translate for these people, which meant I had to say sentences … More Free Song
Victor Jara, presente. Axé.
Haiti’s neglected revolutionary history is one of the issues of which this weblog exists to remind people. Here we have just the first part of one Toussaint L’Ouverture video. If you click on it, you will find the next parts. Axé.
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