Chiapas / Zapatistas
Hrm... I was hoping Emily would head up a conversation about this (I probably should have actually said that, ay?) Anyway, I was left a little groundless after reading the Chiapas chapter... I feel like i didn't completely understand all that was going on and I felt like I was hoping for more info on Haiti and just understanding that one issue more deeply and *poof*, nope, on to Chiapas... Anyhow, it just kind of increased my sense of "There's so much going on that I know nothing about!!!"Anyhow, I'm still pretty focused on my consumerism stuff and I guess that's taking the foreground for me... Emily, what did you say you were going to present?
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When you're at the front page of the blog, click that little blogger icon at the top left, which takes you to the "Dashboard"-- a list of all your blogs, next to where it lists "Art interventions in global concerns", there should be a little green plus sign in a column that says "New Post" From there it's pretty similar to making a comment... capice?
I'm saving your post on the handout reading until I read that peice... as far as Angela Davis goes, I was just there for the last fifteen minutes or so, Sam (my nephew) was being a bit to squeeky and squirmey to be inside for the majority of the lecture, so we were walking around... Sam liked the tee shirts for the Clothesline Project! I'll have a bit more to say abt Angela Davis after I watch a taped lecture of hers, probably tomorrow...
As far as prisons go, I know of a big project used in Asia and the Middle East in some pretty hard core jails (i.e. with Al-Qaeda terrorists, extremists in the Jammu and Kashmir conflict, and Naxalites ("Maoist") extremists/terrorists) that teaches them yoga and meditation as a way of allowing them to unload their own personal stresses and open up to other people...
Here, I found a link:
http://www.artofliving.org/seva/prisonsmart.htm
This is really interesting to me because I do the same yoga and meditation practices every day, and for me it's like "Oh yeah, this helped me quit smoking and made me a happier person" but then the same thing has been as effective in bringing that change to people whose lives have become so negative and violent...
I've got a video of a group of people who have slaughtered so many people (like dozens and dozens) who are sitting together, swearing to never harm another person and to dedicate their lives to service, and they are singing songs to celebrate and praise spirituality... it's so out of this world.....
Anyhow, I'm really interested to see what you bring for the envrionmentalism, as that is one of the edges that my presentation will approach... have you heard of the green festival next weekend?
www.greenfestivals.com/
Could be a good lead for you... I'm thinking about volunteering (so I can get in for free!) :)
Re: Green Festival-- Sounds good to me! I was going to go up after noon on Saturday... Have you read the MDRTB in Russian Prisons chapter?
That's pretty spooky. I honestly hate learning about epidemiology because it makes me a bit paranoid about viruses... I love what a friend of mine, a gastroenterologist (sp?) said: "I don't believe in viruses. I've never met one." I looked at him askance since he's an MD. "People have showed me slides and told me I was looking at a virus, but I've never seen one myself."
Re: Angela Davis -- I just watched the full lecture of the DVD we started in class...
You're right, in the lecture I watched, she mostly touched on corporal punishment and how Turkish people were protesting against US Style prisons, she didn't give any alternatives, she didn't even talk about what Turkish prisons were like before US Style prisons, which makes me kind of curious-- 121 people fasted to death over the issue, so I guess there's a pretty big difference.
Hrm... rereading your comment on Angela Davis-- I thin kyou'd like Suzanne's class "Gender representation in popular media" I took that last fall and I loved it so much... she deals a lot with how society is locked in a cage (the example she used last class) of intersecting bars of race, gender, socioeconomic class, and sexuality... it was so good.... now I walk around and everything I see I think "This is a racist thing!" "This is a sexist thing!" It's like being crazy, only safer :)
Younger people and older people both... :) I was wearing a "Gay> Fine By Me." Shirt today for coming out day and I was kind of surprised that one of my closest friends was joking "What are you trying to tell us here, Sean?" I was kind of drifting between offended, outraged, and kind of deflated and let down :)
Hrm... my mission in life is to make people smarter...
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