Feminism & Gender Justice

New Documentary Reveals the Remarkable Life of Black Like Me Author John Howard Griffin

michaeljohnson — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:17:16 -0400

John Howard Griffin is best known today as the author of Black Like Me, which tells of his 1959 journey through the American South disguised as a black man. But there is much more to Griffin than that extraordinary experiment in race relations. As a new documentary shows, John Howard Griffin possessed an uncommon vision of our shared humanity, and spent his life in a fearless search for truth.

Uncommon Vision and Commonplace Projection

michaeljohnson — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:07:04 -0400

...Atkinson brings to life the poignant irony of a blind man returning to the land of vision to show how those like you and me with normal, take-it-for-granted vision can and do manipulate our vision to see what we want and are conditioned to see without seeing that that is what we are doing. And that we do this regardless of our race, color, culture, gender, sexual orientation, etc.

No Wall Is Too Tall

ajowa — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:36:48 -0400

The future of humans and Planet Earth depend on replacing the "greed-driven" economic system of Wall Street with the "life-serving" system of Main Street.

That was the message that David Korten, author Agenda for a New Economy, and co-founder of Yes! magazine, brought to the 58th annual conference of the Association of Cooperative Educators in Cleveland on Wednesday.

Korten was one of the reasons that I wanted to come to this conference. The other was to tour the Evergreen Cooperative Laundry. Thanks to the Ralph Morris Foundation, I was able to attend my first ACE conference.

Sign up for anti-racism training at the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives conference in Berkeley

ajowa — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:22:35 -0400

Anti-Racism in the Workplace two-day training, August 9th & 10th, 2010, UC Berkeley.

The U.S. Federation for Worker Cooperatives has organized an intensive 2-day workshop as part of the conference. Here's how conference co-organizer, kiran nigam, bills it:

NASCO's Anti-oppression List: Action Camp Resources and Further Readings

jim — Tue, 25 May 2010 23:15:55 -0400