{"id":5934,"date":"2012-02-11T21:21:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T05:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/?p=5934"},"modified":"2012-02-12T10:51:33","modified_gmt":"2012-02-12T18:51:33","slug":"rouge-forum-dispatch-beyone-occupation-retribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richgibson.com\/blog\/rouge-forum-dispatch-beyone-occupation-retribution\/","title":{"rendered":"Rouge Forum Dispatch: Beyone Occupation—Retribution."},"content":{"rendered":"

We Say Fight Back!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Call for Proposals<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rouge Forum 2012<\/em><\/strong>
\nOCCUPY EDUCATION! Class Conscious Pedagogies for Social Change
\nJune 22-24, 2012
\nMiami University
\nOxford, OH
\nProposals Due April 15, 2012<\/p>\n

The Rouge Forum 2012 will be held at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The University\u2019s picturesque campus is located 50 minutes northwest of Cincinnati. The conference will be held June 22-24, 2012.<\/p>\n

Proposals for papers, panels, performances, workshops, and other multimedia presentations should include title(s) and names and contact information for presenter(s). The deadline for sending proposals is April 15. The Steering Committee will email acceptance notices by May 1. (details \u00a0http:\/\/rougeforum2012.wordpress.com\/rf-2012-call-for-proposals\/)<\/p>\n

Greece: General Strike vs Class War from Above <\/strong> Greek workers walked off the job on Tuesday to protest a new barrage of austerity measures being demanded by the country\u2019s foreign creditors in exchange for a second bailout of $170 billion without which Greece faces a potentially catastrophic default within weeks.<\/p>\n

Coppers Sweep Occupy DC <\/strong> Dozens of U.S. Park Police officers in riot gear and on horseback converged before dawn Saturday on one of the nation\u2019s last remaining Occupy sites, with police clearing away tents they said were banned under park rules. \u00a0 At least seven people were arrested. \u00a0 www.utsandiego.com\/news\/2012\/feb\/05\/tp-police-clear-occupy-dc-site-7-held\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Occupy Oxford Ms Perseveres (above)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Above, Occupy Berkeley was swept away and is regrouping, retenting…..<\/em><\/p>\n

Against Apple SuperExploitation <\/strong> Protesters descended on Apple stores around the world, including in Washington, on Thursday to protest labor conditions at the company\u2019s manufacturing facilities in China.
\nThe issue has become a thorny one for Apple after the factories that make its products experienced explosions in 2011 and worker suicides in 2010. A recent report in The New York Times contained graphic descriptions of cramped working conditions and the voices of workers who said they were suffering injuries from repetitive motion and exposure to chemicals. \u00a0 www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/apple-store-protests-planned-for-thursday\/2012\/02\/08\/gIQAEmE3zQ_story.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Congratulations to Doug Selwyn for<\/strong>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I am writing <\/em>Following the threads: Bringing inquiry research to the classroom<\/em> to encourage and support educators to: <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00b7<\/em> <\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span>Make connection between required course content and the lives of their students.<\/em> <\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00b7<\/em> <\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span>Offer their students the opportunity to learn how to engage in authentic, \u2018real world\u201d research in their classrooms, and to practice these research skills on topics that are of interest and importance to them.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00b7<\/em> <\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span>Encourage students to share their findings with an authentic audience for whom the information is relevant and consequential.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00b7<\/em> <\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span>Give students and teachers permission to disconnect the automatic link that \u201cschool\u201d often makes between research and (at least occasionally) boring, academic research papers, and to encourage students to share what they have learned through various media and modes that will best communicate what they have found with their intended audience.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00b7<\/em> <\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span>Provide examples of the ways in which history, our own stories have been hidden from us, or lost to us, and to realize the damage that has done to our understanding of how the world has come to be the way it is.<\/em> <\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00b7<\/em> <\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span>Offer students the opportunity to experience the joy and power that comes with learning about issues and subjects of importance to them. \u00a0Doug Selwyn <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Citizen Self-Help in Detroit <\/strong> The people of Detroit are taking no prisoners. Justifiable homicide in the city shot up 79 percent in 2011 from the previous year, as citizens in the long-suffering city armed themselves and took matters into their own hands. The local rate of self-defense killings now stands 2,200 percent above the national average. Residents, unable to rely on a dwindling police force to keep them safe, are fighting back against the criminal scourge on their own. And they\u2019re offering no apologies. \u00a0 www.thedaily.com\/page\/2012\/02\/05\/020512-news-detroit-vigilantes-1-5\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The Little Red School House<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Dem Jerry Brown’s Assault on People in California Community Colleges <\/strong>California\u2019s 112 community colleges, the nation\u2019s largest higher education system, may change a great deal if Gov. Jerry Brown has his way.
\nBrown, who entered politics nearly a half-century ago as a Los Angeles community college trustee, and state community college Chancellor Jack Scott, a former college administrator and state senator, want the system to refocus on students with firm career or higher education goals. If enacted, it would ration access to consciously discourage, or even ban, attendance by casual students who lack the requisite goals. It would be the biggest cultural change since 1907, when the system was born with authorization for local high schools to offer \u201cpostgraduate courses of study.\u201d \u00a0 …Simply put, if the system serves fewer students, it will cost less. And that makes it a significant component of Brown\u2019s ambitious plan to shrink state spending commitments even as he asks voters to raise taxes.\u00a0 www.pressdemocrat.com\/article\/20120206\/WIRE\/120209655?p=2&tc=pg<\/a><\/p>\n

Detroit: Either Come to your School-to-Jail Prep program or go to the Real Jail <\/strong>Student truancy is noticeable in the city \u2014 so much so that Detroit Public Schools made 409 referrals to prosecutors in the 2010-11 year and also lost state funding because it fell below the state minimum of 75 percent attendance on 46 days.
\nThat’s why federal, county and city law enforcement officers worked together with community groups Monday to combat the problem.
\nAbout 30 officers performed the first sweep of the year around Denby and Osborn high schools, marked by Detroit Public Schools as areas with high risk for truancy. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 www.detroitnews.com\/article\/20120207\/SCHOOLS\/202070349\/1026\/Law-enforcement-agencies-work-together-combat-truancy-Detroit<\/a><\/p>\n

Teaching History in Afghanistan, like the US: Lie About the Wars. What wars? <\/strong> In a country where the recent past has unfolded like a war epic, officials think they have found a way to teach Afghan history without widening the fractures between long-quarreling ethnic and political groups: leave out the past four decades.
\nA series of government-issued textbooks funded by the United States and several foreign aid organizations do just that, pausing history in 1973. There is no mention of the Soviet war, the mujaheddin, the Taliban or the U.S. military presence. In their efforts to promote a single national identity, Afghan leaders have deemed their own history too controversial. \u00a0 \u00a0 …In the 1970s, the Soviet Union printed books that stressed communism\u2019s virtues and the importance of Marxist theory. During the last years of the Cold War, the United States spent millions on Afghan textbooks filled with violent images and talk of jihad, part of a covert effort to incite resistance to the Soviet occupation. During the Taliban\u2019s reign in the 1990s, conservative Islamic texts were imported from Pakistan. In western Afghanistan, Iranian textbooks that openly praised Tehran-backed militant groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas were for years distributed in public schools. \u00a0 www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/asia_pacific\/in-afghanistan-a-new-approach-to-teaching-history-leave-out-the-wars\/2012\/02\/03\/gIQA57KNqQ_story_1.html<\/a><\/p>\n