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Over the past several years, my teaching has cultivated critical dialogue amongst students on social issues–education, gender, ethnic/racial conflict, classism, and so on. I raise questions; that’s what I do. Truth be told, my personal agenda is clearly a progressive one; although, I am very careful not to stack the deck against students with contrary [...]

I recently started following “The Natural Life Magazine” Twitter stream and this came to me–a video clip of Julia “Butterfly” Hill talking about the importance of not letting what we are against define us. If you don’t remember Hill, she is an American environmentalist who spent over 700 days–from December 1997 to December 1999–sitting and [...]

At the age of 21, Mario Savio gave his “Against the Wheels” speech and emerged as “the nation’s most prominent student leader.” He and 800 others were arrested the day he gave this speech in   Mario Savio, 19651964 in protest to UC Berkely’s ban on campus-based political activity and fund-raising. Savio was attempting to raise [...]