Speak Out has put together a resource page to help folks better understand this historic moment for racial justice and and to get involved. Asking, “Have you wondered what you might have done if you’d been around during the Civil Rights movement? Or if you had been active, what is …
by David Christopher A few weeks ago I went to return a can of food at the store (I had gotten the wrong kind of sauce than I’d intended for holiday party preparations). I went right up to the one of the checkers after walking in, since I didn’t want …
Nomy Lamm, from the S.F. Performance Group, Sins Invalid, will offer a workshop Friday January 30 6:30-8:30 pm Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Hall, Board Rm 547 Mendocino Ave., Santa Rosa No scents please Nomy Lamm presents a workshop on applying social justice principles to analysis and action around disability, race, gender, …
“All I can say is that I have never seen anything remotely like this. It has been exciting, scary, challenging, but most of all empowering. And things are only growing from here.” Report by Carl Patrick The most important thing to remember when analyzing the protests that have erupted in …
by Judy Helfand In Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger, Kelly Cogswell whirls the reader into her life as a cofounder of Lesbian Avengers in New York City, 1992. The book’s title comes from one of their first actions where several Avengers learned how to eat fire as …
by Bianca Licata First in a five-part series. With only three weeks left in the school year, and two weeks left of my student teaching, my mentor teacher—“Ms. Jones”—had just finished organizing all of her students’ files, making notes about their proclivity toward one subject or another, and their general …
by Bianca Licata Second in a Five-Part Series. In Part One of this series, we read about a white woman who did not allow her child the help he needed for his disability because it would stop him from attending a charter school. This child was two grade levels behind …
by Bianca Licata Third in a Five-Part Series. As described in Part Two of this series, “Teaching English Language Learners: History and Tensions,” by the 21st century the highly effective programs for English Language Learners (ELLs) had been largely dismantled. Students were left with a “hegemonic, English-only, homogenized curriculum… propagated …
by Bianca Licata Fourth in a Five-Part Series. Part One of this series “A Mother’s ‘Dilemma’ and School Segregation,” which looks at segregation between Hispanic and white students in Sonoma county, illustrated how current attitudes and policies affect white parents, leading them to make choices that increase segregation in the …
by Bianca Licata Fifth in a Five-Part Series. The combination of anti-immigrant attitudes and policies, the dismantling of programs for English Language Learners, and the demands of No Child Left Behind into the context of Sonoma County’s demographics, where 42 percent of students are identified as Latino, and 22 percent …