On February 1, 1960, four black students took seats at a lunch counter at the Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth’s. The white waitresses ignored them. They remained in their seats. Supervisors told them to leave. Woolworth’s in North Carolina didn’t serve colored people. The students refused to move and demanded service. In the early Spring of 1960, I went with two other students from Madison, Wisconsin, ...

source. US universities and colleges could end unlawful US wars and stop banksters’ rigged-casino fraud if they taught the central facts of these issues. This four-part series of articles is an open proposal for their action. Feel free to share it. This is my proposal for the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) Ed.L.D. program. I’ll add one link a day:   Open proposal to US higher education: End unl ...

By Michael Collins The third and final debate between the British party leaders will play a critical role in selecting the next Prime Minister. The first debate altered the course of the election, for a few days anyway. The Liberal Democrats led by Nick Clegg passed Labour's Gordon Brown and moved ahead of the Conservative's David Cameron. It looked like a trend. The second debate changed all of that. Gordo ...

Picture of the Federal Reserve for Newark School Privatization: The Newark Charter School Fund Building Student walk-outs in New Jersey Thousands of New Jersey high school students walked out of class Tuesday to protest budget cuts.  This was a result of a statewide event organized using text messages and social networking websites like Facebook – a cybernetic mobilization of human energy and “just say no”. ...

source from Examiner.com. US universities and colleges could end unlawful US wars and stop banksters’ rigged-casino fraud if they taught the central facts of these issues. This four-part series of articles is an open proposal for their action. Feel free to share it. This is my proposal for the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) Ed.L.D. program. I’ll add one link a day:   Open proposal to US higher ...

Some things never change; one of them is the divide and conquer strategy; the favorite tactic of the capitalist ruling class.  So much could be written that has and although the figures cited below are now much, much worse -- with prison populations of over 2.2 million and unemployment and racism ravaging communities in ways unbeknownst to us at the time, the analysis we present is still the same.  This is ...

Source at Examiner.com. US universities and colleges could end unlawful US wars and stop banksters’ rigged-casino fraud if they taught the central facts of these issues. This four-part series of articles is an open proposal for their action. Feel free to share it. This is my proposal for the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) Ed.L.D. program. I’ll add one link a day:   Open proposal to US higher ed ...

The Pledge of Allegiance: A Symbol of Institutionalized Injustice By: Solomon Comissiong Riddled throughout American society are innumerable institutionally ingrained symbols of America’s hypocritical and repugnant justifications of global injustice. These symbols are among the necessary instruments utilized by the empire to attempt to mold the next generation of plunderers, imperialists, and architects of ...

A mark of mental health is the ability to repress our knowledge of the world’s cruelty, to be able to live in peace though surrounded on all sides by horror and violent death… It is ironic that if a depressed patient walks into my office and says that the world is so grim that he cannot face it, I am to treat him as a ‘sick’ person.  Actually the patient is quite right.  He sees the truth only too clearly.  ...

Facebook continues to try and find ways to eliminate your privacy. This time with instant personalizations. It's now more difficult to opt out of things, making one wonder why they should ever keep a Facebook account at all. Facebook says that you can click one button to opt-out of instant personalizations, but that doesn't tell the whole picture. To get your privacy settings back, or set them for the first ...