Posts Tagged ‘activism’

To download, right-click and select “Save link as…” DEC GAMEMINGFICATION PT.2

Andrea Schaumann, Jeffrey Kissinger, Shaheen Alhumaydhi, and Felix Balak

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To download right click and select “save link as” >>> PRISON PT. 2

We had 3 exciting local guests: Miguel Adams (cofounder of Speak-Up-Florida: for the Movement to End the New Jim Crow), Teresa Pugliese (secretary and executive board member of Speak Up Florida and founder of Students for Sensible Drug Policy at UCF), and Tommy Cullar joined us also.

We had a particularly stimulating and wild chat even by our standards and even got to stay on the air for a 3rd hour. We split the podcast in 2 parts THIS IS PART 2.

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Human Rights Campaign to End the New Jim Crow.
Community Voices Speak Out and being heard to End Mass Incarceration and The War on Drugs with 1 voice. A fight against injustice! 

Speak Up Florida: https://www.facebook.com/groups/speakupfla/

SSDP at UCF: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ssdpucf/

To download right click and select “save link as” >>> PRISON PT. 1

We had 3 exciting local guests: Miguel Adams (cofounder of Speak-Up-Florida: for the Movement to End the New Jim Crow), Teresa Pugliese (secretary and executive board member of Speak Up Florida and founder of Students for Sensible Drug Policy at UCF), and Tommy Cullar joined us also.

We had a particularly stimulating and wild chat even by our standards and even got to stay on the air for a 3rd hour. We split the podcast in 2 parts THIS IS PART 1.

10527289_745047998909329_4567234301108871329_n

Human Rights Campaign to End the New Jim Crow.
Community Voices Speak Out and being heard to End Mass Incarceration and The War on Drugs with 1 voice. A fight against injustice! 

Speak Up Florida: https://www.facebook.com/groups/speakupfla/

SSDP at UCF: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ssdpucf/

Brook Hines (serial interviewee*) from the Community Business Association sent this along and prompted me to launch the new LOCAL Alpha-Douche category where we inform you about the Alpha-Douches :)

County Commissioner throws a hissy fit in the form of a charter amendment. He’s HAD IT with ballot initiatives! HAD IT with tax collectors accountable to voters!

VOTE LOCAL ya’ll and allow this cranky old gentleman to spend all of his time on the golf course where he can work out some of this anger.

http://blogs.orlandoweekly.com/bloggytown/breaking-angry-orange-county-commissioner-fred-brummer-proposes-charter-amendment-increasing-number-districts-abolishing-tax-collectors-office/

Original illustration by Plinio Marcos Pinto

 

* Brooke Hines on Punkonomics:

  1. https://punkonomics.org/2013/07/02/show-39-brook-hines-director-of-the-community-business-association-of-central-florida-main-street-alliance/
  2. https://punkonomics.org/2013/08/09/show-44-brook-hines-is-back-to-update-us-on-local-economic-policy/

An Alienated Finkelstein Discusses His Writing, Being Unemployable, And Noam Chomsky – Urban Times.

I’m desperately trying to avoid this and willing to compromise by teaching students with documentary films, and video games within a flexible curricular structure but, while I’m a popular prof, it still seems like fighting windmills all to often and Finkelstein has been my hero since the 90s