Archive for December, 2006
Welcome to two new bloggers from Deeee-troit! Greater Detroit and Rachel P are talented writers bringing important perspectives about organizing efforts and community issues relating to Detroit. T. Zac, omnicrisis, and upsidedown house are also frequent bloggers from Detroit, and while MarciaVitae‘s blog is mostly about her current travels in Taiwan, we’ll still claim her. [...]
I appreciated reading this article about the 1 million+ scholarships available for white ethnic groups, providing clear perspective of how much money exists to support white privilege. I am not necessarily advocating that these scholarships be eliminated because they do serve a purpose for some communities, and certainly there are many white folks living in [...]
To all my readers, Please except my apologies for switching up my blog presentation 3-4 times within the past week. I think my schizo behavior is actually a projection of my frustrations with grad school applications. For those that have been through it, you know what a drag it is. Well, I’ve gotten back on [...]
My friend shared this article/blog post about revolunationary childcare with me recently. It is an exciting initiative in NYC that has very similiar objectives and principles to the Dreamers Dream for Children group. Do folks know if there are other such groups in the country? Below is the vision statement for the NYC group, called [...]
Below is an urgent message regarding a very important publication facing financial crisis. Critical Moment is an integral publication in Southeastern Michigan for progressive, socially-conscious news. They are run by an all-volunteer collective of extremely dedicated individuals. Critical Moment has covered many important events and news items on racial justice, queer issues, educational justice, international [...]
Just trying out new things (i.e. procrastinating on my applications). Let me know what y’all think about the new layouts…
Okay, so I didn’t take this photo, but I do love growing vegetables and urban gardening! This photo is part of a fantastic photography collection of produce from NYC’s Grand Army Plaza weekly greenmarket. Yes! Magazine featured some of these photos in a recent article on how greenmarkets and other farmers markets can promote fresh [...]
On December 14, the Detroit Board of Education voted unanimously to allow FAME (Finding Alternatives to Military Enlistment) equal time to military recruiters in Detroit Public Schools. Though the efforts to counter military recruiters in urban areas and communities of color is far from over, this recent announcement is small victory! American Friends Service Committee [...]
I thought that working on grad school applications would take away from blogging. Instead, blogging has been a wonderful distraction to help me get through the painful application process. Lately the Detroit Asian Youth Project has been getting some great features in places like here and here! Being involved with this initiative has been a [...]
The intersection of spirituality in activist work continues to be a growing interest of mine. Mostly because I am exploring it in my personal journey, but I also believe that activists need to find out what role spirituality has (or doesn’t have) in their lives, in order to sustain and deepen our work. Below are [...]
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