3.06.08 education policies and systems

Summary:In order to fix our schools, we all need to start taking responsibility for the racism, poverty, and violence that are what's really undercutting them.

Summary:But doesn't homeschooling mean parents teaching their own kids at home? What does a center like this have to do with homeschooling?

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"We set up meetings with people we felt like were allies, and invited them to our hearing. It's hard to say no to a group of kids wanting to learn, wanting to make a difference."

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Reaching beyond the usual suspects.

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"You're gay and I'm straight, so let's call it a Gay-Straight Alliance."

Summary:Events, Gatherings, Opportunities, Resources, Campaigns

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I told her about chanting "Kill the people, burn the village," and how that chant still runs through my veins to this day.

Counter-recruitment organizing is the most practical way to tangibly resist United States policy that, while cutting funding for education, employment, and social programs, promotes war and empire. It exposes the relationship between, and acts to correct, both local and global injustices.

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The Women of Color Resource Center (WCRC) isn't what most experts think of as a site of research on militarization and demilitarization. But that oversight may be due to many militarization experts' narrow views of ''expertise.'' The WCRC is an energetic organization located in downtown Oakland, California, that develops programs for Asian- American, African-American, Native American, and Latina women in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Open source software can prevent monopolistic companies from controlling how we communicate.