I think it's sinking in now that I have to leave this place this afternoon and in some sense I don't ever get to come back.

I don't know how to deal with that.

done done done done done.

Weird.

Rosa Parks died yesterday at age 92. Over the days to come, we'll hear a lot of very-much deserved prasie for Parks' refusal to abide bigotry and her courage in the service of a cause. Unfortunately, we'll also hear a new round of recitations of the stubborn myth that Parks was an anonymous, apolitical woman who spontaneously refused to yield to ( Read more... )

Based on the lj interests lists of those who share my more unusual interests, the interests suggestion meme thinks I might be interested in
1. nationalism score: 7
2. imperialism score: 7
3. liberation theology score: 6
4. john stuart mill score: 6
5. welfare score: 6
6. reform score: 5
7. quran score: 5
8. muhammad score: 5
9. social democracy score: 5
10. ( Read more... )

(cross-posted from here)

Even after last summer's daily voter registration rejections in Tampa, the level of cynicism about Mexican electoral politics manifested in the limited number of conversations I've had about it with folks in Cholula is pretty striking. Students and others here have told me they weren't planning to vote next July, that ( Read more... )

(cross-posted from hereTuesday night, after four months since receiving the platform for real financial aid reform borne out of our hundreds of canvassing interviews and supported by over a thousand students, President Levin had a great opportunity to offer real solutions, or to take to heart the voices of students who had. And he blew it. He ( Read more... )

This is an election we should have wonAfter the concession, I replayed Obama's speech several times and cried a lot over the disparity between his narrative of America and the vision we're likely to see played out over the next four years ( Read more... )

Just took out my pen, turned up "America" loud, and filled out by ballot. Memo to John Kerry, Joe Hoeffel, Los Murphy, et al: Don't think just cause I just voted for you you can run all the way to the right now or anything - I'm still looking for a stamp...

Today I registered my 500th voter.

Got up at 4:30 this morning to make it a SHARE food distribution site where we spent the morning trying to register the folks collecting and distributing food. It was sort of a bust, in that most everybody was already registered, but it wasn't as frustrating a bust as, say, last Saturday, which I spent in a coffee shop with no customers in it, ( Read more... )