Pro-tip: Parenting magazines should not be using the language of Pornography to sell shoes to kids. Just sayn. Thanks to the Bewilderness for the post. Filed under: Education, Feminism Tagged: Parenting Fail, Pornography
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Dead Wild Roses: DWR PSA – Poverty and Mental Illness in the US Infographic
Filed under: Education Tagged: DWR PSA Satruday, Poverty And Mental Illness in the USA
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rape Culture – Steubenville
In response to the Steubenville, Ohio teen rape case, West Virginia U.S. Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld is launching a program to teach high school athletes not to post evidence of rape online. It’s called “Project Future,” and his goal is to teach teens how to avoid getting in trouble with
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Canada: Investment in Aboriginal Early Childhood Development Needed
Kathy Mallet says Indigenous peoples in Canada still suffer the effects of poverty, systematic racism, colonization, the sixties scoop and the residential schools experience, urges investment in Aboriginal early childhood development. The post Canada: Investment in Aboriginal Early Childhood Development Needed appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Empire of Illusion – On Postive “Psychology”
Dealing with positive psychology and its converts can be most irksome at times because, like religion, they don’t smell the bullshit they are peddling. Let’s look at the concise way Chris Hedges sums up this toxic phenomena in his book Empire of Illusion. “There is a dark, insidious quality
Continue readingThe Liberal Scarf: Final version of my policy to be presented at Summer Fling: Encouraging Youth Democratic Participation and Improving Civic Education
My original policy had some friendly amendments for clarity and language, so here is what I’ll be presenting at Summer Fling this weekend: Encouraging Youth Democratic Participation and Improving Civic Education (Provincial) By: William Norman, Mississauga South WHEREAS – The lowest voter registration rates are for young voters 18-24
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: The First Day of School, 2013: Beware!
Well, a new school year is about to begin, so it’s time to analyze just how much destruction the 1% will visit upon public education this year. Defunding, corporatization of curriculum, standardization of curriculum and experience, high-stakes testing, homogenization of experience…you know, the same old nonsense that drove me from
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Inverted Totalitarianism – Chilling then, living it now.
Reposting because it is important. Thanks to The Nation for hosting Sheldon Wolin’s article. “The war on Iraq has so monopolized public attention as to obscure the regime change taking place in the Homeland. We may have invaded Iraq to bring in democracy and bring down a totalitarian regime, but
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Chris Hedges’ 2003 Rockford College Commencement Address – Speaking Truth to Power
Let us take a good look at how free speech and competing idea’s are treated at a American College. You wonder why so many people just roll their eyes when the words American and enlightened are mentioned in the same sentence. What gets me is that these are the supposed
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Perspective…
Just sayn’ Filed under: Education, Humour Tagged: Humour, Perspective
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Funding Cuts to Alberta’s PSE Sector: There Are Alternatives
It has recently been reported that the University of Alberta wants to “reopen two-year collective agreements” with faculty and staff “to help the university balance its budget…” This appears to be in direct response to Alberta’s provincial government announcing in its March budget that there would be a “7% cut
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Chris Hedges on The Empire of Illusion
My summer vacation reading was a sunny little book by Nick Turse called Kill Anything That Moves. I finished the other book I was noshing on, the Age of American Unreason, just after returning from Kaslo and now I’ve started Chris Hedges book, the Empire of Illusion. Turse’s book
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Women As Meat, Volume 874,597
Backlash 101. Every attempt we made to start a serious debate was met with responses such as “feminism and rape are both ridiculously tiring”. via What happened when I started a feminist society at school | Education | theguardian.com. For all the sons and daughters that you know and love,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Crisis of Civilization – Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
Uh-oh. One hour and 17minues of important viewing? Hmm… I recommend taking a gander at what Mr.Ahmed has to say as he sheds some light on some of the systematic problems faced by western societies. Enjoy. Filed under: Education, Politics Tagged: Capitalism, Documentary, systematic problems, Systemic Causes, The
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Limits of Science
Thia simple face bears repeating, especially to the religious minded among us. 🙂 Filed under: Education, Science Tagged: Limits of Science, Science
Continue readingEarthgauge Radio: Arctic expedition radio doc airs on CBC Ottawa
Download: soiarctic2013-cbc-final.mp3 I was fortunate to participate on the Students on Ice 2013 Arctic Expedition this year, which was a tremendous experience. We traveled up the west coast of Greenland by ship and across the Davis Strait to the Eastern Canadian Arctic. I produced a short audio documentary based on
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: How Transistors Work – 1veritasium
My ignorance knows no bounds. 🙂 I count myself, after watching this video, just little more in touch with the basic stuffs that makes computer technologies work. Filed under: Education Tagged: Education, Physics, Transistors
Continue readingTrashy's World: Citizen article on OCDSB playstructures
Great piece on the state of playstructures in Ottawa Carleton District School Board schools. I’m hoping the Board steps up in the fall and ups its funding commitment to playstructure renewal projects. I, as a parent and member of school council, would like our school’s volunteer efforts to focus on
Continue readingThe Progressive Economics Forum: Why does BC have the highest poverty rate in Canada?
Statistics Canada recently released new data on the incomes of Canadians and it shows two worrisome trends continuing through the economic recovery: BC has the highest poverty rate in Canada and the highest child poverty rate (tied with Manitoba); and Ordinary families haven’t had a raise since 2008 – family
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: So Why Don’t Pro-”Lifers” hate God?
A big thank you to Tigger_the_Wing, Back home =^ from the comments section of a blog post on Pharyngula. Tigger talks about the inconsistency in many of the arguments religious anti-choicers make. Back to regret: When we lose someone, the loss hurts; among other reasons because we remember all the
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