lördag 10 januari 2015

H.L. Mencken, The Penalty of Death,

The Greatest History Lesson - John Taylor Gatto - The Truth About Your Education,
At the Least, Do No Harm: A Polemic Against Schooling by John Taylor Gatto (pp. 8-10),


John Taylor Gatto – The Purpose of Schooling. Truth versus Disinformation . . . Everything You Know is Wrong About Schooling,


John Taylor Gatto, Personal Solutions, Family Solutions (pp. 13-19),

Also see “What Really Matters” (pp. 20-25) at ibid.


Everything We Think About Schooling Is Wrong! An interview with John Taylor Gatto,


John Taylor Gatto, Against School,



John Taylor Gatto, Why Schools Don’t Educate,



John Taylor Gatto, The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher,


John Taylor Gatto, Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteachers Journey through the
Dark World of Compulsory Schooling,


John Taylor Gatto, The Exhausted School: “How Did We Ever Come to Believe
that the State Should Tell Our Children What to Think?”, 


John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling,
http://www.users.humboldt.edu/jwpowell/27806948-Dumbing-Us-Down-by-John-Taylor-Gatto.pdf

lördag 3 januari 2015

Bayard Rustin, Interracial Primer: How You Can Help Relieve Tension Between Negroes and Whites,

From Protest to Politics: The Future of the Civil Rights Movement, by Bayard Rustin,

Bayard Rustin, “Black Power” and Coalition Politics,

The Most Important Civil Rights Leader You’ve Never Heard Of: A Celebration of the Centennial of Bayard Rustin (1912–2012), 

Frances Fox Piven, Can Power from Below Change the World?,

Frances Fox Piven, Occupy’s Protest Is Not Over. It Has Barely Begun,

Plenary            Address, Frances Fox Piven, Relational Poverty Network Conference

Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward, Poor People’s Movements and the Structuring of Protest,

Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward, Rule Making, Rule Breaking, and Power,

There are some common chapters in the following 2 e-books

Sam Vaknin, Malignant Self Love,

Sam Vaknin, Abuse, Torture, And Trauma and Their Consequences and Effects,


There are some problems in the latter work particularly, most notably, on p. 99 he advocates the use of psychotropic medications for things like anxiety and depression. But that can never be justified for any type of psychological problem. And on p. 93 he says: “Victims are not a uniform lot. In some cultures, abuse is commonplace and accepted as a legitimate mode of communication, a sign of love and caring, and a boost to the abuser’s self image. In such circumstances, the victim is likely to adopt the norms of society and avoid serious trauma.” In my view, this is nonsense. Just because trauma is concealed doesn’t mean that it’s not there. Besides, the author is implicitly conceding that there’s no autonomy involved in the adoption of society’s norms under such a condition, hence there’s coercion and therefore great harm, from a humanistic standpoint.

torsdag 1 januari 2015

Noam Chomsky, Obama’s Historic Move, 
https://zcomm.org/zcommentary/obamas-historic-move/

Alfred W. McCoy, How to Read the Senate Report on CIA Torture, 

Paul Street, Worthy and Unworthy Victims From Vietnam and Iraq to Ferguson and New York, 

Joe Emersberger, Capitalism Must Die Or We Will, 

Mark Engler and Paul Engler, What makes nonviolent movements explode?,