four cups of tea
I had always been skeptical of Greg Mortenson’s work. Anyone who runs around the globe as a sole actor doing good works is opening themselves to lot of potential criticism. The Central Asia Institute seemed to be colonial in nature and mostly all I had heard about was how great Greg Mortenson was not about … Read more
young, white, and in detroit: gentrification implications
http://current.com/e/88996181/en_US Video from: Feministing – Detroit, Gentrification and Good-ass Political Hip-hop “First-stage gentrifiers” are economically- and socially-marginal “trend setters”. Sociologically, these people are young and have low incomes while possessing the cultural capital (education and a job), characteristic of the suburban bourgeois. They often reside in communal (room-mate) households, and are more tolerant of the … Read more
Gray Panthers, Youth in Action, and the Non-Profit Industrial Complex (live blogging #USSF)
Here are summaries of some of the workshops I attended today: Organizing Across Communities: Age & Youth in Action by the Gray Panthers of Metropolitan Washington A workshop run by a sweet group of older (wise) people focused on bridging the gap of age in activism and building an intergenerational movement. Gray hair = gray … Read more
