I’d love to become a writer for this page, I don’t blog a lot these days but when i do, i blog about things that I’m passionate about, for instance my “Teflon” post, my blog action day post, and just the other day i wrote an article (which I’m still updating daily) about the horrible fires that are ripping through most of my state – 183 dead this morning and more than half of the state burned. I’d really love some feedback on that by the way

well I’ve pleaded my case now its up to you guys to see if I’ve got what it takes to become a writer here

I look forward to hearing from you

Phee
xoxo

The platform it outlines is worth striving for: accessible health care, the protection and rehabilitation of our environment, an end to war, and a better, fairer educational system.

And that is why I introduced it to Intrepid Classroom. I want the book to simply be an impetus for discussion and hopefully action. I by no means feel that this book o the Gen-We movement is the end point. I hope that because of clarity we can use it as a road map towards more of what you were talking about.

The problem is that Gen-We puts an awful lot of importance on indirect action, voting with our wallets for “green” companies and voting with ballots for more progressive politicians. Important stuff, to be sure, but I’m not content with that, and I don’t think that real change is likely to come about if that is all we do. What we need is to start small, grow locally, and show the old guard what can be done, instead of turning to them for the answers.

I loved this quote and completely agree.

We are forming the structure of the new society within the shell of the old.” A “new society” because the current one is unsatisfactory, unfair, and dehumanizing, and because we can do better.

I don’t believe that voting in and participating in a system that I completely disagree with is the right course of action, and I am not satisfied with the false state of comfort that the Obama presidency has spread across the progressive landscape. Again, I agree that…

Because underneath the flashy rhetoric and the misguided trust in the same systems that got use where we are today, Eric Greenberg is calling us to act and in order to act effectively, we need to organize. I would like to start a discussion about what students within the education system can do to start effecting real change.

I want to use his text as a way to start moving toward real change. I hope that w can get a group of 5-10 people to look at his words critically, not because I think the text itself will bring about change, but I think the book will foster great discussion and hopefully better projects and ways of bringing about change.

As for the NHS platforms. I am too far removed from that organization to comment, although I loved these main points:

1. To nurture enthusiasm for learning.

2. To develop our passions into talents, in order to improve and enrich the material and intellectual lives of people everywhere.

3. To build our communities both locally and globally.

4. To demand that those who have been granted power, be it by circumstance or public vote, be it in the form of economic or political clout, behave with character.

Our job is to engage a small cadre of people willing to look at these topics further, commit their time, and have the important conversations. It is one thing to share links and videos, quite another to organize and bring about systematic change. But that is the role of the IntrepidClassroom, so let’s see what we can do to get people involved.

This is a great idea. Seeing as at the moment I am neither a teacher nor a student (Well, not officially. I find myself learning a lot these days, though.) I’m not sure what I could do to help, but this post has caught my interest. In a tweet about the Generation We program you told someone that students need to hear radical opinions, and I completely agree. Being a radical myself, I would love to see where this is heading and I want to participate whenever possible.

I feel something powerful and wonderful brewing here. Let’s make it happen.

The long-term goals/overlying themes are apparent (or, at least they are now) but they do not allow us to completely envision what we should be doing in the meantime, which makes broaching the topics or even attempting to present something difficult.

The topics that we are covering are vast and almost, as someone before me has said, “in(or un-)conquerable”. I suggest that maybe things should be more obvious as to where things should be going: present us with more projects with obvious discussions or questions since sometimes just posting a YouTube video with a paragraph isn’t enough to entice someone to start a discussion.

@Steven Kimmi: I agree, actually: sometimes all the focus on the changes that we are trying to make does stifle the art and writing that we also love to do. I’d love to be a part of that poetry group if it ever did get going, by the way.

Oh, and another thing: what happened to We Are One? That seemed to be the thing that kept going even if there wasn’t an immense amount of activity on the blog or the Ning… but still, I think the reason that it trailed off was that there wasn’t a specific event or occurance that was to be conveyed.

In all other Round Robins that I have completed, there is a prompt and certain restrictions. For example, most RR’s limit people to 100 words or less per entry, or only allow them to use certain characters. /However/, even though this is a group effort within Intrepid Classroom and it’s supposed to be a flowing story I do think that there needs to be some degree of planning going on. Not obsessive and compulsive planning like I tend to do, but some loose guidelines on what we’d like to see happen or how the characters should be acting.

Just a few cents, I may come back a little bit later with more thoughts.

- Julia