A reader asks why I did not stay home from work and join the May Day protests today, and I feel like this question deserves a serious response. Partly, I have always had a phobia about crowds, and never willingly put myself into a crowd situation. I don’t even like to go to an agricultural [...]
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May Day: Here, There and Everywhere
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on May 1, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/may-day-here-there-and-everywhere/
Which Side Are You On?
So here we sit on the eve of May Day 2012, and there is an eerie calm-before-the-storm kind of feeling. The mainstream media is still doing its best to pretend that nothing out of the ordinary is going on. The only May-Day related event reported in the NY Times today was that a lawsuit was [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on April 30, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/04/30/which-side-are-you-on/
An Unlikely Environmental Evangelist
There were two reasons, many years ago, why I ended up choosing literature as my field of study rather than environmental studies or law. I was turned off from environmental studies, my initial choice for an undergraduate major, by a scary required statistics class and no options for getting remedial help to bring my weak [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on February 12, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/02/12/an-unlikely-environmental-evangelist/
Censorship in Academe, 21st century style
Unfortunately, the banning of books by Mexican Americans in Tucson last week was not an isolated incident. It’s part of a larger pattern in American education. At the elementary school level, it takes the form of resisting bilingual education for students whose family language is not English, and—for example—still teaching “Thanksgiving” as though it were [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on January 22, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/censorship-in-academe-21st-century-style/
Chevron is Us. But we can change, and they can too
It’s not for nothing that the cliche “a picture worth a thousand words” was invented. I came across such a picture in an unlikely venue this week: the current issue of The New Yorker, in a long article by Patrick Radden Keefe on attorney Steven Donziger’s efforts to represent the indigenous peoples of Ecuador whose lands [...]
Posted by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez on January 10, 2012
http://bethechange2012.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/chevron-is-us-but-we-can-change-and-they-can-too/
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