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Insurgent Notes

Once Again on Education: Beyond Ordinary Leftism

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Introduction A few months ago, a participant in a listserv that I belong to posted a proposal for “A Day without Teachers” in solidarity with the members of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) who subsequently went on strike for seven days in September.  See my article on the strike in

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A Review of Mary Gabriel’s Love and Capital and Some Thoughts Prompted by the Review

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In Love and Capital, published in 2011, Mary Gabriel makes a really good case that love was at the center of the life of the revolutionary named Karl Marx.  She does so by situating what might be considered the biography of Marx’s public life in the biography of his personal

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Dying of Whiteness: A Review

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Dying of Whiteness is a recently published book by Jonathan Metzl.  Metzl is a psychiatrist and a sociologist who directs the Center for Medicine, Health and Society at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.  The book has received a good deal of attention in the mainstream media but, unfortunately, that attention

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Sunday Morning

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It’s the morning after 700 marchers from Occupy Wall Street were arrested as they marched across the Brooklyn Bridge.  It’s a beautiful fall day in New York.  The Liberty Plaza occupiers remain securely in place—with a substantial, but not overwhelming, police presence on their margins.  The couple of hundred occupiers

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Rethinking Educational Failure and Reimagining an Educational Future

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Introduction  At the moment, there are bitter struggles going on over continuing school failures, testing policies, budget cuts to schools and colleges, layoffs, school closings, class sizes, and the establishment of charter schools.  There is also an increasingly sharp debate emerging between proponents of what I will refer to as

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Not Another Disaster Movie

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Introduction While the oil “spill” at the Macondo well in the Gulf of Mexico (fifty miles off the Louisiana coast) that began with an explosion and fire on the Deepwater Horizon on April 20th has received a great deal of attention in the regular news media (some of it, by

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About

I have been a political activist for more than fifty years.  Soon after college, I began driving a taxi in New York City and became an active member of the Taxi Rank and File Coalition.  That experience profoundly shaped my views and I remain friends with many of my taxi comrades.

In 1978, I stopped driving and entered into education work–which I then did for more than thirty years–almost all of it at the City University of New York.  That also profoundly shaped my views.

At the same time, I continued my political activities–most importantly as an editor of Race Traitor, an editor of Insurgent Notes and part of the editorial group of Hard Crackers.

The writings collected here reflect all those experiences.  My intention is to regularly post new things that I’ve written.

However you found your way here, I hope that you find something of value.  I would really like hearing from you about your thoughts and reactions. Write me here.

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