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16May2008
16May2008
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A Billion People Don’t have to Starve: Enough
Latest interview: Roger Thurow, author of Enough: Why the World's Poorest Starve in the Age of Plenty. He's a man on a mission - having left a 30 year reporting career at the Wall Street Journal to work on international agricultural policy full-time. It was all about Africa, he told me - the Green Revolution of the 1970's that increased farming yield never made it to the motherland and the food aid and international development and trade policies are self-interested and do not feed hungry people in the long-term. Turns ...
We haven’t forgotten you, Hassani Campbell, and we want you home
[Aimee Allison | OaklandSeen] Hassani, you are our son. In the six months since you have been missing, the community hasn't forgotten you. We're doubling our resolve to make Oakland a city where all children - ignored, vulnerable, poor - are safe and protected. The small group that held a candlelight vigil speaks for thousands of us - we want the police to continue to investigate the case. More than that, we want to understand where the system that places and tracks foster care children has failed, and what we can do to fix it. Thanks ...
Craigslist Nonprofit Bootcamp Keynote
Aimee Allison, Craigslist Foundation Bootcamp Keynote Speech 2007 where she muses about "retooling" for the long haul and the importance of people who work for change. Download this episode (right click and save)
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The Book
An activist’s guide to combating military recruitment.
http://myspace.com/armyofnonebook
Uniformed U.S. Army Officers lunch with students in elementary school cafeterias. Army training programs including rifle and pistol instruction replace physical education in middle schools. Like never before, military recruiters are entering the halls of U.S. schools with unchecked access in an attempt to bolster a military in crisis.
However, even as these destructive efforts to militarize youth accelerate, so do the creative and powerful efforts of students, community members, and veterans to challenge them. Today, the counter recruitment movement—from counseling to poetry slams to citywide lobbying efforts—has become one of the most practical ways to tangibly resist U.S. policy that cuts funding for education and social programs while promoting war and occupation. Without enough soldiers, the U.S. cannot sustain its empire.
Army of None exposes the real story behind the military-recruitment complex, and offers guides, tools, and resources for education and action, and people power strategies to win.
3 Comments
Hi Aimee,
I really enjoyed the interview on race that you did this morning, 9/5, with the authors, a black man and a white man. Would you please give me the name/authors of the book? I’m not able to listen to your archives.
Thank you, Zoe Holder
Thanks, Zoe!
I interviewed the authors of Black/White Divide in America…Still. Here is the link to the book on Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1587901420.
Best!
Re: your response above, would you please refer listeners in the future, to their independent book stores? They need our support, and any store can order the book for her.
I very much appreciate your work on the Morning Show. I’d like you to reconsider your responses to some callers. This a.m. a police officer called to ask for an off-mike discussion re: dealing with violence. You quickly responded adamantly that the entire community needs to be talking with each other. This is certainly true, but I wish you would take a moment to appreciate the caller’s intention, then add your own oppinion.
On another morning, in a discussion about the lack of education and rehabilitation in our prisons, a woman who works in “corrections” called in. She started to say that attempts are being made to implement programs, but that they need to see it they’re effective first.
I would have really liked to have heard about that woman’s first hand experience and what is being done where she works. But you seemed to dismiss her call because it didn’t quite fit into the perspective being expressed in the interview.
I know you have been, and continue to be, a wonderful advocate for causes in our community. In your role as a journalist though, I think you would be more effective if you can stand back a bit from your personal viewpoints, make room for a wide variety of opinions, and really listen and respond respectfully to them.
Thanks again for your fine work.