education

Sharon Venne on Language, Connection, Land and More

Great talk by Sharon Venne on language, connection, traditions, law, education, colonialism, religion, grounding, land, women, death, spirituality, children and more.

Interview conducted by @jpmontano (one of my favorite peeps to follow on twitter)


Click here to listen

Hyperactivity and Wi-Fi in Schools

Hyperactivity and Wi-Fi in Schools

I recently discovered this comprehensive article on the damage wireless networks do to humans and children in particular while checking out this website about a city in New Zealand (Nelson) and their struggle to ban a celltower that Telecom wanted to install right next to a school. They may have ...

Indentured Servitude for Seniors: Social Security Garnished for Student Debts

Indentured Servitude for Seniors: Social Security Garnished for Student Debts

Source: Nation of Change By Ellen Brown The Social Security program ... represents our commitment as a society to the belief that workers should not live in dread that a disability, death, or old age could leave them or their families destitute. -- President Jimmy Carter, December 20, 1977. ...

Edible Schoolyard Project Faces Funding Cuts

Edible Schoolyard Project Faces Funding Cuts

The edible schoolyard project that Alice Waters began with the Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School, in Berkeley in 1995 is a truly visionary project. Since it's beginning 17 years ago it has spread across North America as well as the world. Alice Waters of Chez Panisse restaurant is the mother ...

Occupy Student Debt – Refuse to Pay

Occupy Student Debt – Refuse to Pay

I am very excited to see this movement. There is so much student debt in the US at the moment that even if a fraction of the students came together to stop paying their student debt it would have a huge effect on the economy. Those in debt actually have a huge power here and they are finally wising ...

Benefit Concert with Téa Petrovic for Huggs Canada

Benefit Concert with Téa Petrovic for Huggs Canada

We've been attending the HUGGS yearly benefits since we moved to Vancouver. HUGGS CANADA sponsors young people in India who show the potential to continue their studies but whose families do not have the necessary resources. HUGGS is committed to providing the educational and support needs of our st ...

Literacy for Stupidification

Literacy for Stupidification

Spending time in Burma, I have seen this type of education in effect in the most basic manner possible. Children are generally made to sit on stools, still as boards. They spend hours reciting things, sometimes in English, with no knowledge of what they are saying. This is not authentic education, w ...

Schools kill creativity

Schools kill creativity

An excellent little talk about how crazy our education system is. ...

Radio on the Edge of the World

Radio on the Edge of the World

Here's a link to a short 14 minute video about a little radio station in one of the most remote corners of the world, West Papua in Indonesia. Although the world's largest gold mine is located in West Papua the indigenous people are treated as second class citizens on their own land. This inspiri ...

American Dream is American Nightmare for College Grads

American Dream is American Nightmare for College Grads

Recently I got a comment on my post about the Student Loan Swindle from a very creative and interesting thinker who is living through this very situation herself. She has been homeless as a result and yet she has realised this is a bigger issue that many people are facing. Instead of accepting the c ...