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Education for Peace in Japan (blog) 平和教育の
STUDENTS AND TEACHERS TAKE ACTION FOR A BETTER WORLD より良い世界のために、教師と生徒が行動を起こす
Workshops and Cross-Cultural Dialog in Japan
東京、京都、広島、長崎にて被爆者たちとの架け橋となるワークショップと文化交流 (Summer 2010, including Hiroshima/Nagasaki)
STUDENTS AND TEACHERS TAKE ACTION FOR A BETTER WORLD より良い世界のために、教師と生徒が行動を起こす
ST. LUKE'S GRADE 8 & NEWCOMERS HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING BRIDGES PROJECT: NOT IN OUR SCHOOLS
The Building Bridges project was created through a collaboration between Newcomers teacher Julie Mann , and former St. Luke's teacher Kim Allen, who met in 1999 through aFacing History and Ourselves workshop. Ms. Mann's class of English-learners exchanged letters with their St. Luke's "buddies", and in the first of several meet-ups this year, received help editing their personal immigration stories. In return, St. Luke's students are preparing research papers on immigration informed by the interviews they conducted with their Newcomers buddies. Several Newcomers students also created video diaries.
http://www.niot.org/nios/newcomers
"St. Luke's School students, who are in the 8th grade and attend an Episcopal School in Greenwich Village, benefit from all the advantages of fast-paced Manhattan and the privileges of an excellent private school education. At the same time, our school community is committed to learning about and contributing to our diverse city. How fortunate we are that the remarkable and, quite frankly, often brilliant young immigrants of the Queens-based Newcomers High School enrich our lives through letters, projects, and school visits." —Kim Allen
Rebecca Solnit
Nation of Change / Op-Ed
Published: Sunday 31 July 2011
"Everything changes. Sometimes you have to change it yourself."
They turned the damn wheel themselves.
Hope is not about guarantees and certainties. You don’t know you’ll win, but you don’t know you’ll lose either, so why not try?
. . . . No one is more remarkable in this light than the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a nearly two-decades-old organization of mostly immigrant and undocumented farmworkers in a particularly bleak part of Florida. They pick tomatoes at a rate of 32 pounds for 50 cents, meaning they have to pick more than two tons in a workday to walk out with the equivalent of a minimum wage. (Most U.S. farmworkers make less than $1,000 per month, and thanks to a New Deal compromise three-quarters of a century old, they are not guaranteed a minimum wage, overtime pay, or the right to organize and bargain collectively.)
This tiny group of profoundly marginalized people decided to fight the biggest food corporations on earth -- and they won. Ten years ago they started a campaign for “fair food,” pressuring the major buyers of those tomatoes to pay more. Within four years, with the help of college-student organizers and brilliant strategy, they got Taco Bell to meet all their demands, and by 2007 McDonald’s had fallen in line.
Florida growers managed to stop a penny-a-pound increase in payment, but Burger King (whose CEO personally apologized to them) and Whole Foods got on board, and in 2010 food corporations Aramark and Sodexo signed on as well. They’re taking on Trader Joe’s this summer, and given their track record…
Watch them. Or join them . . . .
To see the film I produced about the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, go to:
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