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Created: October 13, 2006
Latest Update: October 13, 2006
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NEWS, Announcements, and

Current Events Discussion Topics:

• Plans for Wednesday, October 11, 2006.

• Critiques of Work from Week 6, Wednesday, October 4, 2006.

• Community Building Preparations:

  Consider how art work in progress can be used to stimulate conversation on current events of major importance to you. Remember that you don't want to use the academic language of theories with friends and neighbors who are unlikely to have encountered them. Instead, our goal is simply to make people aware of current issues in plain English. You might want to look at the list of topics on the syllabus for ideas.

  Remember that these are conversations, not classes. Find simple, brief messages. Things likely to stick in your head, like Juliette's "opium of the mases." When possible make a simple card you're willing to part with. Little pockets with words that will bring the dialog up in memory are a great idea. For example, Tony, I'd love to see you make a simple little card you could leave with those you talk to, on which there's a little pocket out of which you could pull the word, "Taliban." It's not on TV enough for most folks to remember how it's spelled. But seeing it on your card, by interactively pulling it out, could help people recognize it when they see it. Since Afghanistan is heating up again, that seems like a good idea.

• Index of Art Project Instructions

  Things That Matter This

  
  Neil Jones/Reuters

  In Blackburn, England, where these women were Friday,
  Jack Straw says he first thought Muslim veils work against cohesion in society.

  Veiled Women

• Assimilation of cultures with crisis displacement of whole groups of people. British Official Criticizes Muslim Veil By Alan Cowell, NY Times. Published: October 7, 2006. Backup . . . Discussion Questions.

  All Praise Prof. Alan Dershowitz By Tony Blankley. February 22, 2006. On Dershowitz' book on Preemption.

  Topics that Matter with Sources and Analyses

  • Juürgen Habermas, Religion and the Public Sphere Posted on the Internet by Jurgen Habermas. Link sent to me by Beau.

    Reference:

    • Religion in the Public Sphere By Stuart Jeffries. Monday October 3, 2005. The Guardian. A liberal British newspaper. A quick summary of Habermas' article and its meaning. Readable. jeanne

  • Richard A. Posner, Not a Suicide Pact: The Constitution in a Time of National Emergency (Inalienable Rights) A U.S. Court of Appeals Judge, who made popular cost-benefit analysis in the law, speaks strongly in favor of narrowing our constitutional rights and placing more power in the hands of the government.

    "Saying we must balance the harm new security measures inflict on personal liberty against the increased security those measures provide, Posner comes down, in most but not quite all respects, on the side of increased government power. He advocates that coercive and even brutal forms of interrogation should be allowed in proper circumstances, that all communications within the United States should be subject to interception, and that government should have authority to enjoin publication of classified information." From Publisher's Weekly Review on Amazon.com.

  Stories

  Check out the story-telling we are beginning to do. Some of the stories will work with kids; some with friends; some with family. Stories are great ways to begin conversations about things that matter.

  • My Theory of Everything - jeanne's serial novel. Three stories in the works, in concjunction with my conceptual drawing and painting. Link to the Table of Contents for recent stories. jeanne

Visual Sociology

• Pat's concerns over the Bush Administration led to this etching on Wednesday, October 4, 2006:
  

  Application of triangles to issues involving President Bush
  by Patricia Acone

  Here's the copper plate, the etching, the print.

• Our first collaborative class etching:.

• Using s simple Paint Program:
  

• Arnold, my favorite model, drawn in Paint with simple tools. Try. The software helps you. And there is great and important satisfaction to making even a small piece of art yourself. So many of us give up our childhood delights, believing those serious people who tell us that we are not talented and must not make art. Compare that to the extreme concern being expressed over the professionalization of sports that leaves most of us ineligible and out of luck for just playing for fun and health.

A Range of Sources on Global Info

Left/Right Perspectives - Cursor - New York Times - The National Review
Arts and Letters Daily - The Economist - The Sierra Club - The Guardian
Wall Street Journal - The Weekly Standard - The Nation - The Cato Institute (Libertarian)
BBC NEWS | Americas - truthout - Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles
Los Angeles Times - Chicago Tribune - La Opinion - The Washington Post
Cursor's Al Jazeera Archive - Ha'aretz - Palestine Monitor - Palestine Report
The American Prospect

Memorandum, Political Web - Diggs - College Network of New York Times - New York Times Learning Network

The American Enterprise Institute

Indymedia - Mother Jones - BBC News - New Profile - KPFK Progressive Radio
Progressive Sociologists Network Environmental Working Group - Mirror of Justice

Theory, Policy, Practice of a Career by jeanne and Susan.
Digital Dissertations, with abstracts online. Has search mechanism with keywords, author, etc.
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
Online articles.
Evangelical Philosophical Society
The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)

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