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Dialogic

[How do we develop] ways of perceiving therelationships between and among people, our pasts, our pasts’ legacies, our present lives and struggles, our environments, disciplines, and texts. (24)--Johnnella E. Butler, “Reflections on Borderlands and the Color Line.” (2000) "All the languages of heteroglossia ... are specific points of view on the world, forms for conceptualizing the world in words, specificworldviews, each characterized by its own objects, meanings, and values.--Bakhtin

The Treatment: Darren Aronofsky -- The WrestlerToday

Darren Aronofsky
The Treatment (KCRW: Santa Monica, CA)
Host: Elvis Mitchell

Director Darren Aronofsky is known for portraying anguish in his films (Pi, Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain) with dazzling stylistic flourish. With The Wrestler the tale unfolds with a stark minimalism.

To Listen to the Interview

Restor(y)ing the Wor(l)dYesterday

Reading the Word means:
to decode/encode those words;
to bring ourselves to those pages;
to make meaning of those pages as they relate to our experiences, our possibilities; our cultures; and our knowledges.

Reading the World means:
to decode/encode the people around us;
to decode/encode the community that surrounds us;
to decode/encode the visible and invisible messages of the world.

Literacy education is ultimately about the kind of society and the kind of citizens/subjects that could and should be constructed. Teaching and learning just isn't a matter of skill acquisition or knowledge transmission or natural growth. It's about building identities and cultures, communities and institutions.

-Allan Luke and Peter Freebody, 1999

The Business: In Mumbai with Film Director Danny Boyle's Slumdog MillionaireJanuary 6

(Currently playing at Lexington's independent Kentucky Theater. The show title said Bombay, but shouldn't it be Mumbai?)

In [Mumbai] with Slumdog Millionaire
The Business (KCRW: Santa Monica, CA)
Host: Claude Brodesser-Akner



...film director Danny Boyle about making Slumdog Millionaire, in India, a country that's on the move, but still sometimes on the make.

To Listen to the Interview

Costa Rica (December 18-27, 2008)January 6

This is a gathering place for all of the pictures from the group of people that experienced this wonderful tour:

Elizabeth Ducat

Bob Benton

Brian Fesko

Bob White

Marjorie

Peace/Conflict Studies (2009 Archive)January 6

Ongoing:

AlterNet: War on Iraq

America Abroad Media: Explore the Critical International Issues of Our Time

American Empire Project

Amnesty International: Working to Protect Human Rights

Amnesty International USA: Action for Human Rights

Audio Anarchy

BBC World Service Documentaries

Bahá'í Faith

BCTC Peace and Justice Coalition (weblog)

Bill Moyers Journal

Center for International Policy

Central Kentucky Council for Peace and Justice

Crimethinc: Ex-Workers Collective

The Daily Dish (Andrew Sullivan)

Democracy Now