FROM: S. Brian Willson, bw@brianwillson.com
TO: Portland Public Schools (PPS), 501 North Dixon St. (PO Box 3107), Portland, Oregon 97227
*Superintendent: Carole Smith, superintendent@pps.k12.or.us
*Board of Education (BOE) Members:
Ruth Adkins, radkins@pps.k12.or.us
David Wynde, david.wynde@pps.k12.or.us
Bobbie Regan, bobbie.regan@pps.k12.or.us
Martin Gonzalez, mgonzalez@pps.k12.or.us
Pam Knowles, pknowles@pps.k12.or.us
Trudy Sargent, tsargent@pps.k12.or.us
Dilafruz Williams, diafruz.williams@pps.k12.or.us
*BOE Student Representative: Henry Johnson, hjohnson@pps.k12.or.us
*BOE Office Senior Manager: [...]
February 15, 2010 – 8:26 pm
“DEMOCRACY” in US AMERICA is USEFUL FICTION – Chris Hedges
The fiction of democracy remains useful, not only for corporations, but for our bankrupt liberal class. If the fiction is seriously challenged, liberals will be forced to consider actual resistance, which will be neither pleasant nor easy. As long as a democratic facade exists, liberals can [...]
February 12, 2010 – 11:37 am
“In the language of religion, God has given us an offer: to see the consequences of our actions & assume moral responsibility for them; or to be consumed by them…We’ll either have to end our artificial separation from the rest of life or end our span, as most other species have eventually ended theirs.” -God’s [...]
February 3, 2010 – 8:32 am
On left in photo, Chinese student stands in front of military tank in Tiananmen Sq in Beijing, June 5, 1989. He was lauded by US Pres Geeorge HW Bush as a brave, courageous hero, causing tank to stop. On right, USA Vietnam veteran sits in front of military train in California, Sept. 1, 1987 (21 [...]
January 31, 2010 – 3:00 pm
Table of Contents
I. Youth in Seneca Indian Country, Geneva (Kanadesaga), Finger Lakes Region of New York
**What My Grandfather’s 1906 U.S. American History Textbook Said About The Indians
**The White Male, Formally Educated Scholars Who Taught Us Our History
**What My 1953-54 Seventh Grade New York History Textbook Said About the Iroquois Indians
II. The Long [...]