Sunday links.
Students at UC Berkeley take part in a guerilla art action to protest the lack of free speech on campus 45 years after the Free Speech Movement.
You won’t read about this in the LA Times. Don’t forget about South Central.
Here is a concise list of ten myths about autism from the blog Nurse Practitioner Schools.
Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi calls Obama the Big Sell-Out. Salon’s Andrew Leonard calls Taibbi a scalp-hunter.
Bargaining has resumed in District 144 in Chicago’s south suburbs where teachers have been on strike for a week. Thirteen hours on Friday. Back again today. The teachers have a Facebook page.
She’s not teaching anymore, but Its Not All Flowers And Sausages is good to read. She still has NY DOE insurance.
The first time Howard Zinn’s now-classic book “A People’s History of the United States” appeared on TV was in “The Sopranos” on HBO, when Tony’s teenage son A.J. came home from school with a copy of the book and told his parents that, according to Zinn, Columbus was a slaveowner and murderer. Tony got mad, and replied, “In this house Columbus is a hero. End of story!”
That was 1999. This Sunday, Dec. 13, Zinn’s “The People Speak” – the documentary inspired by his books “A People’s History” and “Voices of a People’s History,” will be broadcast on the History channel at 8 PM/7 Central. Jon Weiner
