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Alternative Education resources: The Teenage Liberation Handbook
The Teenage Liberation Handbook is one of the most important books I have ever read. For me, like hundreds or possibly thousands of other teenagers, this guide gave me the essential empowerment I needed to decide to leave the compulsory … Continue reading
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Annual Journalism Conference Will Focus on Indymedia
Thanks to volunteers from the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center and other indymedia outlets, some 500 high school students from around the state will be exposed to alternative ways of doing journalism. The occasion is the fall conference of the Illinois … Continue reading
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Alternative Education Resources: The Educational Journal Review
Now more than ever teachers and those interested in questioning the current educational reform movement mandated for our public schools may want to turn to the non-profit, independent publication: Rethinking Schools. This publication has offered ideas and inspiration for 17 … Continue reading
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Children’s Liberation
We don’t need no education/We don’t need no thought control/No dark sarcasm in the classroom/Hey, teacher,leave them kids alone.” – Roger Waters, Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 Here’s a thought for you. Suppose every day you were forced … Continue reading
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Adjunct Professors Organize, Demand Recognition
Being an adjunct instructor is hard work. Educators, regardless of where they fit in, work harder than most folks at their professions.Adjuncts instructors in today’s universities and colleges face extra hurdles that most educators would balk at. Built into the … Continue reading
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Be the Media! Word on the Street at Sweetcorn Festival
The Question: What should be covered in the mainstream media that isn’t? After a period of confusion about whether any local media outlets other than The News Gazette would be allowed to distribute their materials during the annual Urbana Sweetcorn … Continue reading
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This Month’s Poet in Print: Erskine Carter
Where are you from & what brings you here? I was born in England, raised in Canada, and have lived in the US since 1974. How long have you lived here? I have lived in the Quad Cities for 16 … Continue reading
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Book Review: I-69 Does Not Stop Here
I-69 Does Not Stop Here By Sean Connelly This four hundred page novel is fiction, which should go without saying, but needs to be clarified because it is based on a real-life struggle over a battle that has taken place … Continue reading
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Favorite Alternative Media Outlets
AlterNet A self-described “infomediary,” AlterNet.org is a like Dante’s Virgil, guiding us to the Web and helping us drudge through hellish corporate-driven, merger-loving, war-supporting mainstream media. It is John Edwards for the information-obsessed, like myself, or for progressives who go … Continue reading
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Letters from Guatemala
SUBJECT: HELLO SWEET FAMILY Hi parents and sis, Let me back up and let you know where I have been. We left Saturday morning around 7am for Santa Anita. This is a community of former refugees. Many fled to Mexico … Continue reading
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The St. Louis Biodiversification Conference
St. Louis is home to the giant agribusiness company, Monsanto, perhaps the most recognized name in the biotech industry. Far from being hostile to the biotech industry, the city and state governments ofMissouri seem eager to support it in every … Continue reading
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IMC Statement
The IMC Emergency Response Team released the following statement on May 19th, 2003: On Thursday,May 8, the City of Urbana shut down the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center (IMC) performance space for code violations. The IMC deeply regrets this situation and … Continue reading
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IMC Poised for Big Things in Fall
Summer in Champaign-Urbana brings a slower pace volunteer organizations, but this summer volunteers at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center (IMC) have been laying the groundwork for what could end up being the most active chapter in its nearly three-year history. … Continue reading
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Mobius poem (READ UPSIDE DOWN AND BACKWARDS SAME AS RIGHT-SIDE UP AND FOREWARDS)
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IMC Needs New Building, Now More Than Ever
As many readers may know, on Thursday, May 8, the City of Urbana shut down the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center performance space because of fire code violations. While the IMC membership respects the city’s codes and understands the importance of … Continue reading
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It’s Not Your Mother’s Co-op
The Common Ground Food Cooperative (CGFC) is celebrating its 25th anniversary. This little gem of the community is tucked in the Illinois Disciples Foundation building on Springfield Avenue between 5th and 6th Streets. The non-profit grocery store owned and operated … Continue reading
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Local Grocery Shopping
Grocery buying presents a real quandary for those wanting to “shop local.” In a time gone by the “homemaker” allowed much of her (or his) work to include time for food including growing our own, meal planning, shopping, and preparation. … Continue reading
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A Gourmet Feast of the Senses
I feel cheated when I have to miss the Farmer’s Market in Lincoln Square on Saturday mornings. There’s just something very appealing about open-air markets, this one especially so because of its incredible variety. There is everything from produce, baked … Continue reading
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Prairieland Community Supported Agriculture
THE BIGGER PICTURE Community Supported Agriculture is a system in which consumers receive food directly from the farmers who produce it. But unlike a farmers market system, supporters of community agriculture actually share in part of the farmers’ risk. That … Continue reading
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Yes– Boca Burgers, Too
Kraft’s products can be found in 99% of households in the US. Many of Kraft’s foods contain inadequately tested and unlabeled genetically engineered (GE) ingredients such as GE corn, GE soy, GE Canola and dairy products from cows treated with … Continue reading
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