Manifesto

Digital Fire: A Manifesto

Russell C. Smith | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Reinvention, Digital Age, World History, Languages, Society, Manifesto, Technology, Culture, Books News
Russell C. Smith

If you are alive, engaged, alert, ready with a spark inside -- you're open to the idea of reinvention happening on a global scale. Welcome, we've been expecting you.

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Calling for a Denver Art Caucus

Robert Schwab | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Art, Colorado, Manifesto, Denver, Caucuses, Occupy Wall Street, Denver Arts, Artists, Denver Artists, Denver News
Robert Schwab

I issue my call to all Colorado artists. It is a utopian invitation built around a new model for conducting the business of art: production of high quality work in an age when money rules the barriers of entry.

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There Are Other Stories, but This One's Ours -- An SF Record Release in the Age Of Indifference

Conan Neutron | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Mackie Osborne, Record Release, Good Times, Victory-and-Associates, Brick and Mortar Music Hall, Rock, Music, Sister Grizzly, Manifesto, Rock and Roll, Repeat After Me, San Francisco News
Conan Neutron

Today is the record release of my band's record: These Things are Facts. We tried our best to make a record of and for the times. I'm proud that we did it the way we wanted to in an age of indifference.

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Another Vague Plan, Part Three: Technology is Not a Panacea

Leonisa Ardizzone | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Project-Based Learning, Technology, Manifesto, Differentiated Instruction, Education News
Leonisa Ardizzone

Time and again, the case is made for more technology (computer-based) in the classroom. But there are a few limitations to the reliance on computer-based technology as the solution to our classroom problems.

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Another Vague Plan, Part Two: "Professionalizing Teachers"

Leonisa Ardizzone | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Manifesto, Teaching, NYC Department of Education, Structural Violence, Education News
Leonisa Ardizzone

It is insulting to teachers to say that they need to be professionalized. Especially when many of the professionals who are saying this have never been teachers themselves.

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Another Vague Plan: A Manifesto without Teeth

Leonisa Ardizzone | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joel Klein, Educational Equity, Manifesto, Educational Reform, NYC Department of Education, Structural Violence, Education News
Leonisa Ardizzone

I finally made it through my backlogged reading pile to read the "Manifesto" by Joel Klein, Michelle Rhee et al. that appeared in the Washington Post in October, and I am completely underwhelmed. This is a manifesto?

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Are We REALLY Preparing Kids for the Global Economy?

William Ferriter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: WaPo Manifesto, Michelle Rhee, Standardized Testing, Global Poverty, Global Economy, Manifesto, Education News
William Ferriter

I spent some time on Sunday reading through the WaPo Manifesto written by Michelle Rhee, Joel Klein and their teacher-bashing buddies.

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Hand Job: Keri Smith's Delightful Destruction

Debra Ollivier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Design, Coloring Books, Art, Manifesto, Arts News
Debra Ollivier

Screw the coloring book. Let your hand wreck havoc. Do not connect-the-dots.

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WATCH: Jon Stewart To Dick Armey...

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, Government, Video, Daily Show, Gun, Jon Stewart, Dick Armey, John Stewart, Manifesto, Tea Party, Books News

In the next step for broadening Tea Partiers' cause, one of the leading faces of the movement stepped onto the set with Jon Stewart. Former House Maj...

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How Anne Frank Was Sent Back Into Hiding

Josie Ensor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jew, Hizbullah, Anti-Semitism, Lebanon, Hezbollah, Anne Frank, Jewish, Beirut, Anti-Zionism, Manifesto, World News
Josie Ensor

Hezbollah say its war is not against Jews but on the "Zionist entity," yet it broadcasted a diatribe against the teenage Holocaust victim Anne Frank on its TV station.

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New Internet Manifesto Backed by World Economic Forum... and You?

Juliette Powell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wikinomics, Wikipedia, Internet Policy, Breaking Media News, 33millionpeople, Citizen Journalism, Internet Manifesto, Davos, Cluetrain, Juliette Powell, Manifesto, Davos 2009, Dan Tapscott, Journalism, World Economic Forum, Politics News
Juliette Powell

A post by the World Economic Forum led me down the rabbit hole to a new Internet Manifesto on 'how journalism works today.' I wondered what Huffington Post readers would think of the top 5 declarations.

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The Nobody Manifesto

Robert Fuller | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Fuller, Manifesto, Dignity, Somebody, Rank, Nobody, Rankism, Politics News
Robert Fuller

Who are the nobodies? They are Everyman, Everywoman, Everychild. In our heart, each of us aspires to become someone new, someone more.

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A Just Democracy

Katrina vanden Heuvel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Call for Change, Change, Patriotism, Democracy, July 4th Patriotism, Manifesto, Historic Election, July 4th, Politics News
Katrina vanden Heuvel

I experienced a surge of hope after the most nationally inclusive race for president in US history. It was that hope that moved me to write a manifesto about how to invigorate our democracy.

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