National call for a day of solidarity on October 12

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 Besmirch me, never claimed to be an angel or angle, uh Anglo, yes Anglo, that's the one or pick one. Just remember none of us are as dumb as all of us without mainstream corporate media's(truth is for sale) help. The people are watching the watch dogs....editors, censors: the McCarthy media bloodbath is coming for YOU, we like to call it TRUTH. NDAA has usurped the year 1215  Magna Carta?   Habeas corpus?

Prerogative writ,  due process........ Due process is the legal requirement that the state must respect all of the legal rights that are owed to a person. Due process balances the power of law of the land and protects the individual person from it. When a government harms a person without following the exact course of the law, this constitutes a due-process violation, which offends against the rule of law. NDAA  Supersedes almost a thousand years of your own legislative standards?  WTF , enforce this law and throw the United States Constitution in the trash, but please start at the top to enforce the new law........., that when any form of government becomes destructive of these ends...It is the right of the people to alter or abolish. Citizens fought and won these battles, why do we have to keep defending ourselves against our own government. Stop changing the rules in the light  of transit causes..........greed. Should we decorate the robes of the supreme court like we do NASCAR drivers? for some transparency? Least we Americans would know who to root for....The sponsors of this insane justice...fear and demagoguery, will no longer be tolerated any farther. Democracy is NOT a monarchy nor dictatorship.

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There is a national call for a day of solidarity on October 12 with the Raza Defense Fund and the campaign to Save Ethnic Studies. You can join by hosting a house party to view the documentary film Precious Knowledge about the Mexican American Studies program in Tucson, Ariz. Learn more here.

Bill Bigelow is Co-director, Zinn Education Project; Curriculum editor, Rethinking Schools

Follow Bill Bigelow on Twitter: www.twitter.com/ZinnEdProject 

Watch The Case Against Ethnic Studies on PBS. See more from Independent Lens.

Precious Knowledge

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Film. Directed by Ari Luis Palos and produced by Eren Isabel McGinnis. 2011. 70 minutes.
High school seniors become community leaders in Tucson’s embattled Ethnic Studies classes while state lawmakers attempt to eliminate the program.

“Rarely has a film been so timely and downright revelatory.” — Jeff Biggers, Huffington Post

What a timely and important film this is. We meet the inspiring educators associated with Tucson’s embattled Mexican American Studies program, and a few of the many students whose lives have been transformed by it. And, straight from central casting, we meet the scoundrels trying to shut the program down—politicians who wrap their racism in a language of opportunity, individual rights, and Americanism. The stars of the film are the young people who establish a new relationship to life and learning through their classes and activism.

As one of the students says in class: “I started thinking, ‘Oh, I’m a Chicana, I ain’t going to be able to graduate, I’m going to have kids young’. . . . And then I started coming to these classes and I started seeing, like, why am I believing all this? Instead of believing it I should change it.” Precious Knowledge raises questions for all educators about how we can more authentically speak to students’ lives in the curriculum. And it confronts us with today’s Klan 2.0—bigots who quote Martin Luther King Jr. as they shutter Mexican American Studies classes and ban books. This is an essential film for professional development, teacher education, and high school classes addressing racial justice.

View trailer for Precious Knowledge

No History Is Illegal Campaign to save ethnic studies. Free downloadable lessons, pledge, and stories of how people across the country are teaching about Tucson.
For more info and to order the film, visit Dos Vatos Films.

Precious Knowledge is a co-production of Dos Vatos Productions, the Independent Television Service (ITVS), Arizona Public Media, and Latino Public Broadcasting, with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).

Awards

• Audience Favorite and Special Jury Award, San Diego Latino Film Festival, 2011
• Honorable Mention in the Best Documentary Category, Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival, 2011

Review

“Casting aside the inflammatory rhetoric and national headlines of the anti-ethnic-studies instigators, Precious Knowledge provides a clear-eyed portrait of students, teachers and their community struggling to deal with the nation’s most unnerving campus witch hunt in recent memory. Tracing the political roots of the legislative ban—and the program’s own mandate and success to alleviate the long-time achievement gaps among Latino students—Precious Knowledge‘s riveting pacing and compelling portraits will astonish, infuriate and inspire viewers. In truth, Precious Knowledge is the type of unique and powerful film that could ultimately shift public perception and policy on one of the most misunderstood education programs in the country.” —Jeff Biggers, Huffington Post, read full review.

Related Information

Articles on the Zinn Education Project website about the campaign to save Mexican American Studies in Tucson, here.

Raciest, elitist, apartheid, superior?  Ignorance has no boundaries, as Americans we are all conditioned by our education and environment, or lack there of......become informed, armed with knowledge of ethnocentrism and how to combat these misinformed notions..........join us and become a member of the human race....all life matters,  even human....we are on the path to extinction and other life will be continue with or without us...........the body of humanity is in peril absent the knowledge, nor the will to stop or the compassion to even slow doing what we are doing to ourselves........apathy(don't know, don't care attitudes) is spiritual self mutilation! I am working on cleaning my side of the street are you? or are you in the don't know, don't care camp? As my very own native tribe has proven we have the resiliency to rebound,to adapt,to overcome.  Ye shall know us by our love......peace......Namaste  

 kosmicdebris constituent for world peace.