Today is a state holiday in California, the state where I live and work. The occasion: honoring the birth of the co-founder of the United Farmworker’s Union, the late Cesar Chavez. As a child, I remember that my family didn’t eat grapes, in solidarity with Chavez’s UFW boycott to protest the substandard working conditions and …
I’ve just returned from four days at the Digital Media and Learning Conference, where the spotlight was squarely focused on youth civic engagement powered by the digital. It’s a topic I have great interest in these days because of work I’m involved with in the Oakland, CA, Unified School District. More on that, though, in …
An article in yesterday’s New York Times caught my attention. It said, in essence, that the sequester could cost the US economy 700,000 jobs. Yet it predicted that Wall Street will be unaffected, with corporate profits continuing to climb and the Dow Jones Industrial Average maintaining its record highs. In fact, even as I type …
This was originally published at Digital Is. Late to the game, I’ve recently become intrigued by the six-word memoir form. Started by Smith Magazine in 2006 with the question, “Can you tell your life story in six words,” the idea has gained a lot of traction. Organizations like National Public Radio have picked up on …