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I Like This

09 Dec

Posted at 17:18h in Culture, I Like This, Look and Listen, Politics

  The Castillo Theatre of the All Stars Project is named for Otto Rene Castillo, the Guatemalan poet and revolutionary. In this video, members, staff and volunteers of the Castillo Theatre perform "Apolitical Intellectuals"—the Castillo poem that inspired them. [embed]http://https://youtu.be/XSVoNZrjI6A[/embed]  ...

26 Nov

Posted at 23:50h in Community Organizing, Education, Human Development, I Like This, Psychology of Becoming, Youth Development

Today I share an email from a dear friend, Peter Nsubuga from Kampala Uganda. Peter is a graduate of the East Side Institute’s International Class 2009 whose organization, Hope for Youth-Uganda, was in its infancy then. Peter started this NGO in Central Uganda’s Mukono District to support vulnerable children with food, clothing and...

10 Nov

Posted at 20:05h in I Like This, What's New, Words to Ponder

"Poverty is not a personal characteristic. It is social, it is political, it is one of the ways the world is organized, and it has a history. Radically accepting the poverty of one’s own life and community while simultaneously depersonalizing it makes possible a certain kind of growth/development—especially if one...

24 Oct

Posted at 17:35h in Activity Theory, Human Development, I Like This, Philosophy, Social Therapeutics, Vygotsky, What's New, Words to Ponder

This week's words are from Fred Newman's and my book, Lev Vygotsky: Revolutionary Scientist—restructured from text* to poem.   To reshape our emotional practice— to decide for ourselves what it is we want to do with anger, joy, humiliation and the rest of our incredibly complex subjectivity (which is nameless) and with the emotions newly created through/in the activity of building community that redefines...