do no harm:


idit dobb-weinstein: "teaching is action and thinking at once. What I try to guard against most when I teach is not speaking as if my answer were conclusive, so as to avoid (to the extent possible) any kind of dogmatic appropriation. It is understandable why students might wish to imitate their teachers, but there are different modes of imitation. I try very hard to avoid the mimetic appropriation that is immediate, passive, and occludes thinking. One other reason is that if I made clear what my views were, and my views appeared as if they were final, it would preclude the possibility of first, students challenging me and second, learning from my students. The relation between the student and teacher is, to me, a dynamic relationship . . . Teaching and learning is a movement that occurs between. In other words, we are at once both agent and patient, both teacher and learner. If we are not very careful, we can do a great deal of harm. And that, too, I have learned from my teachers, Maimonides especially.

I believe my task is to provoke students to think and to engage them in genuine dialogue and questioning. To paraphrase a rabbinic saying, 'I have learned from my teachers, and I have learned from my peers, but I have learned most from my students.' And that is a continuous process of learning."

Tuesday, 15 March 2011

nyongo worker cults and CIA forced nudity for bradley manning and fragmentation of power blocs


hi i just wanted to check in with anyone who might stumble upon this blog.

i want you to know how much i love los angeles despite the pollution and dirty water.

if i am back in LA ever i for sure hope to take more classes at LACC.

the world has changed so much in the last 10 months, hope you noticed. as i watch the demonstrations in wisconsin and the upheavals in libya and egypt and tunisia, it seems hysterical that some LACC professors tried to censor my blog, on threat of kicking me out of their class.
hello its the wikileaks era, dinosaurs!

my more up-to-date blogging occurs at 

where music and politics mix with an interest in the inner workings of business of war and such.  it is about torture, US GVT financed torture.  they finance torture of bradley manning, so why should they care if your professors curse at you and make sexual snide sexist jokes, or ask out students, or verbally abuse you?  make light of rape?
its a free country right?
and as professors siphon state money off the federal government, the same government that is torturing bradley manning and detainees in guantanamo, you better bet that LACC's disability budget is slashed and that their teachers act like deranged epithet-spewing maniacs.

the age old cliche about choosing your battles couldn't be more apt.

yes, i wish the professors of los angeles city college were more enlightened and more happy and peaceful and less verbally aggressive to women.

i think of LACC as elder care, or a geriatric psych unit, more than an actual school.  where bc there isnt any real money in the US economy anymore, we can trick the us GVT into giving us bogus loans from bogus banks, in return for babysitting their delusional brainwash victims (ie professors) in exchange for  pell grants and the illusion of not being homeless on the streets of LA, though technically you are going in to debt, for this "opportunity" to improve your mind, in the presence of the cursing great apes.
but there is internet, sunshine, a great library, and yes we have each other.  we students that is.
we can teach eachother stuff, and write wikis and protest the budget cuts, and degrade eachother on facebook or at the ASO, where scott clapson-esque tempertantrums can pee all over the token brown woman in student government, because it is always important for one minority to crush the other minority, to prevent the coalition of power from rising against more powerful forces of evil, as in the federal government, cristy passman, LACCD, etc.

lots of love

but overall there are so many other things going on in the world.
and as i have removed myself from the sphere of their epithets and aggression, i am surrounded now by much more civilized people, who are kind and gentle in their words.
that is fortunate for me.

that leaves me more mental energy to concentrate on reading all the wikileaks cables and expose articles about HB Gary, anonymous, primegate, and bribery in swedish politics.
it leaves me more time to read CIA torture and detention memos.
in fact, verbal abuse makes a good start on a path to total "breaking" of a victim.
CIA Nudity Aclu                                                                                           
so when eckford invited me in to have he and bartelt curse at me in a private little gang-up, even though i went with a grain of salt, primarily to allow their foolishness to splay itself in all its ludicrousness----and with some naive hope i could increase their compassion towards other humans---i really perhaps pushed my own soul a little too far.

and then it all coincided with the bp oil spill.
and now one out of two people in gulf area are suffering strange disease like symptoms.


as i watch the wisconsin protest and get a letter from the lawyers guild about the 10th anniversary protest of the war in afganistan, i am reminded of how petty america is.

i m researching the arms industry in sweden which pumps equiptment into the never ending war.
operation bradical, wikileaks, anonymous
the future is brave, bold, digitized, hypercommunicative.

the future doesnt rely on dominance power structures, or authoritarian teaching methods which incorporate verbal humiliation as a part of the protocol.
if professors are still saying sexist or racist things at LACC, rise up, walk out, write a report, take a "C" in retaliation, get an attorney, make a blog, grafitti it, something.
you don't have to OBEY.
just because you are from east LA doesnt mean white man professor can treat you like the oppressed.

i have been meeting with experts in swedish criminal law.  some have had an awful time with the family law system here.  another told me of the huge miscarriage of justice in the assange case, involving the prime PR bribes and facebook conflict of interest.
so really the blogosphere is a dangerous place.
wikileaks has shown us how mere information can topple regimes.
so don't be afraid to rate your professors, write a blog about how they treat you, or to exercise your free speech in any way.
power is there for your taking.
the blogosphere is power.
information is power.
do not be afraid.
it is our world, and the old modalities of condescending authoritarian epithet-spewing profanity drenched didacticism are super over.
we young people respect each other more than that.
our generation will destroy artificial borders which separate families.
we will expose the corruption of the banks and the wars.
anonymous will out bank of america.
sweden's arms deals for american wars and sweden's propaganda collaboration with US GVT will be out in the open.
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