A is for Activist

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Such numbers are particularly problematic in the realm of children’s books, where artistic expression lives alongside educational imperative. Hill, Corey (2012-11-14). "A is for Activist by Innosanto Nagara". Yes! Magazine . Retrieved 2017-06-01. Inno in front of his Shifting Perspectives mural at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Photo by Tommy Lau

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The rule of thumb for conservation educators and teachers is that up to grade 4, we teach children the GOOD only. The wise mentors teach to love all critters, the earth, and treat all living beings (including humans) with respect. In this vulnerable age, we do not brainwash them with terminology they do not understand or tell them what is the right opinion to have on an issue (whether it's an opinion we support or disagree with). We raise them to be their purest, kindest, and most wise selves. Children will naturally be empathetic, compassionate, respectful, and kind hearted with proper mentorship and without the need of ideological suggestions at such a young age. The only solution that has a chance of success is the empowerment of the parent and the home and the elimination of a top-heavy, inefficient, and wasteful educational bureaucracy.Such will be a slow and intermittent process, failing which ongoing academic – and cultural – decline is inevitable. By the time they reach university, a staggering number of them are fundamentally dysfunctional, devoid of basic knowledge and convinced they must repudiate and undo the presumed sins of their fathers.They cannot write a coherent English sentence, will agitate for LGBTQ rights, will shout down conservative speakers and denounce "white supremacism," will don masks and battle gear to disrupt public events, and profess a passionate dedication to the most destructive of political philosophies: universal socialism.K-12 is a slough of didactic despond, turning out largely illiterate and innumerate fodder for the universities and foot soldiers for the coming revolution.Its charges consist of not pupils, but recruits. Ik geef 3 sterren omdat ik de moral middleground inneem tussen de criticasters (veel te pedant! activistisch! hersenspoelend! onnavolgbaar taalgebruik! schreeuwerige stijl!) en de liefhebbers (toffe woordsequenties en -klanken, belangrijke concepten, het moet maar eens besproken zijn). Bovendien wil ik niet dat mijn dochter over 18 jaar deze recensie terugvindt en me moreel aansprakelijk stelt voor haar opvattingen, dus ik doe net alsof ik hier enorm enerzijds/anderzijds over denk. Publishers are on the hunt for diverse books, even as rightwing critics decry the supposed sullying of children’s literatures with politically correct dogma.

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Inno got his start as a student activist at UC Davis where he discovered his skills as a designer and photographer were effective contributions to organizing. After graduation he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area where he worked as a freelance designer for a range of activist organizations and campaigns until he joined Inkworks Press Collective in 1995. It was during his time at Inkworks that he started developing the Graphic Design for Social Change principles that have guided his work ever since. In 2002 he launched Design Action Collective. Modeled after Inkworks, Design Action was to be a worker-owned collective union design and strategic communications firm dedicated to serving the Movement for Social Change. The following year, Inno proposed what was to become Designs on Democracy: Communication for Liberation—a national convening of design and communications activists aiming to share strategies and build community. Although the book is meant for ages 0-3, Rethinking Schools has suggested that it can even be used with older kids: “It could also be used as a prompt for older students to create their own alphabet books with a conscience.” This unique alphabet book encourages young readers to stand up for what they believe in, engage with their community, and become aware of the social movements going on around them, at any age. The alliteration, rhyming, and vibrant illustrations make the book exciting for children, while the issues it brings up resonate with their parents’ values of community, equality, and justice. This engaging little book carries huge messages as it inspires hope for the future, and calls children to action while teaching them a love for books. There has been in the last two years just an enormous outpouring of hysteria, vitriol – the same sort of thing that we’re seeing in the news, we’re seeing coming through children’s books,” Meghan Gurdon, the Wall Street Journal’s children’s book critic, told the Fox News host Laura Ingraham in December. Nagara began sending his book to various independent presses, but found that most had "reservations" about the cost of printing and were unfamiliar with the format. Eventually, he found a publisher in Triangle Square, an imprint of Seven Stories Press, and the book has had more than four printings. Seven Stories' Spanish-language imprint, Siete Cuentos, also published an edition translated by the musician Martha Gonzalez in fall 2014. [6] An audiobook version, read by the guitarist and activist Tom Morello, has been made free online. [1] Reception [ edit ]

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Second of all, what do you mean “donkeys don’t get it”? Are you inviting the reader to a discussion about how left wing groups tear themselves apart in never ending tests of idealogical purity while right wingers have no problem voting along party lines, whatever their personal squabbles? Or are Democrats just “bad at winning elections”? The problem is a lot more complicated than that—how about “G is for Gerrymandering, V is for Voter Purges”? Such revelations about how children of color need faces they can identify with and be proud of – and not just when reading about Harriet Tubman – help explain why, for instance, classics such as The Snowy Day caused such a sensation. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2022-01-06 14:09:41 Boxid IA40323116 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier urn:lcp:isforactivist0000naga:epub:68c0cf1b-3f6f-4da0-9684-9cc8a5b5229c Foldoutcount 0 Identifier isforactivist0000naga Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2pn6r8sfrs Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781609805395 Lccn 2013012787 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9656 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-1200330 Openlibrary_edition People want to publish books about Arab girls who are dealing with hijab, things like that,” Darraj said. “I want to show my characters living normal everyday life.”Once they are in grade 4 or so, we can start telling them the details of the harsh reality of this world. If we raise them well up until this point, they will come to their own conclusion about all the things written in this book, which is so much more meaningful. And more likely than not, if you are the kind of parent that would read this book to your child, you would have raised them to agree with the book entirely by the time they are mature enough to think about these issues on their own. Policies already exist in most districts to allow individual concerned parents to influence what their own children read. This year, time and again, we have seen those policies ignored and repeatedly violated as books are removed without proper review based on the personal opinions of particular groups of people. We have also seen increasing reports of threats to the livelihood and safety of librarians, teachers, school administrators and school board officials who do not accede to the demands of these would-be censors. No individual or group has the right to impose their beliefs on others. School officials, as government actors, have a First Amendment responsibility to ensure that no particular viewpoint or belief is allowed to dictate what all students can learn and read.

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Indeed, as Aristotle wrote in the Nicomachean Ethics, happiness, as the purpose of life, relies on fostering moral reason and intellectual excellence, for which the Greek word is arete.As the philosopher knew, the concept is central to true education and must begin with the young. Like Darraj and others, Nagara, was inspired to write his first children’s book upon realizing the book he wanted for his kid didn’t exist. In his case it was an introduction to the activist community and what it means to be an activist, in words a child can understand.I'm so left wing that it hurts sometimes, but I found this book very uncomfortable to read because it is so preachy. It definitely has an "us against them" feel, and comes out of a lot of anger towards racism, sexism, environmental harm, inequality, etc., which is felt in the book.