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Monday, 4 December 06 :: if i ever needed a reminder

of why i'm here doing what i am doing, this is a good one:
this week in peace history.

honestly? i think people forget about who brought them the rights that they have. people who sit idly by and watch the peace and justice activists do their thing, thinking we're a bunch of whack jobs. well, 100 years ago people thought that women who actively campaigned for the vote were whack jobs, and 50 years ago they thought the same thing about people who wanted to end racial segregation. and now, now we just take those things, mostly, for granted.

if people would just listen to the activists now it really would save a lot of grief, anger, hurt, and (for the people who really care) money.

References
Bush, G.W. (2003). The War in Iraq. Washington D.C.: Screw the Country Press

posted by brooke at December 4, 2006 12:31 PM

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i'm brooke, born in '73. i am currently a phd student in instructional technology. this is the blog where i capture all the neurotic, and the few non-neurotic, moments that seem to come with being a phd student (if you want to read less neuroses and more professionalism go to: oer's, dl's, reuse and culture: it's about a phd student researching digital resources in a multicultural world). i have been from eugene, oregon for a long time.. 8 years specifically (its my home now, but i grew up in southwestern virginia), but now i'm here in logan, utah at utah state university. after finding my roots in eugene i never could have expected that i would leave that liberal oasis and head to utah. but i did and there are days when its a blessing and days when i'm tempted to go back to oregon and beg the folks at lost valley educational center to let me move in. but i won't leave because there are days when this process is better than any kind of high i could ever imagine. what else? i collect things, i have 2 cats, 2 kayaks, 2 laptops (i'm a geek - one mac, one pc). i can be emailed at brookesblog@rivervision.com.