OK guys…time to spread the word You’ve done a great job putting this blendspace together. Your research and podcasts and essays have certainly inspired me. Now let’s complete the job.
Change is difficult it doesn’t come easy. Martin Luther King once said, “The arc of the moral universe is long…but it bends towards justice.” It is up to us, to the bending. Continue reading
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This week (April 22 to 26) NPR’s Morning Edition is doing a fascinating series on coffee and 
how it brings the world together. The series provides insight not only into the economic impact of coffee in our globalized marketplace, but it also talks about coffee history, and interviews farmers and producers and drinkers from all over the world. We will spend time discussing this series in Economics later in the Spring, however for anybody who loves coffee – if you want to enjoy yourself and learn something at the same time – tune in. I think you’ll appreciate the conversation. First though, fire up the coffee pot.
Introduction – go here for a short interview with the author of Uncommon Grounds – a book about the economic, social, and cultural history of coffee.
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These girls get it…they really do “get it.” Pussy riot recorded their first English song this week…its about death of Eric Garner. The music video is riveting. Let’s watch it…and learn about these Russian activists. This is how you take on the system. And if you have to go to a Siberian prison in the process; then so be it.
You wanna change the world. Watch. Listen.
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This is a wonderful story…
Simple fifty point assignment – 400 word Google Classroom post by Sunday February 8 11:59 PM. Use Blendspace post below to learn more about Rodriguez. Identify one or more of the squares in the Blendspace post, and use that square as a jumping off (or reference point) for telling me about Rodriguez, his music and his story. You may want to take a song and really take it apart – this guy can write. And if you’d like to, relate his music to your life. The direction of your post is entirely up to you.
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