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Ronnie Steinau: <a href="http://pattricejones.info/blog/archives/796" title="On: On the Disappearing of Oxen Instead of Problems">What might we have done instead? Whatever we could have done, can we do it now to save Bill?
veganelder: <a href="http://pattricejones.info/blog/archives/796" title="On: On the Disappearing of Oxen Instead of Problems">A very astute observation re the middle of the night "disappearing". We humans try to hide that which we find shameful. ...
Karen Davis: <a href="http://pattricejones.info/blog/archives/796" title="On: On the Disappearing of Oxen Instead of Problems">Reading the comments to the Boston.com article about the killing of Lou is like entering a world of pure hatred for anim...
pattrice: <a href="http://pattricejones.info/blog/archives/796" title="On: On the Disappearing of Oxen Instead of Problems">There are some students who bravely contested the decision and have tried to look out for Bill and Lou, but they are you...
Catherine Podojil: <a href="http://pattricejones.info/blog/archives/796" title="On: On the Disappearing of Oxen Instead of Problems">It's the students' behavior/lack of resistance that bothers me more than that of the college officials, who, like most b...

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Mass Assassinations as Natural Disasters

Hamid Karzai is demanding an explanation for the “assasination” of numerous Afghan civilians, including several little girls, by a rampaging US soldier who evidently just went door to door, shooting whoever he happened upon. What could Obama possibly say? “Nothing personal, that’s just how we roll in the USA”? Just in the past week or [...]

March 11th, 2012 | Tags: psychology, violence | Category: facing facts, violence | Comments (6)

To Be Real, part 1

I teach a community college course called “Women Respond to Violence” in which we examine varieties of violence and the multiplicity of ways that women (and their male allies) have struggled to understand and intervene in its causes and consequences. (Here’s the syllabus for the upcoming semester.) Most of the students are survivors of some form [...]

January 7th, 2012 | Tags: social change, strategy, teaching, violence | Category: facing facts, teaching, violence | Comments (4)