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The works of Daniel Heyman, Ashley Hunt, Bradley McCallum & Jacqueline Tarry, Jenny Polak, Dread Scott included in Sound Off give voice to marginalized individuals whose desires and opinions have been typically overlooked or intentionally ignored. Taking advantage of their privileged positions in contemporary society, the participating artists have elected to dedicate their time, resources, and creative skills to providing a platform from which others can be heard. Through crucial collaborations initiated by the artists, subjects such as prisoners, detainees, radicals, and displaced citizens become empowered. For more info visit www.briconline.org

 

Albuquerque, New Mexico — If you catch a city bus in Albuquerque, literature will be riding along with you. You don't even need to bring a book on your commute. Instead, glance up at the space where you usually see advertisements, and absorb pure poetic inspiration. Albuquerque’s Poetry on the Bus program is designed to help make taking the bus a more meaningful experience. Each of the 140 buses in the ABQ RIDE system has poems on display. The poems differ from bus to bus, so as you travel about the city, you'll be exposed to the work of some 28 authors – including that of poet Lauren Camp. Lauren’s poem, “My Name,” was selected by the City’s Transit Department from more than 465 submissions. All of the winning poems will be in motion for three months.

 

If you missed Danny Hoch's FREE All-City Tour of Taking Over in the boros (Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx) in October at the Hip-Hop Theater Festival, you can now see it at New York City's Public Theater from Nov 7 through Dec 14.

 

In 2008 and 2009 Bryant Terry will be focusing a great deal of his professional energies on the Southern Organic Kitchen Project. As one way of addressing the rise of chronic illnesses in historically-excluded urban communities in the South, Bryant hopes to influence leaders of faith-based institutions and community-based organizations to do the following:

 * Create organizational policies that facilitate an increase in knowledge about healthy eating and access to healthy food;

* Address cultures of eating, dietary habits, and overall lifestyle patterns by taking the lead in educating members about health, food, and agricultural issues;

* Make fresh, healthy, and culturally-appropriate food affordable to community members by creating new and supporting existing community-based food systems.

 This project is supported by a 2008-2010 Food and Society Policy Fellowship, a national program of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and The Fair Food Foundation.

 

Can scholars generate knowledge production and pedagogy that bolster local and global forms of resistance to U.S. imperialism, racial/gender oppression, and the economic violence of capitalist globalization? This book edited by Julia Sudbury and Margo Okazawa Rey explores what happens when scholars create active engagements between the academy and communities of resistance. In so doing, it suggests a new direction for antiracist and feminist scholarship, rejecting models of academic radicalism that remain unaccountable to grassroots social movements and exploring the community and the academy as interlinked sites of struggle. The chapters are authored by leading scholars from the U.S., Canada, India, Japan, and the UK who are involved in feminist, antiracist, indigenous sovereignty, transgender liberation, antiglobalization, antimilitary, and antiprison movements. They provide models and the opportunity for critical reflection for students and faculty as they struggle to align their commitments to social justice with their roles in the academy. At the same time, they explore the tensions and challenges of engaging in such contested work.