The film, “A Place at the Table,” cites a sobering statistic: 50 million children in the United States don't know where their next meal is coming from.
The film features the story of Leslie Nichols, a teacher in Collbran whose students – including fifth-grader Rosie, who also is featured – struggle with hunger in the classroom. Nichols said children such as Rosie have all sorts of hunger-related problems such as being unable to keep up with classes or concentrate on schoolwork.
“The reality is, their world is consumed worrying about those big-fix people things like ‘What am I going to eat?' ‘Mom and dad are stressed out about how to make ends meet.' That adds additional burdens to a kid.”
That means those children don't often put a priority on doing well in school,” Nichols said.
“A Place at the Table” is in theaters now, and will be released Friday OnDemand and on iTunes. For the first 100,000 tickets, downloads or books purchased March 1-3, Plum Organics will donate one essential nutrition pouch to a baby or toddler.
Great right up to the line where he says nothing will change (emphasis added).
Phi Beta Iota: We agree with Brother Marcus — the line he has emphasizes tells us that Hagel will not be a change agent, he has agreed to support business as usual, and clearly has no close aides with the intelligence and integrity to get him on the right path. DoD will be a total loss for the next four years, continuing to be part of the problem instead of part of the solution.
Message to the Department from Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel
As Written by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, The Pentagon, Wednesday, February 27, 2013
UPDATED 1 Mar 2013 to add Comment from Paul Harper at Google+.
The US Government is incredibly stupid about counterintelligence. They learned nothing from the Falcon and the Snowman, and it is clear that the defense team for Bradley Manning will be able to bracket the charges with a) government misconduct as revealed in the cables merited disclosure; b) government ineptitude at failing to protect sensitive communications from easy internal theft; and c) more government misconduct in violation of the Constitution with cruel and unusual punishment.
The Army private charged in the biggest leak of classified material in U.S. history pleaded guilty to 10 charges Thursday and offered an impassioned defense of his actions, arguing that he sought to spark a national debate about what he described as the nation’s obsession with “killing and capturing people.”
The testimony marked Pfc. Bradley Manning’s first detailed account of his disclosure of a trove of U.S. diplomatic cables and military documents in 2010 to WikiLeaks, an anti-secrecy organization he said he approached after he was unable to entice The Washington Post and the New York Times.
Bank failures: Towards an « Icelandation » of the banking crisis’ management
In the face of this shock, our team estimates that most countries, including the United States, will approach management of the crisis in an “Icelandic style”, i.e. not to bail out the banks and to let them collapse (16). We have already had a glimpse with the liquidation of the Irish bank IBRC which has given many people ideas: “How Ireland liquidated its banking albatross in one night” headlined La Tribune (17) admiringly. This possibility seems to increasingly be the solution in the event of the banks backsliding, for the following reasons: first, it seems much more effective than the 2008-2009 bailout plans judging by Iceland’s recovery; second, countries don’t really have the means to pay for new bailouts anymore; finally, one can’t deny that it must be a big temptation for leaders to get rid in a popular fashion of part of the debts and “toxic assets” which encumber their economy.
A German by birth, he was imprisoned in Nazi camps during World War II
At the camps he was waterboarded during torture sessions
Time for Outrage became an inspiration for Occupy Wall Street movement
Jill Reilly
MailOnline, 27 February 2013
Stephane Hessel
Stephane Hessel, the concentration camp survivor who inspired the Occupy Wall Street movement has died aged 95.
Mr Hessel who was a member of the French resistance passed away overnight in Paris according to his wife.
As a spy for the French Resistance, he survived the Nazi death camp at Buchenwald by assuming the identity of a French prisoner who was already dead.
As a diplomat, he helped write the U.N.'s Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
And at age 93, after a distinguished but relatively anonymous life, he published a slim pamphlet that even he expected would be little more than a vanity project.
But Mr Hessel's 32-page Time for Outrage sold millions of copies across Europe, tapping into a vein of popular discontent with capitalism and transforming him into an intellectual superstar within weeks.
Translated into English, the pocket-sized book became a source of inspiration for the Occupy Wall Street movement.
In the book, Mr Hessel urges young people to take inspiration from the anti-Nazi resistance to which he once belonged and rally against what he saw as the newest evil: The love of money.
This controversial, impassioned call-to-arms for a return to the ideals that fueled the French Resistance has sold millions of copies worldwide since its publication in France in October 2010. Rejecting the dictatorship of world financial markets and defending the social values of modern democracy, 93-old Stéphane Hessel — Resistance leader, concentration camp survivor, and former UN speechwriter — reminds us that life and liberty must still be fought for, and urges us to reclaim those essential rights we have permitted our governments to erode since the end of World War II.
“This slim but powerful volume answered the public's need for a voice to articulate popular resentment of ruling-class ruthlessness, police brutality, stark income disparities, banking and political corruption, and victimization of the poor and immigrants.” (The Nation )
“INDIGNEZ-VOUS! is creating the sort of stir in France Emile Zola did in 1898, when he published J'Accuse!” (The National Post )
“Like a song you hum or a film you recommend to friends, INDIGNEZ-VOUS! crystallises the spirit of the time. To buy it is a militant act, a gesture towards community and participation in a collective emotion.” (Liberation )
‘The book urges the French, and everyone else, to recapture the wartime spirit of resistance to the Nazis by rejecting the “insolent, selfish” power of money and markets and by defending the social “values of modern democracy”. (The Independent )
Also See:
Indignez Vous!/Time for Outrage! translations (FREE) – Version 1 | Version 2 (pdf)
John Taylor Gatto, former school-teacher, outspoken reformer, and author of Underground History of American Education, on what the Public Education System is neglecting to teach the majority of kids and why we continue to churn out generations of impotent and docile consumers. THE POINT: Taught in the elite private schools, NOT taught in the public schools.
01. Understand human nature.
02. Have a strong experience with the active literacies (writing and public speaking).
03. Insight into the major institutional forms and how to pit them against one another.
04. Repeated exercises in forms of good manners and politeness — civility as foundation.
05. Independent work. Teacher is NOT the primary learning channel.
06. Energetic physical sports are required means of learning grace and handling pain.
07. Complete theory of access to any workplace or person.
08. Responsibility as an utterly essential part of the curriculum outside the classroom.
09. Arrive at a personal code of standards for production, behavior, and morality.
10. Familiarity with master creations across all of the arts — be at ease with the arts.
11. Power of accurate observation and recording. Drawing is a way to sharpen perception.
12. Ability to deal with challenges of all sorts –Gatto's personal favorite.
13. Habit of caution in reasoning to conclusions.
14. Constant development and testing of judgment of discriminate value.
