Zine and Politick Matters

Download the first show in year six of radio free school

- Union for Childrens Rights!

interviews - Evelyna Kay (President UCR)
Brian McHattie (City Councillor, Hamilton ON)

music - Minutemen, Love Dance, Double Nickels on the Dime

tech - Beatrice Ekoko

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Well, we didn’t make it to the Toronto Small Press Fair this week end; despite the fact that Kitty Corner number 2 and the new zine Curdled Way travelled to Arizona and back ( girls were colouring the cover pages of their zines on the plane). Too crazy busy and we had jet lag too.

My zine (Radio Free School) didn’t even make it to the photo copiers. Apologies to poor Mq who worked hard to get her zine together (World Wide Zine) for the occasion.

I need to find another venue for us.

Interesting development; should children be allowed to vote?

Union for Children’s Rights (UFCR) brainchild of E’s is coming along very well and was the subject of today’s radio show. She’s appointed herself the president and so far has been interviewing children and adults including a local politician down at City Hall. (She was accompanied by her sisters and a friend and we, her parents).

We are looking in to the 'Mayor for a day' program that’s initiated by our local mayor. E has a zine too, and a blog in the works that will display ideas, and goals of UFCR.

M is the reluctant vice-president; Mq takes care of environmental issues. B is in charge of employment concerns!

E is actively recruiting new members.

Bee

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part 5 of 5 - John Taylor Gatto talk http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=23182

gotta Gatto (pt 4 of 4 or maybe 5)

Generous and gregarious, the John Taylor Gatto talk enters week four of radio free school's programming, and we may actually have enough material for another week. So while we might have said "x out of 4" we need to expand it to "x out of 4 +1"

Hear Gatto's lecture here.

Enjoy!

Going with Gatto for 3 of 4

John Taylor Gatto (part 3 of 4)

recorded - Nipissing University, Brantford Ontario, March 31st, 2007

organized - by Carlo Ricci, Faculty of Education

tech- Beatrice

Gatto series : [Part One] [Part Two]

The thing most necessary, is to remove all those restraints which prevent the human mind from attainting its genuine strength. Implicit faith, blind submission to authority, timid fear, a distrust of our powers, an inattention to our own importance and the good purposes we are able to effect, these are the chief obstacles to human improvement. Democracy restores to man a consciousness of his value, teaches him, by the removal of authority and oppression, to listen only to the suggestions of reason, gives him confidence to treat all other men with frankness and simplicity, and induces him to regard them no longer, as enemies against whom to be upon his guard, but as brethren whom it becomes him to assist.

William Godwin, General Features of Democracy