Insurgency and the Globalization of Discontent: May 2007

Sunday, May 13, 2007

Yuri said ...

Jacob and Shiori's scrapbook will soon belong to Yuri Kochiyama. These are just some of the scanned pages from their year-long project.

To view larger versions of any of the pages above, please click on the image.

Thursday, May 10, 2007

news too good not to share!!!

I just now learned that Earlesha will have some of the outstanding articles she wrote for her MA thesis published in my very favorite newspaper!! I had no hand in this. She contacted the paper herself, and the ever insightful editor, Mary Ratcliff, recognized how important these articles are and agreed to publish them. Oh, I am just too happy for words!

Keep your eyes on the San Francisco Bay View newspaper and watch for Earlesha's pieces on Iowa City!!

A note to my Insurgentes!

To my wonderful class,

It's taking a while to process and fully appreciate the power of the experience we created together. You are all so special, so filled with love and so truly and critically engaged. I can honestly say that the class would not have been as special without each of you in it. I suppose a class with a title like ours attracts a special group, but even with that in mind, I still feel like I "lucked out" in every possible way. I often think back on moments we shared and wonder how on earth I got so lucky to have all the right people take this class. As I look ahead to the last "Insurgency Hour" show that will begin in a few hours, I am filled with a bittersweet feeling. I feel sad that our time together couldn't last longer, but incredibly and deeply grateful that we had it.

I want to convey my heartfelt congratulations to Brand, Dylan, Earlesha, and Nate, all of whom are graduating! I have no doubt that you will do amazing things to make a lasting and meaningful difference in our world, which all too often creates the conditions that make insurgent resistance necessary and inevitable. Your very lives and your ways of engaging the world are insurgently beautiful.

To the rest of you, I look forward to having you in classes again. I can announce now that I will teach this class again next spring! You'll be able to repeat the class, and you all are welcome to help me develop the new syllabus. There's no shortage of related material for us to study and discuss together. I think we'll start out next time with The Battle of Algiers, which I regret that we didn't get to watch this semester. I hope you all make a point of watching it someday.

With love, gratitude, and solidarity,
Adrienne

Monday, May 07, 2007

The Insurgency Hour: The Last Two Shows

This past Thursday, Bill and Ian interviewed Professor Karen Kampwirth of Knox College. Prof. Kampirth has written two books, Women and Guerrilla Movements: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas, Cuba and Feminism and The Legacy of Revolution: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas. If you missed it, you definitely want to click here to listen to that show. The guys did an outstanding job, and Prof. Kampwirth was very informative!

This Thursday will be our final Insurgency Hour! We've had a great run, and I have loved it so very much. Our last show will be, appropriately, a big one! You'll recall that Shiori went to Chicago, where she was able to meet Noriaki Imai, the student-activist and former hostage in Iraq. She conducted an extended interview with him, which will air this Thursday at noon on 89.7 KRUI FM! We'll also archive it, of course. If you are outside the KRUI listening area, you can listen online at www.kruiradio.org, where live streams are available. So, tune in at noon this Thursday if you can! Shiori conducted the interview in Japanese, and we'll eventually make that original interview available for folks who know Japanese, but Thursday's show will feature Jeff Richter as the voice of Noriaki Imai (and Shiori will be herself!).

I already miss you all sooooo much! Our class was such a wonderful and special moment in my life. I wish I could carry you all along with me forever, but I'll always carry the feeling and the experience of our time together.