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Working Class Studies has been greatly enhanced by the addition of a new website www.ProletarianLiterature. net, maintained by Lawrence Hanley. This site contains invaluable information on working-class literature and a fine collection of original documents.

The Center for Study of Working Class Life, SUNY SUNY - State University of New York  Stony Brook Stony Brook may refer to:

Massachusetts:
  • Stony Brook, a tributary of the Charles River in Boston
  • Stony Brook (MBTA station) on the Orange Line in Jamaica Plain
  • Stony Brook (B&M station), a former Boston and Maine Railroad station in Weston
, has published a new pamphlet reprinting Theodore W. Allen's seminal 1975 pamphlet, "Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race," with a new substantive introduction. The 44-page pamphlet, including Allen's original notes, is meant to be a resource for high school and college history classes. The pamphlet costs $8 and can be ordered in bulk for classroom use. Contact michal.zweig@stonybrook.edu for more information.

To teach The Iraq War Iraq War: see under Persian Gulf Wars.
Iraq War
 or Second Persian Gulf War

Brief conflict in 2003 between Iraq and a combined force of troops largely from the U.S. and Great Britain; and a subsequent U.S.
, go to the website of a new organization, "West Point Graduates Against the War": www.westpointgraduatesagainstthewar.org.

Deep Dish TV has some highly celebrated documentaries about the U. S. war on Iraq and needs radical educators' support to have our libraries order them for generating discussion on campus. "Shocking and Awful: A Grassroots Response to War and Occupation" is a series of 12 half hour programs packaged as a 3 DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc.
DVD
 in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc

Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology.
 set. "Fallujah" is a half-hour program documenting the U. S. destruction of that ancient city. "The World Tribunal on Iraq The World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) is a people's court consisting of unelected intellectuals, human rights campaigners and non-governmental organizations. It sprung from the anti-war movement and is modelled on the Russell Tribunal of the American movement against the Vietnam " is a four DVD set filmed in Istanbul and New York City New York City: see New York, city.
New York City

City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S.
. Discounts are available depending on your institution's resources. No one is turned away. Orders can be placed on the web (http://www.deepdishtv.org) or by mail (Deep Dish TV, 339 Lafayette St., New York City, NY 10012.

Rethinking Schools, an independent magazine advocating the reform of elementary and secondary public schools, with an emphasis on urban schools and issues of equity and social justice, has recently published (Summer, 2006) an issue called "Feeding the Children: The politics of food in our schools and classrooms."

Sexuality, Gender and Rights: Exploring Theory and Practice in South and Southeast Asia analyses and documents the groundbreaking work done by many organizations to bring issues of sexuality and rights to public attention. The contributors cover diverse issues like sexual rights, sexuality education, sexual health services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract , transsexuals, and other sexual minorities, HIV/AIDS HIV/AIDS Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome  prevention, as well as sex work and the representation of sexuality in popular culture. The volume covers eight countries in South and Southeast Asia.

"Breaking the Boys Code: An Exploration of Bullying Behaviour" explores the specific dynamics of bullying, bullying's history, and educators' responses to bullying. It also examines the development of masculinity and male social order among boys as shaped by homophobia. This extensive Australian article is available at http://melbourne.indymedia.org/ news/2006/01/105077.php.

The website www.radicalmath.org shows how to teach urban children math mixed with relevant ideas and issues of social justice.

In Guarding Cultural Memory, University of Virginia Press The University of Virginia Press (or UVaP), founded in 1963, is a university press that is part of the University of Virginia. External link
  • University of Virginia Press


  
, Flora Gonzalez Mandri examines the vibrant and uniquely illuminating post-Revolutionary creative endeavors of Afro-Cuban women.
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