Yesss. Outside of Yerba Buena Theater. Reminds me of the astonishing finding that nearly all the Germans who hid Jews during the Nazi occupation had one thing in common: they had taken theater classes and practiced standing in someone else's shoes. #citizenartist
What We Are Doing
"Our major success so far is in laying out a broad progressive agenda… the media doesn't want to hear what I have to say…. And suddenly people are hearing things they never heard before. And that's changing consciousness. So what we have got to do is to redefine who we can be as a nation. In a sense, what we are entitled to. What rights we are entitled to as humans. That's the struggle. And we're making a little bit of progress." Bernie Sanders
Education, incredible
Something amazing is happening in education. I had the immense pleasure of drawing for Project Based Learning initiative of the Buck Institute, a program shifting schools out of rows, out of testing and into their communities. Over 800 teachers from around the country and the world were there to say yes to a radical shift in public education: Kids learning the way adults live: by doing projects relevant to them! The stories are astounding: kids swaying Rochester to restore the Erie Canal, building a violence-free day in Chicago, creating videos telling their stories of losing family to deportation. One reporter from KQED shared she learned more about immigration from the kid video project then any public policy forum she had ever attended. WOW, and, of course. I felt deeply honored to record these stories and meet some of the people creating a different present and future for kids of all backgrounds. To me this is an equity issue first and foremost, equity to all types of minds, visions and cultures. Priorotize school integration and we've got this change for real.
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