[Xmca-l] Re: My Hometown Minneapolis

[David Kellogg]

(Is this thread American-centric? If so, 'twere a grievous fault. But
grievously hath Haydi answered it--I don't think anybody can consider his
dense, encyclopaedic blocks of text--the polar opposite of Anthony's
American-centric orthography as well as Anthony's style and content--in any
way American-centric....)

Perhaps American-centrism and American-exceptionalism is in the way we read
events rather than in the events themselves, Anthony. To me, the situation
in and around Washington DC looks very much like the situation in and
around Beijing in May1989. As in DC, Beijing had laws preventing the entry
of the armed forces other than those of the Beijing Military Region into
the city (the exclusion laws were actually written into the Chinese
constitution by Mao, who was always afraid of powerful military opponents
like Peng Dehuai and Lin Biao). The Beijing Military Region, however, was
loyal to the people of Beijing and to the General Secretary Zhao Ziyang,
and they opposed to a coup. So, as in DC, the "martial law" forces were
called to the city perimeter where they halted for several weeks. As in DC,
the provenance of the "martial law" forces were quite mysterious--they
didn't carry insignia and it later turned out that these were forces
personally loyal to two PLA warlords, the brothers Yang Baibing and Yang
Shangkun. As in DC, there were different waves of demonstrators inside the
city: someone put up artworks in the square (as the mayor did in DC this
morning) and others told people to go home and organize and not stay to be
massacred. And then, almost exactly thirty-one years ago, the unmarked
shock troops went in shooting, and at least a thousand people died.  I hope
that part is NOT like DC, but so far the "American exceptionalists" have
been proved wrong on every single detail.

Clorox on cloth? Gadzooks, Peg. Don't Americans have real N-94s yet? At the
very height of the Daegu outbreak people had to resort to cloth masks (I
don't think anybody used Clorox, though). Then the government brought in a
rationing system so that health care workers could get PPE, and the extras
are still rationed according to the numbers on registration cards: we go to
the pharmacy twice a week to pick up our ration of three masks. No one is
allowed onto a bus, a subway, or into a public building without one.
Yesterday I went hiking for two hours and whenever I saw someone coming
towards me they hastily put on a mask and bowed.

(Do you know, the largest factory for PPE in the USA, and possibly the
world until recently, is 3M in Minneapolis? There's a solid
transitional demand for a general strike--Masks for all! Occupy 3M!)

David Kellogg
Sangmyung University

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On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 6:30 PM Anthony Barra <anthonymbarra@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thank you, I'll take a look. Sounds similar to dialectics, little I know
> of both.
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> On Thursday, June 4, 2020, Richard Beach <rbeach@umn.edu> wrote:
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>> Anthony, the concept of “expansive learning” posits that objects/motive
>> in activity are ideally always open to change/transformation—that they are
>> never fixed given that as participants encounter new
>> contradictions/challenges, they “learn to”/formulate new objects/motives.
>> This requires learners to be open to exploring optional actions/tools/norms
>> as they redefine/revise their ever expanding objects/motives.
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>> Coping with decades-long racist practices in Minneapolis, requires
>> “expansive learning” to continually experiment with new objects/motives
>> given that some of the tools/practices attempted in the past haven’t
>> necessarily worked, although attempts were made to do so, only to be
>> blocked by a timid political leadership
>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.startribune.com/in-2008-we-had-a-reform-plan-for-the-mpd-it-got-derailed-by-politics/570998162/__;!!Mih3wA!SLGpQj8PmApHqKlEeH3z-ohB8R76qeqnpglVMrj9N2HOiJRn_QxL9FXpHMmS9eXEdK2Cgg$>
>> .
>>
>> For more on expansive learning theory, see attached reports:
>> Engeström,Y., & Sannino, A. (2010). Studies of expansive learning:
>> Foundations, findings and future challenges. *Educational Research
>> Review, 5*, 1–24.
>> Sannino, A., Engeström, Y., & Lemos, M. (2016). Formative interventions
>> for expansivelearning and transformative agency. *Journal of the
>> Learning Sciences, 25*(4), 599-633.
>>
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