[Xmca-l] Re: My Hometown Minneapolis

Wed Jun 3 16:35:54 PDT 2020

Really I thought exactly the same !!!

Incredible.

4 Haz 2020 Per 02:32 tarihinde mike cole <mcole@ucsd.edu> şunu yazdı:

> Hi David-
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> Where have you NOT been!
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> CulturalPraxis is a work in progress taken on by the MCA editorial board a
> few years ago.  After a giant push by Alfredo, a sort of CP2.0 was
> announced
> on XMCA, but it is by no means intended as the mature facility.  As I
> understand it, CP2.0 is intended as a complement to MCA, a medium for
> enriching our research and teaching by making room for, and encouraging, a
> diversity of voices.
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> The website was re-started a couple of weeks ago to respond rapidly to the
> rapid events that were overtaking us BEFORE covid-19 appeared.
> It was designed to be modifiable in the clear recognition that its
> functions and conventions are to be worked out by users over time. So,
> people should
> feel welcome both to make suggestions by writing to
> culturalpraxis@ils.uio.no.  As you will see the discussion on the home
> page is focused on the covid-19 + inequality + global warming.  Last week
> racism "came out" as an incendiary ingredient in the combination of threats
> to our social institutions we are all witnessing.
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> So the hurryup mode of the current iteration of CP reflects the hurry up
> mode in which events have rained down on us.
> Now the question is, who is going to do the work that comes with taking CP
> to the next level?  If you have web design skills and are interested in
> volunteering to help, I am pretty sure that the editorial board of MCA will
> be very happy to hear from you!
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> My idea, David, was for someone such as yourself to pull together the
> informative reports we collected from around the world of how covid was
> affecting xmca members. But that was a couple of weeks ago and the
> racial/class explosion of the last week has probably passed it by. Given
> how fast events are moving the new CP2.0 has gotten off to a great start.
> But how it will develop, and who will join in the process, is a work in
> progress. Hopefully it will develop in a manner that opens up the space of
> academic communication in a productive way.
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> On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 3:05 PM David Kellogg <dkellogg60@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I was born in Minneapolis and grew up on both sides of the 3rd Precinct
>> (which burned down last week in what I have to say was an entirely
>> proportionate response to the murder of George Floyd).
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>> Minneapolis is a town that's very well known for progressive
>> politics--but it's also known as one of the most tightly segregated cities
>> in the USA. I went to elementary school in Prospect Park, which had a
>> chain-link fence dividing the white part and the black part, and I remember
>> the column of black kids coming through the single opening in the fence,
>> because it was halfway to my own elementary school, Sidney Pratt, on Tower
>> Hill.
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>> Minneapolis also has a Police Federation, which is not a "union" but a
>> paramilitary organization which has a long history of defying the
>> Democratic-Farmer-Labor government, defending officers who murder black
>> people (George Floyd, Jamar Clark, Philando Castile)
>> and financing fly-by-night "Warrior Training" programmes that teach cops
>> how to use hair-trigger weapons bought army-surplus from overseas
>> deployments of the US military. Bob Kroll, the head of the federation,
>> sported a "white power" badge, and called George Floyd a violent criminal
>> (but he also said pretty much the same thing about Keith Ellison and Barack
>> Obama).
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>> There's another Minneapolis. In 1934, radicals in the Teamsters Union
>> launched one of only four general strikes in American history (typical
>> Minnesota tactics--coal drivers struck in the dead of winter!) It changed
>> the Teamsters from a craft union to an industrial union. Yesterday a group
>> of health experts (also in Minneapolis) issued a statement which recognized
>> the need to mobilize in defense of the most-hard hit section of the
>> population in this pandemic, but worried a lot about spikes triggered in
>> mass demonstrations. As I watch events in my hometown from afar, I wonder
>> if it's not time for a second Minneapolis general strike.
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>> (Mike--I was going to post this on CulturalPraxis as you suggested, but
>> there's some kind of log-in over there, and I'm not a member....)
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>> David Kellogg
>> Sangmyung University
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>> New Article: Ruqaiya Hasan, in memoriam: A manual and a manifesto.
>> Outlines, Spring 2020
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>> New Translation with Nikolai Veresov: *L.S. Vygotsky's Pedological Works* *Volume
>> One: Foundations of Pedology*"
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