Plainfield, Vt. — Peter Schumann, the founder of the Internationally renowned Bread & Puppet Theater, will be honored at Goddard College with a special award to recognize his life and work in the arts and the social justice movement. Goddard President Barbara Vacarr will present Schumann with the Second Annual Presidential Award for Activism at […]
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Plainfield, Vt. — Goddard College will host a first-in-the-nation conference to explore the ramifications of the Occupy Wall Street movement for higher education and the nation. Les Leopold, author of “The Looting of America,” will kick off the conference as keynote speaker, followed by three discussion panels featuring activists who have shaped the movement. A “General Assembly’’ […]
“Students should not only be trained to live in a democracy when they grow up; they should have the chance to live in one today.”– Alfie Kohn, writer and education activist UC Davis, UC Berkeley and Penn State. At two of these institutions, they called the police when they shouldn’t have. At another, they failed […]