thanks, Kasper - I note this:
'teach young people how to be social activists.'
Everywhere that I am aware of there’s a permanent risk that the skills of public life
are not being handed on in their variety and potential health.
Quality of cause - now that’s a difficult dimension…
Max in Seattle
On Aug 28, 2015, at 23:46, Kasper Salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Good one, Max! Karri Miettinen, also known as the rapper Paleface, is one
> of Finland's foremost political and cultural activists and a freaking
> powerhouse and wordsmith. I've collaborated with him several times.
>
> Also, check out the Yle News story we did on the exhibition:
> http://yle.fi/uutiset/school_for_disobedience_opens_this_autumn_in_helsinki/8216818
>
> KS
>
> ---
> *Kasper Salonen* (B.A./HuK)
> Freelance Translation
> Poet/Producer, Helsinki Poetry Connection
> http://hkipoetryconnection.blogspot.com/
> https://soundcloud.com/kasper_salonen
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>
> On 14 August 2015 at 18:10, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> I think all our countries could use someone like him & his school….
>>
>> Doug
>> On Aug 14, 2015, at 8:09 AM, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> [I know this is strictly not poetryetc matter, but some of us are
>> Finn-fanciers…
>>>
>>> Max in Seattle
>>>
>>> Miettinen explains why blindly following societal norms can be dangerous
>> and why disobedience should be on the school curriculum. "War, genocide,
>> slavery and all the worst things in the history of mankind are actually the
>> result of obedience, rather than disobedience," he says, quoting US
>> historian and activist Howard Zinn.
>>>
>>> The school of disobedience comes at a time when Finland is having a
>> difficult conversation about race, identity and immigration. Last month a
>> politician belonging to the anti-immigration Finns Party, which is a member
>> of the ruling coalition, said he would "defeat this nightmare called
>> multiculturalism". His comments sparked a furious response, with thousands
>> of Finns taking to the streets in anti-racism marches.
>>>
>>> Leinonen argues that this is where true power lies; with the masses.
>> "It's not heroic politicians that change the world, even if history writes
>> it that way," Leinonen says. "It's actually citizens' movements that change
>> big things."
>>>
>>> The School of Disobedience opens at the Museum of Contemporary Art
>> Kiasma September 4 and runs until the end of January 2016.
>>>
>>>
>> http://www.theweek.co.uk/64786/school-for-disobedience-set-to-open-in-finland?_mout=1&utm_campaign=theweekdaily_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter
>>
>> Douglas Barbour
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
>> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuation 2
>> (UofAPress).
>> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
>>
>> Done in by creation itself.
>>
>> I mean the gods. Not us. Well us too.
>> The gods moved into books. Who wrote the books?
>> We wrote the books. In whose dream, then are we dreaming?
>>
>> Robert Kroetsch.
>>
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