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On Carrotmobs and Election-Stealing: An Edu-Activism Fantasy
After watching the following video on Dean Shareski’s blog (thanks to Kate Tabor for the alert):
Carrotmob Makes It Rain from carrotmob on Vimeo.
–and then watching this immensely disturbing clip from the Uncounted documentary about election theft in the 2004 USA elections:
–and in the 2006 elections:
–it should be no wonder that I fantasize that, on election day 2008, students and teachers take cellphones and video cameras to the voting centers, and show what a smart mob can do to defend democracy.
You can see ten more clips from Uncounted here, and order the DVD here.
I never had a civics class in school. Are they still taught in the US? And are educators either practicing or modeling politically engaged behavior in their own lives? What’s our ratio of communicating to our elected officials in proportion to tweeting our networks, for example? Do we need to reflect on that?
The elections are just around the corner. What a learning opportunity for our students and ourselves - especially if we act to ensure our votes are counted.
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