Tag Archives: Philadelphia

The apparent end of public education as we know it in Philadelphia

By Mark | April 25, 2012

We’ve talked at length on this site, over the past several years, about the coordinated campaign to dismantle public education in the United States. Sadly, Michigan is often at the forefront of this national conservative movement. Images of pregnant teenage girls being arrested as they try to keep their schools from closing and boys picketing […]

Posted in Civil Liberties, Education, Politics | Also tagged Al Sharpton, Ben Jealous, Bill Gates, Bush tax cuts, Catherine Ferguson Academy for Young Women, charter schools, education reform, Frederick Douglass Academy, Gates Foundation, Good Morning America is crap, Grover Norquist, public education, starve the beast, Thomas Knudsen, wealth inequality | 38 Comments

Krampus fever sweeps nation, enflames Ypsilanti

By Mark | December 12, 2011

All of a suden, it seems that Krampus is everywhere. I got a note a few days ago from someone telling me that I’d be getting a call from NPR, as they were working on story about a Krampus festival that folks were working to launch in Philadelphia. I guess, since we started our event […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Anthony Bourdain, Brothers Grimm, costumes, dressing up in costumes and lying to people, Jerry Sandusky, Krampus, Krampus Ball, Krampus grants, Krampusdeep, Krampuslauf Philadelphia, Martin Thoburn, masks, pagan, parades, Penn State, Stevens Point, The Mad Tinkers, torches, Wisconsin | 7 Comments

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