Zinn's "A People's History of the US: 1492-Present"

A space for us to discuss our ongoing reading and evolving understanding of US History. What perspective has Zinn offered that was new for you? How does it fit in with your understanding of history? How do you connect this history with our present? Talk about how your lens is sharpening and/or widening.

What's next for VoICE?

As we continue to meet in order to learn from and challenge one another, here is a virtual space to brainstorm ideas for our way forward. Given our success in advocating for fair trade coffee, we need to follow this with further action related to other fairly traded products, as well as other service opportunities and activism. Discussions could include upcoming service events, reflections on service activities, other social justice groups we can connect with, reading/writing projects, awareness-raising activities, etc.

Resistance and Revolution (and hope)

I wanted to open up a spot here on the blog where we could begin sharing stories of resistance that we find (e.g., the striking Detroit teachers; strikes in Oaxaca, Mexico; Purdue students on a hunger strike seeking a sweat-shop free guarantee in their bookstore, etc.). We could also use this as a space to discuss historical or present revolutionary figures that we may be reading up on. This space is intended, then, to engender hope in our own struggle for justice and equity here at Bellarmine and in the wider local and global community.