Keep 'Em
courage of their convictions?
Or just convicted?
Three Americans whose disappearance in Iran ... [are] UC Berkeley graduates whose interest in Middle Eastern culture and human rights led them abroad to study and do freelance journalism ...
Shocked. Shocked, I tell you.
[Both] are 27 [and] once lived in the same Oakland co-op and taught a student-led class at Berkeley that envisioned a harmonious, postcapitalist society.
With unicorns, I suppose.
[Shane] Bauer [a Minnesota native who is fluent in Arabic] graduated with honors from UC Berkeley in 2007, earning a bachelor’s degree with a major in peace and conflict studies and a minor in Arabic. He went to Sudan’s Darfur region to research a thesis on the crisis there.
[Sarah] Shourd is described by those who know her as passionate about teaching, traveling and politics. After receiving a bachelor’s degree in English in May 2003, she worked as a tutor with Americorps...
...describes herself on one Web site as a lover of “fresh broccoli, Zapatistas [read: "libertarian Marxists"] and anyone who can change her mind."
A feat I suspect couldn’t be accomplished with a Malkin-load of facts and a 100# Cluebat.
[Joshua] Fattal, who earned his bachelor’s degree in environmental economics and policy, is a Pennsylvania native who recently worked and lived at a sustainable living research center in Oregon....
[He] founded a class in spring 2005 called “Liberation and reality: moving toward a collective autonomy” through UC Berkeley’s student-run DeCal program.
I hope they enjoy their stay in the Peeeeoples Iran.
Did an AltaVista search on “sustainable living research center oregon” and found this:
“Another issue to consider in arriving at a genuinely sustainable model of housing is longevity. Even a staunch conservative ought to be able to agree that paying 10% more for materials and 10% more for labor would make sense if the house can be expected to last four times longer. A major factor in creating long lasting houses is beauty. If a house is beautiful, people are going to love it, care for it, maintain it and cause it to last for generations. Every day in the U.S, butt-ugly, 40 year old track houses are dumped into landfills - an unsustainable practice if ever there was one.”
When do we get our Beauty Czar?
.Posted by OregonGuy on 08/04/09 at 10:40 AM“... a harmonious, postcapitalist society.”
My oxymoron-meter is sounding an alarm.
“... a major in peace and conflict studies ...”
That’ll get him interviews all over corporate America.
“... UC Berkeley’s student-run DeCal program.”
Thanks for bringing that up. I’ve been trying to remember that one for a long time. Here are a few of the courses you can get university credit for:
James Bond: Politics, Pop Culture, Hero
The Life and Legacy of Tupac Amaru Shakur
The Joy of Garbage
“This class sets out to answer many of your questions about garbage.”Come Out and Play: Designing and Playing Games Outside
OG: [somebody wrote] “Every day in the U.S, butt-ugly, 40 year old track houses are dumped into landfills...”
That’s tract houses. I seriously doubt the landfill-dumping.
Posted by ZZMike on 08/04/09 at 03:07 PMIt’s from the Maitreya Eco Village site:
http://www.maitreyaecovillage.org/Maitreya Green_Building.htm
Until the Tootsie put this post up, I don’t think I
would have ever taken a look for “sustainable living research center oregon”. Mebbe “stupid hippies”, but how many hits would that get?
.Posted by OregonGuy on 08/04/09 at 03:30 PMOG: from the Maitreyia site:
“They will build houses out of earth, straw and round wood. They will research making their own paint and plasters, etc.
Reminds me of the Yeats poem:
“I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.”Mud huts.
“Maitreya”: “Maitreya is a bodhisattva who in the Buddhist tradition is to appear on Earth, achieve complete enlightenment, and teach the pure dharma.”
Posted by ZZMike on 08/05/09 at 09:11 AMYeah. They aren’t hippies. They’re progressives!
Nemaste.
.Posted by OregonGuy on 08/05/09 at 09:19 AM
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