on hold....

hi all - well, it looks like i this little project will need to be put on hold for a while. i am busy trying to do a decent job teaching spanish to spanish speakers at the emiliano zapata street academy in oakland, get a teaching credential from an embattled san francisco state university, and help build a movement to defend education in california. 

an excerpt from street academy's statement of philosophy:

If public education is to meet the needs of young people in urban America today an important fact must be acknowledged: our cities have become battlegrounds our society is at war. The adversaries in this struggle are the haves and the have-nots; the haves are represented by economically affluent primarily white middle and upper class individuals, and the have-nots are members of our society who occupy the lower economic stratum and who are primarily people of color. This protracted and bitter urban civil war threatens to crush the beauty, genius and creative forces which are present in the diverse and rich communities in our cities today and to leave our society culturally, intellectually, and spiritually impoverished for many generations to come.

love,

-ryan