<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Irankrapte!</div><div><br></div><div>This was forwarded to me but unfortunately I do not know the original link.</div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes from Japan,</div><div>Jen Teeter</div><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Tucson schools bans books by Chicano and Native American authors<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">CENSORED NEWS<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Tucson schools bans books by Chicano and Native American authors<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Posted by Brenda Norrell - January 14, 2012 at 11:53 pm<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Banned books fuels calls for revolution in Tucson<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Native authors in banned book include Leslie Marmon Silko, Buffy<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Sainte Marie and Winona LaDuke<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">By Brenda Norrell<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Breaking news: Updated Sunday with response from banned author Roberto Rodriguez<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">TUCSON -- Outrage was the response to the news that Tucson schools has banned books, including "Rethinking Columbus," with an essay by award-winning Pueblo author Leslie Marmon Silko, who lives in Tucson, and works by Buffy Sainte Marie, Winona LaDuke, Leonard Peltier and Rigoberta Menchu.<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The decision to ban books follows the 4 to 1 vote on Tuesday by the Tucson Unified School District board to succumb to the State of Arizona, and forbid Mexican American Studies, rather than fight the state decision.<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Students said the banned books were seized from their classrooms and out of their hands, after Tucson schools banned Mexican American Studies, including a book of photos of Mexico. Crying, students said it was like Nazi Germany, and they were unable to sleep since it happened.<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The banned book, "Rethinking Columbus," includes work by many Native Americans, as Debbie Reese reports, the book includes:<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Suzan Shown Harjo's "We Have No Reason to Celebrate"<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Buffy Sainte-Marie's "My Country, 'Tis of Thy People You're Dying"<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Joseph Bruchac's "A Friend of the Indians"<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Cornel Pewewardy's "A Barbie-Doll Pocahontas"<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">N. Scott Momaday's "The Delight Song of Tsoai-Talee"<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Michael Dorris's "Why I'm Not Thankful for Thanksgiving"<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Leslie Marmon's "Ceremony"<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Wendy Rose's "Three Thousand Dollar Death Song"<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Winona LaDuke's "To the Women of the World: Our Future, Our Responsibility"<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The now banned reading list of the Tucson schools' Mexican American Studies includes two books by Native American author Sherman Alexie and a book of poetry by O'odham poet Ofelia Zepeda.<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Jeff Biggers writes in Salon:<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The list of removed books includes the 20-year-old textbook “Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years,” which features an essay by Tucson author Leslie Silko. Recipient of a Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award and a MacArthur Foundation genius grant, Silko has been an outspoken supporter of the ethnic studies program.<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Biggers said Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest," was also banned during the meeting this week. Administrators told Mexican-American studies teachers to stay away from any class units where “race, ethnicity and oppression are central themes."<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Other banned books include “Pedagogy of the Oppressed” by famed Brazilian educator Paolo Freire and “Occupied America: A History of Chicanos” by Rodolfo Acuña, two books often singled out by Arizona state superintendent of public instruction John Huppenthal, who campaigned in 2010 on the promise to “stop la raza.” Huppenthal, who once lectured state educators that he based his own school principles for children on corporate management schemes of the Fortune 500, compared Mexican-American studies to Hitler Jugend indoctrination last fall.<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/01/13/whos_afraid_of_the_tempest/singleton/" style="text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.salon.com/2012/01/13/whos_afraid_of_the_tempest/singleton/</a><o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Bill Bigelow, co-author of Rethinking Columbus, writes:<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Imagine our surprise.<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Rethinking Schools learned today that for the first time in its more-than-20-year history, our book Rethinking Columbus was banned by a school district: Tucson, Arizona ...<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">As I mentioned to Biggers when we spoke, the last time a book of mine was outlawed was during the state of emergency in apartheid South Africa in 1986, when the regime there banned the curriculum I’d written, Strangers in Their Own Country, likely because it included excerpts from a speech by then-imprisoned Nelson Mandela. Confronting massive opposition at home and abroad, the white minority government feared for its life in 1986. It’s worth asking what the school authorities in Arizona fear today.<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><a href="http://rethinkingschoolsblog.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/rethinking-colum" style="text-decoration: underline; ">http://rethinkingschoolsblog.wordpress.com/2012/01/13/rethinking-colum</a><o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">bus-banned-in-tucson<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Roberto Rodriguez, professor at University of Arizona, is also among the nation's top Chicano and Latino authors on the Mexican American Studies reading list. Rodriguez' column about this week's school board decision, posted at Censored News, is titled: "Tucson school officials caught on tape 'urinating' on Mexican students."<a href="http://drcintli.blogspot.com/" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-result="7" style="text-decoration: underline; ">http://drcintli.blogspot.com/</a><o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Rodriguez responded to Narco New about the ban on Sunday.<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">"The attacks in Arizona are mind-boggling. To ban the teaching of a discipline is draconian in and of itself. However, there is also now a banned books list that accompanies the ban. I believe 2 of my books are on the list, which includes: Justice: A Question of Race and The X in La Raza. Two others may also be on the list," Rodriguez said.<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">"That in itself is jarring, but we need to remember the proper context. This is not simply a book-banning; according to Tom Horne, the former state scools' superintendent who designed HB 2281, this is part of a civilizational war. He determined that Mexican American Studies is not based on Greco-Roman knowledge and thus, lies outside of Western Civilization.<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">"In a sense, he is correct. The philosophical foundation for MAS is a maiz-based philosophy that is both, thousands of years old and Indigenous to this continent. What has just happened is akin to an Auto de Fe -- akin to the 1562 book-burning of Maya books in 1562 at Mani, Yucatan. At TUSD, the list of banned books will total perhaps 50 books, including artwork and posters.<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">"For us here in Tucson, this is not over. If anything, the banning of books will let the world know precisely what kind of mindset is operating here; in that previous era, this would be referred to as a reduccion (cultural genocide) of all things Indigenous. In this era, it can too also be see as a reduccion."<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">The reading list includes world acclaimed Chicano and Latino authors, along with Native American authors. The list includes books by Corky Gonzales, along with Sandra Cisneros’ “The House on Mango Street;” Jimmy Santiago Baca’s “Black Mesa Poems,“ and L.A. Urreas’ “The Devil’s Highway.“ The authors include Henry David Thoreau and the popular book “Like Water for Chocolate.”<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">On the reading list are Native American author Sherman Alexie's books, “Ten Little Indians,“ and “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fist Fight in Heaven.“ O’odham poet and professor Ofelia Zepeda’s “Ocean Power, Poems from the Desert” is also on the list.<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></o:p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">DA Morales writes in Three Sonorans, at Tucson Citizen, about the role of state schools chief John Huppenthal. "Big Brother Huppenthal has taken his TEA Party vows to take back Arizona… take it back a few centuries with official book bans that include Shakespeare!"<o:p></o:p></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><o:p><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </font></o:p></p></blockquote></body></html>