[LAAMN] CSUN ROTC protest controversy
- Original Message - From: edie pistolesi To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2005 4:02 PM Subject: [csunupj] [Fwd: Peace Project letter to Colonel Buck] I am forwarding the letter I sent to Colonal Buck, who is in charge of ROTC on this campus and at UCLA. Edie Original Message Subject: Peace Project letter to Colonel BuckDate: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:56:47 -0700From: edie pistolesi [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Harry Hellenbrand [EMAIL PROTECTED], Toutant william.toutant, Dave Moon [EMAIL PROTECTED] September 29, 2005Dear Colonel Buck,I had a lot of time to think about our 9/28 Wednesday morning phone conversation while I waited for you to arrive for our scheduled meeting at the Peace Project installation site in front of the ROTC building yesterday afternoon. The plan was to talk about the project, which was featured in a Sundial article on 9/28. You told me that you would arrive around 1:30 to 1:45 pm for your 2 pm class. I waited from 1:30 until 3:15 when I had to pick up my son from school.You said on the phone that you were not pleased with our installation. Your concern was that your young cadets would be made uncomfortable and demoralized by this project as they walked by and entered the ROTC building. Colonel, these are tiny plastic toy army figures transformed into non-military entities (such as pink bunnies) that have been placed in hand built earthwork dwellings. They are not the mangled corpses of Iraqi babies that your young cadets will see when they get to Iraq.You also asked if students will be graded on this project, which you referred to as political. The answer is, yes. Among other things, they are graded on the formal concept of how well they achieved transformation of the army figures who students imagined returning to peaceful jobs. You might be interested to know that a recent trend in art education is called Issues Based Art Education. Students are expected to include issues and ideas from culture as part of their art experience. The first chapter in our textbook, Understanding Art, addresses the many functions of art such as Art Stimulates the Intellect and Fires the Emotions,(p.13) Art Reflects the Social and Cultural Context, (p.18) and Art Protests Injustice and Raises Social Consciousness. (p. 19). I presume what you teach is also political.You also told me on the phone that you were considering your options which might include filing a complaint with the administration. You also demanded to know exactly when the installation would be removed. I realized later, as I was standing, waiting for you in the hot sun, that you are not my boss. I do not answer to you. However, I have decided to cc the people who are my bosses. While I may get a reprimand or other consequences, I am hoping that my first amendment rights and tenure will protect me from being sent to Guantanamo.Sincerely,Edie Pistolesi Be the change you would like to see in the world... - Gandhi www.sonicbids.com/glassband www.csun.edu/~csunupj [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Give at-risk students the materials they need to succeed at DonorsChoose.org! http://us.click.yahoo.com/Ryu7JD/LpQLAA/E2hLAA/7gSolB/TM ~- --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Digest: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] More correspondence re: CSUN ROTC...
Sirena wrote: I really believe that as a progressive faculty body, we should go beyond chanting in front of the ROTC building this time. Since when does a college faculty have to explain her teaching methodology to a military person on campus??? This needs to go directly to the administration, and I suggest a collective pre-emptive strike, before they continue harrassing Edie. Should we set up a brainstorming session on how to proceed? - Original Message - From: david klein To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 2:27 PM Subject: [csunupj] ROTC counterattack at CSUN Alan Glasband wrote: Edie, thanks for carrying the torch. It's nice to know that the PROTEST movement we started a few years ago on CSUN's campus is not completely dead!! Keep it up!!! peace Alan There is a need for some help on this. Colonel Buck has filed a formal complaint against Edie with the administration. She has already started to get phone calls from administrators asking for information and justification of the project. The project in a nutshell was for her art students to convert war toys (in this case toy army soldiers) into peaceful creatures. Some students changed the soldiers into firemen and their rifles into water hoses. Others were magical creatures, butterflies, movie characters, animals, dancers, chefs, etc. The students included dwellings for their transformed creatures to live in. The project reflects part of the mission statement of CSUN, ...to help students develop ... critical and creative abilities, and ethical values of learned persons who live in a democratic society, an interdependent world... Colonel Buck took great offense at the placement of the ankle-high art installations around the ROTC building. He interrogated Edie and demanded to know how she ran her course, whether students were coerced to participate in this art projects that expresses a universal human value of love of peace, rather than lust for war. He suggested that the art installations be placed around the Chicano Studies building, or some other department. The Colonel expressed fear that the morale of his ROTC students at CSUN might be adversely affected by artistic _expression of a culture of peaceful coexistence rather than the glamor of war. Col. Buck was particularly worried that the art pieces would still be near his building this coming Monday and Tuesday because his ROTC students would then mostly likely see them and presumably then be discouraged from engaging in the mass murder that U.S. wars of aggression demand. Consequencies to Edie remain unresolved, but there is an opportunity for others to show up sometime on Monday or Tuesday (e.g. to sing song have seditious peace messages, or students chanting Hell no, we won't go, etc.). A question I would like to ask Col. Buck, if I get to see him, is why he doesn't go to Iraq himself instead of trying to convince young men and women at CSUN to do it. If he is so gung -ho on murdering men, women, and children in Iraq, he should sign up for active duty and leave CSUN and UCLA alone. Instead, he wants to wage war against a CSUN art professor who dares to challenge a culture of war in the form of transformed children's toys. One more thing. One of the ROTC cadets saw spoke to Edie and said he didn't want to go to Iraq. Without naming the cadet, Edie told CSUN's Colonel in residence that one of his cadets doesn't want to go to Iraq. The Colonel demanded to know which one, and Edie of course refused to snitch. I think that we really need to step up the pressure against CSUN's ROTC. There must be a lot of creative forms of protest we could come up with. Who knows, maybe Colonel Buck, sorrounded by converted toy soldiers and protesters, will leave the campus in horror at the aggressive peace offensive. We're a long way from the Viet Nam protest days when students would have splattered blood on the ROTC building as a first step. DK Be the change you would like to see in the world... - Gandhi www.sonicbids.com/glassband www.csun.edu/~csunupj [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Give at-risk students the materials they need to succeed at DonorsChoose.org! http://us.click.yahoo.com/Ryu7JD/LpQLAA/E2hLAA/7gSolB/TM ~- --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Digest: mailto:[EMAIL
[LAAMN] Reminder about show tonight and Sunday.
Jello, Just a friendly reminder about the show tonight at 8:30pm at the Universal Bar and Grill on Lankershim. It's $5 and will include the Full Glass Band. There will be another show, just Alan Glasband and his guitar, Sunday night at 7pm at the Viper Room. That will be a Free show. Come to one, or both. Thanks for your ongoing support! peace. Alan Be the change you would like to see in the world... - Gandhi www.sonicbids.com/glassband www.csun.edu/~csunupj --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Digest: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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Hello Glass Band Friend! We have a show at The Knitting Factory (7021 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood CA 90028) next Monday, the 25th at 7:15 PM. Tickets will be $10 at the door and I hope to see you all there! There will be another House of Blues show May 8th for you folks who couldn't make it out last time and we'll see ya soon! Glass Band ps- The new site is almost done! Be the change you would like to see in the world... - Gandhi www.sonicbids.com/glassband www.csun.edu/~csunupj [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Take a look at donorschoose.org, an excellent charitable web site for anyone who cares about public education! http://us.click.yahoo.com/O.5XsA/8WnJAA/E2hLAA/7gSolB/TM ~- --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Digest: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] The Glass Band playing at The Viper Room
Hello!! I hope you are in good health and life is good. I want to thank EVERYONE who was able to make it to The Mint a couple of weeks ago! We have some more fabulous shows lined up, the next of which is below! The Glass Band will be playing at The Viper Room, on Sunset Blvd., February 20th (that's a Sunday night) at 7pm. We will be the first act and will start no LATER than 7pm. I am VERY excited that we are playing at The Viper Room, it's a great venue and a fun place to see shows. If you plan on going, or even THINK you may, please RSVP to this e-mail so I can put you on the V.I.P. list; which, in essence will be the $6 dollar list as opposed to $12 dollars at the door. There is a V.I.P. pass attached to the e-mail but if you'd like to go and you cannot open it for some reason, please e-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'll send you a $6 dollar pass through standard mail (via the U.S. post). The band has never sounded better and in case you haven't heard us for a while, please check out our electronic press kit at the following link: www.sonicbids.com/glassband , OR you can catch a glimpse of our tunes at http://www.hollywoodpreviewsinc.com/glasbandlive.html where there is a one minute interview/video of The Glass Band playing. Have a GREAT day, thank you for your time!! alan ps- We are recording an album now and I cannot WAIT for you to hear it! Be the change you would like to see in the world... - Gandhi www.glassband.com www.csun.edu/~csunupj - Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! What will yours do? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Take a look at donorschoose.org, an excellent charitable web site for anyone who cares about public education! http://us.click.yahoo.com/O.5XsA/8WnJAA/E2hLAA/7gSolB/TM ~- --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Digest: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] Great Events!!
Hello there! Thank you to everyone who was able to make it to The Mint gig last week. It was a great show. I hope you can make it to the next one too! You can check out a brief interview and a glimpse of the show if you click this link: http://www.hollywoodpreviewsinc.com/glasbandlive.html Thanks and Have a great day!!! alan Be the change you would like to see in the world... - Gandhi www.glassband.com www.csun.edu/~csunupj - Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- DonorsChoose. A simple way to provide underprivileged children resources often lacking in public schools. Fund a student project in NYC/NC today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/5F6XtA/.WnJAA/E2hLAA/7gSolB/TM ~- --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Digest: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
[LAAMN] The Glass Band Gig on Friday the 21st
Hello, Alan here. I hope you can make it to my gig on Friday night, I'd love to see ya. There will be a camera crew there, filming for an upcoming promotional piece on a DVD which will be in the L.A. Times and the N.Y. Times in February. How exciting is that!!! Thanks for supporting me and I hope to see you there! Thanks a million! alan Be the change you would like to see in the world... - Gandhi www.glassband.com www.csun.edu/~csunupj - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~-- Give the gift of life to a sick child. Support St. Jude Children's Research Hospital's 'Thanks Giving.' http://us.click.yahoo.com/lGEjbB/6WnJAA/E2hLAA/7gSolB/TM ~- --- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --- Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Digest: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Archive1: http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn --- Archive2: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
