tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19544641000478913142024-03-11T14:47:29.952-05:00artfoodandpoliticsaiko kojima hibinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246885894437488539noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954464100047891314.post-50711128252254239332024-03-11T14:46:00.005-05:002024-03-11T14:46:46.981-05:00Asian<br /> I'm not your invisible Asian. <div><br /></div><div>I'm not your model minority.</div>aiko kojima hibinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246885894437488539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954464100047891314.post-70103445963989534992023-11-11T23:00:00.003-06:002023-11-12T21:10:56.111-06:00Chicago Teachers for Social Justice Curriculum Fair 2023<p> <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 13px;">"What are ethical responsibilities as scientists?" asks Ms. Gluckman to her 7th grade students and all fellow science teachers.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">"Paper Crane Project: Building Our Interconnectedness and Our Resistance against Nuclear Deviation" at Chicago Teachers for Social Justice Curriculum Fair 2023</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Laura Gluckman and her 7th grade students, Tristen and Josiah, presented their learning of "Nuclear Energy and the Body" science unit. In Fall 2023 at <a href="https://www.ntacourage.org/" target="_blank">National Teachers Academy CPS</a>, 7th grader students learned about the nuclear radiation and its effect on the human body, with the important question in their mind -"whose bodies have been most affected in history?" Not only did they learn very sophisticated scientific concepts, such as alpha, beta, and gamma radioactive particles, radioactive decay, half-life, etc., but they also investigated the history of nuclear science from the environmental justice lens. They learned about Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims who were researched but not treated by American institute, Pacific Islanders whose life was destroyed by hundreds of bomb testings, and indigenous communities that have been affected not only by bomb testings but also by uranium mining for nuclear power, the allegedly "clean energy" according to some. They met activists from all over the world - <a href="https://vfpgoldenruleproject.org/" target="_blank">VFP Golden Rule Project crew</a> and <a href="https://artfoodandpolitics.blogspot.com/2023/10/10-tactics-that-power-holders-employ-to.html" target="_blank">Aileen Mioko Smith</a>, and they will meet Hibakusha from Nagasaki City next week. Students made art pieces based on such intensive and engaging inquiry into nuclear energy and the body in collaboration with Sarah Rosengard's students at the <span class="s1">School of the Art Institute of Chicago</span>. Kudos to Ms. Gluckman. Yuki Miyamoto and I, as collaborators in her curriculum development process, were moved to tears to witness how beautifully she executed this extreme challenge, the challenge to critically teach nuclear history in the U.S.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Please visit <a href="https://www.teaachnuclearhistory.com/" target="_blank">the website</a> for more information about our project. </p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; 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margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" data-original-height="841" data-original-width="595" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy3KFaF12PfE0drhDIjqIuNOivtdtESu7BQwEWVmx7YfzavfF1t8ynKDRQa4RjThUi-AbxCuXjrnn_sEqEA3-fSDx9H1BzLKL2upCM-cTESxxdPC7TVMs8ZwMJ4KfZHoZuN-ywHnIwJGoWUBDppLRdlDTU1Y3Jk9m0yNSFsaXNX6KRlMsqcYpiYNkLhMI/s320/10%E3%81%AE%E6%89%8B%E5%8F%A3_jp-en-A4%20%E9%85%8D%E5%B8%83%E8%B3%87%E6%96%99.jpg" width="226" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;">This list was always in my mind during our #WeAreNTA fight. This was put together by Aileen Mioko Smith, the acclaimed environmental justice activist, who, with W. Eugene Smith, documented and fought against <a href="https://www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture/society-arts-culture/w-eugene-smith-minamata-warning-to-the-world/" target="_blank">mercury pollution in Minamata Bay, which poisoned 30,000 people</a>. (Aileen is still fighting since the issue is still ongoing.) I learned about this list in March 2011, when the Fukushima nuclear disaster happened. It was shared in a news article with a solidarity message to the Fukushima people who found themselves becoming new victims in Japanese society. </span></p><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When CPS announced a proposal to shut down <span class="xt0psk2" style="display: inline;">National Teachers Academy CPS</span>, a thriving majority-black, majority-low-income school, - when I found myself in a situation in which I had no other choice but to fight against the injustice-, I revisited the list and was shocked. CPS and Rahm's tactics were precisely the same as the list from Minamata, regardless of the difference of time, place, and the issue in question. Since I came to be in charge of documenting and communication, tactic #7, "Exhaust victims. Make them give up." especially resonated with me, and all I was thinking about was how not to make us exhausted. I continued reminding myself that although the fight was serious and hard, it had to be fun. Marching, rallying, and protesting must have some festivity elements, and otherwise, we would not have been able to keep going. I don't know how successfully I did, but I tried to be funny and cheerful. Using lots of emojis in communication was one of those attempts I tried. </span></div><p></p><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was like a dream, almost surreal, that we could invite Ms. Aileen to NTA, and introduce her to <span class="xt0psk2" style="display: inline;">John Pointer</span>, <span class="xt0psk2" style="display: inline;">Audrey Johnson</span>, <span class="xt0psk2" style="display: inline;">Teneka Horton-Brooks</span>, and many more people in the #WeAreNTA community. She talked about Minamata poisoning and its victims' fight in <span class="xt0psk2" style="display: inline;">Laura Gluckman</span>'s class. Watching that it immediately clicked with 7th graders, and listening to their engaging discussion was so moving, and I was almost crying at one point. </span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyny7G7eagd6Caq3Ks5PULJppb76qN35mJYBS8Tl18l5QcnGV2Grvc5owvJY_A2fg_8ZCNib7XRrlsu8VuwchxtRw07UzwyKXJYO9ReXYf33p9FZFOSC5oKRrHFBwP2CZyDleyaujXelujDuqu1p3OjDg-d1ZcJsyjR8Ugdswfy8wXjR0ISjV7HGyBbhU/s4032/B154CD0E-C99A-4253-9C77-9C832C31FE5E.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyny7G7eagd6Caq3Ks5PULJppb76qN35mJYBS8Tl18l5QcnGV2Grvc5owvJY_A2fg_8ZCNib7XRrlsu8VuwchxtRw07UzwyKXJYO9ReXYf33p9FZFOSC5oKRrHFBwP2CZyDleyaujXelujDuqu1p3OjDg-d1ZcJsyjR8Ugdswfy8wXjR0ISjV7HGyBbhU/s320/B154CD0E-C99A-4253-9C77-9C832C31FE5E.heic" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUyImfI-g1WJUD37rJshmkEsWrUIr5ZSKqmmdBLKJQBvMmEDQm0UL_S0LY8wEy17_WR-Wxd5pNA6JRU9OIs3DhclYWZgqubbVGcHTGReXtbbrg2UXmRVRF3PALR4HByF-AAps_eO2GJWNxwfLpvPZqEcy-ZoszDTTATfWhoj8PDVY1slP7ynnj4ZjHobA/s4032/66A9CA98-3A59-4AE6-AC32-DF6F26676B49.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUyImfI-g1WJUD37rJshmkEsWrUIr5ZSKqmmdBLKJQBvMmEDQm0UL_S0LY8wEy17_WR-Wxd5pNA6JRU9OIs3DhclYWZgqubbVGcHTGReXtbbrg2UXmRVRF3PALR4HByF-AAps_eO2GJWNxwfLpvPZqEcy-ZoszDTTATfWhoj8PDVY1slP7ynnj4ZjHobA/s320/66A9CA98-3A59-4AE6-AC32-DF6F26676B49.heic" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixlmlTy_TNhMCZmZymS2LmfzBQcmHtSfRTtCaC06SVaYQiaJbUslsgLHz7jZZtvlEA9qp0pUVdcp9_tzXEDwswQkS6xihVgBFa80BA6ecVWBuqUI1dt1WV9ZyGCs_L1FzCGt3Qp_-_GwD6whgSX_pflSXjGgHLNCVIrJ03q44evHQ2fdQq-CbbY4pQ0O8/s4032/33363510-5B1C-4325-B07D-9C7F0E7D062E.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixlmlTy_TNhMCZmZymS2LmfzBQcmHtSfRTtCaC06SVaYQiaJbUslsgLHz7jZZtvlEA9qp0pUVdcp9_tzXEDwswQkS6xihVgBFa80BA6ecVWBuqUI1dt1WV9ZyGCs_L1FzCGt3Qp_-_GwD6whgSX_pflSXjGgHLNCVIrJ03q44evHQ2fdQq-CbbY4pQ0O8/s320/33363510-5B1C-4325-B07D-9C7F0E7D062E.heic" width="240" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="xt0psk2" style="display: inline;">Yuki Miyamoto</span>, I cannot thank you enough for giving this unforgettable opportunity to me and the NTA community. The photo exhibition of Minamata photography by W. Eugene Smith and Aileen Mioko Smith is ongoing until the end of November at DePaul Library (2350 N. Kenmore). Everyone is highly encouraged to visit.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvYkHioQuWFAAECdeqB0Q83PyAyR455PdXLE1pIUI5x1-1EhaNJycko14TpKa6obGrLYdabMej2q4J67OAsaCBGBq8K5QfOb3EoyfhB1pP1Ql1mN_d6nrtNFNRoxPP9fzFXG5CUOnuWkir_vMhyphenhyphenQnxVvRB_Mi406GWsPjKfh-ZQTM9_0-QHdIAYZUJB7A/s1392/DHC%20Minamata%20series.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1392" data-original-width="1046" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvYkHioQuWFAAECdeqB0Q83PyAyR455PdXLE1pIUI5x1-1EhaNJycko14TpKa6obGrLYdabMej2q4J67OAsaCBGBq8K5QfOb3EoyfhB1pP1Ql1mN_d6nrtNFNRoxPP9fzFXG5CUOnuWkir_vMhyphenhyphenQnxVvRB_Mi406GWsPjKfh-ZQTM9_0-QHdIAYZUJB7A/s320/DHC%20Minamata%20series.png" width="240" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>aiko kojima hibinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246885894437488539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954464100047891314.post-53653318459171186572023-09-02T03:09:00.003-05:002023-09-02T03:09:51.807-05:00Paper Crane Project Progress Report 2022-2023
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aiko kojima hibinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246885894437488539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954464100047891314.post-24742980226234531172023-08-22T10:54:00.002-05:002023-08-22T10:54:37.148-05:00Nuclear Problems and Society | TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology<p><a href="https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/nuclear-problems-and-society" target="_blank">Nuclear Problems and Society | TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology</a><br />2023, TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology<br /><br /><br />When the first artificial, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was created in 1942 in Chicago, human society was faced with an unsolvable conundrum: How could our society possibly justify the augmentation of this powerful energy that could destroy our own existence? This course investigates discourses around two major uses of nuclear energy in society – nuclear weapons and nuclear power – and examines them through social justice lenses. Key points of inquiry include what risks are associated with nuclear weapons and power, and how they have been evaluated in contrast to their benefits; how the damage caused by nuclear weapons and power has been addressed and repaired; and whether the harm caused by nuclear weapons and power equally impact all groups of people. Building on the basic reading and writing skills introduced in FYS I, FYS II will further students’ academic skills in writing an independent research paper. Therefore, students in this course are expected to collect evidence toward the development of critical arguments about nuclear problems by reading primary and secondary sources.<br /><br /><br />Subject Area(s): Comparative Sociology/Historical Sociology, Environmental Sociology, Peace, War, World Conflict, and Conflict Resolution, Racial and Ethnic Relations, Science and Technology<br />Resource Type(s): Assignment, Syllabus<br />Class Level(s): College 100, College 200, College 300<br />Class Size(s): Small</p>aiko kojima hibinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246885894437488539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954464100047891314.post-86523270772722643442023-08-06T15:16:00.003-05:002023-08-06T15:31:25.579-05:00On 78 Years Anniversary of the Bombing of Hiroshima and NagasakiWhen will America understand the mushroom cloud under which hundreds of thousands of lives were lost is not a funny cultural icon? When will Japan stop nationalizing Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims' experiences and commit to the prohibition of nukes? When will Japan acknowledge that the Japanese are not the only people who have become the victim of nuclear radiation? On 78 years anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. <br /><br />"How many personalized stories of White men do we have to listen to before personalized stories, not numbers or data, of victims of his action?" (on "Oppenheimer" by Yuki Miyamoto) <br /><br />[pics] Miss Atomic Bomb (1957) From "Asteroid City" (2023) "Barbenheimer" meme endorsed by the official account (2023)<br /><br />[for your reference]<br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/30/opinion/international-world/oppenheimer-nuclear-bomb-cancer.html" target="_blank">NYT "What ‘Oppenheimer’ Doesn’t Tell You About the Trinity Test" </a></li><li><a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/08/05/oppenheimer-japan-barbenheimer" target="_blank">Axios "'Oppenheimer' ignites controversy in Japan" ("I can't think of any other genocide that's so popular in pop culture and so caricatured" by Yuki Miyamoto)</a> </li><li><a href="https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20230806_20/" target="_blank">NHK "A-bomb survivors ask Japan PM Kishida to sign UN nuclear ban treaty"</a> </li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfditVgyITE" target="_blank">Press the Button "History Repeating Itself: Hanford Downwinders and Fukushima Daiichi Downwinders"</a> </li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEEQZRwJvOM" target="_blank">Our Planet TV "黙殺された被曝者の声〜翻訳者・宮本ゆきさんインタビュー"</a> </li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj1W6b7FB2AcmGv3VfrSNRDh81rjCdsJSC7xlZ4c_s_pgbf4NG4fcaMNYlOpy9Eh728guGbGaH8eg0xH7Wyjw6DJf3sOVN7m2_3GrMw9O-Q64fjWFcXxGCnHN6yU90RgPwqxsK_8vRc_CXvlZBPwxpAt7nURCi6b5agh13nknCj0s9TMkDhicEPytUCGc/s600/img.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj1W6b7FB2AcmGv3VfrSNRDh81rjCdsJSC7xlZ4c_s_pgbf4NG4fcaMNYlOpy9Eh728guGbGaH8eg0xH7Wyjw6DJf3sOVN7m2_3GrMw9O-Q64fjWFcXxGCnHN6yU90RgPwqxsK_8vRc_CXvlZBPwxpAt7nURCi6b5agh13nknCj0s9TMkDhicEPytUCGc/s320/img.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div>aiko kojima hibinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246885894437488539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954464100047891314.post-16923029253226746522023-04-03T00:16:00.003-05:002023-04-03T02:31:57.629-05:00Educators for Brandon JohnsonI am proud to stand with 150+ educators in high education for Brandon Johnson.<div><br /></div><div><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xumtD1YP0wPvjBZevaI2c-e9Gn7pOE7g/view?fbclid=IwAR1sb9vjaCY6Hfuz548_XVScd03J0mBaqel08YRUW9s2knXY4t0Ve0yOtJA" target="_blank">Educators for Brandon Johnson</a></div><div><br /></div><div><div>As educators and scholars in colleges and universities in the Chicago area, we come together to offer our enthusiastic support for Brandon Johnson for Mayor of Chicago. As scholars, we know the ways that opportunities for economic security and intellectual and creative development have been shared far too narrowly in our city. Too few have access to higher education and the opportunities it affords. Too many teachers in the higher education system are themselves precariously employed. Too few Chicagoans have a voice in how the higher education system operates. And those who do gain access often come under heavy burdens of debt and insecurity. Brandon Johnson has stood with faculty on the picket line and with</div><div>students at all levels seeking quality education. He will fight to democratize the city college system and use it to expand opportunities for students to attend college and pursue their dreams and serve their communities—as nurses, artists, social workers, teachers, social workers, or wherever else their education takes them. Higher education is a powerful lever to create a more livable and equal city. Only Brandon Johnson will invest in our higher education system to seize that opportunity. We support Brandon’s 12 point plan for Education Justice. The plan can be found here: <a href="https://www.brandonforchicago.com/issues/education">https://www.brandonforchicago.com/issues/education</a> It is an investment in Chicago’s youth and in our city’s future. </div><div>Affiliations Listed for Identification Purposes Only. Not institutional endorsement.</div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXgnLNR1iZYd6s6yM3Ky61KyBuSo4ECrA0Ig3EHmQ3C4Q9VYJTz38CYFIaAWEq1zOA3tdPJ4HAbAAfjUE0GpyrpIMlRB-E0_StahsjsEs8Hcpe_iQQyg5tnPZX6er0KMfYYEMEi1KVVmbPnQifGuV7z1mJF85mBIzZtcVIhjc86Em50wOdYwWEqS9a/s790/Brandon_Johnson_for_Chicago_48118368_(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="504" data-original-width="790" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXgnLNR1iZYd6s6yM3Ky61KyBuSo4ECrA0Ig3EHmQ3C4Q9VYJTz38CYFIaAWEq1zOA3tdPJ4HAbAAfjUE0GpyrpIMlRB-E0_StahsjsEs8Hcpe_iQQyg5tnPZX6er0KMfYYEMEi1KVVmbPnQifGuV7z1mJF85mBIzZtcVIhjc86Em50wOdYwWEqS9a/s320/Brandon_Johnson_for_Chicago_48118368_(2).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></div>aiko kojima hibinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246885894437488539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954464100047891314.post-67434292769301036262022-11-18T23:44:00.006-06:002022-12-12T12:04:10.661-06:00Let the Little Light Shine<p><a href="http://wearenta.weebly.com/" target="_blank">Our fight to save National Teachers Academy (NTA)</a>, a high-performing PK-8 public school serving mostly Black students, was made into a documentary, <a href="https://www.lightshinefilm.com/" target="_blank">Let the Little Light Shine</a>, directed by Kevin Shaw. You will see me here and there in the film, and also you will see <a href="https://www.instagram.com/reel/ChQT8-GD39K/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link" target="_blank">several footages</a> that I filmed with my cell phone over 2 years of the fight. Here is <a href="https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/let-the-little-light-shine-2022" target="_blank">the review by Matt Fagerholm of RogerEbert.com. </a></p><p>Chicago Premier, Doc10 Film Festiva, May 21st, 2022, 1PM at Gene Siskel Film Center</p><p>Chicago Theatrical Run, August 12th ~ 18th, 2022 at Gene Siskel Film Center</p><p>PBS POV National Television Debut, December 12th, 2022 (Check your local listing)</p><p>For other locations, check <a href="https://www.lightshinefilm.com/screenings" target="_blank">Let the Little Light Shine Website</a></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVKmRO7KhluX22CEIMLA1l6uRSADb35Yd3BYcB8nMmFzlrakC7LkYxNqZsaCRvYbFyTy8tLE4sJiLb5gobba62k37hO9Be8bgkj-AIRJDkFMRQAprAIXp4nk07Ei5lzDwUnWNJY4q9SeywWlzAzRygHdi8v_CXZ5HS_O6XPIEU1Qas6_BhnNzw_16U/s1304/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-18%20at%2011.41.39%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="838" data-original-width="1304" height="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVKmRO7KhluX22CEIMLA1l6uRSADb35Yd3BYcB8nMmFzlrakC7LkYxNqZsaCRvYbFyTy8tLE4sJiLb5gobba62k37hO9Be8bgkj-AIRJDkFMRQAprAIXp4nk07Ei5lzDwUnWNJY4q9SeywWlzAzRygHdi8v_CXZ5HS_O6XPIEU1Qas6_BhnNzw_16U/s320/Screen%20Shot%202022-11-18%20at%2011.41.39%20PM.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">at Chicago Premier, May 21st, 2022</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZJ_QlW-MFfdfHeZvTXGGgXIUqwcaFb6RAWlgZo8T3nFHyHNDEsBS7bG1xP4uPbiwFZIGXwEWaQdBXa8RAYBP_FJ8z22eUQBJJoMOAXlCD3VjBjrd1Sd1h5Oa0o3YQMm6wZT4phCVjIoXZKw5QsguWhArR1YuWyuJ5OFdOp1ix256YhRqbTBUcMzeP/s1125/299997628_10167353265080151_2482845573461337158_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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He was acting nonchalant and listening to metal as usual on the way to school. To think that he is up to a battle alone - a battle, not in the sense that fighting against other kids for hunger game seats, but in the sense that tackling the system operating in this world whether or not you agree with it, and that facing with his own vulnerability and fear, - I cannot help but think of the day he was born. <br />As an educator myself, I fully know that any exam can measure only a part of students' intelligence. When it comes to a selection exam, it is a probability game. There is no absolute, and all you can do is raise a probability and pray for luck. No matter how hard you work, no matter how smart you are, after all, you are dealing with something beyond your control, and you never know what will happen in the end. We are so fortunate that we love our neighborhood high school. Still, we are put into this systemic current which is so hard to swim against. Watching him going up against this enormous challenge with dignity, I cannot help but think how much that tiny baby has grown to this day, and I am grateful that he has so many loves - friends, teachers, community, and music -around him. <br />I'm truly wishing all kids good luck. You are all smart, and you are all important. Good luck. Good luck.aiko kojima hibinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246885894437488539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954464100047891314.post-24367981806031627832022-10-19T16:03:00.008-05:002023-07-02T10:15:03.600-05:00October 2022: Faculty and Staff Accomplishments<p><a href="https://www.saic.edu/news/october-2022-faculty-staff-accomplishments" target="_blank">School of the Art Institute of Chicago, October 2022: Faculty and Staff Accomplishments</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgILL7umFrcDGrM4ZDdiic_D3CI677Fl4P9r5xYIaCQYOOBxBKJVvSQmibKPx82rzPzxf7IPoEJftV0WgSfqhXF-l7qJpRPAXOhI0svmHBvHjgk2G1N8sbC-phTIk2jBxVVzae7RmZ6WlgvMbUjESGPlztay1SWj2MaKo39PulUrzwYSVWJ1NPT6t8r/s2598/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-19%20at%204.05.42%20PM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1526" data-original-width="2598" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgILL7umFrcDGrM4ZDdiic_D3CI677Fl4P9r5xYIaCQYOOBxBKJVvSQmibKPx82rzPzxf7IPoEJftV0WgSfqhXF-l7qJpRPAXOhI0svmHBvHjgk2G1N8sbC-phTIk2jBxVVzae7RmZ6WlgvMbUjESGPlztay1SWj2MaKo39PulUrzwYSVWJ1NPT6t8r/s320/Screen%20Shot%202022-10-19%20at%204.05.42%20PM.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Lava, serif; font-size: 20px;">Lecturer Aiko Kojima Hibino’s “The Paper Crane Project” is featured in an article from </span><a href="https://chicago.chalkbeat.org/2022/8/29/23323698/chicago-public-schools-national-teachers-academy-nuclear-curriculum?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR0HMpCbvYW9slsVu9VtlDOrplms3fqr237V6nLrAbOFRL-7vpiHClsykng#Echobox=1661772753" style="background: rgb(250, 250, 250); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ee4aa9; font-family: Lava, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Ch</em></a><a href="https://chicago.chalkbeat.org/2022/8/29/23323698/chicago-public-schools-national-teachers-academy-nuclear-curriculum?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR0HMpCbvYW9slsVu9VtlDOrplms3fqr237V6nLrAbOFRL-7vpiHClsykng#Echobox=1661772753" style="background: rgb(250, 250, 250); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ee4aa9; font-family: Lava, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">alkbe</em></a><a href="https://chicago.chalkbeat.org/2022/8/29/23323698/chicago-public-schools-national-teachers-academy-nuclear-curriculum?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR0HMpCbvYW9slsVu9VtlDOrplms3fqr237V6nLrAbOFRL-7vpiHClsykng#Echobox=1661772753" style="background: rgb(250, 250, 250); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ee4aa9; font-family: Lava, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">at Chicago</em></a><span style="font-family: Lava, serif; font-size: 20px;"> and a podcast episode from </span><a href="https://nuclearhotseat.com/podcast/nh-589-cool-nuclear-history-education-for-kids-prof-yuki-miyamoto-aiko-kojima-hibino/" style="background: rgb(250, 250, 250); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ee4aa9; font-family: Lava, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">Nu</em></a><a href="https://nuclearhotseat.com/podcast/nh-589-cool-nuclear-history-education-for-kids-prof-yuki-miyamoto-aiko-kojima-hibino/" style="background: rgb(250, 250, 250); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ee4aa9; font-family: Lava, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;" target="_blank"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">clear Hot</em></a><a href="https://nuclearhotseat.com/podcast/nh-589-cool-nuclear-history-education-for-kids-prof-yuki-miyamoto-aiko-kojima-hibino/" style="background: rgb(250, 250, 250); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #ee4aa9; font-family: Lava, serif; font-size: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.3s ease 0s;"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;">seat</em></a><span style="font-family: Lava, serif; font-size: 20px;">. The article and podcast episode discuss the project’s aim to create a curriculum that teaches nuclear history and discourses to middle school students in Chicago Public Schools. The program strives to deepen understanding of AAPI history, science and ethics, and anti-racist understanding of nuclear tech.</span></p>aiko kojima hibinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246885894437488539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954464100047891314.post-14097267745457576332022-10-05T13:00:00.007-05:002023-09-02T03:04:33.945-05:00Paper Crane Project Progress Report 2021-2022
<p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.teaachnuclearhistory.com/" target="_blank">TEAACH Nuclear History by Paper Crane Project </a></p>
<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><iframe allow="autoplay" height="480" src="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Oh5B-e675qGg2bQY-ZuCWeEQp12eCf7z/preview" width="640"></iframe>aiko kojima hibinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246885894437488539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954464100047891314.post-65001392717600885952022-10-04T17:30:00.007-05:002023-07-02T10:09:55.087-05:00Nuclear Hotseat #589: “Cool” Nuclear History Education for Kids – Prof. Yuki Miyamoto, Aiko Kojima Hibino<p> </p>
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<div><br /></div><div><div>This Week’s Featured Interview:</div><div>Illinois has become the first state in the nation to mandate the teaching of Asian American History for grades K-12. The intent is to combat hate crimes and racial discrimination against Asian Americans, which grew exponentially during the Covid 19 pandemic. As nuclear plays a major part in any understanding Japan’s history – the atomic bombs being dropped by the United States on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as the use of nuclear energy and the 2011 Fukushima triple meltdown nuclear disaster – a nuclear curriculum is crucial to teach Nuclear History Education.</div><div><br /></div><div>How fortunate, then, that today’s guests created such a curriculum for 6th graders that was used as a pilot project in Spring of 2022 – and that it’s available for any teachers, anywhere, to incorporate into their classrooms as of the 2022-2023 school year.</div><div><br /></div><div>Hiroshima-born Dr. Yuki Miyamoto is a second generation Hibakusha – daughter of an atomic bomb survivor. Her mother was in Hiroshima one mile from the epicenter of the bombing, yet survived it with what seemed like little physical damage… though other truths later emerged. She is a professor at DePaul University in Chicago, where she introduces a new generation of young people to the hard truths about the atomic bombing and its continuing impact on survivors – especially women – their children, grandchildren, and beyond. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and teaches nuclear discourse and environmental ethics at DePaul.</div><div><br /></div><div>Aiko Kojima Hibino – is a strong advocate for equitable public education. She serves as a board member of Raise Your Hand for Illinois Public Education, the nonprofit that engages, informs, and empowers parents to protect and strengthen public education for all children in Chicago and Illinois, eliminate inequities in public schools, and work at the grassroots for the public good that is public education. Aiko will start teaching “Nuclear Problems and Society” course for first-year college students starting in 2023.</div><div>The two school teachers who worked with Yuki and Aiko on how to teach the material to children are social science teacher Jessica Kibblewhite and science teacher Laura Gluckman, both 6th grade teachers at the National Teachers Academy in Chicago.</div><div><br /></div><div>Links mentioned during the interview:</div><div><a href="https://www.teaachnuclearhistory.com/" target="_blank">Teaach Nuclear History</a> – curriculum materials for teaching nuclear history to grade school and high school students. Available without charge for any interested educators.</div><div>Dr. Yuki Miyamoto interview on <a href="https://nuclearhotseat.com/podcast/hiroshima-nagasak-prof-yuki-miyamoto-hibakusha/" target="_blank">Nuclear Hotseat #528: Hiroshima Nagasaki at 76: Prof. Yuki Miyamoto, Daughter of A-Bomb Survivor</a></div><div><a href="https://chicago.chalkbeat.org/2019/7/3/21108448/should-school-libraries-toss-old-books-viral-photo-of-a-chicago-dumpster-prompts-heated-debate-on-so" target="_blank">Should School Libraries Toss Old Books?</a></div></div>aiko kojima hibinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246885894437488539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954464100047891314.post-83591290722249366192022-08-29T17:28:00.003-05:002022-11-18T21:52:11.617-06:00Chicago educators create new lessons on Asian American history, nuclear power<p><br /></p>
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<p>Mila Koumpilova, Chalkbeat Chicago</p>
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<p>On the eve of the pandemic, Aiko Kojima Hibino came across a viral photo showing dozens of copies of John Hersey’s nonfiction classic “Hiroshima” discarded in a Chicago high school’s dumpster.
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<p>On social media, the photo was sparking a lively debate about how school libraries should manage their collections. But to a stunned Kojima Hibino, a Japanese American parent whose eighth grader attends National Teachers Academy, the image symbolized a larger issue:
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<p>A crucially important part of American history — the U.S. atomic bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II — seemed to be sliding into obscurity.
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<p>Kojima Hibino sprang into action. She enlisted a friend and colleague — a local college professor whose family survived the Hiroshima bombing — and two middle school educators at NTA, an elementary on the Near South Side, to create a new curriculum delving into the country’s fraught relationship with nuclear power.
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<p>“This issue is affecting people here and now — not just unfortunate people far away in Japan a long time ago,” said Yuki Miyamoto, who teaches nuclear and environment ethics at DePaul University and helped create the curriculum. “It’s a racial justice issue. It’s an environmental issue.”
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<p>This past spring, the curriculum pushed sixth graders at NTA to think critically about the bombings, nuclear testing in the Pacific, and the use of nuclear power as a fossil fuel alternative. It also helped spur up-to-the-moment conversations about racism, environmental justice, and oppression.
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<p>Earlier this year, Illinois became the first state in the country to <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.chalkbeat.org/2021/6/4/22518873/newly-passed-legislation-could-bring-change-to-illinois-classrooms-what-to-know" target="_blank">require its schools to teach Asian American history</a> starting this fall — a move Gov. JB Pritzker touted as the state’s answer to a national rise in hate crimes and discrimination against Asian Americans during the pandemic.
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<p>That legislation and the new NTA nuclear curriculum come amid a national backlash against teaching ethnic studies and exploring troubling chapters of the country’s history. The curriculum’s creators say it can help schools meet the new Illinois law’s requirements, and they are exploring ways to get it into more classrooms.
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<p>The idea of the nuclear curriculum came from a chance social media sighting.
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<p>In 2019, someone snapped a photo of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” and Hersey’s “Hiroshima” from the Senn High School’s library collection discarded in a dumpster to make room for new books. The photo cropped up in a Facebook parent group and later <a class="Link" href="https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/c8om7v/comment/esojvo8/" target="_blank">on Reddit, where it garnered more than 1,600 comments</a>.
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<p>Kojima Hibino saw the photo in a <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.chalkbeat.org/2019/7/3/21108448/should-school-libraries-toss-old-books-viral-photo-of-a-chicago-dumpster-prompts-heated-debate-on-so" target="_blank">Chalkbeat Chicago story</a> about the online debate. The image was jarring to her, bringing up questions she had long harbored: Why is so little Asian American and Pacific Islander history taught in American schools? Why are school conversations about the atomic bombing of Japan often so stripped of complexity?
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<p>She reached out to Miyamoto, the DePaul professor, who was even more taken aback by the dumpster photo. Kojima Hibino also brought up the issue with Jessica Kibblewhite, NTA’s middle school social science teacher, in the parking lot of the school, near Chicago’s Chinatown. The two had both played an active role in a successful campaign to ward off the school’s planned closure in 2018.
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<p>Kibblewhite and later Laura Gluckman, the middle school science teacher, voiced interest in addressing nuclear power and the bombing in their classrooms. But first, they had some studying to do.
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<p>The two teachers got a private lecture from Miyamoto. They read or revisited books about the bombing and nuclear power, such as “African Americans Against the Bomb.”
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<p>“It’s been a long process of learning for Laura and me,” Kibblewhite said. “We are learning alongside our students.”
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<p>Then the group set out to craft a curriculum that connected to pressing social issues. Gluckman, for instance, dug into the effects of nuclear testing on indigenous communities in New Mexico and residents of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. She drew parallels between these historical developments and environmental justice flashpoints in the Chicago of today: the <a class="Link" href="https://blockclubchicago.org/2021/04/12/a-year-after-botched-hilco-implosion-little-village-neighbors-demand-protections-for-south-and-west-side-neighborhoods-we-just-want-to-breathe/" target="_blank">botched implosion of the Hilco smokestack during the pandemic</a> and the debate over <a class="Link" href="https://blockclubchicago.org/2022/02/18/city-denies-controversial-metal-scrapper-southside-recyclings-permit-after-activists-wage-years-long-fight/" target="_blank">relocating General Iron, a metal scrapper, to the Southeast Side</a>.
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<p>They called it the <a class="Link" href="https://www.teaachnuclearhistory.org/" target="_blank">Paper Crane Project</a>, in honor of Sadako Sasaki, the young Hiroshima bombing survivor who folded more than a thousand origami cranes before she died of leukemia.
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<p>As the NTA group was putting the finishing touches on the curriculum last summer, the Illinois Legislature passed the Teaching Equitable Asian American Community History, or TEAACH, Act, which requires districts to teach Asian American history at both the elementary and high school level. In addition to being a response to anti-Asian violence during the pandemic, the law was part of a broader push to make social studies lessons in Illinois more inclusive, reflecting the experiences of an increasingly diverse student body.
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<p>The number of Asian American students statewide has increased by roughly 10% since 2015; in Chicago, that number has remained fairly stable, but as the district’s overall enrollment shrank, Asian American students have come to make up a slightly larger portion, just more than 4%.
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<p>The TEAACH law leaves it up to districts to decide exactly what to teach and how much time to devote to the subject. For the teachers at NTA preparing to tackle questions of nuclear power with their students, the new legislation only reinforced their sense of purpose.
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<p>In Kibblewhite’s sixth grade classroom in May, Landon Bermudez pulled up a 1945 entry from former President Harry Truman’s diary on his laptop.
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<p>He had just taken the floor in a lively classroom discussion over the ethics of America’s bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki — and that diary entry from the eve of the attack was just the ammunition he needed to argue that bombing was unjustified. In it, Truman voices misgivings about the human toll using the bomb would exact on civilians — but, Landon pointed out to his classmates, he also refers to the Japanese as “savages” and “fanatic.”
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<p>“This is showing definite racism by the word choice he is using,” Landon told the class, a moment the teacher captured on video.
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<p>Kibblewhite’s sixth graders studied a slew of documents and texts to prepare for that day’s discussion, examining the question of whether the bombing was ethical from different perspectives. Some, like Landon, argued the bombing, which cost more than 200,000 Japanese lives, should never have happened at that late stage of the war. Others countered it was the fastest way to put a definitive end to the war.
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<p>The conversation got heated at times, but students remembered their charge to always base their arguments in evidence. “Think deeper,” Kibblewhite had often urged students in the runup to the class.
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<p>“I really enjoyed that class because you were able to share your opinion instead of listening to someone else’s – and you had to back it up,” Landon said in an interview.
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<p>At NTA, themes of resistance and social justice run through Kibblewhite’s teaching. The nuclear discussion was a way to pull these themes together.
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<p>“It was gratifying to see students weave in all that knowledge at the end of the school year,” she said. “Students were really thinking about why the issue is so deeply complex, not just echoing the common narrative.”
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<p>In Gluckman’s classroom, the sixth graders examined the use of nuclear energy to reduce carbon emissions. Students studied the benefits of nuclear power as an alternative to fossil fuels. But they also explored the human impact of uranium mining and nuclear power plant disasters such as Chernobyl.
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<p>At NTA this school year, all four sixth grade classrooms will use the new nuclear curriculum. Kibblewhite and Gluckman are planning to add a call to action: Students might host a symposium for peers, parents, and teachers, or create poetry or art, or hold a press conference on the University of Chicago campus, home of the Manhattan Project.
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<p>“We want to support students to feel like activists, changemakers, and leaders,” Kibblewhite said.
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<p>The teachers also want to bring the curriculum to other campuses. They have submitted it to the nonprofit Asian Americans Advancing Justice, which is compiling resources for educators to help their schools comply with TEAACH, and they plan to craft professional development for colleagues.
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<p>They hope the curriculum would help these educators better connect with students such as NTA seventh grader Maya Williams, who was in Kibblewhite’s classroom last spring.
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<p>Maya, whose mother is Japanese, had made origami before, but she got to make paper cranes — a symbol of peace in the bombing’s aftermath — with her classmates for the first time. She also got to learn in a deeper, more nuanced way about the end of the war, from multiple perspectives, including that of Japanese-Americans at the time.
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<p>“The entire project was memorable,” said Maya. “ It was the first time I had ever learned about Japan in depth in a school setting.”
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<p><i>Mila Koumpilova is Chalkbeat Chicago’s senior reporter covering Chicago Public Schools. Contact Mila at mkoumpilova@chalkbeat.org.</i>
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<img alt="" src="http://www.itjon.com/phppt/pixel.php?a=https://chicago.chalkbeat.org/2022/8/29/23323698/chicago-public-schools-national-teachers-academy-nuclear-curriculum" />aiko kojima hibinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246885894437488539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954464100047891314.post-83360823575238266852022-07-18T17:43:00.017-05:002023-07-02T10:27:27.807-05:00平和教育米で広がれ シカゴで広島出身の宮本さん 原爆や核問題カリキュラム作り授業 (Spread peace education in the U.S. Ms. Miyamoto, a native of Hiroshima, created a curriculum to teach about the atomic bomb and nuclear issues in Chicago.)<a href="https://www.hiroshimapeacemedia.jp/?p=121343" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">平和教育 米で広がれ シカゴで広島出身の宮本さん 原爆や核問題 カリキュラム作り授業 </span></a><div><a href="https://www.hiroshimapeacemedia.jp/?p=121343" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">中国新聞 2022年7月18日</span></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span face=""Noto Sans Japanese", 游ゴシック体, YuGothic-M, "Yu Gothic", YuGothic, "ヒラギノ角ゴシック Pro", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", メイリオ, Meiryo, Osaka, "MS Pゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif" style="font-size: 17.6px;">広島市出身の被爆2世、米シカゴ・デュポール大の宮本ゆき教授が、現地の公立学校で原爆や核の問題を扱うカリキュラムの作成と授業での実践に取り組んでいる。「米国では原爆被害はもとより核兵器禁止条約も知られていない。関心を高めたい」と話している。</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Noto Sans Japanese", 游ゴシック体, YuGothic-M, "Yu Gothic", YuGothic, "ヒラギノ角ゴシック Pro", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", メイリオ, Meiryo, Osaka, "MS Pゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Noto Sans Japanese", 游ゴシック体, YuGothic-M, "Yu Gothic", YuGothic, "ヒラギノ角ゴシック Pro", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", メイリオ, Meiryo, Osaka, "MS Pゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;" /><span face=""Noto Sans Japanese", 游ゴシック体, YuGothic-M, "Yu Gothic", YuGothic, "ヒラギノ角ゴシック Pro", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", メイリオ, Meiryo, Osaka, "MS Pゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif" style="font-size: 17.6px;"> 5月下旬、日本の中学2年までに当たる児童生徒が学ぶ「ナショナル・ティーチャーズ・アカデミー(NTA)」の6年生2クラスが2週間の授業に臨んだ。毎日90分間。漫画「はだしのゲン」、被爆の翌年に広島を歩いたジョン・ハーシーの名著「ヒロシマ」などが置かれた机を囲み、「原爆投下は不可避だったか」「原発は維持すべきか」などのテーマを討論した。</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Noto Sans Japanese", 游ゴシック体, YuGothic-M, "Yu Gothic", YuGothic, "ヒラギノ角ゴシック Pro", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", メイリオ, Meiryo, Osaka, "MS Pゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Noto Sans Japanese", 游ゴシック体, YuGothic-M, "Yu Gothic", YuGothic, "ヒラギノ角ゴシック Pro", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", メイリオ, Meiryo, Osaka, "MS Pゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;" /><span face=""Noto Sans Japanese", 游ゴシック体, YuGothic-M, "Yu Gothic", YuGothic, "ヒラギノ角ゴシック Pro", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", メイリオ, Meiryo, Osaka, "MS Pゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif" style="font-size: 17.6px;"> 論拠を示して発言するよう教師が促す。「トルーマン大統領の原爆投下後の発言によると…」「日本の降伏は近かったとする研究が大勢だ」「被害は倫理的に許されない」。生徒は共通の結論を探り、最後に「投下すべきでなかった」で一致した。佐々木禎子さんの生涯を学び、鶴を折る時間もあった。</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Noto Sans Japanese", 游ゴシック体, YuGothic-M, "Yu Gothic", YuGothic, "ヒラギノ角ゴシック Pro", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", メイリオ, Meiryo, Osaka, "MS Pゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Noto Sans Japanese", 游ゴシック体, YuGothic-M, "Yu Gothic", YuGothic, "ヒラギノ角ゴシック Pro", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", メイリオ, Meiryo, Osaka, "MS Pゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;" /><span face=""Noto Sans Japanese", 游ゴシック体, YuGothic-M, "Yu Gothic", YuGothic, "ヒラギノ角ゴシック Pro", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", メイリオ, Meiryo, Osaka, "MS Pゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif" style="font-size: 17.6px;"> 宮本さんが授業を思い立ったのは2019年。知人でシカゴ美術館付属美術大の講師、小嶋亜維子さんから「公立高で図書室の『ヒロシマ』が除籍本として大量廃棄された」と聞いたことがきっかけだ。米国での関心の薄れを危惧した。</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Noto Sans Japanese", 游ゴシック体, YuGothic-M, "Yu Gothic", YuGothic, "ヒラギノ角ゴシック Pro", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", メイリオ, Meiryo, Osaka, "MS Pゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Noto Sans Japanese", 游ゴシック体, YuGothic-M, "Yu Gothic", YuGothic, "ヒラギノ角ゴシック Pro", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", メイリオ, Meiryo, Osaka, "MS Pゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;" /><span face=""Noto Sans Japanese", 游ゴシック体, YuGothic-M, "Yu Gothic", YuGothic, "ヒラギノ角ゴシック Pro", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", メイリオ, Meiryo, Osaka, "MS Pゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif" style="font-size: 17.6px;"> 子どもたちに学習機会を―。「ハーシー・折り鶴・プロジェクト」と名付け、小嶋さんの長男が通うNTAの教師2人も加わって授業案を検討。ヒロシマ平和創造基金の「ヒロシマピースグラント」を活用し、教室内に学級文庫を設けた。昨年、アジア系市民の歴史と人権について公立学校で教えるよう義務付けたイリノイ州法「TEAACH(ティーチ)法」が成立したことも追い風となった。</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Noto Sans Japanese", 游ゴシック体, YuGothic-M, "Yu Gothic", YuGothic, "ヒラギノ角ゴシック Pro", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", メイリオ, Meiryo, Osaka, "MS Pゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Noto Sans Japanese", 游ゴシック体, YuGothic-M, "Yu Gothic", YuGothic, "ヒラギノ角ゴシック Pro", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", メイリオ, Meiryo, Osaka, "MS Pゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;" /><span face=""Noto Sans Japanese", 游ゴシック体, YuGothic-M, "Yu Gothic", YuGothic, "ヒラギノ角ゴシック Pro", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", メイリオ, Meiryo, Osaka, "MS Pゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif" style="font-size: 17.6px;"> 原爆投下国の公立学校の「平和教育」。被爆地と異なる側面も少なくない。</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Noto Sans Japanese", 游ゴシック体, YuGothic-M, "Yu Gothic", YuGothic, "ヒラギノ角ゴシック Pro", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", メイリオ, Meiryo, Osaka, "MS Pゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Noto Sans Japanese", 游ゴシック体, YuGothic-M, "Yu Gothic", YuGothic, "ヒラギノ角ゴシック Pro", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", メイリオ, Meiryo, Osaka, "MS Pゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;" /><span face=""Noto Sans Japanese", 游ゴシック体, YuGothic-M, "Yu Gothic", YuGothic, "ヒラギノ角ゴシック Pro", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", メイリオ, Meiryo, Osaka, "MS Pゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif" style="font-size: 17.6px;"> NTAは、ラーム・エマニュエル駐日米大使がシカゴ市長だった13年に打ち出した大規模な学校統廃合計画の対象になった。事実上、有色人種が多い同校を閉鎖し、白人富裕層向けの高校に転換する計画。保護者団体の理事を務める小嶋さんも反対運動の先頭に立ち、裁判で撤回を勝ち取った。</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Noto Sans Japanese", 游ゴシック体, YuGothic-M, "Yu Gothic", YuGothic, "ヒラギノ角ゴシック Pro", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", メイリオ, Meiryo, Osaka, "MS Pゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Noto Sans Japanese", 游ゴシック体, YuGothic-M, "Yu Gothic", YuGothic, "ヒラギノ角ゴシック Pro", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", メイリオ, Meiryo, Osaka, "MS Pゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;" /><span face=""Noto Sans Japanese", 游ゴシック体, YuGothic-M, "Yu Gothic", YuGothic, "ヒラギノ角ゴシック Pro", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", メイリオ, Meiryo, Osaka, "MS Pゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif" style="font-size: 17.6px;"> 授業中、生徒からは「米国はドイツにも原爆を使えたか」との問いや、ウラン採掘を担う先住民の放射線被害などを踏まえ「人種差別的な構造の上に核は維持される」などの指摘も出た。宮本さんは「差別への怒りや『正義』の問題として捉える意識が強い」と指摘する。</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Noto Sans Japanese", 游ゴシック体, YuGothic-M, "Yu Gothic", YuGothic, "ヒラギノ角ゴシック Pro", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", メイリオ, Meiryo, Osaka, "MS Pゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Noto Sans Japanese", 游ゴシック体, YuGothic-M, "Yu Gothic", YuGothic, "ヒラギノ角ゴシック Pro", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", メイリオ, Meiryo, Osaka, "MS Pゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;" /><span face=""Noto Sans Japanese", 游ゴシック体, YuGothic-M, "Yu Gothic", YuGothic, "ヒラギノ角ゴシック Pro", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", メイリオ, Meiryo, Osaka, "MS Pゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif" style="font-size: 17.6px;"> アジア系の生徒が机を並べる教室でのTEAACH法に基づく授業は、日本の軍国主義や植民地支配の歴史にも向き合う機会となる。宮本さんたちは来年以降、カリキュラムを他の学年、学校に広げることを目指している。(金崎由美)</span><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Noto Sans Japanese", 游ゴシック体, YuGothic-M, "Yu Gothic", YuGothic, "ヒラギノ角ゴシック Pro", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", メイリオ, Meiryo, Osaka, "MS Pゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;" /><br style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-family: "Noto Sans Japanese", 游ゴシック体, YuGothic-M, "Yu Gothic", YuGothic, "ヒラギノ角ゴシック Pro", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", メイリオ, Meiryo, Osaka, "MS Pゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif; font-size: 17.6px;" /><span face=""Noto Sans Japanese", 游ゴシック体, YuGothic-M, "Yu Gothic", YuGothic, "ヒラギノ角ゴシック Pro", "Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro", メイリオ, Meiryo, Osaka, "MS Pゴシック", "MS PGothic", sans-serif" style="font-size: 17.6px;">(2022年7月18日朝刊掲載)</span></div><div><span face="Noto Sans Japanese, 游ゴシック体, YuGothic-M, Yu Gothic, YuGothic, ヒラギノ角ゴシック Pro, Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro, メイリオ, Meiryo, Osaka, MS Pゴシック, MS PGothic, sans-serif" "><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">=====================</span></span></div><div><span face="Noto Sans Japanese, 游ゴシック体, YuGothic-M, Yu Gothic, YuGothic, ヒラギノ角ゴシック Pro, Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro, メイリオ, Meiryo, Osaka, MS Pゴシック, MS PGothic, sans-serif""><span style="font-size: 17.6px;">A rough translation by DeepL</span></span></div><div><span face="Noto Sans Japanese, 游ゴシック体, YuGothic-M, Yu Gothic, YuGothic, ヒラギノ角ゴシック Pro, Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro, メイリオ, Meiryo, Osaka, MS Pゴシック, MS PGothic, sans-serif" style="color: #111111;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 17.6px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Second-generation A-bomb survivor Yuki Miyamoto, a professor at Chicago DePaul University in the U.S. and a native of Hiroshima, is working to create a curriculum that addresses A-bomb and nuclear issues at local public schools and put it into practice in the classroom. In the U.S., the A-bomb damage and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons are not well known," she said. "I want to raise awareness of these issues."</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> In late May, two classes of sixth graders at the National Teachers Academy (NTA) participated in a two-week class. Each lesson lasted 90 minutes. The students sat around desks with books such as the manga "Barefoot Gen" and "Hiroshima" by John Hersey, who walked through Hiroshima the year after the bombing, and debated such topics as "Was the atomic bombing inevitable?" "Should nuclear energy be maintained?"</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> The teachers encouraged the students to speak up and present their arguments with evidence. "According to President Truman's remarks after the atomic bombing," "The majority of research suggests that Japan was close to surrendering," and "The damage was ethically unacceptable." The students searched for a common conclusion and finally agreed that the bomb should not have been dropped. There was also time to learn about the life of Sadako Sasaki and to fold paper cranes.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> Ms. Miyamoto came up with the idea for the class in 2019. She heard from an acquaintance of hers, Aiko Kojima, a lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, that a large number of copies of 'Hiroshima' in the library at a public high school had been discarded as expurgated books. She was concerned that interest in Hiroshima was waning in the United States.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> Ms. Miyamoto wanted to give children the opportunity to learn about Hiroshima. They named the project the "Hershey Paper Crane Project," (NTA Paper Cranes Project) and two teachers from the NTA, where Kojima's son attends, joined them in discussing lesson plans. Using the Hiroshima Peace Grant from the Hiroshima Peace Creation Fund, they set up a classroom library in the classroom. Last year, the passage of the Teaching Equitable Asian American Community History (TEAACH) Act, an Illinois law requiring public schools to teach about the history and human rights of Asian citizens, also provided a boost. </div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="bfont-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> Peace education in public schools in the countries which dropped the atomic bombs. Many aspects differ from those in the A-bombed countries.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> NTA was the target of a large-scale school consolidation plan put forth by U.S. Ambassador to Japan, Rahm Emanuel, when he was mayor of Chicago. In effect, the plan is to close the school, which is predominantly for people of color, and convert it to a high school for affluent white students. Ms. Kojima, who also serves on the board of directors of a parents' organization, spearheaded the opposition movement and won a court decision to withdraw the plan.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> During the class, some students asked whether the U.S. could have used the atomic bombs on Germany, and others pointed out that "nuclear weapons are maintained on a racist structure," based on the radiation damage to indigenous people who are engaging in uranium mining. Mr. Miyamoto pointed out, "There is a strong sense of anger toward discrimination and a perception of this as a 'justice' issue.</div></div><div class="cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql o9v6fnle ii04i59q" style="font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, "system-ui", ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"> The TEAACH Act-based classes in classrooms where Asian students sit side by side at desks also provide an opportunity to confront the history of Japanese militarism and colonial rule. Miyamoto and her colleagues aim to expand the curriculum to other grades and schools next year and beyond. (Yumi Kanazaki)</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfSMeCFQ1aTjF9Wclx73BXL0kFYS_wI2uUjzWGBPFsT1_8tko8pNpN6Ad4XTnSIeZQgQxsFmAxsuaqBwJXO103Gz-z81-xKHYPh-jeN2r-B217LxP1EoUmxbRTr6E5p88NGY1aqQdDcTB9dV730fRC73wc5exugnBBcyAt3Axk3M46QuE_Xwf04znq/s3958/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E6%96%B0%E8%81%9E%EF%BC%88%E3%82%86%E3%81%8D%E3%81%95%E3%82%93%EF%BC%89.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3958" data-original-width="1683" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfSMeCFQ1aTjF9Wclx73BXL0kFYS_wI2uUjzWGBPFsT1_8tko8pNpN6Ad4XTnSIeZQgQxsFmAxsuaqBwJXO103Gz-z81-xKHYPh-jeN2r-B217LxP1EoUmxbRTr6E5p88NGY1aqQdDcTB9dV730fRC73wc5exugnBBcyAt3Axk3M46QuE_Xwf04znq/w272-h640/%E4%B8%AD%E5%9B%BD%E6%96%B0%E8%81%9E%EF%BC%88%E3%82%86%E3%81%8D%E3%81%95%E3%82%93%EF%BC%89.JPG" width="272" /></a></div><br /><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div></div>aiko kojima hibinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246885894437488539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954464100047891314.post-81544256050782623742022-05-16T00:11:00.005-05:002023-07-02T10:18:07.668-05:00I support our union because...<p> </p>
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line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0px 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CdnxeV6ukRU/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">A post shared by Art Inst Chgo Workers United (@aic_wu)</a></p></div></blockquote> <script async="" src="//www.instagram.com/embed.js"></script><div><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I love teaching SAIC students. With our union, I will no longer be afraid every semester that I might be deprived of my utmost joy and honor to learn with these talented, intelligent, open-minded and unique young scholars. Together we can build a much more stable environment for our amazing students and amazing teachers to thrive. </span><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl _aa9_ _a6hd" href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/aicwu/" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation; vertical-align: baseline;" tabindex="0">#aicwu</a></div>aiko kojima hibinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246885894437488539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954464100047891314.post-65425899536489981632022-05-10T19:46:00.003-05:002022-11-18T21:51:37.001-06:00SAIC Faculty Public Letter: SAIC Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Showed Our Intention To Form A UnionToday with my 190 colleagues I showed my intention to form a union. <div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.aicwu.org/updates/saic-faculty-public-letter?link_id=1&can_id=9ab2c9b88862a80af13739bc7a252187&source=email-why-were-forming-our-union&email_referrer=email_1538817&email_subject=why-were-forming-our-union" target="_blank">SAIC Faculty Public Letter</a></div><div><br /></div><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; 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line-height: inherit;" target="_blank">Today we announce our intention to join our Museum and School staff colleagues in forming a union with <strong style="line-height: inherit;">AICWU </strong>(<strong style="line-height: inherit;">Art Institute of Chicago Workers United</strong>), AFSCME Council 31.</a> We, the undersigned, represent non-tenure-track faculty — both lecturers and ranked adjuncts — from every academic and studio department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Non-tenure-track faculty constitute more than three quarters of the total faculty at SAIC. In building our union, we believe we can secure a much-improved position to negotiate over course rates, access to benefits, and opportunities for growth and enrichment in our pedagogical and professional practices. We need a stronger voice in shaping our own working conditions. Our intent is to build a wall-to-wall union representing the workers that have long done the heavy lifting — often invisible, unregulated, and under-compensated — to secure this institution’s world-class reputation.</span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Crimson Text", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"><strong style="line-height: inherit;">Our working conditions are intolerable. We write in protest of a two-tier system of compensation and benefits that is creating a permanent underclass of contingent faculty.</strong></span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Crimson Text", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Ranked adjuncts and lecturers alike are expected to provide curricular development, facilities support, institutional representation, and mentorship, all while producing the innovative ideas and images that burnish SAIC’s reputation. All of this work is <em style="line-height: inherit;">required </em>— and all of it is <em style="line-height: inherit;">unpaid</em>. Part-time faculty perform research, teaching, and service without the institutional support that similar standards obtain for our full-time colleagues.</span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Crimson Text", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">As SAIC Provost Martin Berger has repeatedly acknowledged, part-time faculty members do not make enough money to meet the cost of living in Chicago. Although we are called “part-time faculty,” many of us are not, in fact, part-time workers. Ranked adjuncts frequently serve as long-standing core faculty in their departments, and often do the work of full-time professors, but without the corresponding titles, compensation, or job security. Lecturers, meanwhile, have recently been pushed into in-person instruction without health insurance <em style="line-height: inherit;">during a pandemic</em>; at the same time, they have been denied access to the highly competitive promotions process that is their only route to basic benefits. We have all seen our multi-year contracts gutted and professional development support halted. High-level messaging about the need for a “smaller school” has prompted concerns about layoffs in the years ahead. </span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Crimson Text", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">SAIC prides itself on a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Here we must acknowledge that the part-time category represents the largest number of faculty who hold marginalized identities. The precarity we face is thus inextricably linked to racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, ageism, classism, and the innumerable extensions and intersections of oppression. SAIC has pledged to dismantle inequity, yet the School’s imbalances in compensation, benefits, security, and support further entrench it.</span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Crimson Text", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">SAIC’s stated institutional objective is to support a “diverse body of intelligent and creative students and faculty in</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Crimson Text", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"><span style="line-height: 22.4px;"> </span>an environment designed to facilitate and encourage the discovery and production of significant ideas and images.” e school exists to bring students and faculty together in a community conducive to innovative thinking and making. Meaningful research and studio work, however, are undermined by precarious working conditions. Students are often appalled to learn how little value is placed on our work — and, by extension, on the very degrees they are going into debt to obtain, just as we did before them.</span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Crimson Text", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">When part-time faculty are not sufficiently supported, the entire institution suffers: staff are continually engaged in training and assisting disoriented new hires; full-time faculty often have little idea who their colleagues are or how sharply their workloads and compensation diverge; students are taught and mentored by exhausted people, doing too much for too little. We believe there can be no equity without power-sharing; acting in solidarity, we can disrupt entrenched inequities at SAIC and pursue more fair-minded, equitable, and inclusive circumstances for all. </span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Crimson Text", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"><strong style="line-height: inherit;">By forming our union, we aim to ensure that non-tenure-track faculty have a stronger voice in determining the conditions of their employment. The union is not an “outside party” pushing its own agenda; we, your colleagues, <em style="line-height: inherit;">are </em>the union. We urge senior leadership to honor our legal right to organize without intimidation or coercion — and to avoid wasting time and resources on expensive lawyers, propaganda campaigns, or mandatory anti-union meetings. SAIC can demonstrate its commitment to equity by respecting our right to organize.</strong></span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Crimson Text", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Too often, this institution has prioritized optics and reputation over genuine excellence and equity in arts education. We, as frontline workers, represent a movement to bring the School into alignment with its purported mission.</span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px;"> </p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Crimson Text", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;">Stand with us.</span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Crimson Text", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"><br /></span></p><p style="color: #454545; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 16.8px; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCUpoeIDDCIeH6Sah7e3EkwRTGXO7URFL7DN2r33ucsK5DTr6sYL7hJFiis5U_dLVHHMfmCp_BOByj_INsFM_-5m0VgoH5ogTaK5kQOppk4JteElWmeW3QvNyt-maHG0qSftyhGhgh4Y09OGDDLi47KPo1-Dq99zd91fBKTELeFmaSovCrhEaS4k4r/s1026/unnamed%20(1).png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="424" data-original-width="1026" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCUpoeIDDCIeH6Sah7e3EkwRTGXO7URFL7DN2r33ucsK5DTr6sYL7hJFiis5U_dLVHHMfmCp_BOByj_INsFM_-5m0VgoH5ogTaK5kQOppk4JteElWmeW3QvNyt-maHG0qSftyhGhgh4Y09OGDDLi47KPo1-Dq99zd91fBKTELeFmaSovCrhEaS4k4r/w640-h264/unnamed%20(1).png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0_3TEm-zmIJVhNYGT1FAeLJgV4WCYvP3iDxsSmufpOJKDuPTZmPoZLlqt_h5_ftFKkRZjMm434tRNsdJvdNOIA4ECOi9-a5x16I58UXs8SykEN5CDsaAHdwLkKaH5ntJ-OpYlrAJqYaxKP_7mTnnsFFq6SwYfJT7MgqXfa7YPtvM_61Gs9Ffxlz8L/s1688/unnamed.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1688" data-original-width="1024" height="1044" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0_3TEm-zmIJVhNYGT1FAeLJgV4WCYvP3iDxsSmufpOJKDuPTZmPoZLlqt_h5_ftFKkRZjMm434tRNsdJvdNOIA4ECOi9-a5x16I58UXs8SykEN5CDsaAHdwLkKaH5ntJ-OpYlrAJqYaxKP_7mTnnsFFq6SwYfJT7MgqXfa7YPtvM_61Gs9Ffxlz8L/w633-h1044/unnamed.png" width="633" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "Crimson Text", serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.4px;"><br /></span><p></p></div></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: top; width: 100%px;"><tbody style="line-height: inherit;"><tr style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: top;"><td align="left" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 10px; vertical-align: top; word-break: break-word;"></td></tr></tbody></table></div>aiko kojima hibinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246885894437488539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954464100047891314.post-75105775772024847902021-12-27T14:51:00.007-06:002023-08-22T10:50:39.687-05:00Globalizing Japanese Pop Culture | TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology<a href="https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/globalizing-japanese-pop-culture#.Ycom7aRA5Mw.blogger">Globalizing Japanese Pop Culture | TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology</a><br /><br />2021, TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology<br /><br /><br />In this course, we will use various Japanese pop culture genres, including comics, anime, food, and music, and examine the interplay between local and global culturescapes. Students are expected to critically inquire into the reality and complexity of people's lives in Japan as reflected in cultural products and to explore cultural transformation in Japan as a part of the dynamics of globalization. "Common" value and knowledge at the local level is challenged as culture traverses borders. From the expansion of Japanese fan communities to feminist criticism of gender representation, we will employ case studies to overcome our conscious and unconscious exoticism and to deepen our understanding of Japanese culture in the global context. Key questions will include the following: What racial and ethnic relationships/tensions underlie global popular culture? What economic and political factors drive trends? How are gender and sexuality represented? <br /><br /><br />Subject Area(s): Art/Music, Asians/Asian-Americans, Cultural Sociology, Introduction to Sociology/Social Problems, Race, Class and Gender, Racial and Ethnic Relations <br />Resource Type(s): Assignment, Syllabus <br />Class Level(s): College 100, College 200, College 300 <br />Class Size(s): Smallaiko kojima hibinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246885894437488539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954464100047891314.post-35322218444887909422021-11-18T12:57:00.007-06:002023-07-02T10:33:58.032-05:00On University of Chicago Asian Students' Rally to Demand More Police in Response to Dennis Zheng Incident.<p> </p><p><a href="https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/university-of-chicago-students-demand-better-campus-security-after-graduate-killed/">University of Chicago students demand better campus security after graduate killed</a> </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">by: <a class="author url fn" href="https://wgntv.com/author/wgn-web-desk/" rel="author" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Posts by WGN Web Desk">WGN Web Desk</a></p><p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">Posted: </span><time datetime="2021-11-16T21:36:58-06:00" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nov 16, 2021 / 09:36 PM CST</time><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;"> </span><span class="article-meta--sep" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">/ </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 700;">Updated: </span><time datetime="2021-11-16T21:37:03-06:00" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial, helvetica, verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Nov 16, 2021 / 09:37 PM CST</time></p><p>CHICAGO — Some University of Chicago students say they don’t feel safe after the murder of a graduate near campus. Student protesters marched on campus demanding better security procedures, …</p><p>============================</p><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I was once a student there. My first apartment was a block away from where Dennis Zheng was shot. I still am, but was much more ignorant about the history of police and racism in the states back then. If the incident had happened then, I could have been one of protesting Asian students without really thinking of its meaning. I couldn't have imagined what the more police presence would have mean, because a) the police in the U.S. is not like the police in any other countries, and b) just think how intensely CRT is contested in this country. The history of American police or even the history of slavery and racism hasn't been really taught here, therefore, not at all in foreign countries. If you are a student who just wants to focus on finishing the degree as fast as possible to go back your home, you don't pay attention to the wider picture outside of the ivory tower, and you could be easily persuaded by a simplified false narrative. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">But they are not the all. There are many international students who are not like that. There are lots of Asian students who are categorically against the anti-DefundPolice narrative. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">As far as I observe discussions happening in the Hyde Park neighborhood community, some parts of which overlap with UC community, some parts not, (That is another twisted reality in Hyde Park. For example, look at the disparities between the Lab school vs CPS schools in the neighborhood), quite a few people are cautious about anti-DefundPolice narratives even after the series of violent incidents. Since the McDonald's incident in September, CPD and UCPD have increased the police deployment and now we have a massive police presence already. The fact that they couldn't prevent this tragedy, besides more other shooting and violent incidents, convinces people that more police wouldn’t have prevented this at all. Community members are talking about diverting police funds to economic programs, mental health support and other necessary programs could do something. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">What we need is the meaningful conversations, instead of labeling and isolating the international students, in which they can learn the living experiences of racial, social, and economic injustice.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">I am so grateful to be able to get connected with great Asian friends like who are willing to educate me, guide me, and think and act with me. Let's keep talking and acting for a better future.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div>aiko kojima hibinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246885894437488539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954464100047891314.post-85835102339680531942021-05-28T20:08:00.006-05:002023-02-23T10:33:18.826-06:00Lightfoot didn't keep her word on elected school board<br /><br /> My Op-Ed on an elected school board was published.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.hpherald.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/school-board-letter/article_2c5e43cc-bfe5-11eb-ba9c-47fe1a500f1f.html" target="_blank">Lightfoot didn't keep her word on elected school board</a></span><br /><br /><blockquote>I am a proud parent of a student at National Teachers Academy (NTA). NTA is a high-performing, majority-Black, low-income elementary school in Chicago’s South Loop neighborhood.<br /><br />In 2017, despite its Level 1+ CPS ranking, the Board of Education (BOE) decided to close NTA and repurpose the building for a new high school that would serve mostly white, upper-middle income families moving to the neighborhood.<br /><br />In 2017 and 2018 I, along with other NTA parents and students, attended monthly BOE meetings and spoke about how closing NTA would be detrimental to our students. Every time we spoke, we were belittled, ignored and even gaslighted by BOE members, all of whom had been appointed by then-Mayor Rahm Emanuel. It wasn't just us. At these meetings, I personally witnessed many other school communities struggling to have their voices heard.<br /><br />One of supporters of #WeAreNTA was Lori Lightfoot. As a mayoral candidate, Lightfoot witnessed our struggles and publicly opposed the BOE decision to close NTA, saying “I just don’t understand the logic behind this.” She knew how Emmanuel’s unelected school board operated. And she was right.<br /><br />In December 2018, a Cook County judge ruled to freeze BOE’s NTA plan, concluding it violated the Illinois Civil Rights Act. So when Mayor Lightfoot was elected, I was hopeful. Not only was the establishment of an elected school board part of her policy platform, but through the #WeAreNTA struggle, Lightfoot knew that CPS parent and student voices had long been neglected. She knew that an elected school board could ameliorate some of the harm done by CPS and the BOE.<br /><br />Ultimately, Mayor Lightfoot didn’t keep her word. Mayor Lightfoot proposed a “hybrid” school board bill in order to obstruct two robust elected school board bills pending in the Senate. The bills are SB2497, sponsored by Sen. Robert Martwick and HB2908 which was sponsored in the House by Rep. Delia Ramirez and passed into the Senate under Sen. Martwick’s sponsorship.<br /><br />Despite enough votes to pass, Senate President Harmon did not call SB2497 this week. Instead Sen. Kimberly Lightford, who is sponsoring the Mayor’s bill, demanded compromise. Rumor has it that compromise may include a 21-seat board with a majority of mayor-appointed BOE members. Mayor Lightfoot’s “hybrid” bill currently would allow her to appoint the majority of members and would sunset in 2030.<br /><br />What is a “hybrid” board if the member majority is appointed? What is “hybrid” if Chicagoans can never have decisive representation for their children’s interests and no means to hold the BOE accountable? A “hybrid” board would basically be what we currently have: a mayoral appointed, unelected school board.<br /><br />I was stunned when Mayor Lightfoot explained her reasons to oppose SB2497 and HB2908 to national media as “I can’t agree to any kind of change of governance where parents aren’t front and center for the views and concerns of their children and students.” Which parents is she talking about? Certainly not NTA parents. Definitely not the parents of Harper HS, Hope HS, Team Englewood, and Robson HS, the four schools whose closure had been proposed at the same time as NTA, but could not be saved despite our best efforts.<br /><br />Clearly, a fully elected school board is the wish of CPS parents whose voices have been long neglected. We deserve the same democracy as all other school districts in Illinois, including Sen. Harmon’s own in Oak Park.<br /><br />Once again, I demand an elected representative school board for Chicago now.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;"><i>Aiko Kojima Hibino</i></div></blockquote><div style="text-align: right;"><i></i></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Quattrocento; font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; text-align: right;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"></em></p>aiko kojima hibinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246885894437488539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954464100047891314.post-74595416836821759402021-04-10T18:36:00.007-05:002022-11-18T21:49:42.191-06:00Elected school board proposal finds support among local politicians, education advocatesMy comment was quoted regarding the Elected School Board bill. <br /><br /><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://www.hpherald.com/news/politics/elected-school-board-proposal-finds-support-among-local-politicians-education-advocates/article_66146c06-997d-11eb-ab11-634f91253dd0.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Elected school board proposal finds support among local politicians, education advocates via Hyde Park Herald</span></a></span></h3><br /><blockquote>Aiko Kojima Hibino, a member of Bret Harte's LSC, pointed out that the non-elected school board approved the closure of 50 schools in 2013 and that the mayor had <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-chicago-elected-school-board-bill-cps-20210114-lnknhi55hva5hnccarequjqqp4-story.html">previously worked to get Senate President Don Harmon (D-39th), from Oak Park, not to call the bill for a vote</a>.<br /><br />"FYI, Oak Park has an elected school board, unlike Chicago," she emailed. "No more nonsense."</blockquote><div><br /></div><div>I have a lot to say about the elected school board. I include my original comment for the record.<br /><blockquote>It is the non-elected school board who approved to close 50 schools in 2013(the largest school closing in the U.S. history), the majority of which were in black neighborhoods. It is the non-elected school board that approved to spend $33M on police at schools (School resource officers) while only $9M on counselors (2019).<br /><br />During the campaign Lori Lightfoot promised us to establish an elected representative school board if she would be elected. 3 years later, she told a blatant lie to the national media that parents are not involved in the current ERSB proposal. She blocked the current bill by influencing the Senate President Harmon from Oak Park (FYI, Oak Park has an elected school board unlike Chicago) despite that there would be enough votes to pass it into a law. Chicago is the only district in IL that does not have an elected school board. No more nonsense.</blockquote><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1-LCgQdcRecgj6hvaIYtA8i4sAFZX3Vhi5M7etrQKIHYgBSTLXjhDE1zni8pM3Jk21brQf2ItSBt0uWAB-tXVoGOIIvUaxTtibN02_UmystoXsfq1C_6LqH_Hl5GLd8KRJ5zVVtH0rMw/s2048/06952DBC-667E-46E3-BFEF-C58D0937D46B.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1539" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1-LCgQdcRecgj6hvaIYtA8i4sAFZX3Vhi5M7etrQKIHYgBSTLXjhDE1zni8pM3Jk21brQf2ItSBt0uWAB-tXVoGOIIvUaxTtibN02_UmystoXsfq1C_6LqH_Hl5GLd8KRJ5zVVtH0rMw/s320/06952DBC-667E-46E3-BFEF-C58D0937D46B.jpeg" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">January 12, 2021, at the office of Senator Harmon in Oak Park</span></div><br /> <p></p></div><div><br /></div>aiko kojima hibinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246885894437488539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954464100047891314.post-3843303435771616702021-03-23T21:13:00.004-05:002022-11-18T21:49:13.659-06:00Atlanta shooting felt in Hyde Park's Asian community<p> My comment was cited regarding anti-Asian hate crimes.</p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.hpherald.com/news/local/atlanta-shooting-felt-in-hyde-parks-asian-community/article_660991c4-8b21-11eb-b36b-2365d30e3428.html" target="_blank">Atlanta shooting felt in Hyde Park's Asian community by Hyde Park Herald</a></span><div><br /></div><blockquote>In posts to social media written in response to the murders, Aiko Kojima Hibino, a member of Bret Harte's Local School Council, emphasized that they were not just crimes against Asians, but Asian women in particular.<br /><br /><br />"As an Asian woman myself, I refuse any nonsense that the perpetrator and his enablers are disseminating," she wrote. "I pray for victims of this unforgivable tragedy."<br /><br />Over email, Hibino said that, while May is officially Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Heritage Month, she hopes people will consider simply using "Asians."<br /><br />"There are many Asians living in this country, especially in Hyde Park, who are not naturalized in the U.S.," she said. "Most of Asian countries, as well as the U.S., do not recognize dual citizenships, therefore, unless you acquired your U.S. citizenship by nature, becoming an American citizen involves extremely tough decisions for Asian immigrants.<br /><br />"As students or as legal or undocumented aliens, Asians are members of this society. I really hope to push this conversation from about nationalism to about humanism."</blockquote>aiko kojima hibinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246885894437488539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954464100047891314.post-18982155452492568272021-03-18T19:55:00.001-05:002022-11-18T21:49:03.325-06:00On anti-Asian hateThank you everyone for checking in. I am fine. I am fortunate that I have never experienced that level of fear. But I also tell you that I had to quit counting microagressions I encountered long time ago. What happened in Atlanta is not just a crime against Asians, but against Asian women in particular. As an Asian woman myself, I refuse any nonsense that the perpetrator and his enablers are disseminating. I pray for victims of this unforgivable tragedy.<div><br />I shared this article (<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/asian-hate-crimes-2021-covid_n_602c00e8c5b6c95056f3dd41?fbclid=IwAR3bLoihVmxgWaMdkXfwmeQswmDyO1pCqTnwZZLvee8mmvTSbukYYMyAPkM" target="_blank">"This Is What No One Tells You About Being Asian in America in 2021" by Sharon Kwon</a>) last month. I, too, often refrain from representing myself as a parent of color when we talk about public education. Because in reality we are used as a wedge to sustain the system in which white students' success are built upon black and brown students' struggles. It shouldn't be that way. Asian students are also victims of white supremacy. It breaks my heart every time I hear stories of Asian students who are almost choked by the pressure to pass selective enrollment tests. No matter how much they achieve in this system, white supremacy never makes them white. What we need is a solidarity to dismantle white supremacy, misogyny, and patriarchy.</div>aiko kojima hibinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246885894437488539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954464100047891314.post-77838933879822544162021-02-01T08:54:00.004-06:002021-04-10T18:51:18.571-05:00#CPSSickOut, Monday, February 1st, 2021<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Our kid will not attend his classes on Monday, February 1, 2021, in protest of the current CPS reopening plan. We talked about what is going on between the mayor, CPS, and teachers, and what this action is about. He decided to participate in the action: "I'm in. ✋" </span><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">For clarification. This is not <a href="https://www.ilraiseyourhand.org/" target="_blank">Raise Your Hand for Illinois Public Education</a>. This action is planned and organized by a group of individual Black, Brown, and White parents who are tired of being ignored, disenfranchised, and used by CPS who maneuvers the buzz word "equity" to justify the plan WITHOUT truthfully listening to parents, families, and students, especially those who are most impacted. We decided to stand with them as a fellow public school family. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">In August 2020, <a href="https://www.friends-of-bret-harte-elementary.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Bret Harte Elementary</a> and Raise Your Hand hosted an event <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/2128014583997874" target="_blank">"Black Students Matter: Educational Equity 1963, 2020, and Beyond"</a>. What we learned from the film "<a href="http://63boycott.kartemquin.com/" target="_blank">'63 Boycott</a>" and legendary Ms. Rosie Simpson was the power of grassroots actions and the significance of listening to the young people. If our students are struggling, instead of providing a "solution" based on assumptions, ask them how they are struggling and listen to what they really want. There is no solution without authentic engagement. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">We fully realize that this action is not viable for all families and students. We stand with you, too. Whether you opt in to hybrid or remote, each single student, each single family deserves a quality education and support they need. That is the true meaning of equity. Everyone deserves better no matter what you choose. We happen to be able to participate in this action this time. Maybe you will be next time when I may not. We have each other's back in solidarity. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">In <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1536373086554148?active_tab=about" target="_blank">the event page</a>, there is a list of things you can do, for those who participate in the action, and for those who do not. Visit the event page, click "discussion" tub, and you will see a pinned post. I will also copy paste it below. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">All CTU teachers, especially amazing teachers of our kid, we know you want to teach and you will do so remotely on Monday. This is not a protest against you, but for you. Despite that my kid will miss your phenomenal instructions on Monday, we hope you understand that we are standing with you, too.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">#CPSSickOut #PlanItRightCPS #StudentsFirst </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Here is the description of the action by organizers. You can also see the link to all resources.
=============== </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">CALL TO ACTION: </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Our kids are being used as a bargaining chip in a power struggle that does not seem to have their best interest in mind. There is still no solid plan for what school will look like on February 1st. The options offered to us by CPS fall short for *both* the hybrid and remote student populations – perhaps because no one asked the parents about what their families’ needs are in the first place? </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">To demonstrate that parents are important stakeholders and deserve a voice in this conversation, we are planning a sick-out starting Monday, February 1, 2021. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Our children will not attend their classes (remote or in-person) in protest of the current CPS reopening plan. Parents will send a template letter to the attendance office and principal explaining the reason why their student is participating in this school boycott. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">We support our CPS teachers, staff, and principals fighting for a safe return. We demand that parents have a place at the table to collaborate and to put together a more effective reopening plan and a more robust remote learning plan. </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">#CPSSickOut #PlanItRightCPS #StudentsFirst </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">This is organized by a group of parents, families, friends, and community members from across the Chicago Public Schools district who helped plan a collective action. This is not sponsored by an existing education organization and is a grassroots parent-led protest.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">ALL RESOURCES CAN BE FOUND IN THIS PUBLIC FOLDER - tinyurl.com/CPSSickOut </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">What to do on Monday:</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">1. Call your kids in/absent from school - suggest sending email to your school, Alderman/woman, CPS - familyservices@cps.edu, Lori.lightfoot@cityofchicago.org, ceo-jackson@cps.edu, mdelvalle2@cps.edu, sotelo11@cps.edu, lmelendez9@cps.edu, dtruss1@cps.edu, etoddbreland@cps.edu, arome1@cps.edu, srevuluri@cps.edu, CPSSickOut@gmail.com</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">For parents calling their kids in sick: My child, NAME, will be taking a sick day and we ask that you excuse this absence today, Monday, February 1, 2021. Our whole family is sick of the current CPS reopening plan, which falls short for all families - those who chose to remain remote and those who opted for in person learning. We support all CPS staff; they have worked tirelessly to meet the needs of our children throughout the pandemic. We support our CPS teachers and staff, who have gone above and beyond and found creative ways to engage their students in the remote setting, despite the lack of resources and guidance provided by CPS. We support CPS principals who have been working around the clock trying to implement a plan they had no input on. We demand that all major stakeholders in our children’s education, including teachers, principals, and families, have a place at the table, where we can collaborate on a more robust remote learning plan and a safe reopening plan for all.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">For parents not calling their kids in sick but supporting the movement: We stand in solidarity with all families taking a stand today and participating in the CPS Sick-out in protest of the current CPS reopening plan, which falls short for all families - those who chose to remain remote and those who opted for in person learning. We support all CPS staff; they have worked tirelessly to meet the needs of our children throughout the pandemic. We support our CPS teachers and staff, who have gone above and beyond and found creative ways to engage their students in the remote setting, despite the lack of resources and guidance provided by CPS. We support CPS principals who have been working around the clock trying to implement a plan they had no input on. We demand that all major stakeholders in our children’s education, including teachers, principals, and families, have a place at the table, where we can collaborate on a more robust remote learning plan and a safe reopening plan for all.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">2. Fill out this form <a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl py34i1dx gpro0wi8" href="https://forms.gle/uGxkibBtWptqjfVv9?fbclid=IwAR3RNarz4gJ9Bai1TFergpAm8r9wntuZUqAc8ppCRCY-fvi9s6Xsupx8iMY" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://forms.gle/uGxkibBtWptqjfVv9</a></span></div><div dir="auto"><br /></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">3. Share your support on social media - using our hashtags: #CPSSickOut <a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl oo9gr5id gpro0wi8 lrazzd5p" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/planitrightcps?__eep__=6&__cft__[0]=AZV_1NuBZTYdVEqHdjWHB85x4KtuNKjoOJ5ZKPMspfwlApPm__yMwdaFBFRBIsQOTMuuxiqNmtzw5Rb1lH-Ho2I6HiGpy9f3K_k7oPHMbPAYb2KTFytvBi73HQ-elIZk8SRccQggw7oFzwvMIWxVrfiS&__tn__=R]-R" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-weight: 600; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; touch-action: manipulation;" tabindex="0">#PlanItRightCPS</a> #StudentsFirst</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">4. Show off your CPS family - create a short video or post a family picture on social media. In this video/post, give reason why you feel parents are not being heard by the district and are failing to keep teachers and students safe during the pandemic. 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text-align: left; text-decoration-line: inherit; vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://chicago.chalkbeat.org/2020/11/13/21563165/chicagos-steep-enrollment-losses-hit-high-poverty-schools-hardest-coronavirus-2020" target="_blank">"Chicago’s steep enrollment losses hit high-poverty schools hardest" by Chalkbeat</a></span></h1></div><div><span> </span>Chicago Public Schools employs the student based budgeting (SBB), a budgeting system in which basically money is attached to each enrolled student versus money will be allocated to a school based on its basic needs. <a href="https://www.ctulocal1.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Whats-the-matter-with-SBB.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3L7hU8GedLxOBTgV0BNBNNV-qw5zRJNcjjJZzVeLSQVJNq0Zx0ngdeiIk" target="_blank">It has been pointed out that SBB widens the gap between the resourced schools and the underresourced schools and negatively impacts on schools in Black and Brown neighborhoods which have been struggling with chronic underinvestment.</a> For example, if a school is underenrolled, the school will receive less budget, which leads to cuts in staff and programs, such as art, music, library, etc. On the other hand, if another school is fully or overenrolled, the school will receive money to keep those programs. It is a natural consequence that parents want to have their students enroll in well resourced schools, instead of schools in your neighborhood that are stripped of programs and services, through "school choice" system, such as selective enrollment and magnet, or even by moving their address. Then the next year, underenrolled schools will face more drop in enrollment, while over enrolled schools will have an overcrowdedness problem in order to maintain those programs. Despite criticism, <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2020/4/28/21239751/cps-public-schools-budgets-funding-teachers-salaries-special-ed">CPS decided to go on with SBB in April during the pandemic by claiming that SBB is the most equitable funding formula.</a> <div><br /></div><div><span> </span><a href="https://chicago.chalkbeat.org/2020/10/16/21519560/chicago-public-schools-loss-of-14500-students-is-putting-reopening-pressure-on-district-leaders" target="_blank">CPS this year lost 14,500 students from the previous year, which is the sharpest decline in two decades.</a> If the district proceeds with the budget cut according to the SBB formula, no school can functionally keep operating. LSCs across the city has written a joint letter to the Board of Education to ask to freeze in SBB levels of funding for the next year. But seriously, SBB should be abolished, not just during the pandemic.</div></div><div><br /></div><blockquote>"At Harte, in fact, pre-kindergarten numbers remained unchanged while other grades saw drops. Aiko Kojima Hibino, a community representative on the school’s local council, said it’s not clear why enrollment shrunk after several years of stable student numbers. Officials know the pandemic pushed some of the school’s families, more than three-quarters of whom lived in poverty last school year, to leave the city.<br /><br />Even before the outbreak, the school had a sizable wish list, Hibino said: It offered no music classes, and the gym and arts teachers worked part time. Last fall, Hibino and other supporters revived a Friends of Bret Harte group to raise money for those programs. Now, Hibino worries, the needs will grow deeper.<br /><br />“Because the school is so small, 50 students is a big number for us,” said Hibino. “It’s really hard.”"</blockquote>aiko kojima hibinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246885894437488539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1954464100047891314.post-70459841264445828402020-08-18T13:51:00.001-05:002022-11-18T21:48:34.924-06:00“Normal” Lunch in a Pandemic: Shining a Spotlight on Chicago Public Schools' Food<span> </span>My reflection on CPS school lunch during the pandemic was published in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Gastronomica/?__cft__[0]=AZWQQcyhhRXcxEc3st3Yehm6sZVrerasRzsSCZEHCMMi8UmZ3kolJJ7YwYBoZz8rz-4IyCKSMnIJriKV4HZB-EEC4Qdjx9SPGFmv3w7tWtY1TLpIPhUGvK_cjBos9SpxYEAp8eUN5yoidw-yupndO6ESMxO-t9SzAA5kqNyN9HN5K2B8trprA938YpqcpZETXuc&__tn__=kK-R">Gastronomica</a>, 20.3, the special issue on "Food in the Time of Covid-19." PDF download is available from the link. <br /><br /><span> </span>The pandemic once again reminds us that the access to food is a fundamental human right. And I want to reiterate that it is a *human* right - what we eat and how we eat is the basis of our dignity as human. It is not just feeding and stuffing. It is about identities, it is about communities, it is about cultures, and therefore, it is about politics. All articles in this issue tackle with this big question from different angles. Please read them, and let's discuss and act together. <br /><h1 class="wi-article-title article-title-main" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #505050; font-family: Montserrat, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.5rem 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></h1><h1 class="wi-article-title article-title-main" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #505050; font-family: Montserrat, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0.5rem 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://online.ucpress.edu/gastronomica/article/20/3/70/111243/Normal-Lunch-in-a-Pandemic-Shining-a-Spotlight-on" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;">“Normal” Lunch in a Pandemic: Shining a Spotlight on Chicago Public Schools' Food</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></a><span class="icon-availability_unlocked" face="white-label !important" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; color: #03a678; display: inline-block; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; speak: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Available"></span></h1><div class="wi-authors" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #505050; font-family: Montserrat, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0.5rem 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="al-authors-list" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0.5rem 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="al-author-name" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="linked-name js-linked-name" style="border: 0px; color: #c35418; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: normal;">Aiko Kojima Hibino</a></div></div></div><div class="js-metadata-wrap metadata" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #505050; font-family: Montserrat, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0.5rem 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="pub-history-wrap clearfix" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #505050; font-family: Montserrat, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0.5rem 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="pub-history-row clearfix" style="align-items: center; border: 0px; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ww-citation-primary" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Gastronomica</em> (2020) 20 (3): 70–71.</div><div class="ww-citation-primary" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div class="ww-citation-primary" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://online.ucpress.edu/gastronomica/article/20/3/70/111243/Normal-Lunch-in-a-Pandemic-Shining-a-Spotlight-on">https://online.ucpress.edu/gastronomica/article/20/3/70/111243/Normal-Lunch-in-a-Pandemic-Shining-a-Spotlight-on</a></div><div class="ww-citation-primary" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div class="ww-citation-primary" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div class="ww-citation-primary" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>"Inequity intensifies in the midst of crisis and forces everyone to acknowledge the structural racism and classism
of “normality.” We must seriously reconsider our current
social system, which ties basic social services to protect
children’s human rights, including nutrition, to public
schools. The delay of CPS’s school closure decision forced
students, teachers, and staff to remain in schools, thus taking additional health risks, which could have been avoided
if educational opportunity and nutrition services were not
intertwined in our public school system. Until schools are
no longer burdened with hunger and poverty, we must also
improve school food quality for the families who do not
have a choice."</i></div><div class="ww-citation-primary" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><br /></i></div></div></div>aiko kojima hibinohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00246885894437488539noreply@blogger.com