by Doug Martin
Steve Hinnefeld has posted a review of my book Hoosier School Heist on his blog, School Matters. Please read his review and check out his other pieces, too.
Here is an excerpt from Steven's review:
"Martin has a Ph.D. in literature, has taught in universities and published a book of Walt Whitman criticism. He can turn a phrase, and he can bring out the drama in a right-vs.-wrong narrative. Now working as a behavioral aide at a Vigo County, Ind., public alternative school, he grew up near Terre Haute, which may explain a lot. Maybe it’s the legacy of Eugene V. Debs or the memory of coal-field union wars, but Western Indiana progressives say what they think. Martin’s give-‘em-hell approach reminds me of United Mine Workers members I met while writing about coal strikes 30 years ago."
Oddly, Steve didn't know at the time of his writing that my father was a member of the United Mine Workers of America and participated in the strikes that Steve mentions. I remember the strikes well.
As labor professor Patrick Hill has been telling audiences across Indiana, it is time all of the unions join together and fight off the billionaires. So true. Check out Patrick and Randy Obenchain's (read his piece here) radio show The Workers' Voice coming every Saturday at 9am to Indiana Talks.
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Friday, December 20, 2013
Doug Martin's Podcast with Justin Oakley Now Posted
by Doug Martin
If you missed my talk with Justin Oakley on his Just Let Me Teach show on Indiana Talks radio and several great call-in guests (Rick Muir, Cindi Pastore, Melanie Wright, Clyde Gaw, and Crystal Bramel), you can now listen to the podcast. Thanks for tuning in!!!!! And thanks to Donna Yates Mace for her support, too!!!!
We discuss current school privatization efforts in Indiana and beyond and my upcoming book Hoosier School Heist, which can be preordered here and will be available in February.
Here is the link to the podcast:
http://www.indianatalks.com/2013/12/19/just-let-me-teach-12-18-13-podcast/
If you missed my talk with Justin Oakley on his Just Let Me Teach show on Indiana Talks radio and several great call-in guests (Rick Muir, Cindi Pastore, Melanie Wright, Clyde Gaw, and Crystal Bramel), you can now listen to the podcast. Thanks for tuning in!!!!! And thanks to Donna Yates Mace for her support, too!!!!
We discuss current school privatization efforts in Indiana and beyond and my upcoming book Hoosier School Heist, which can be preordered here and will be available in February.
Here is the link to the podcast:
http://www.indianatalks.com/2013/12/19/just-let-me-teach-12-18-13-podcast/
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