Next Year Excitement!

Ugh I haven't written in a long time! I've been super busy getting myself a new job for next year- as a VISTA leader for CTEP! Catherine announced to the corps on Friday at corps day that we had been talking about me possibly being a leader next year, and last week and this week we've all been working on getting all the paperwork in for that, and getting the neccessary preparations for the CTC conference in Cleveland. I think I'm all set to go now!

I'm really excited about the position, and how it will sort of be like a team leader (something I've wanted to do but didn't feel up to doing it in NCCC) and I get to do youth media stuff as well. I'm pumped!!! I think it will be fun to work with Jeff, Erika and Catherine again, plus returning members of CTEP and all the new members we will have!

Anyways. My new big plan/project is to create a binder full of computer activites for kids, for this summer at my sites. My hope is that other CTEP members will want to collaborate and we can all contribute to a big CTEP binder full of youth computer ideas.

And, my committe (blog/newsletter/reflection) has got to get moving on these newsletters!!!

The Corporation

I went to see the documentary The Corporation at Macalester the other night. Man, what an amazing movie! It had tons of famous people talking about the role that corporations have played in the past and do play in our society.

SYNOPSIS (from the website www.thecorporation.com)

THE CORPORATION explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Footage from pop culture, advertising, TV news, and corporate propaganda, illuminates the corporation's grip on our lives. Taking its legal status as a "person" to its logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask "What kind of person is it?" Provoking, witty, sweepingly informative, The Corporation includes forty interviews with corporate insiders and critics - including Milton Friedman, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein, and Michael Moore - plus true confessions, case studies and strategies for change.

Turns out, if corporations were people, they would be psychotic. The movie really picks at your brain and you heart, it shows some really sad, scary and funny images- all in the two and a half hour span. It's a very intense experience.

There was a very interesting piece on media that I think was particularly connected to what we do in CTEP- they talked about advertising and marketing to children. Some of this stuff is just so absurd! I don't even know. Mind boggling. I think I have to see it again.