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Ithaca Youth program teaches activism (barf alert to end all barf alerts)
Ithaca Journal ^
| Wednesday, July 17, 2002
| By MARGARET CLAIBORNE
Posted on 07/17/2002 4:23:30 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Edited on 05/07/2004 8:00:51 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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ITHACA -- In most places, youngsters spend their summers camping, or at the mountains or the beach. In Ithaca, they learn how to become social activists.
Sixteen young people, ages 12 to 21, turned up at the Greater Ithaca Activities Center Tuesday night for the third in a series of Youth Action Workshops, "Social Change through the Arts," sponsored by Cornell University's Center for Religion, Ethics and Social Policy.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Front Page News; US: New York
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To: general_re
Ha! Glad to see you here this morning. Today we will further explore the puppet problem.
In my opinion, Lambchop was the way we were tricked into believing puppets were harmless. I am suspicious of ALL big puppets.
Barney the Dinosaur: I rest my case.
To: Miss Marple
Nope. But you are right about it being a military cemetary.
To: general_re
And anyone that had suggested puppet camp to me...I don't know how I would have reacted, but I don't think puppet camp would have interested me. Not without a lobotomy first, but then again, I didn't get that crap pushed on me from birth like this poor kid probably did.In seventh grade our social studies teacher asked the class (comprised of good wholesome non Ithacan upstate farm kids) if we'd be interested in doing a puppet class. We glared at him. He backed right down. He eventually became a republican.
To: general_re
If the girl 3 doors down had been at puppet camp you would have been begging your parents to send you.
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
LOL! The last time I remember making a puppet was in the early years of grade school, when the art teacher had us make puppets out of lunch sacks and construction paper.
It was pretty boring, even in first or second grade. We wanted to paint with brushes and easels, which only the big kids got to do.
Here's an excellent example of evil street puppets that I found this morning. I wonder how many trees died to make this large papier mache puppet?
To: general_re
The Paideia School sounds like a little piece of Ithaca, right there in Atlanta... It's the perfect place for kids with hyphenated last names.
To: Miss Marple
I am suspicious of ALL big puppets. As you should be. Big puppets only appear at rallies for liberal causes, or European rallies, which is the same thing, really. There are just no conservative causes that involved street puppets, period. So, seeing a street puppet lets you know right away that the cause, whatever it is, is vile. And the Marple Index tells you just exactly how vile it is...
To: Behind Liberal Lines
I can imagine how that must have gone over. I bet if they actually asked today's Ithacan seventh graders if they wanted to have puppets, the response would be prett lukewarm. So their parents resort to the time-honored tactic of making them learn abot the damn puppets ;)
To: Phantom Lord
If the girl 3 doors down had been at puppet camp you would have been begging your parents to send you. Fortunately for me, I wasn't faced with that kind of choice.
"Hey, Jenny - wanna come back to my house and see my...puppet? It's...big."
Nah, I don't think so ;)
To: Behind Liberal Lines
decided to build trees to represent nature and vegetables to represent food. I guess my entry of a Black Angus to represent food would have been rejected out of hand.
To: Phantom Lord
The Veterans section in Hibbing,Mn.?
I noticed the dog tags,but if memory serves me the graves are on foriegn soil?
To: zhabotinsky
I always wondered about Bert and Ernie's relationship, too...
To: Behind Liberal Lines
"OK, now, children..............As a Young Socialist Sock Puppet, it is my honor and privilege to turn you int.............umm...............I mean, enlighten you as to how you, too, can be.........ummm.............make......make puppets and act like fools in front of the general public. OK, everyone..........smile and form a hammer and sickle just like I showed you........."
To: Phantom Lord
The cemetery outside of Caen, France.
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dakine
To: Behind Liberal Lines
We could really use more Al Sharptons.
To: Miss Marple
Well, when you bring Barney into it, that just skews everything! Barney is evil personified!
To: Behind Liberal Lines
In Ithaca, they learn how to become social activists.Darn - they mispelled it.
In Ithaca, they learn how to become socialist activists.
To: RightOnline
Once more, life imitates South Park:
To: madprof98
I take it you're familiar with the Paideia School?
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