The month of April started out for We Are Not Your Soldiers with kind of a double bill. Joe Urgo and Henri Henrikson presented together to give a historical chronological focus to an on-line class based at a NYC college studying the history of empires. The professor wrote to us,
“It was incredibly moving and powerful listening to Joseph and Henri speak… It’s so important for students to hear from them directly, as people who have been on the front lines of this bloody empire and suffered from it and really understand its inner workings. Too many people here are able to shield themselves from the reality of what they are a part of. Both Joseph and Henri were able to move between illustrating the bigger picture and their own personal experiences in a way that made the class deeply engaging. The passion and honesty and gravity and experience that Henri and Joseph brought to the discussion captivated my students, and when we had a debrief after it had clearly left a big impression on them…. Thank you so, so much to both Joseph and Henri for taking the time and sharing your experiences. It can’t be easy to do so but it has a big effect… This is a very important project and I will continue to invite you to my classes and spreading the word to fellow instructors.”
You can also read some of the students’ comments from our evaluation form here. We will post videos of the presentation soon.
The next week Shaniyat Turani-Chowdhury traveled from NYC to address two high school classes in Philadelphia.
That was followed by John Burns presenting remotely to three North Carolina community college psychology classes, one of which was described by Debra Sweet. On that page you can view a video of a segment of John’s presentation and now you can see Part 2 as well.
Take a look at excerpts from a few of the reflection papers written by those students on the presentation and its connection to their readings.
Joe presented to two classes in person in New York City at another college.
We finished the month with a remote presentation by Rosa del Duca to an asynchronous college class in New York City which met together for the discussion. We’ll also soon by posting video from that conversation and excerpts from reflections by those philosophy students.
