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Project Pay Attention
Project Pay Attention is an initiative that asks people to pay closer attention to their actions and the words they use, either verbally, in writing, or via social media. When you sign on for Project Pay Attention, you pledge to speak up for others, choose your words wisely, track your online behavior, inquire, challenge yourself, and spread the word. By educating people, Project Pay Attention proposes to change the way our society thinks about language and to ultimately reduce the negative effects of ignorance and intolerance.
Michelle Obama tells the story
So I’m embarrassed to admit that I went to bed last evening without watching any of the Democratic National Convention. I thought about turning it on, but then I got sucked into an email vortex instead. I woke up this morning to the tweets of Andrew Sullivan, Anderson Cooper, and others, proclaiming the strength of Michelle Obama’s address last evening, and proceeded to kick myself for missing it.
Final Reflections on Ireland 2012
In the final days of the applied theatre course in Ireland, we conducted a series of debrief conversations with the students and facilitators as a way to find some closure on an experience that flew by.