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Majority Rules is a classroom ready, five episode series on democracy as seen through the eyes of young people from six cities in six countries. The five parts (Definitions & Conceptions, Exporting Democracy, Political Apathy, Economic Democracy, and International Organizations and Democracy) explore

issues critical to civic education today. With its international element (featuring filmed discussions of students in the U.S., Canada, Ireland, Italy, the Philippines, and Russia) the series is an invaluable tool to educators of all kinds looking to supplement classroom teaching with video material designed to spark discussion. Majority Rules is created by Preventive Warriors director Michael Burns. Much more can be found on the series at www.majorityrulesmovie.com.

Teaching Economics As If People Mattered: A Curriculum Guide to Today's Economy is field-tested by a team of high school teachers and looks at the human implications of economic policies. These 21 lesson plans center around income, wealth, wages, globalization, the stock market, taxes, CEO pay, and the consequences of economic inequality. Order copies at www. dollarsandsense.org or call 617-423-2148 x110 for more information.

Henry A. Giroux's The University in Chains: Confronting the Military-Industrial-Academic Complex (Paradigm) argues that academe has given over power to the worlds of business and the military and that professors must take back that power. For an interview with Giroux about his new book, see www. insidehighered.com, August 7, 2007.

The fourteenth issue of Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor is available online at http://www.workplace-gsc. com. "Beyond the Picket Line: Academic Organizing After the Long NYU Strike" features essays addressing the implications of graduate worker activism for the future of higher education. The graduate union at NYU was the first to bargain a contract at a private university and the first to see negotiations terminated by a private university administration. Workplace 14 provides critical accounts of the administrations renunciation of the union and a series of in-depth analyses of the strike that followed. Articles are written by the NYU strikers, with one important contribution by a union member at City University of New York.

IndyKids is a newspaper and teaching tool that aims to inform children on current news and world events from a progressive perspective and to inspire in kids a passion for social justice and learning. It is geared toward kids in grades 4 to 8 and high school English Language Learners. Subscribe to IndyKids for your classroom. For $20 a year you will receive 35 copies of each issue and a teacher's guide delivered to you by mail five times per year. Multi-classroom subscriptions (150 copies) are $50/year. Individual copies are $10/year. The fee pays for mailing costs. Visit www.indykids.net to subscribe, see previous issues and for more information. You may also subscribe at the website to receive email announcements letting you know when the new issue is available for free download.

New York University's Tamiment Library announces the Frederic Ewen Academic Freedom Fellowship for 20082009. This new, interdisciplinary fellowship program is designed to support projects relating to academic freedom and its history and role in American culture, politics and society. An application, with a deadline date of February 1, 2008, should be sent to Professor Marilyn Young and Dr. Michael Nash, Taminent Library, New York University, 70 Washington Square South, New York, N.Y. 10012. Applications must include: 1. curriculum vitae; 2. short project description of approximately 5 pages; 3. statement describing the relevance of the collections of the Tamiment Library to the project; 4. two letters of recommendation; and 5. writing samples. The Frederic Ewen Fellowship offers a $40,000 stipend and health insurance for a nine month academic year and offers office space and a formal affiliation with New York University.

Teaching for Change has a new and improved webstore for progressive pre-K to 12 books and films at www. teachingforchange.org.

Rethinking Schools (Summer 2007) has an excellent cover story called "Exit Strategy: Finding the Way Out of Iraq and NCLB" by Stan Karp.