i'm gonna go through my beat-up copy of this book and make a note of everything i underlined or commented ona year ago when i read it:

page 9 -- "...Native Americans have the highest incarceration rate of any group -- which is fucked up considering that they managed to get along without any prisons for thousands of years..."

-- why is this? what are alternative ways to serve "justice"?

page 11 -- "We are fascinated by freedom in movies..."

-- could rebellion depicted in the media serve as an outlet to re-direct a lack of complacency that would challenge the status quo?

page 16 -- he mentions ideas like "public life", "public intellectual", and public literature" what does this mean?

page 17 "The editing process was the message". How can the creation of our work (books, websites, etc) be more community-created?

page 19 "The only worthwhile category of writing is great writing, and the more tools you use, the better."

--does this idea apply to art too? what do we think about categories and "isms"?

page 36 -- "We were starting as an institution to unite and nurture people. But we hadn't first done that ourselves."

-- the importance of having unity with yrself/ yr community before trying to unite with others

page 37 -- "Instead of continuing to develop my ignorant ass, I had tried to institutionalize and codify what I already knew".

--balance between learning and doing

page 38 -- discussion of mentors -- who are your mentors? Heroes? Role models? Do you know most of them personally? Are some from history? What do you admire about them?

ok, that's enough for now
i'll post up more stuff soon...
-- sarah