{"id":28337,"date":"2026-05-17T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mathdreads.com\/?p=28337"},"modified":"2026-05-16T00:34:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T04:34:28","slug":"11-11-2013-awr-contemplation-activism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mathdreads.com\/?p=28337","title":{"rendered":"11.10.2013 AWR: Contemplation & Activism"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Rouletters gathered together once again to contemplate, but mostly to protest.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Magic Jack ATX<\/strong> kicked off the event, fresh from protesting, to call out for the power of Mother Nature, women, immigrants and the horrors of traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n

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For his protest poem about the plight of immigrants, he turned his back to the audience so they could better visualize an immigrant.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Sarah Kennon<\/strong>, inspired by a \u201cdouchy song\u201d (her description) where a man thinks he doesn\u2019t have to ask for consent before having sex with a woman, wrote about the motivations and machinations of the American dream.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Sangye O\u2019Mara<\/strong> came complete with a visual aid pink designer purse that she carried during an interview that turned into her protest against how Americans institutionalize the elderly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joyce Feilke<\/strong> (not pictured) made her Roulette debut with a powerful educational protest essay equating the system of standardized testing in public school with slavery. A student in the audience screamed, \u201cPreach!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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<\/a>Another Rouletter, Carol Ramsey<\/strong>, made her roulette debut, sharing her teaching experiences in Lithuania, where students did not feel comfortable answering certain questions about authority.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Teresa Y. Roberson<\/strong> first chanted, \u201cEducation is a right; not just for the rich and white!\u201d before reading about a current racist practice of holding predominantly low-income Latino students to lower standards than their white, rich counterparts.
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Rouletter Daniel Davila<\/strong> started protesting at age 7 with his great grandmother who was only 4\u20198\u2033, but people chose to look up to her because of the power of her words and the strength of her character
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Thom the World Poet<\/strong> handed out free poetry after rapping them to the syncopated rhythm of Magic Jack ATX<\/strong>. \u201cAmerica the free\u2013for a limited visa only!\u201d was a favorite line in his protest medley.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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Special guest appearance made by long-time Rouletter, Donna Dechen Birdwell<\/strong>, who stopped in to give the audience a taste of her artwork, which everyone can see as part of EAST.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Join us for the last Roulette of 2013 on December 8th where the theme is \u201cCelebrations.\u201d Submission deadline is Wednesday, December 4th.<\/p>\n\n\n

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