Jeremy T.
Mumford
Division:
Humanities
Department:
English/
Developmental
Contact Info:
Phone: (209)
384-6178
mumford.j@mccd.edu
Current* and Previously Taught Courses:
English 80
English 81*
English 84
English A
English 1A*
English 41*
English 1B*
Useful Student Links (includes online sites, class PowerPoint presentations, etc.)
Useful Teacher Links (includes online sites, links to journals, teaching websites)
Clubs:
Phi Theta Kappa
Students for
Social Justice
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Alternative Media Resources
Statewatch: Monitors the state and civil liberties in the European Union.
Common Dreams:
Breaking news and views for the progressive community.
Indy Media Center: Indymedia is a collective of independent media
organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots,
non-corporate coverage. Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the
creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth.
The Nation: The Nation will not be the organ of any party, sect, or
body. It will, on the contrary, make an earnest effort to bring to the
discussion of political and social questions a really critical spirit, and
to wage war upon the vices of violence, exaggeration, and
misrepresentation by which so much of the political writing of the day is
marred.
-- from The Nation's founding prospectus, 1865
Mother Jones: Mother Jones is an independent nonprofit whose roots lie
in a commitment to social justice implemented through first rate
investigative reporting.
In These Times: A magazine of news, opinion and culture, committed to
extending political and economic democracy and to opposing the tyranny of
the marketplace over human values. Editorial content is shaped by a
commitment to providing the news, analysis and perspective that is
essential to developing a national and global movement for democracy and
justice.
Z Magazine: An independent monthly print periodical on political,
cultural, social, and economic life in the U.S. Also has link to
ZNet, a huge website updated daily to convey information and provide
community.
The Progressive: A journalistic voice for peace and social justice at
home and abroad. The magazine, its affiliates, and its staff steadfastly
oppose militarism, the concentration of power in corporate hands, the
disenfranchisement of the citizenry, poverty, and prejudice in all its
guises. We champion peace, social and economic justice, civil rights,
civil liberties, human rights, a preserved environment, and a
reinvigorated democracy.
AlterNet: By publishing grassroots success stories and inspirational
narratives alongside hard-hitting critiques of policies, investigative
reports and expert analysis, they emphasize workable solutions to
aggravating problems. The editorial mix underscores a commitment to
fairness, equity and global stewardship, and to making connections across
generational, ethnic and issue lines.
The Multinational Monitor: The Multinational Monitor tracks corporate
activity, especially in the Third World, focusing on the export of
hazardous substances, worker health and safety, labor union issues and the
environment.
Dollars and Sense: Articles by journalists, activists, and scholars on
a broad range of topics with an economic theme: the economy, housing,
labor, government regulation, unemployment, the environment, urban
conflict, and activism.
The Guardian
The Village Voice: When it was founded by Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher and
Norman Mailer in the fall of 1955, The Village Voice introduced
free-form, high-spirited and passionate journalism into the public
discourse. As the nation's first and largest alternative newsweekly, the Voice
maintains the same tradition of no-holds barred reporting and criticism it
first embraced when it began publishing more than forty years ago.
Fact Check: A
nonpartisan, nonprofit, "consumer advocate" for voters that aims
to reduce the level of deception and confusion in
Updated 8/24/04 by Jeremy Mumford