Another World is Possible: Movement-Building in the Age of Obama

The Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Center for American Studies and Research held a lecture entitled: "Another World is Possible: Movement-Building in the Age of Obama" by Bill Ayres & Bernadine Dohrn, University of Illinois & Northewestern University
William Ayers is the vice-president of the curriculum division of the American Educational Research Association. He is a formerly Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and founder of both the Small Schools Workshop and the Center for Youth and Society. Ayers has written extensively about social justice, democracy and education, the cultural contexts of schooling, and teaching as an essentially intellectual, ethical, and political enterprise. His articles have appeared in many journals including the Harvard Educational Review, the Journal of Teacher Education, Teachers College Record, Rethinking Schools, the Nation, Educational Leadership, the New York Times and the Cambridge Journal of Education. Bernardine Dohrn, activist, academic and child advocate, is Clinical Associate Professor of the Northwestern University School of Law, and founding director of the Children and Family Justice Cente. She is co-author, with Bill Ayers, of Race Course: Against White Supremacy, co-editor of Sing A Battle Song: Documents of the Weather Underground, and wrote the introduction to Letters from Young Activists. She is an author and co-editor of two books: "A Century of Juvenile Justice" (2002) and "Resisting Zero Tolerance: A Handbook for Parents, Teachers and Students" (2001).

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