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Marcy Winograd

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Growing up I loved poetry, reading Ferlinghetti's "I am Waiting" and writing to the music of Debussy. Later, I became an English teacher, chairing an English department at an LAUSD middle school and teaching Orwell, Camus, and Fitzgerald at a public high school. In between the lines, in between the years, I ran for Congress as a peace candidate, mobilizing a national grassroots campaign to challenge the war machine. Now I'm back in class, teaching government at a public high school in South Los Angeles, where my students write their own bills and form their own political parties. Lola Zola, the protagonist in my novel Lola Zola and the Lemonade Crush, is an activist girl who never gives up during hard times and summons all of her resources ...more

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	Lola Zola and the Lemonade Crush by Marcy Winograd (Goodreads Author), Jackie Hirtz (Goodreads Author) 4.28 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New Girl on Salt Flat Road (Lola Zola, #2) by Marcy Winograd (Goodreads Author), Jackie Hirtz (Goodreads Author) 4.45 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Tween Expert Says “NO” to Cell Phones, Make-Up, and Dating

Published on 6/17/15 Huffington Post

Pauline, the "bad influence" in Brown Girls Publishing tween novel "New Girl on Salt Flat Road," lives in the fast lane -- hosting make-up parties and pop-up bikini fashion shows, texting 24/7, and flirting with the older boys at the mall.

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War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine

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Marcy Winograd said: " In a searing indictment of the US war machine, author Norman Solomon lays much of the blame for decades of carnage–from Iraq to Afghanistan to Yemen to Somalia–at the door of the media: ABC, NBC, CBS, the cable news networks, the New York Times and W In a searing indictment of the US war machine, author Norman Solomon lays much of the blame for decades of carnage–from Iraq to Afghanistan to Yemen to Somalia–at the door of the media: ABC, NBC, CBS, the cable news networks, the New York Times and Washington Post-all stenographers for the Pentagon, which has yet to pass an audit because, hey, money is missing.

“U.S. media support for the “war on terror” has been as perpetual as the “war on terror” itself,’ writes Solomon, who in one of the most chilling passages, describes how he traveled to Iraq three times shortly before the US invasion left an estimated one million Iraqis dead and wounded, their country’s landscape littered with depleted uranium dust from coated US tanks. “Eating dinner at an outdoor restaurant along the Tigris River, under the same stars that might be seen anywhere on Earth, couples and small groups of diners sat at a dozen candlelit tables; the dusk filled with laughter; I stared and thought about how terribly fragile it all was.”

The fragility of a starlit night turned to bomb-lit horror–be it in Kosovo, Baghdad or Beirut--can be blamed not only on the media–which fires journalists who ask too many probing questions–or on successive presidential administrations, from Clinton to Obama to Trump to Biden–but on an underlying belief in US exceptionalism.

Toward the end of Solomon’s meticulously detailed look at the invisibility of US wars, he turns to Daniel Ellsberg, the great Pentagon Papers whistleblower, for insight. “... it’s not difficult to deceive them (US public) … you’re often telling them what they want to believe–that we’re better than other people, we are superior in our morality.”

As Solomon’s critique of propaganda suggests, the first step in making war visible, in resisting an empire with 800 military bases and an endless “war on terror,” is to tell the truth, to show the face of war, to face the truth of a war-mad empire, and then act in defiance. ...more "

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