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“It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.” Assata Shakur American Hero and Revolutionary Innovation is so much more than technology!  True innovation will only come when we break the incestuous cycle of white supremacist knowledge production.  We need new voices and those voices are standing right here.  Real innovation will come when people who created Hip-Hop, Jazz, Rock and Roll--when the people who created flavor in American cuisine and who pretty much generate American culture throughout the continent are involved in information production and knowledge creation.  Indigenous, Black, Brown, and other people of color will create a groundswell like never before once they are allowed to fully function within the academy.  We will change education's structures, its techniques, its goals, its meaning.  We are the harbingers of change and we are here...

in·no·va·tion ˌinəˈvāSH(ə)n/ noun the action or process of innovating. synonyms: change ,  alteration ,  revolution ,  upheaval ,  transformation ,  metamorphosis ,  breakthrough ; More _______________________________________________________________________ When thinking about innovation, make sure you include infusing innovative thinking in your staff. Wirtz Labor Library  Staff Recipients of the John Sessions Memorial Award Presented by the Reference and User Service Association of the American Library Association 2009 Staff should be able to: Feel free to e xperiment,  feel free to fail , feel free to succeed . Analyze failures and celebrate what is learned from them.   Always include those who live in poverty in your "innovative thinking." Outreach to innovative leaders in the communities you are trying to reach.  Work with these community leaders to gain insights to user informa...

One of the greatest tragedies of the civil rights era was the inability, or unwillingness, of people who achieved positions via affirmative action to create real change for other POC.   # BougieFucks # TapedMouths # RunAwayFromUS # Vendidos # JoinedTheOtherSide Then those same assholes have the audacity to tell me to act White. They use code-words like Professional and Educated--but what they really mean is try to be White. The best they could do was try to give us tips on how to act White and get money for ourselves. # MLKDay2017 # IDontWantTOBeLIkeYou  We need change, we don't need to be told how to watch ourselves, how to 'behave' and how to survive in a world dominated by White people.  We need to learn how to change the world into a world that is friendly toward Black and Brown faces... This is a criticism of the recipients of Affirmative Action. People who are given power,  but are too scared to use it. They have their hands ti...

Organizational Communication Infrastructure for Innovation and Progress by Max Macias 11/08 At large organizations, Web 2.0 is being used in internal blogs or social networks. These perform the very useful functions of keeping far-flung employees, teams, and divisions in touch, sharing best practices and other useful information, and serving as a way to train. Organizations are beginning to see the value of these arrangements for more formalized training, as well as informal companywide communications (HR Focus, 2007). One of the requirements for an efficient (profitable?) organization is effective communication. With the influx of information today, new forms of communication are required for organizations. Most contemporary associations I have encountered have late 20 th century forms of communication based on an hierarchical system (I will be kind) from the 19 th century. Today one communicates in a variety of ways based on new tools for communicatio...