This is a space intended for critical inquiry and problem-solving, community-building and structure-razing, revelation and revolution, remembrance of pasts and imaginings of futurity that takes the city of Newark, New Jersey as its focus. COINewark (A Community of Organic Intellectuals in Newark) is a site/sight for examining Newark as place, as a medium through which the typified narratives of the urban brickspace can be complicated, and as a storehouse of those knowledges that are transmitted through the various bodies living/surviving in our shared space/place. We believe that theorizing from within presents a necessary challenge to the politics of knowledge production and consumption that occurs without.
We seek to accomplish what most text book chapters [whose language and analyses are disconnected from the people, from the ground, from the spirit of this place that some of us call home and others a stop on our longer journeys, that is, Newark] do not, namely, the performing of a personal-political act of resistance: the telling of our stories and providing testimony of experiences! In so doing, we seek to subvert, resist, undermine, challenge domains of power that constrict us: our bodies, our minds, our spirits, our pockets and we celebrate, re-imagine, remember, and call into being our selves and our communities
Founder: Darnell L. Moore
Editor at Large: Bryan M-C Epps
Dear COIN,
My name is Kristina, the assistant editor at My Dog Ate My Blog, http://www.mydogatemyblog.com. We have been blogging about politics, education, and technology for a few months now and we think it is about time to start reaching out to other passionate people.
I would love to have one of our bloggers write a guest post for https://1coin.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/a-guest-post-by-rev-bill-howard-on-newark-education/. If you have any topic or style guidelines for guest posts, please send them my way.
I am looking forward to talking with you more.
Sincerely,
Kristina Gundersen
Assistant to the Editor – My Dog Ate My Blog
kristina@mydogatemyblog.com
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