User:Danspalding

About Me
I live in Oakland, California. I teach English as a Second Language and I'm part of the AFT - the American Federation of Teachers. I also work with the Midnight Special Law Collective. I've used wikipedia pages to write a number of one-page stories for my ESL class: Harriet Tubman, Malcolm X, Harvey Milk, and others.

Spirit
Many of my contributions to Wikipedia involve adding "flavor" to dry writing. For example, see Springfield, Virginia.

Entries (or at least stubs) I've created
Mucoid plaque

Law collective

Kenji Yanobe

Catalyst project

Econochrist

Jacob Arabo

Salim Rambo

Banner drop

1,112 and Counting - Perhaps the first anti-AIDS essay written by Larry Kramer, perhaps the first anti-AIDS activists

The Edge of the Sea‎ - the third book in Rachel Carson's sea trilogy

Kittelbach Pirates

Eichmann interrogated - synopsis of Eichmann's pre-trial interrogations

The Long Haul - an autobiography of Myles Horton and the book that has most influenced my teacher

Entries I've improved
Media, PA - mentioned its connection to COINTELPRO

Entries I've clarified & wikified
Sylvia Rivera

Chris Crass

King Mob

Invisibles

Dumpster diving

Juan María de Salvatierra - Still not crazy about this one, but I don't have enough info to improve it

University of Minnesota Students Co-op

Entries I think are bullshit
(deleted!) List of neologisms on The Simpsons - An endless list of words like "d'oh!" and "hurty"

Ninja - A page where it's impossible to tell where fact ends and make-believe begins

Wiki Goals
To create a page about /hip hop references.