Headlined Guests
Headlined Guests that have appeared on BBS Radio TV
Patricia strives to live her most vibrant life in her native New Mexico. She spends as much time as possible in the Pecos Wilderness and Eastern Plains, drawing strength and rejuvenation from the land. In her professional life, Patricia owns and operates Sculpt Laser Lipo Weight Loss & Wellness. She works intimately with clients in a comfortable, private, and safe environment to help people of all ages and needs lose weight, gain confidence and be their best, healthiest and most energetic selves. She combines proven physiological, nutrition, and overall health principles with heart centric counseling to guide individuals on their wellness journey. Her clients come from all over New Mexico and southern Colorado. She is available to connect with individuals worldwide via e-mail and phone, but she prefers using Skype, and Google chat to facilitate face to face interactions. No matter the interface; in person or on-line, each client receives personalized and compassionate care designed to improve physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. Patricia’s formal education includes a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Affairs/Russian Studies from Lewis and Clark College, and a Masters of Science degree in Health Education from the University of New Mexico. An avid learner, she is currently working on a Lifestyle and Weight Management certification and a certification in Aromatherapy. Her philosophy is based on real world solutions and using intuition to guide the process. Never judgmental, always open and more often than not, fun!
“One voice made up of three hundred million people containing billions of brain cells all working together to solve the problems of today, making the world a better place for the children of tomorrow.” ~ David Frank ~
Dr. Lin Morel is a pioneer in the field of applied spiritual psychology and energetic clearing for physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well-being. Her best selling book: Soul Lifts: From Bumps to Brilliance is filled with practical examples of how to overcome obstacles. She’s impacted thousands of people across the globe who have built bridges to transformation from their challenges to greater productivity, health and wealth. A 5th degree black belt and nationally ranked karate champion, she brings a unique perspective to transformation.
Dr. Roach is a testament to his practice's transformative power. After ten years of research, ten years of trail and error, he created an intergrative health-based practice that enriches both his personal and professional lives. A dedicated educator, he wants to help others transform their own work life.
Stephanie M. Caballero, Esq. has represented nearly 2,000 clients, including Intended Parents, Surrogates and Donors from all over the world through Surrogacy, Egg Donation, Sperm Donation, and Embryo Donation. Stephanie specializes exclusively in Family Formation and Reproductive Law and has appeared on various programs and print media including The Bakersfield Californian, The Examiner, the Creating a Family radio program, NPR, Fox News, The Los Angeles Times, The Union Tribune and the L.A. Daily Journal (and again on March 23rd, 2015).
Stephanie M. Caballero, Esq. is the founder of The Surrogacy Law Center and her firm is dedicated to helping you start your family using surrogacy, egg donation, embryo donation, and sperm donation.
Stephanie had her own journey through infertility, after eight years of treatments including having endured more than 10 artificial insemination procedures, three surgeries, three miscarriages, and 13 IVF procedures she finally realized her dream of having children when a surrogate carried her twins. Stephanie also had to adopt her twins because the state where they were born did not recognize surrogacy.
Stephanie is also a member of the American Fertility Association, American Bar Association, San Diego Bar Association, and American Society of Reproductive Medicine, serving on the board of its Legal Professional Group.
Seattle sports talk show host "The Groz" is on middays on 710 ESPN Seattle. Dave Grosby has been in the Seattle sports radio scene for more than two decades. The Groz can be heard 12-3pm on "Bob, Groz, & Tom." Grosby also is the radio play-by-play voice of the Seattle University Men's Basketball team.
A stalwart of the NZ music scene, Kapisi has spent the past 15 years travelling the world representing Kiwi music on an international stage.
He has performed at many festivals throughout the world including the largest Northern Hemisphere outdoor festival, Glastonbury (U.K) and the largest indie music industry event in the USA, SXSW (Austin, TX).
While putting the finishing touches on his fourth album, he has been working in partnership with an events company, where he managed the PR for the new events company including their next venture - touring the world famous Harlem Globetrotters after a successful tour throughout New Zealand and Australia.
Kapisi's forthcoming album Hip Hop Lives Here is due for release late 2015. A project that has been in the making for over four years that will include the release of a book highlighting an exhibition of street art created by local and international artists based on the music of the album as well as the release of a Pinot Noir and Sauvignon Blanc renamed Hip Hop Noir [TM] and Sauvignon Funk [TM] in partnership with a local winery.
The exhibition (and wine) will be touring with Kapisi as he releases his album in various cities around the world.
He has won many awards including APRA Songwriter of the Year (1999) for his song Reverse Resistance and an Honorable Mention in the Nashville International Song Writing Competition 2014 for his collaborative work with Philadelphia native King Britt on the track, Welcome Back.
Justice Bartlett, LMP CHT, Transformational Consultant and Intuitive Coach. She helps people heal physically mentally and emotionally and live In-Heartened lives. Justice co-hosts with Jennifer Yost a bi-monthly podcast, Doubly Divine Radio.Com, for entertainment and energetic support of daily living. They also produce and present The One Gathering and create and teach Clear Heart Mastery, Workshops for In-Heartened Living (the next one is September 28th in in Seattle WA). Visit ClearHeartMastery.Com for details or contact Justice call 425-478-3456
Joel Garbon serves as President of the nonprofit The New Energy Movement, which educates about breakthrough energy technologies and their implications for human society and our imperiled planet, while also serving as an advocate organization for inventors of these technologies. He is a founding member of New Energy Congress, a forum of technical professionals who investigate new energy technologies.
Garbon is the author of an historic legislative draft titled Energy Innovation Act of 2007 which serves as a template for new energy legislation on the federal, state, local, and international levels. The legislation’s provisions call for urgent and serious public support for research and development of breakthrough energy technologies, and was presented to senators and representatives in the United States Congress.
Garbon received a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Science from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He has worked for more than 30 years as an international industrial science consultant and educator within the chemical, pulp and paper, and water treatment industries. He is the inventor and developer of several successful commercial technologies used within these industries.
Garbon is co-author with investigative journalist Jeane Manning of the award-winning book BREAKTHROUGH POWER: How Quantum-Leap New Energy Inventions Can Transform Our World which chronicles the challenges, opportunities, and progress in the new energy technology field. The authors make the appeal for a “tidal wave of wisdom” and the concurrent evolution of energy technology and human consciousness as foundations for a new era on planet Earth.
Haely Jardas a double major from American University (Theatre Performance, Broadcast Journalism) has previously worked as a teacher, actor, communications coordinator, and recreation specialist. Currently she works for the Office of Senator Paul Strauss (Shadow D-DC) to address the issue of D.C. Statehood. Children's Miracle Network Hospitals Fundraising: MentalHealthMattersDC.Org Facebook: Twitter: https://twitter.com/haelythejardas Miss DC: Haely is in preparation for the Miss District of Columbia Pageant, a preliminary to Miss America. As a contestant Haely has raised over $2000 (and counting) for the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals and is an advocate for mental health with her platform, Mental Health Matters. The competition takes place on Sunday, June 14th and the winner will compete at Miss America on September 13th in Atlantic City, NJ.
This week on 'The War Report On Public Education' - VIVA LA RESISTANCE: Dr. Jesse Turner and his friends on the meaning/message of walking to Washington, D.C. The resistance to the privatization of education is alive, well and growing, and the resistance is coming to D.C. this summer 2015. We will NOT let our schools be ruined, our teachers demoralized, our children preyed upon and our democracy destroyed. WE WILL RESIST!!!!
Jesse ‘The Walking Man’ Turner is walking from Connecticut to Washington, D.C. this summer to protest the education malpractice that is demoralizing parents, teachers, and turning our children into human capital. He will start walking in June, time it to reach Washington DC for the BAT's National Congress July, (400 miles in 40 days) and will hold ‘Walking Man’ Events along the way in people's homes, libraries, coffee shops, churches, and on street corners, to gather evidence from parents, students, and teachers.
People ask why walk?
1. Dr. Jesse Turner is a Professor of Literacy and has a PhD in Language, Reading, and Culture. He states “Everything I know professionally informs me what is happening to our children in the name of education reform is child abuse”.
2. Because Moses walked, because the Cherokee walked, because the Navajo walked, because Martin Luther King walked, and because Cesar Chavez walked. Walking may just be the most potent weapon human beings have against oppression.
Will you join Jesse in his historic walk? Tune in this Sunday, June 7 and find out how you can be part of the resistance.
dr. michael ryce is the founder and director of HeartLand, a self-healing center in the Ozark mountains. He is a world renowned lecturer and teacher on health and healing, with doctorates in Naturopathic Medicine and in Holistic Philosophy. The focus of his studies has combined bodymind principles, physics and ancient Aramaic studies into a unique body of pioneering work in the fields of self-healing, healing through relationships, anger and grief resolution, world peace and the inner process of Forgiveness.
His unique syntheses of information and tools is acclaimed, “a powerful blend of spiritual principles and intellectual clarity, guided by the heart!” His workshops explain, with profound simplicity, how the mind/body/emotion interaction affects health, every event in life, and impacts our relationships. In each self-contained workshop, effective tools are presented to assist in creating high-level wellness and eliminating upset, lack and conflict. His book, Why Is This Happening To Me . . . Again?!, is an international best seller.
In 2001 dr. ryce was appointed director of the Khabouris Manuscript foundation and is currently editing translation work from the Manuscript and writing a new book based on the Khabouris, "The End Of Suffering, Resurrecting The Original Aramaic Y'Shua".
The Khabouris (also spelled Khaburis) Codex is a copy of the oldest known Eastern Canon of the New Testament in its native, and the original language of the Scriptures, Aramaic. The physical manuscript has been carbon-dated at approximately 1000 AD plus or minus 50 years. The colophon bears the seal and signature of the Bishop at the Church at Nineveh, then capital of the Assyrian Empire located today in the present-day Iraqi city of Mosul. According to colophon it is a copy of a text from approximately 164 AD.
dr. ryce’s background includes electronics, business, and theology. He has a reputation among his peers as a teachers’ teacher and a healers’ healer. A dynamic speaker, he is much sought after for his skill in teaching the practical application of “self-help” tools. His work has been exposed, through private workshops and seminars and television and radio work, to approximately 500,000 people in the last thirty five years. michael has made a commitment to make the tools he has developed available to every mind on the planet and, as a result, his travel workshops are free so everyone, regardless of the ability to pay, will have access to the tools presented. Anyone with health, financial, career, or relationship problems can begin to turn their situations around immediately when they use the tools dr. ryce offers.
Garnet Schulhauser is a retired lawyer who lives near Victoria, on Vancouver Island, with his wife, Cathy, and little dog, Abby. He grew up on a small farm in Saskatchewan and moved to Calgary, Canada, after law school where he practiced corporate law for over thirty years with two blue-chip law firms. After retiring from his law firm in 2008, he began his new career as an author and his first book, Dancing on a Stamp, was published in 2012. Since the release of his first book, Garnet has been active with book signing tours and speaking engagements and has been a frequent guest on radio talk shows. When he is not writing or connecting with his followers, Garnet enjoys golfing, nature walks in the forest with Abby, and family gatherings with his sons, Blake and Colin, and their partners, Lauren and Bergis, and granddaughter Kymera.
In Dancing on a Stamp, Garnet recounts how his life changed dramatically one day in 2007 (while still practicing law) when he was confronted on the street by a homeless man named Albert (who was actually a wise spirit in disguise—an emissary from the spirit world). This seemingly chance encounter launched a provocative dialogue with Albert who disclosed startling new truths about all of life’s big questions, including our true nature as eternal souls, the cycle of reincarnation on Earth, and how we create our own reality through free-will choices. He wrote Dancing on a Stamp at Albert’s request so that these revelations would be available to everyone.
Garnet’s second book, Dancing Forever with Spirit, describes his most recent adventures with Albert who appeared in his bedroom room one night to guide him on a series of out-of-body adventures to explore the wonders of the Universe, including the Akashic Records, distant planets with fascinating life forms, and a human civilization that made the shift to the New Earth. Albert’s goal was to encourage humans to stop their abuse of Mother Earth and all of her inhabitants by casting aside their negative emotions and in favor of love and compassion.
It has been quite a ride! Ever since I met my spirit guide, Albert, disguised as a homeless man, that fateful day in 2007, my life has never been the same. I went from being a buttoned-down, straight-laced corporate lawyer to an author who has published four books (including this one) about my dialogue and subsequent astral travels with Albert.
Once I decided to come out of the spiritual closet there was no turning back, and I have no regrets whatsoever. I have lost a few friends along the way (some of whom likely think I am suffering from an early onset of dementia), but I have gained many new friends who have encouraged me to continue writing about the revelations from Albert and the other wise souls I have met during my travels.
This book is a sequel to my first three books, Dancing on a Stamp, Dancing Forever with Spirit, and Dance of Heavenly Bliss, as it chronicles my most recent astral adventures with Albert. As with the first three books, Albert had a carefully-planned agenda all mapped out—designed to teach me (and all of humankind) a lesson or to provide us with a nugget of wisdom to help us understand who we are and why we are having a human journey on this planet.
Former rock musician Sacha is founder of the New Earth Project, the planetary sovereignty, consciousness and sustainability movement convening itself as the worlds first extraterritorial nation of peoples from all cultures & faiths. New Earth nationals are living men and women (not their corporate fiction personas) who choose to step out of invisible contracts with corporate nation states and into a new covenant of fellowship amongst all of humankind, via a declaration of sovereignty (and entering into treaty thereby with New Earth Nation as constituted micro-nations). The supranational movement exists under its own cognisance, as its own court of record and is backed up by its own law commission and the International Tribunal for Natural Justice. The New Earth Project is launching a zero-point economy and has recently launched Zero Point Time (ZPT) as a unified time signature.
Sacha Stone established Humanitad as a non sectarian organisation serving as architect and facilitator of global initiatives impacting sustainability, natural justice and social ecology. It is a focus platform for experts in economics, media, education, science & technology, research & advocacy, arts & culture and diplomacy & conflict-resolution. It's law commission has been active on the world stage in human rights and natural justice. Humanitad has increasingly transferred its brain-trust activities into the New Earth Nation Institute which now incubates medical cures and technological breakthroughs whilst challenging the status quo where it serves vested interests ahead of the interests of humanity and a fragile planet. As a non-profit organisation, Humanitad continues to function in the service of people of the world beyond the constraints of 'systems' and 'ideologies' devised by men and institutions which seek power and wealth as the measure by which all else follows.
Whilst being radically outspoken against the centralisation of power and of multilateral institutional manipulation, in order to enter the multilateral arena and attempt to engage with the mechanics of centralised power, Sacha Stone produced the MDG Awards ceremony on the floor of the General Assembly at the United Nations in 2009. It was at this event where Archbishop Desmond Tutu propounded the word Ubuntu, which is fast becoming a major pattern for international socio-ecological reform.
Accepting the role of Director-General for the UN-IGO (IREO) Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Organisation in 2010 for the period of one year, Stone founded and launched the Exemplar-Zero Initiative, to safe-harbour and develop breakthrough sustainable technologies and solutions and investigate sustainable economics modelling. None of these endeavours were 'United Nations' activities, rather they were initialised by Stone and Humanitad in order to address foundational failings within the architecture of the multilateral arena.
Sacha chairs the annual Global Breakthrough Energy Movement panels of scientists and innovators - a pioneering movement which is leading the world toward a free-energy revolution.
His socio-political writings and 'State of the World' reports serve as a harsh critique on the disease of globalisation and covert elitism (the architecture of fear and control).
At the same time he emphasises the need for a conscious return (via a total collapse of the collective human conceptual framework) back into the true 'zero-point' contained within the quanta of the (collective) human heart - in order for us to qualify and participate fully in the next great step in our human and planetary evolution. The New Earth Nation now emerges as a coherent living manifestation of that unified planetary vision.
"If we are to manifest so-called ‘ ustainability' and foster a much vaunted energy & socio-ecological revolution in our times, we must acknowledge that participatory 'consciousness' is the chief factor. Technology and consciousness are intimately connected and it is time for us to engage that conversation without fear of scorn from a world still largely trapped in linear logic and the limitations of a conditioned mind. The fear-reflexive, entropic and scarcity-based model of civilisation has lived its day - brought us to the brink of annihilation. It is time to spread our wings - stop asking for permission - and reclaim our dignity and sovereign birthright from rogue governments and institutions whose very existence is premised on our suffering, our fear and our ignorance. Arise homo-sapiens"
BIOGRAPHY
Rob Potter has been researching healing and consciousness for over 40 years. He has given seminars all over the world including Egypt, Canada, Europe and USA. He has a website called The Promise Revealed. You may enjoy many interviews Rob has done for their stations including on coast to coast on his website
This website tells robs Story and has many revelations about Planetary liberation and the advanced healing technologies. Many of which involve Pyramids, Sacred Geometry, Crystals, Lasers and Tesla coils. He has 2 weekly radio shows called “The Victory of Light “Radio Show.
He has been experiencing UFO contacts since 1975. He was ordained into the Royal Order of Melchizadech through the Venusian Commander Valiant Thor. He is working with a fellow Contactee named Cobra to prepare people for the “Event”. Rob has authored much of the information and important work that can be found on https://prepareforchange.net/. He has traveled extensively is search for truth and has spent time with Sai Baba in India and has been taught Kriya Yoga by Babaji.
At 22 Rob was invited to the desert by the Ascended "Master Hilarion" via Gabriel Green to meet a "Teacher". The "Teacher" was one of the ET's original earth military allies. He experienced his first physical contact with 3 witnesses present. Rob has spent much of his time studying the extra-terrestrials. He has met several ET's in person. He has done many radio and newspaper interviews on sharing the profound aspects of the ongoing process we know as Interplanetary Cultural Exchange. Rob loves sharing advanced healing and manifestation technologies utilizing light sound and color in conjunction with tesla coils, scalar waves, Quantum entanglement technologies, pyramidal arrays and sacred geometry crystal chambers.
PYRAMIDS
Rob is considered an expert in Pyramidology and the uses of crystals and Lasers for advanced quantum field healing. Rob is sharing the healing technology given to Fred Bell during his over 35 year of developing and making these devices. He was inside The Kings Chamber in Egypt on Dec. 21st 2012. Rob was recently also in Bosnia with JJ Hurtak and Dr Sam Osmanagich the discoverer of the world’s largest known pyramid. He also has an annual summer Conference series in Mt Shasta California that this year had over 150 guests. Next years 2015 summer conference Rob will introduce Omnec Onec the woman who came from Venus to share the message of love and peace.
Robs Spiritual Heritage and Cosmic Destiny Presentations
Rob is available for speaking engagements and shares the latest developments and plans for the liberation of planet from Inter dimensional Galactic Federation of Light and the Ascended Masters. Rob often demonstrates his Star Gate portal technology to help people actually develop and experience their own spiritual bodies or Merkahbah conscious field. This “Promise Pyramid Healing System” will actually help you understand quantum physics of how to integrate feeling and thought to accelerate the manifestation. This process of manifestation is sometimes called the secret and Rob will explain this in great detail.
Rob may also speak about his personal physical contacts with different ET groups. He will answer all questions related to the individual and planetary Ascension process, as well as any questions about the “Event” Rob plans to share the science of Kriya yoga and the Rainbow Vortex Meditation.
Robs will share revelations on The Galactic Federations views of earth and it history considered vital to a balanced perspective on the earth situation at this critical juncture our growth.
Rob will explain how Star Gate Portal technology designed to heal the planet. The sharing of understanding of the many different ET races, their historical interaction with earths peoples and the ancient scriptures including the Bible, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Mayan calendar and the Vedas is a wonderful aspect of Rob's work.
The historical aspect of these many spiritual lineages of light is a revelation that can allow us to all work together. Robs presentations will clear up many of the hidden and dark agendas and how we can overcome these negative plans by invoking the light. Working with the GFL towards peaceful resistance and service to others are keys to the earth’s destiny liberation from tyranny.
“ We the ground crew and light workers of the world must unite and play our part in the awakening of humanity. Our efforts can hasten the day of liberation and ease the earth through the process of birth into a new and exciting day for humanity. Love peace prosperity for all is part of this plan and we must begin to take part in this transition. Our good works and loving service is required in any way we feel called to serve.”
Victory To The Light
SONIA BARRETT
Sonia Barrett is known for her cutting edge insights with much of it supported by quantum physics. Theoretical Physicist Dr. Amit Goswami refers to her as a true mystic. Her work bridges the gap between science and spirituality in a simplified format. She addresses the programming, beliefs and concepts by which we have lived our lives both individually and collectively.
Sonia Barrett is the author of The Holographic Canvas: The Fusing of Mind and Matter and her second book, A Journey of Possibilities. She is also the publisher of the book Health: An Inside Job an Outside Business (a supplement to the film- each chapter is written by those in the film) and her latest book and 7 Day Program, Simple ways to step outside of your comfort zone; Letting go of an outdated life.
She has been a popular radio guest appearing on such shows as Coast 2 Coast AM with host George Noory, Red Ice Radio, Conscious Media Network/Gaia TV and a host of others..
Sonia Barrett has been a Key note speaker at such conferences as the Alchemy Conference, Conscious Life Expo, the ISSSEEM conference, Conspiracy Con, The Bay Area UFO Conference and more. She has appeared on panels with such visionaries as Bruce Lipton, Ph.D, Dr. Jacob Liberman, Amit Goswami Ph.D, Rev. Michael Beckwith and others.
She has appeared in a number of documentaries, Openings; a search for Harry, Ghetto Physics the movie Co-produced by E Raymond Brown and Will Arntz (Producer of What the Bleep do we know) iTHINK, and soon to be released Punk Science the Movie, produced by Dr. Manjir Samantha-Laughton.
“Recognizing our spiritual and perceptual boundaries and comfort zones is a major factor in our quest for answers. In general we are unaware of what we don’t know and the distance widens even further when we are affixed behind a barrier of limiting beliefs. Reality is a great science that has no boundaries only those that we create for our comfort. There is no right or wrong way to grow but it can be of tremendous assistance in recognizing the limitations which hold us bound. ” Sonia Barrett
Dr. Mark Naison is professor of African American studies and history at Fordham University. He is author of many books and articles including 'Communists in Harlem During the Depression', 'White Boy: A Memoir' and his newest book 'Badass Teachers Unite! Reflections on Education History and Youth Activism'. The founder of the Bronx African American History project, Naison has emerged in the last five years as a passionate defender of America's public school teachers and students, founding groups like Dump Duncan, the Teachers Talk Back Project, and most recently, the Badass Teachers Association.. He was a former political activist who was a member of CORE and SDS in the 1960s. He is a graduate of Columbia University and holds a Ph. D. in American History.
He has written over a hundred articles and published three books on urban history, African-American History, and the history of sports. Naison has also appeared on The O'Reilly Factor, Chappelle's Show, and The Discovery Channel's Greatest American Competition. He has also been an outspoken critic of Teach for America.
Naison is co-founder of the Badass Teachers Association, a group dedicated to fighting the Common Core Curriculum and corporate influences on American education. His newest book is 'Badass Teachers Unite! Reflections on Education History and Youth Activism'. In this incisive collection of essays, educator and activist Mark Naison draws on years of research on Bronx history and his own experience on the front lines of the education wars to unapologetically defend teachers and students from education “reform” policies that undermine their power and creativity.
Naison shows how dominant education policy systematically hurts the very children it claims to support and instead forces them to “race to the top.” He exposes the Duncans, Rhees, and Gateses for schemes that intensify racial and economic inequality. And he refocuses the conversation on teaching and organizing strategies that should be implemented in communities everywhere.
Review
—Henry Louis Taylor Jr., director, UB Center for Urban Studies, University at Buffalo
“Mark Naison is a badass—and it took one to write this rousing pronouncement to the militancy emerging among today’s schoolteachers. There was an era when educators were feared by the corporate establishment. As Time magazine wrote in 1963, ‘The U.S. teacher used to be afraid to smoke, chew, cuss or ask for a raise. Now he denounces crowded classrooms, upbraids lawmakers, and goes on strike almost as readily as a dockworker.’ Mark Naison’s Badass Teachers Unite! brings back the attitude we need to confront the corporate reform bullies and reclaim our schools.”
—Jesse Hagopian, history teacher, Garfield High School, Seattle, Washington, and associate editor for Rethinking Schools magazine
Dr. Lori Latrice Martin is Associate Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies at Louisiana State University. Dr. Martin's newest book is 'Big Box Schools: Race, Education, and the Danger of the Wal-Martization of Public Schools in America (Race and Education in the Twenty-First Century'.
The American public school system is at a crossroad. One pathway is decorated with signs and institutions that will lead public education towards a destination of collective obligation, accountability, and responsibility that is student-centered, community-based, and driven by educators and parents working in the best interest of students, families, communities, and the broader society. The other pathway is littered with pamphlets, flyers, and electronic billboards falsely advertising the merits of school “choice.” The direction American public schools appear to have taken over the past few decades is increasingly dotted with charter schools operated by for-profit multinational corporations, and themed public schools. Increasingly, efforts to reform public education in America resemble the business model made popular by the founder of Wal-Mart, Sam Walton.
'Big Box Schools: Race, Education, and the Danger of the Wal-Martization of Public Schools in America' examines the dangers of the Wal-Martization of American public schools and highlights efforts to challenge policies and practices which place greater emphasis on profits than on pupils.
Reviews of her book:
"Dr. Lori Martin's brilliantly researched book, Big Box Schools: Race, Education, and the Danger of the Wal-Martization of Public Schools in America, is going to blow the cover off the 'close ranks' rationale for defending Obama Administration education policy among scholars in Black Studies, as well as all education scholars who have the courage to listen. It eloquently describes the severe price for replacing schools which were community institutions with 'pop-up schools' (Dr. Martin's brilliant term) run by fly-by-night staffs beholden to corporate interests rather than the students and families they claim to serve." (Mark Naison, Fordham University)
"Dr. Martin makes the troubled history of education policy in this country accessible to a variety of disciplines. She talks candidly about racism in education and the United States’ long-standing tradition of marginalizing students, teachers, and families of color. The case studies are a wakeup call to push back against those who profit from so-called ‘education reform.’ She is asking us to stand up and fight against those who purchase a seat in policy and practice decisions when they have no expertise to offer. After reading this book, I am prepared to stand up and fight." (Joshua S. Smith, Loyola University Maryland)